malbs

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by malbs 15y ago
The "one of those uglies" quote is from the CEO, Andrew Mason. The guy who took $319 million was Eric Lefkofsky (Groupon chairman). Nice pay day.
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by malbs 15y ago
Oh and yeah, you could go for high risk/return investments, but your investments could get wiped out, and the taxes you paid go to paying bonuses to banking execs requiring bailouts.
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by malbs 15y ago
Here in Australia, the commonwealth bank provided a guideline on how much super you needed to retire on to main various life styles, and what struck me as scary was how much you needed at retirement age 65, to survive for 20 years, if you w
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by malbs 15y ago
> death-by burpees a most unpleasant way to die!
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by malbs 15y ago
We all witnessed one example where the start up "cost" about $200,000, and failed. How long is a piece of string?
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by malbs 15y ago
Actually when I read the post just now, I went to the shelf and picked up my copy of it and just placed it on my desk, he had a major impact on my life. I "feel" more of a loss about Dennis' passing than Steve's.
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by malbs 15y ago
And when I say "get more done" it was in reference to java rather than perl.
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by malbs 15y ago
I was going to start a new post but I think you covered most of the points I would have made anyway. Reading that article just irritated me, how can someone make so many factual errors in one blog post? He's never worked with Java to write
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by malbs 15y ago
I'd love an answer to that - I just got given the task to evaluate Go as a possible development tool for a future project. Edit: I'll take a stab in the dark and say D?
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by malbs 15y ago
but +1 to noSuchMethod()
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by malbs 15y ago
static methods, inability to add behaviour to base objects, no metaclasses It's early days, and they haven't presented yet, but son I am disappoint. I guess I'm not super-excited about it because I was expecting something revolutionary, but
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by malbs 15y ago
Are there any other persistant/mmo style space sims, but favouring action over the simulation? A friend once linked me some picture of the "eve learning curve" and it was a precipice, never inspired me to want to play it found the image ht
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by malbs 15y ago
> Unwed parents are a disaster for both society and the kid(s). It's pretty much a guarantee of long-term poverty. on what basis? My partner and I had our 3 children out of wedlock. Who are you to say that unwed parents is a lock-in to
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by malbs 15y ago
I don't want to bag out on id.. but the games they've done in the past that qualified as FUN - the basic premise was to just kill wave after wave of bad guy/demon/robot type soldier guy. Their games have never been very "deep", but they hav
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by malbs 15y ago
I struggled when deciding how to place that best/worst haha, I think you're right :)
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by malbs 15y ago
I had the same problem - late afternoon headaches, tiredness. It was a colleague who took one look at how close I sat to the monitor to tell me to get my eyesight checked. Diagnosis: long-sighted in one eye, short-sighted in the other, whic
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by malbs 15y ago
so I just downloaded it at work and had a quick look - immediate impression is "wow", it's really really nice, I need to put some mileage into it. I have some faith that the first impression was the right one
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by malbs 15y ago
Thanks for the ref to Sublime - it runs on Windows. I have a TM license on my mac mini (hooked up via kvm), but since my wifes machine died I migrated her to the mac, so I don't really use the thing anymore (TextMate too), and I have to adm
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by malbs 15y ago
We get a $30 per-week allowance for "OH&S Health and Well-being" - It can be used for pretty much anything exercise related, gym, green fees, tennis court hire, it's a lot better than simply being forced to go to some particular gym. It
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by malbs 15y ago
Keep in mind a lot of .net applications will run on x86 or arm with no effort by the developer, ie no "simply recompile your application" either, it will just run on either platform. But you're right that they're exposed with no application
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by malbs 15y ago
Thanks - I ran out of time last night, reading bed time stories to kids took priority
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by malbs 15y ago
the dev tools seem to be available for x64 only, and I'm pretty sure Virtual PC will only host a 32bit o/s? in the other thread someone mentioned vmware panics when booting win8, but parallels works ok. I'm going to give virtualbox a shot
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by malbs 15y ago
got VirtualBox handy/willing to give it a try?
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by malbs 15y ago
Yeah I'm keen to try it out when I get home tonight but don't exactly want to hose my home machine, hoping vmware player 64bit will play nicely with win8, if no one else has tried it by tonight I'll let you know how I went
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by malbs 15y ago
I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis 4 years ago, and over that time I have basically stumbled across other people who have either colitis or crohns (they're similar diseases), so it's nice to see that Chronology is for sufferer's of eit
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by malbs 15y ago
Yeah unfortunately the actual Delphi compiler is stuck in stasis, and has received no love in terms of targeting newer cpu instructions like SSE etc, which is why C++ can achieve better performance these days, back in the day Delphi was as
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by malbs 15y ago
strings are reference counted dynamic arrays are reference counted interfaces are reference counted (mostly for doing com stuff, however I've seen some examples of people trying to use interfaces as a cheap/dirty "i don't have to think abou
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by malbs 15y ago
Yeah the RTL source/debug dcus still comes with any version from Professional up.
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by malbs 15y ago
I missed the point you're trying to make.
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by malbs 15y ago
We are currently building some core infrastructure with MongoDB. I looked at Riak, but it was capped collections and ad-hoc querying that really nailed it for us. Riak is a great product, I loved it's replication mechanism where any node wa

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