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by heresy 16y ago
Good to know as I'm planning on crossing the ditch soon :)
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by heresy 16y ago
Telstra's subsidiary in New Zealand was also at the bottom of all rankings, but this week they installed the Google cache boxes to mask the issue. YouTube now hits 3-5Mbps for me. At start of playback it appears to burst a chunk of video, a
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by heresy 16y ago
I come from a roughly similar background, I started out fresh out of high school in tech support, though had done some programming on the side. I enjoyed programming more though, so gravitated towards that, and so glad I did. Most of the pe
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by heresy 16y ago
I don't want my friends to know how much I suck at RTS...
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by heresy 16y ago
While paying a source for information is ethically questionable and on the level of the tabloids, I think it's fairly clear from the article they posted later that Gizmodo's intent was getting a scoop. On the flip side of what you're sugges
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by heresy 16y ago
The DOJ settlement hardly forced Microsoft to stop innovating or investing in the browser. Microsoft did that on their own, and are now finding it hard to just pull even with everyone else. Nice revisionist history though, the DOJ is a nice
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by heresy 16y ago
Damn you Blizzard, for making games I love to play. I just got myself off WoW. Now this, and Diablo 3 coming later... In other news, the Korean economy is expected to contract from August.
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by heresy 16y ago
I can only hope the OS X support will work in Windows 7 x64. My desktop is a monster of a machine, my 2,1 revision MacBook Pro, not so much.
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by heresy 16y ago
I hardly think this problem is unique to the US, media just talks about it more openly. Despite their "cyber-war" offensive units, I venture that the Chinese are just as vulnerable, if not more so. At least the military culture in the US al
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by heresy 16y ago
I learned Vim inside and out because it was the only Linux console editor at the time that did syntax highlighting, and it kind of stuck. Also, working in 80x50 with only the editor open for a couple of months kind of gets you into the mode
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by heresy 16y ago
Look forward to seeing where this goes. My girlfriend asked me to teach her Python - she's doing her masters in statistics, so she's coming from an R/SAS background. Apparently Python is useful to know in the investment banking arena, which
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by heresy 16y ago
I run Windows 7 as my host OS, and use Sunacle's VirtualBox to run my VMs, as it supports 64-bit guests. I have a MacBook Pro if I need to do OS X stuff, but it doesn't have the grunt to serve as my main dev environment any more, sadly. And
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by heresy 17y ago
I think this is a function of age. I'm only 30 now, but I'm starting to get crusty when shit changes for the sake of changing shit :)
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by heresy 17y ago
A fair number of programmers I respect have broken the law. Sometimes the law is an ass, and needs to be broken. And sometimes you're just so damn curious you have to figure out how it works, and you break it for the rush of both solving th
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by heresy 17y ago
HTC has come a long way from the purveyor of crappy Windows Mobile devices they used to be. My first exposure to them was a Windows Mobile phone a couple of years ago, was an exercise in frustration. Possibly because of the software, and th
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by heresy 17y ago
Bonuses are the first thing to go at the slightest hint of any sort of economic wobble in the macro-environment. Unless you have it locked in, very explicitly, in writing - fuck the bonus, give me higher base. I worked at a company with a b
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by heresy 17y ago
You must have started at a decent salary... I'm earning 8 times more than I did when I started, also 12 years ago (six figures now). Though to be fair, I didn't have a degree when I started and began in tech support.
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by heresy 17y ago
Not if the type designer didn't sit down and spend a lot of time hinting the font face for lower point sizes. Not many designers do.
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by heresy 17y ago
My condolences. I see SharePoint on a job posting and it goes into the trash immediately...
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by heresy 17y ago
I paid $400 to do a university paper this semester, great timing, signed up for DreamSpark and got VS2010 Professional for free ;)
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by heresy 17y ago
Hardware acceleration is the Microsoft crutch for shitty perf :) Not that I'm bitter, stuck in VS2008 all day on a circa 2003 machine, stingy ass employers. They can afford to pay 100k+ for engineers, but not to give them decent machines..
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by heresy 17y ago
So, the U.S. is getting regular strength then? :)
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by heresy 17y ago
Heard of Google NaCl? Yeah. Native code in a browser without the security implications.
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by heresy 17y ago
I don't see how this is relevant, I could care less about someone's past. I've done stupid shit that I'm glad happened before search engines and Facebook. My advisor for my M.Sc had a sex change, didn't stop her from being an excellent advi
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by heresy 17y ago
Just a nit, New Zealand is also in that list of small countries. The University of Auckland (my alma mater) ranks 61.
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by heresy 17y ago
My mom held me back from going to school until I was 7, when the average person went to school at age 5 or 6. I asked her about it the other day, and the reason was "kids need time to be kids". I cannot thank her enough - I never had proble
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by heresy 17y ago
For that to work, ageism in hiring practices needs to be illegal.
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by heresy 17y ago
I cannot agree with you more. Rule of law and stable government are necessary to create an environment in which the economy can develop and circumstances for the people improve. Democracy in an ethnically heterogeneous country does not make
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by heresy 17y ago
His laws are too rigid. I gravitate between the areas on his chart, depending on various factors. Alcohol consumed, location, whether I'm among friends or not, etc.
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by heresy 17y ago
Over in C#, the implementers decided to give us extension methods so we could inflict this terror on ourselves in a relatively nice way, and left it out of the standard library.

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