kryten

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by kryten 13y ago
Having picked up both knackered PHP and C projects, PHP is usually worse as the barrier for entry is much lower meaning that the code barely works in most cases. Plus it's usually plugged into turds like WordPress. Currently dealing wi
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by kryten 13y ago
After the last couple of weeks, no. Everyone I know is bailing out on "the cloud". Even non-technical people. This is like slapping a child round the face and offering them an ice cream straight away afterwards.
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by kryten 13y ago
My olds have no idea what they are doing and have to relearn it every time it gets turned on anyway. From experience working with end users over the last 20 years this is normal whatever your age for non-technical users. Discoverability is
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by kryten 13y ago
At the end of the day though, if it provides some value to the world, does it matter? I think there is a section of stack overflow moderators who shoot down questions purely due to ego. Someone obviously trying to solicit an answer for thei
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by kryten 13y ago
Pencil + paper. Then zap it with my DSLR. Or if it needs to be published, use Dia and export SVG/png into target document. I occasionally write out graphviz stuff from my code using a very light weight library I wrote (C struct to stdo
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by kryten 13y ago
That's total bollocks. I work for a large company with a big web presence. Most of our attacks come from Brazil, the US and rooted VPSs in Europe.
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by kryten 13y ago
Perhaps that's where he won't get hung, shot, locked up in solitary, disappear in a car accident etc for telling the truth? Calling treason on him is as bad as the original act the government committed.
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by kryten 13y ago
Who's enemy? I have no enemies. My government says that I do though.
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by kryten 13y ago
Regardless of the purpose of this or whether it's an art project or ironic or whatever, it's universally idiotic to say the least. The message is bad, the idea is bad and it gets a lot of attention.
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by kryten 13y ago
It's always been like it. It is just publicised now thanks to free communication over the Internet.
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by kryten 13y ago
Odd: I looked at the page an it said 7023 signatures required. Refreshed it to see if there was any delta and now it says 7041 signatures required. So 18 signatures have disappeared?
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by kryten 13y ago
Most government employees with top secret clearance (DV in the UK) like I was are scared of the consequences of breaking the rules. When someone puts their life on the line and opens their mouth, there is enough attention on the matter for
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by kryten 13y ago
Not at all surprised. In the late 1990s I worked for the UK subsidiary of a large US defence contractor. They had an international network which connected their subsidiaries to transfer documents, emails and engineering drawings. Most work
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by kryten 13y ago
Except in the HP it all goes inside, which is where I need it so it can be locked and powered from one supply, every part is replaceable, the GPU can be upgraded, it has a hot swap enclosure built in and guaranteed support for 5 years. Plus
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by kryten 13y ago
Banks and post offices get robbed every day. That problem is still not solved.
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by kryten 13y ago
Considering human nature first, and the assumption that these battery swap sites will probably be unattended, I wonder how long before someone will work out how to steal those batteries?
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by kryten 13y ago
They're my children and they have asked!
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by kryten 13y ago
My bookshelf is 22 years old already :)
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by kryten 13y ago
I have adblock and ghostery. It still appeared for me. Perhaps I should use noscript as well :)
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by kryten 13y ago
Small rant: I suffer from this affliction. This year so far: broken iPhones, a no brand android tablet that sucks, a pile of PMRs that don't work, a portable digital tv that was missing a proprietary power supply, an old HP server, a n
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by kryten 13y ago
Never get rid of books. I got rid of a lot of mine and thoroughly regret it. Why? I now have children who want to read them.
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by kryten 13y ago
Even better: One surgeon wrote a mathematics book in a decade in Microsoft Word! It's better than anything I've read from any mathematician. They seem to forget that people don't know what they are talking about to start wi
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by kryten 13y ago
Whammed in the face with: "Subscribe to receive future articles right to your inbox" Tab closed. To hell with them.
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by kryten 13y ago
There is something infuriating about your post. It misses the point entirely and concentrates on the banality of the medium rather than the message. The new web is the old web, rehashed with less content and more money making prospects th
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by kryten 13y ago
Ha so true! Thanks for posting.
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by kryten 13y ago
At least you can read it. On a windows phone it just redirects to the start page and there is no link to the article. Utter crock.
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by kryten 13y ago
It is a mid-range machine and it is a consumer product. It's more a Mac Mini Pro than a Mac Pro. This is a high end machine. Go compare: http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/workstations/z820_...
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by kryten 13y ago
This. I'm writing this on a 2 year old Lumia 710. This replaced a 6303i. The thing has had the crap bashed out of it but it has never faltered, not once. In that time it has never crashed as well. To be honest, the only bit I don'
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by kryten 13y ago
They forgot to turn off the telescreen though... i.e. it won't boot without the Kinect plugged in.
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by kryten 13y ago
I think you mean your perception is that my description is marginal, which is my point. We're just maths if you go far enough down. So are machines.

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