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by jussij 12y ago
So with the release of 4.1.15, that will truly be the year of Linux, hitching a ride with the much bigger year of the terminator. It might also be close to the end of humanity, but at least it finally terminated Windows.
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by jussij 12y ago
What a great way to destroy a brand! I know which laptop I will never be buying.
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I think that has a lot to do with it. Here in Oz we have the ABC which is the BBC equivalent in that too is state owned. When it comes to all forms of locally grown TV, the ABC has a much better record of creating quality programs, when c
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by jussij 12y ago
In other words comparing apples with oranges.
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by jussij 12y ago
> Once I had to port a large legacy FORTRAN program to a Unix box. It was structured entirely with goto, no procedures, functions Sounds a lot like FORTRAN IV. From what I remember of that version, that was pretty much all you had.
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> but mainstream news cycles and breaking news are increasingly preceded by and/or quote tweets. That is nothing more than an indication main stream news is no longer reporting the news, but rather quoting gossip, which I don't
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> So many people say this, presumably because "it must be true". Consider this link: http://www.smh.com.au/business/property/median-asking-price-... * Across Australian state and territory capitals, t
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by jussij 12y ago
That is correct. The original parent said "housing has become an investment commodity" and that it very true here in Oz. Thanks to a climate of very low interest rates and "negative gearing" it means only those with high
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In Australia we have negative gearing . In layman's terms it means you can offset property expenses against your real income. So if you have a big income with a corresponding big tax burden, you can reduce you extra income to purchase
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I think a lot of that despair is industry self-inflicted. I've been in the software industry for a long time and I can't remember a time when the industry created as many new buzz words as quickly as it does today. Take somethin
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Why programming is hard is why everything is hard . You’re not going to get good at anything unless you work hard at it. All these hand holding sites are worthless because all the stuff on them is so easy. But they are popular because
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Zeus, like a lot of text editors is an in memory editor , which basically means it loads the whole file into memory. So it too is limited by the total memory available to the application. For a 32 bit Windows application the available memo
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by jussij 12y ago
What do you define as a large file ? For example Atom seems to think a 2 MByte file is large. I personally think 100 MBytes files are quite large. But some users with massive log files consider Giga Byte files as being large.
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Machines these days have Giga Bytes of RAM so handling a file only a few megabytes in size should hardly be an issue. I'm the author of the Zeus editor and I regularly use an old 1.25 Pentium with 512 MBytes of RAM to test the performa
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by jussij 12y ago
My mum and dad both uses their computers on a daily basis and yes on occasions things don't always work as expected. When that happens they ask me to fix it and if it wasn't me, then yes they would take it to a computer technician
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For .Net developers that has been possible for many years now. Here's a link from 2008 that shows how it works: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sburke/archive/2008/01/16/configurin...
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I suspect for the average Windows user they don't care what their machine is doing. They just want it to work. That black box model has been with Windows from day one and it hasn't stopped Windows owning 90% of the PC market.
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> would be too expensive to rewrite to run somewhere else. I'm don't doubt that is a major factor. Add to that the major risk that what every new system you move to might actually fail to work or end up costing more.
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> db2 is just fine with SQL Also people seem to forget IBM invented SQL.
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At some point in the process of you getting your pay check, there's a good chance a mainframe was involved.
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If as you say mainframes are overpriced and inefficient , that means there is a great opportunity for some organization to move with a much cheaper, more efficient option. But people have been predicting the death of big iron for several
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> Only in this case, the humans were the tools, and the dogs the tool-users. And this is exactly why breeds like Chihuahua, Poodles and Labradoodles have done so well. These types of dogs living in a Darwinist world, have no right to sur
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by jussij 12y ago
Zeus is a language neutral programmer's editor/IDE for the Windows platform. This latest version has been updated for Go 1.4 and also includes support for the following Go tools: gocode and godef for autocomplete and code na
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Zeus 3.97v Released – Adds More Go(zeusedit.com)
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Except LEGO is a product and the LEGO movie is nothing but an off shoot. If LEGO the movie is a flop, that in no way relates to the success of LEGO product . LEGO has been selling bricks for decades and their volumes just continue to
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> hype fades You mean like other over valued IPOs like Twitter and Facebook, that in time will also fade away?
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> What if there was an App for Starting a business? Wow. What a great idea. You download a $1.00 app and before you know it you have a billion dollar company. Love it!!!
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> does this serve a commercial purpose? I'm sure the high paying job offers will be coming in thick and fast.
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As of today and as has been the case for several year now, many Win32 based Windows softwares/games already run just fine on Linux and OSX thanks to Wine: https://appdb.winehq.org/
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And here is why these functional langauges will never make main stream. I've, been programming for 20+ years and I look at that code and say what the f *k? Ooh, it's the functional stuff. Ok, move on.

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