greggyb

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by greggyb 10y ago
We have strong cryptography and near-instant communication protocols. Why the hell is there a postal service in every country, and why is the quality of the postal service an indication of sophistication rather than lack of development in a
902.
by greggyb 10y ago
Yeah, bring back "octothorpe"!
903.
by greggyb 10y ago
Their relational database is called SQL Server, which might otherwise be a colloquial generic name for an RDBMS. They have a product in Azure named simply DocumentDB. I don't think "used to" is necessarily the best tense here
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by greggyb 10y ago
> so long as it hints me with possible values as I type, tooltips each variable with its meaning and so on. VSCode does this and more. See sibling comments.
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by greggyb 10y ago
Learn something new every day. Thanks.
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by greggyb 10y ago
See Wisp Scheme: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/srfi-119.html It doesn't address the browser-based point.
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by greggyb 10y ago
> ...the fact that capitalism requires ever higher and higher returns. Capitalism requires private ownership of the means of production. Ever higher and higher returns are a result , so far, of capitalism.
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by greggyb 10y ago
sudo (cat foobar.img > /dev/sdi) No?
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by greggyb 10y ago
A shame from the perspective of larger linux adoption, maybe, or by other viewpoints. From the perspective of most consumers in the population of gamers it's a superb result. Competition in the platform space has resulted in improved p
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by greggyb 10y ago
Executable name would probably be valuable. They could easily maintain a hand-curated list of Office-alikes, for instance (the list would be small enough to manage), to track what competitive products are being used and any trend in those.
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by greggyb 10y ago
Just for your reference, I've got Windows 10 and Powershell 5.1 running on an SSD (probably the only hardware that matters for program launch, really). I can hit Win-X-I and start typing commands as fast as possible and Powershell is u
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by greggyb 10y ago
The tone of this and my original post are the same. Sarcasm doesn't play well in text. Apologies.
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by greggyb 10y ago
So, you're telling me that users of a language known for syntactic abstraction came up with a way to more conveniently express a common pattern of code? Well color me flabbergasted.
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by greggyb 10y ago
Absolutely. I am not denying enterprise inertia. But the parent of my original comment specifically said "recent versions of Excel". To me, this sounds like "a version of Excel released recently", not "a version of
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by greggyb 10y ago
Did you see the quote from the parent to my original comment? I'll pull it out again: "you don't have to pay this back, and also there is no tuition" That's all I'm responding to.
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by greggyb 10y ago
FunCall1( FunCall2( FunCall3(arg1, arg2, arg3))) vs (FunCall1 (FunCall2 (FunCall3 arg1 arg2 arg3))) Yes those useless parentheses certainly clutter up the code. Look at how much longer the lispy line is compared to the les
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by greggyb 10y ago
Really? Because I see Microsoft revenue continuing to increase and the partner ecosystem continuing to thrive. I also get to see licensing agreements and I get to see what sales quotas are in the MS data platform. None of the numbers indica
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by greggyb 10y ago
Again, I made no qualitative statement about whether the system is good or bad. I merely pointed out that there are costs. You are arguing that the costs are worth it. Great. I don't want to have that conversation online again. You hav
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by greggyb 10y ago
> (you don't have to pay this back, and there also is no tuition) You likely pay taxes.... No qualitative judgment here, except against a view that conflates "no explicit costs" with "no costs".
920.
by greggyb 10y ago
The OS that the author is pointing toward
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by greggyb 10y ago
I'd love to hear feedback about this (even if it's mean). Based on the notes toward the end of the article on the limitations of a traditional OS with filesystem, I had this thought. The OS clearly seems to be going in the directi
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by greggyb 10y ago
Or, you know, do his or her real job and have a life. Seamless internationalization is not a one-person job.
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by greggyb 10y ago
> This has been fixed, but only in very recent versions of Excel, where I work this was a near daily issue until last year or two. This has been fixed since Excel 2007. I don't know whether 9 years counts as very recently. I also ag
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by greggyb 10y ago
Forewarning: This likely sounds like a shill post. I'm okay with that. I work for a Microsoft partner and we're tightly integrated with the MS sellers for a number of products. I am trying to provide an answer to the use cases. A
925.
by greggyb 10y ago
This is correct. SQL Server licensing is not changed. The major benefit is being able to share a single infrastructural OS for application and DB - it is not uncommon to see Linux app environment and Windows DB environment in a lot of large
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by greggyb 10y ago
50 people likely wouldn't be enough to TYPE the source code of the entirety of Microsoft products in five years. Assuming that you did no design, and simply had them copying source code as fast as they could. 120WPM * 60minutes&#
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by greggyb 10y ago
I'm not sure what your threshold of expensive is, but this is available in MS SQL Server. You don't necessarily need to purchase an application solution or a specific DW RDBMS. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/
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by greggyb 10y ago
I'd imagine you can just use a free (as in beer) developer license for SQL Server work on Linux, just as you can on Windows. SQL Server licensing is only really charged on production instances.
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by greggyb 10y ago
Building an incredibly powerful engine and flexible modding system to enable one person to do this in 200 hours....
930.
by greggyb 10y ago
Pyramid is the third party I mentioned in my post. It is not a Microsoft product, as I mentioned in my post. Pyramid offers .pbix file hosting and web rendering. It does not offer the Power BI portal that is a cloud offering from Microsoft.

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