jrabone

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by jrabone 14y ago
Rubbish. Spotting the hobby programmer is easy - they're the ones hardcoding "/" or "\\" instead of File.SEPERATOR. At Amazon most of the teams I worked with developed our entire Java service stack on Windows, and shipped on Linux - because
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by jrabone 14y ago
One of them needs to run a jar... Exe4J / Install4J; works everywhere. Some status information is saved in an ini file... Don't. Use the registry on Windows, dotfiles on Linux (and plists on Mac? Or is that gone with OsX) ? ...open the
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by jrabone 14y ago
Previously on HN as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227263 (4 days ago)
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by jrabone 14y ago
Wait, so that's not what HN's for?
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by jrabone 14y ago
You might be surprised by the semantics assigned to double clicking the button by some manufacturers. On some BMWs (mine included) locking it twice DISABLES the alarm. It's intended for ferries / low-loader recovery etc. but if you don't kn
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by jrabone 14y ago
It's standard dogma, including in the advanced driving courses (eg. police). "Gears for go, brakes for slow" Why this is so, I'm not entirely sure; it does mean that you can change from manual to auto transmission without thinking (and pote
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by jrabone 14y ago
It's Ruby. Every little fucking thing is front page news, from drama to RC releases to security holes. Welcome to programming by celebrity, where what you write isn't half so important as what you write it in, and how many tweets it generat
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by jrabone 14y ago
Why is control-space so difficult? Christ, Eclipse auto completes so much you can just bounce on control-space all day. "m" ctrl-space "sysout" ctrl-space... It's so easy.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Learning programming with Ruby is like sex with your 14 year old GF. Neither of you know what to do but it's SO EXCITING! Then you find out she's pregnant and you'll be supporting her for the next 18 years.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Ones that don't work very well on Nexus 7 / JB. Seriously, the point of a web page is to convey information. This one sucks hard at it, because it jitters like crazy while scrolling.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Fluid?? Are you joking? Try it on Android (Nexus 7 / JB) Urgh...
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by jrabone 14y ago
It's all fun and games until the National Federation of the Blind sues you...
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by jrabone 14y ago
I'm doing my bit (for the UK business). Ordered a new TV, A/V amplifier and Bluray player, plus cables, mounts and sundries. It is no surprise at all that the traditional high street retailers are having a hard time - Prime is convenient, t
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by jrabone 14y ago
We'll see. If revision tracking finally works properly (ie. interchange of Word 97 .doc files with revision tracking doesn't just end up corrupting horribly) then it might be useful. Until then, it's not a usable substitute for Word. I've e
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by jrabone 14y ago
You're not logged in, initially - merely recognised. You wouldn't be too pleased if anyone could just walk up and buy stuff for themselves based on a cookie, would you? The shipping thing is poor though.
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by jrabone 14y ago
IMO, if you deal exclusively in shell on UNIX-alikes, you'll likely only need -print0 once in blue moon because people just don't tend to create filenames with spaces or other amusements in them. The instant you add Windows to the mix, sudd
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by jrabone 14y ago
- cross-platform C/C++ code and JNI libraries work just fine using the NAR plugin (was developed at CERN for this use case, IIRC). I've used this extensively over the last year to integrate legacy C++ libraries with our Hadoop jobs. - code
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by jrabone 14y ago
Does it matter? The UK legal interference limit is 50 NANOwatts (prior to the Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 ALL unlicensed FM transmitters were strictly illegal). This is almost certainly capable of exceeding
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by jrabone 14y ago
You're all Subway Loyal! (we're just jealous, Edinburgh doesn't even get a subway)
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by jrabone 14y ago
Or Edinburgh. Maybe it's places starting with 'E'...
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by jrabone 14y ago
Note I said SMS spam (whereas the linked article talks about email as well). I assert that if you port your number out of a mobile provider owned by Telefonica SA, you'll find every PPI ambulance chaser in the country suddenly has that numb
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by jrabone 14y ago
It's actually about Telefonica SA and everything they own, downwards. They're all considered harmful in my book.
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by jrabone 14y ago
It is. They will collect your personal information, and make it available to their parent (Telefonica, via O2) and one of the other subsidiaries set up specifically to do this, and then re-sell it to the highest bidder. See http://www.fast
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by jrabone 14y ago
VPN to your own network. It's the only way to fly.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Echoing one of the comments, as an Android user I never use the app store for magazines; only Google Currents. I'd probably pay for content I care about, if there was a mechanism for doing so, but I won't install anything else. Why should t
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by jrabone 14y ago
Sounds like it's time to... http://giveupandusetables.com
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by jrabone 14y ago
Some languages have arbitrary precision types or use BCD. Next time you see someone using floating point types for money, please stop them. There's too many financial libraries out there like OFX4J which get this wrong (or at least did the
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by jrabone 14y ago
Thanks, that's helpful. I've toying with porting some code I wrote (in Java) to access an embedded GSM modem over the serial port to Go as a learning exercise, hence thinking about the "right" way to handle the underlying read/write semanti
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by jrabone 14y ago
I certainly considered using channels here as they would make handling the potential threading issues very easy, but ultimately channels were a bad fit for reads (though writes would have worked well) Could you elaborate on this? I'm just
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by jrabone 14y ago
If we're bringing Scala into it, I'd like to see a Scala compiler in Brainfuck. That might keep the esolang people quiet for a bit :)

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