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by mathw 9y ago
This is how all discourse should be, really, but personal attacks get mixed in so much, not even consciously a lot of the time I'm sure.
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by mathw 9y ago
Because Microsoft have long had a reputation (especially at the time) for maintaining compatibility over a very long period for applications. They did horrendous engineering to make DOS applications still work through Windows 95 and onwards
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by mathw 9y ago
Almost inevitably. They don't need to hit rock-bottom prices because they're already there compared to the rest of the current market, and they can use the money to pay back their enormous R&D budget, or if Musk is just throwi
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by mathw 9y ago
A large part of the work SpaceX are trying to do is get it so that they can pretty much just give it a fairly simple inspection, fill it up and relaunch it. They already need far less work between launches than the space shuttle did.
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by mathw 9y ago
We are very interested at my work in the possibilities for pair programming using this kind of technology. We haven't been accepted into the preview programme yet, but we're looking forward to getting to try it.
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by mathw 9y ago
Because, as the comment says, he is wrong . He may be technically correct in his assessment of the quality of the patches (I lack the necessary knowledge to even begin to assess it), but he does not go about explaining this in a sensible
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by mathw 9y ago
Some of the trains running to London on the Midland Main Line are this old format. They are broadly speaking far more comfortable to sit in than the newer ones with powered doors, although they do lack mains power sockets by the seats, beca
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by mathw 9y ago
C++ is only backwards compatible within the standardised versions. Before then, the library story was particularly unpleasant. Try building something written before C++98 on a modern compiler... Of course, C++98 was 20 years ago so that&#x2
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by mathw 9y ago
Absolutely. I've done some work with Lambda, and the cold start times for Java and C# were horrendous. Node and Python were pretty fast. I would expect Go to be more the latter than the former, with the added advantage of running reall
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by mathw 9y ago
Not sure where the deceit was. This was always what they were doing.
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by mathw 9y ago
Possibly because... 1) It's really hard and we just don't know how yet 2) Creating an engineered biological weapon and releasing it into the environment just might have some unintended consequences when it starts interacting with
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by mathw 9y ago
That depends entirely on your application.
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by mathw 9y ago
It is completely baffling why software synths and routing software etc. feels the need to make itself look like a patch board and have rotary knobs and things. Can't we come up with a set of conventions for software-native synth UIs? S
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by mathw 9y ago
I was always taught growing up that "next" Monday is the one after "this" Monday which is the first Monday you will encounter moving into the future. I was surprised as an adult to discover that this is not universally h
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by mathw 9y ago
Dairy products are high in fat...
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by mathw 9y ago
Okay I've thought about it some more. The size of the URL for the image resource is utterly huge. If that is truly random in its generation, there's no way anybody's ever going to guess it or enumerate it. It's all SSL,
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by mathw 9y ago
I just tested this with the image link for a non-shared photo in a private window. It loaded without incident. Not okay, Google. Getting hold of one of those URLs is not going to be easy, but still this is not at all what I would expect.
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by mathw 9y ago
So my problem is that REST stuff is usually a horrible mess with lots of special-casing, while SOAP gets ridiculously leaky and requires very tight coupling and lots of tooling to allow servers or clients to implement it cleanly, because th
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by mathw 9y ago
I didn't even know this was a thing. But perhaps, like YouTube Red, it never made it to the UK.
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by mathw 9y ago
When I was with Three they had a phone password which was not the same password as my online account password. I have nothing informed to say on the security of this approach, other than that asking customers for their online account passwo
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by mathw 9y ago
By "special character", do they mean punctuation? Or the null byte?
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by mathw 9y ago
Not necessarily. Patreon has two payment models - either pay per month, in which case you hope the creator sticks to what they say they'll be doing (and you withdraw your support if they don't and you're not happy about that)
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by mathw 9y ago
Yeah, the almonds themselves keep for a long time, so you store it in that form. Given the amount of labour involved you wouldn't be wanting to try to make six months' supply at once anyway.
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by mathw 9y ago
Assuming you already have a sufficiently powerful blender, anyway.
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by mathw 9y ago
Isn't whey protein a currently-fashionable fad diet plan? It is in no way an equivalent to Soylent or other nutritionally-complete products, because it's not nutritionally complete. Their purposes are different. Whey protein is gr
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by mathw 9y ago
They shouldn't be creating security holes either, but they do!
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by mathw 9y ago
It explains this further rather later in the document. There's a compatibility mode, where it understands a translation between SHA-1 named objects and NewHash named objects, and translates them at the boundary - i.e. during a pull or
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by mathw 9y ago
No. What's the worst that happens? You take longer to do the challenges? The leaderboard is irrelevant, as you can only get on it if you're in the right time zone/nocturnal/unemployed and really really fast, so what you
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by mathw 9y ago
That remains to be seen, but I firmly believe you should do AoC in something you enjoy!
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by mathw 9y ago
Advent of Code is an amazing achievement. Designing all the puzzles, writing code to generate all those different inputs for everyone, keeping the site going, somehow managing to create this wonderful community of problem solvers... I loved

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