junklight

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by junklight 17y ago
not much chance of you being tortured or killed for the content of your email though. While I get the sentiment - if you operate in a country you need to follow the laws of the land no matter how you might personally view them - the reality
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by junklight 17y ago
yep spot on. Pick the technology that you have the available skills for right now. As the problems present themselves (and you normally can't predict them because you don't know how your service is going to be used and what strange usage pa
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by junklight 17y ago
As someone who (fortunately) doesn't have to write a lot of Java any more, but does have to read and understand Java source code upon occasion I have to say that this is a totally bogus attitude - when I read Java code I seem to spend a gre
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by junklight 17y ago
Its even worse than a controversial headline. Its lazy blogging/reporting. In the actual world things don't have to die for new things to appear. In the world of blogs and newspapers - each product must slay the ones that have gone before:
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by junklight 17y ago
yes for all the grumbling - there things like Cog that seem to do exactly what he is asking for. I have to say I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum - I use a great deal of the features in iTunes - I keep video in it, I keep TV in it , I
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by junklight 17y ago
User in One size doesn't fit all shocka! it's really important to work the figures as seen in the article. We use EC2 but for certain scenarios we worked out that hardware would be cheaper. The bandwidth costs in particular can sneaky. All
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by junklight 17y ago
yes. While I program in a proportional font - given that code is what I spend most of my time staring at, it being readable makes a big difference - I still have my terminal sessions in fixed space fonts. Far too many things assume that it
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by junklight 17y ago
I had a few run-ins with NN/antiorp/m9ndfukc back in the day. To be honest I think that "artsy fartsy" is a meaningless cliché. It sounds like "artists are stupid because they take art seriously" However - NN was interesting because as we