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by julianz 11y ago
How about they actually get around to releasing it on Windows Phone? I bought a Lumia 735 three weeks ago partly based on advertising on the MS NZ site that said Cortana was available. It's not, and now they've removed that page.
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by julianz 11y ago
Unlike radio ads, which annoy the shit out of me, I can choose to skip podcast ads if I want to. Problem solved. If advertisers are happy to pay for the production of great podcasts, I'll download them.
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by julianz 11y ago
I've got a Dell e7440 which is a really nice compromise between portability and power. It's built out of something metal and has survived me taking it everywhere so far. 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD and an i7 does the job.
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by julianz 11y ago
Yep we've used a page of code from one of our systems and asked the person to talk through what they can see, what it does, what they would ask further questions about and so on. It almost instantly separates people who know a bit abou
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by julianz 11y ago
I thought that as well. Roll on Android dev?
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by julianz 11y ago
Vista had some big changes in it, but shipped with lots of issues and had horrible driver support at the beginning. A while back I set up a laptop for aged relative with Vista plus all the service packs and fixes, and it was really fast and
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by julianz 12y ago
I agree with you, but the Port Arthur massacre happened 8 weeks into Howard's term as PM of Australia. The Howard government was in power for 10 years after that, they won four straight elections.
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by julianz 12y ago
https://gogs.io/ seems to be a completely different site from http://gogs.io/ , and has the wrong certificate as well.
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by julianz 12y ago
Recently bought a Dell e7440 14" machine with i7, 16GB and then added a 1TB SSD. As developer machines go, it's pretty decent. Not as much battery life as I'd like (3-4 hours) but I haven't actually run it out yet. It&#x
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by julianz 12y ago
I looked in the list of "iPad Air 2" apps the other day, expecting to see a list of apps that I'd consider upgrading for, but half the list is already installed on my old iPad 2. Very strange.
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by julianz 12y ago
The porting question could possibly be explained by people just not bothering to port older stuff. I've got production code running in Python 2, and it's fine where it is. New stuff is in 3, and if I have to rework the old stuff a
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by julianz 12y ago
That doesn't matter though. Choice or not, what do people use?
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by julianz 12y ago
The description of how to see the password in the linked HN comment doesn't work as described - if it's set to reprompt then you have to enter the master password before it ever gets to the detail form, so you can't just jump
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by julianz 12y ago
Some good tips, published on a site that moves all the fucking content out of the way every time you click the mouse and makes it impossible to easily figure out who wrote something. Love the message, hate hate hate the Medium.
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by julianz 12y ago
Very cool, it really teaches the nuts and bolts of how functions map to graphs. Love it.
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by julianz 12y ago
I'd strongly recommend Pocket Casts. One extremely nice feature is that if you have multiple devices (including iOS ones) it will remember where you're up to in each show across devices. The other killer is that they manage the ep
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by julianz 12y ago
Ask all the tourists who come to Aus/NZ, go outside for a whole day and fry to a crisp. UV levels aren't necessarily related to sunlight.
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by julianz 12y ago
Sure, but they're KFC because everybody knows what the letters stand for. Circle, I can't figure out what they're trying to sell me.
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by julianz 12y ago
Yeah we're long-time in-house Fogbugz users as well. We wanted to move to a local Kiln but it wasn't available any more so we rolled our own Git setup. I see why running things as a cloud service makes sense for Fog Creek but unfo
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by julianz 12y ago
No longer within Microsoft, but it started there (and was their first open source project): https://github.com/wixtoolset/
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by julianz 12y ago
No idea, but can confirm from New Zealand that the entire internet can be flying along and t.co can be completely unreachable. Happens all the time.
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by julianz 12y ago
Weird. I use Pocket Casts on both an ipad and an Android phone every day with 50 subscribed podcasts and haven't had any of those things happen. Literally not a single one of those things. Several of those sound like a dodgy headphone
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by julianz 12y ago
Still do. Point me at the Jabber server that gives us cross platform/device group and individual IM, easy integration, it's hosted elsewhere so if our work network is ever hosed we can still communicate and doesn't require an
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by julianz 12y ago
Oh upvote the shit out of this! The only hassle we've had with Hangouts is how to start one by yourself and then get a link that's easily pastable into IM so everyone else can join, and this works like a charm.
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by julianz 13y ago
Brilliant! Even better because Numberwang is our internal term for "any random number in some code that isn't declared as a constant". Love it.
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by julianz 13y ago
"accute" is surely a spelling mistake (it's in the classes that are applied to the arrows on the demo page). That would peeve me greatly.
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by julianz 13y ago
A person buying a "premium" Lumia WP7 handset had a reasonable expectation that Microsoft would upgrade the OS when WP8 came out, but that didn't really work out either.
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by julianz 13y ago
I have twice tried, and failed, to use support for Xbox live. Some idiot I don't know registered an Xbox account a while ago using my Gmail address by mistake. I ignored all the emails and figured they'd stop when a deadline ran o
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by julianz 13y ago
There's already several comments on that story saying it's not correct. I don't have a Windows phone or Instagram to check, but maybe this isn't true.
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by julianz 13y ago
As others have said, foobar2000 for the minimalist, free approach with lots of configuration options, or MediaMonkey for a really good bit of paid software. The paid version of MM syncs perfectly well with iDevices and pretty much anything

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