harrytuttle

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by harrytuttle 13y ago
I use windows phone 8. No they are not the same. The style is similar but the actual functionality is nothing like iOS 7 from what I can see. It's really obvious on Windows Phone what is a button and what is not apart from a few shit
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
Actually just screw all of that and have: [OS] -> App Cheaper, less administrative overhead, less abstraction, less vendor tie in (if you go POSIX for example). I think that might upset the virtualization proponents though...
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
Yes, processes are a long forgotten form of virtualization. You are spot on there. They are pretty good :)
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
The favourite one from our codebase: // And God said: "let there be....shite"! (followed by some C# reflection code to break into a sealed class in the .Net framework) All other comments are pointful, well descri
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
Indeed. Creaming that would be a bastard though :)
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
Going to have to sell my Lumia 820 quick! Sarcasm aside, BBM in the UK is relegated to children at school. I imagine it's pretty much the same across the rest of Europe at least. SMS is pretty much free here so we just use that or emai
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
Not accountants. Accountants and financial advisers are cheap bastards who have to deal with crap loads of regulatory compliance rules and complicated software that integrates with lots of other companies and governments, costs a fortune an
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
That's what is supposed to happen but the MBA asshats use it purely for cost cutting...
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
Yeah very good point. Our offshore guys can't even get c# right :)
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
We use C# which allows you to write safe code. However, people still manage to fuck it up at an implementation level often enough for it to cause high risk problems.
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
To be fair, it looks like a "get it working" proof of concept, but I certainly wouldn't take that into production :)
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
A successful failure event probably should go unnoticed :)
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
No not at all. We keep local mirrors of everything that we pull in and integrate off that. Never a problem.
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
1998. It had 4Gb of RAM in each node which wasn't that scary. Most of it was UPS and disk. I had a Sun 1000E [1] for 3 years as a workstation from 1996. 8x 50MHz CPU, 2Gb of RAM, 16Gb disk array. It was made in'93 and was approx 1
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
Yes I've worked for a couple of outfits that did this over the years. It's usually down to who sold them the solution though. It's worst if the salesperson is external. The funniest has to be the engineering company which I u
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
My point entirely :)
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
Yes. I work for a SaaS company in the financial sector and one of our offline competitors has just gained a chunk of our userbase due to this. Why? Because someone is responsible for it at the end of the day and they don't want any dat
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
try/finally in Java / using in C# are designed for that scenario.
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
What I was hoping you'd say :) This is fine until I want to do this, at which point C++ becomes a memory management bastard: void f(int n, int x) { Gadget g = new Gadget(n); // ... if (x < 100
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
I rather prefer Java: void f(int n, int x) { Gadget p = new Gadget(n); // ... if (x < 100) throw new Exception("Weird!); // no leak if (x < 200) return; /&#x2
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
I'm not so sure. Markets are primarily confidence driven. Confidence is low a the moment and promises previously given are "dubious".
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
In this particular case, it's probably the fear of not profiting from your invention. Older patent holders I've seen tend to be paranoid or obsessed with the money rather than what they have created.
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
was . With all the revelations about data security, I reckon 2014/2015 will be slightly flatter than in that infographic. It is only trendy when people don't have to take responsibility for their data security.
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
HS2?
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
Thanks for telling the truth :) As a UK resident, we're knee deep in this sort of crap as well.
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
Until you have an IDE that has to infer what it applies to. Your global namespace would be so incredibly polluted.
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
I'd go for: http://www.korg.com/monotribe Relatively cheap and can lead into an interesting hobby (plus you can take them to bits and modify them!)
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
Another cat apologist. They shit in my garden, kill all the local wildlife, piss everywhere, try and break into your house, scratch your kids up, lick their worm-ridden arses and only show intelligence with respect to jealousy and self inte
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
Your math is off. It's on a bell curve. We're regionally tied so we have 80,000,000 requests, 90% of which are over a 5 hour period so we can hit 5000 requests a second on a fun day :) We do this on 10 servers. 4 front end, 4 back
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by harrytuttle 13y ago
The problem is that it's pretty useless in non-systems programming language.

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