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by kryten 13y ago
Agree. Never had a single problem that wasn't immediately resolved in over 300 orders. Prior to using amazon my options were basically phone up then trek to Foyles in London or go to my local book shop and try and work out how to get t
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by kryten 13y ago
I certainly am excused when we don't have proportional voting, coalitions are used to keep the major parties in power and I don't vote anyway because I do not wish to be responsible for what the government do which is never what I
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by kryten 13y ago
Thanks to my tiny phone screen, I accidentally downvoted you. Sorry. I agree entirely. Have two upvotes for other posts.
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by kryten 13y ago
As a veteran programmer (20 years now, pretty much everything out there), I spent a couple of days with Node to see what all the fuss was about. I walked out with 'meh' after working out I can shift more requests with asp.net and
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by kryten 13y ago
There is already SCOM+SCCM for this but you better have some bars of gold lying around that you can afford to toss out of the window.
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by kryten 13y ago
Fair point. There is a shit ton of moronic dross in the UK. I've actually been told I was "gay" (immature eh?) for not reading a Murdoch rag before so your point hits home pretty hard. Perhaps I should just move out of the co
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by kryten 13y ago
It's only blame because on the 90th time you've found a rotting turd in your 1mloc enterprise codebase that nearly shot the company properly, you really do want to blame it on that budget outsourcing outfit or the HR member who re
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by kryten 13y ago
Let's kick the Brits out of the EU (they don't seem to be too happy in there anyway); they are basically just a foothold for the American fascists in the EU and do their bidding Brit here (well half German so you will get the ir
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by kryten 13y ago
Very true! Awesome expression.
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by kryten 13y ago
I am an MSDN subscriber as are the other 100 people we employ. Definitely not free. Really don't care about Windows 8.1 APIs. The only thing that concerns me is web and WPF Desktop apps in C# as that's what powers my industry. Com
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by kryten 13y ago
There's one here. It stinks on our 1Mloc C# project to the point you have to disable it or it crashes VS every 5 minutes.
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by kryten 13y ago
There was no cool stuff. They fixed a load of stuff, threw new versions out and spun it as marketing. It's not cool if you have to pay for it at a rapidly growing pace.
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by kryten 13y ago
It's not all roses. Have you ever tried scripting and versioning SSIS for example? Probably not. Which is why we use Spring Integration...
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by kryten 13y ago
This was shoreditch. Don't forget between city road and shoreditch is one of the worst estates in London. You must have been lucky but we had constant problems 2-3 times a week. Sold up and bought a nice place in Strawberry Hill for th
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by kryten 13y ago
Appears to be another "the whole world uses Google Chrome" bits of advice. I bet other browsers have different performance profiles if this even works...
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by kryten 13y ago
Depends what you are after and what city. Having mistakenly bought a house in a hipster infested area of London a few years ago, I wouldn't recommend your approach unless your idea of a good night out is doing copious amounts of coke i
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by kryten 13y ago
This. We have a firewall in our company to stop things escaping as much as letting them in. There are so many things built into windows that phone home its scary. Even a VLK 7 with internal KMS has a good bash at trying to get out of the ne
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by kryten 13y ago
To be honest, as a Java veteran, there is very little XML any more apart from a bit of Tomcat config usually. It's all gone in favor of annotations which are much better. It ain't J2EE 1.4 days any more (thank fuck). The only thin
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by kryten 13y ago
Reliability doesn't matter that much. SMTP is store and forward so if you Bork something, it'll still get to you eventually.
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by kryten 13y ago
Tip: don't use dovecot-lda. Let postfix handle it. Dovecot LDA is chroot hell. I worry about the same things which is why I'm actually migrating my email to outlook.con slowly (in spite of the NSA etc). She knows my passwords alre
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by kryten 13y ago
I can't say I have wanted to watch a film yet. If it comes to it, I'll probably go to the cinema.
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by kryten 13y ago
Very little. Kids and wife dont use computer at all. I use it for work and HN (currently HN whilst waiting for compiler!). We have one smartphone but it's rarely used unless commuting.
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by kryten 13y ago
Do you really need to be taught art? Firstly, it's subjective which means you can't necessarily be taught it and then be graded accordingly. Secondly, it's something which comes with only practice. Cramming it in a set time p
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by kryten 13y ago
Ha! A true hacker answer :-)
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by kryten 13y ago
Spot on. Another TV-free household here. I had some of my daughter's friends over for a sleep over last year (ugh) and we had a 15-year old 26" Sony Trinitron CRT which I was ridiculed for by them as they all have massive plasma&#
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by kryten 13y ago
It works really well with children. Having too much crap is thoroughly depressing for them. They don't like the idea of volume reduction to start with but they appreciate it afterwards. I've brought mine (3 girls aged 1, 6 and 9)
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by kryten 13y ago
I found it hard to read too. I'm on Firefox 21 on Windows 7 here but that's not the issue. I find it hard to read simply because of the random spattering of bold-face and indentation.
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by kryten 13y ago
Agree but Unicode is a rather complicated diversion. In a lot of circumstances it's not really required as well. It's definitely a reading on subject. Also, bstr stops a lot of simple tasks looking impossible and therefore motivat
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by kryten 13y ago
I was brought up on K&R. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone anymore. Much like a Java certification, most of it will have to be unlearned in real life. It's littered with holes and land mines and misses a massive chunk of the
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by kryten 13y ago
Why bother with the hoop jumping?

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