kryten

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by kryten 13y ago
You nailed it. That is exactly spot on.
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by kryten 13y ago
I think that idea probably works well... ...until you have to drag an entire BluRay disc over the Internet before Halo 14 will start.
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by kryten 13y ago
I find the actual process of deploying stuff to Azure very costly and terribly slow. If something doesn't work as intended on Azure, your turnaround time is quite high. This is far too common a problem as well as the development servic
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by kryten 13y ago
This. Times a million. I actually knocked up an image of my calculator (HP 50g) against my TFT screen both scaled accordingly as an illustration of this shit crock: http://s16.postimg.org/qu05lh5r9/wtf.png
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by kryten 13y ago
I've been wondering the same thing. I actually bought an Xbox 360 last month for the kids at Christmas this year (while it was cheap). I'm slightly regretting throwing more money at them at the moment. I sit in front of Windows 7
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by kryten 13y ago
Not being disposable or fungible is their incentive for keeping me. The things that make me stay at a company isn't the carrot dangled in front of me like some circus animal who needs to do their performance. People are too grateful fo
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by kryten 13y ago
I get a hefty one of them as well. What's your point? I don't expect one. My basic salary is what I expect.
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by kryten 13y ago
Yes 100% sure. I just signed up to outlook.com with my old address again and a new password.
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by kryten 13y ago
Not this again. I've heard this argument recycled for the last 20 years. You can't abstract everything away into nothing. At some point the meat sacks (like myself) operating the devices will need to reach a compromise that the ma
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by kryten 13y ago
The Metro interface works well for a phone format device. Literally everyone I know picks up my Lumia and just uses it as if they've been using it for years. It just makes sense and is really intuitive. Also, apart from a big chunk of
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by kryten 13y ago
Is this a big deal? Microsoft already do this with hotmail etc and have done for over a decade.
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by kryten 13y ago
This. Joy to the European work ethic. I haven't worked past 5 for the last 10 years. I refuse to do unpaid work and overtime. Would your employer bill you out for free? Nope.
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by kryten 13y ago
Indeed. There will be a mail client next...
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by kryten 13y ago
It depends entirely on round trips to the server and your use cases. Generally speaking though, if you keep your result set as narrow as possible, post process aggregates in code, keep your join count low and keep you round trips per reques
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by kryten 13y ago
Exactly that. The "middleware" as you put it can manifest itself as one of several things (vastly simplified explanations): 1. Sits in front of your data store and exposes your application's API via HTTP for example. Typical
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by kryten 13y ago
No, because it's entirely non deterministic and mostly an evolved shit-crock rather than an engineering tool.
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by kryten 13y ago
Couldn't this be handled with some conditional primitives like in ARM assembly adequately? Actually that's not a bad idea ... writes it down ...
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by kryten 13y ago
That's one more time than me :)
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by kryten 13y ago
Lots. Here you go: 1. CPU time goes up. When you need to scale up, your brick wall is a lot closer. 2. When you do need to scale up, moving it out of the database engine is very expensive and time consuming. 3. The languages are archaic, ob
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by kryten 13y ago
That's the first thing I thought. Having spent literally the last 10 years removing stored procedures and extensions from software products to eek out a little more from the black box that is a database engine and remove all the rats n
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by kryten 13y ago
If only these people had already read the book...
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by kryten 13y ago
The customer service is as offensive as the web site. My wife (a regular customer) is always complaining about it. But it's cheap and well stocked.
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by kryten 13y ago
Based on the fact it looks like a bin, feeds air from underneath and has the headphone connector on the back, no.
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by kryten 13y ago
The infrastructure cost is too high. We do use fibre, but only in production deployments. The secondary issue is "open holes". People like plugging stuff into their workstations. We can fix that with desk cages as well. There is a
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by kryten 13y ago
They were informed. After all it's our job to inform them of the facts and let them make a decision, usually based on a tradeoff of risk perception (note not real risk rating) and cost. Now risk is perceived to be higher, cost is a lit
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by kryten 13y ago
Good point, cleanly described!
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by kryten 13y ago
Yes. If you could stick an engine from a MAN Support Vehicle[1] in a Toyota Prius, it doesn't make it a MAN Support Vehicle... [1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/billkatygemma/6281032897/ Edit: in context
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by kryten 13y ago
That's absolutely no good for a lot of workstation deployments. Ours are locked into desks so they don't get nicked due to the high value nature of the work that is done on them. Try locking a new Mac Pro, 20 dangling Thunderbolt
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by kryten 13y ago
I'm talking about the "new Mac Pro". The existing one a better piece of kit if you ask me. You can change the CPUs officially with the HP. I doubt Apple will offer that option. My current "workstation" is configured
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by kryten 13y ago
Yes this was Rackspace. We were proposing moving our S3 stuff over to their OpenStack stuff for inevitable security reasons (we hold sensitive contract and financial data). We were told that they could make no guarantees directly so we&#x27

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