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by mb_72 10y ago
... which doesn't allow you to work or to look for work.
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by mb_72 10y ago
2), inasmuch as I can't see how you can legally do 1).
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by mb_72 10y ago
I'm genuinely curious as to where you are getting your information from - ? Are you referring to Xamarin Forms in particular? One isn't forced to use Forms, it's possible to utilise Xamarin iOS and Android, but still have (fo
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by mb_72 10y ago
Can't speak for the mobile side of things, but I used Xamarin for Mac to port a Delphi application and bring it to market last year. Considering when I started I didn't know anything about Macs, Cocoa or Xamarin for Mac / Mon
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by mb_72 11y ago
This made me think - and excuse my ignorance if this is a known and solved problem already - that for autonomous driver software there needs to be some significant degree of customisation allowable for local conditions, where 'local&#x
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by mb_72 11y ago
Silverlight is abandoned, but Winforms (especially) and WPF are mature products; I use the latter two (as well as Xamarin for Mac) in my consulting business to make good profits each year, and don't see anything changing except for bet
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by mb_72 11y ago
Experience does not equate to cynicism, or at least shouldn't in a 'good' developer. And experience is indeed a common 'replacement' for youthful enthusiasm, mostly because greater experience (usually) brings with i
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by mb_72 11y ago
Your criticism seems to be well-founded in past experience, however as a casual developer and supported of Drupal sites for my own businesses and some charities, it 'just works', looks good, and is reasonably easy to look after. A
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by mb_72 11y ago
As a victim of this prank (in the late 90's) I can attest to a) how puzzled you feel when nothing responded to mouse clicks and b) how funny it is when someone finally reveals what was going. The sole other programmer I was working wit
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by mb_72 11y ago
It's a small point, but actually Jaycar only keep semis, LEDs and similar parts behind the counter. Resistors are on tape in groups of 8 with cardboard or plastic envelopes, and capacitors are free floating. I believe Jaycar selling al
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by mb_72 11y ago
The kind of problems you've mentioned are typical of thoughtless "what a cool mod!" changes to a design; these often ignore practical issues such as the volume change you've mentioned. However, 'fixing' these i
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by mb_72 11y ago
Some points made already, but this might be of interest. I'm on ADSL2 in Adelaide (South Australia), and my business partner is on the NBN in Hobart (Tasmania). One project we work on together is using the Outsystems platform, and this
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by mb_72 11y ago
> What can I say, it works for me and few more people I know. You don't know that - it could have been other unknown factors that made the difference. The same claims of 'working' are made for homoeopathy etc. In general &
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by mb_72 11y ago
These are fairly typical anecdotal comments made by people pushing Vitamin C cures / treatment, often in conjunction with mention of 'miracles'. Oblig xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1217/
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by mb_72 11y ago
I'm in Australia, and this is exactly the case. Unfortunately 99% of the emails are from off-shore providers that don't give a damn about these rules. I've setup Thunderbird rules that manage to filter out most of them withou
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by mb_72 11y ago
From the article: "The most popular user case is a customer that uses curated data from BuiltWith as a lead list." How would I generously try and interpret this as NOT providing a list of email addresses to spam? I have lost track
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by mb_72 11y ago
I've mostly spent time on the Mac side of things so far, and have helped out a colleague with the mobile stuff. Recently they've added a lot of documentation for the Mac side that covers basically anything you want to know - or at
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by mb_72 11y ago
I'm writing Mac, Android and iOS apps using Xamarin in C# using a shared PCL that is 99% the same code across all platforms. This might not be all that common, but Xamarin has seemingly been gaining momentum over the last couple of yea
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by mb_72 11y ago
> How can a musician have imposter syndrome? My opinion, based on my own circumstances and knowing others who feel the same way, is that some people in general have 'imposters syndrome' for whatever they do. Due to lack of self
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by mb_72 11y ago
Across former Soviet states there are now-crumbling collective farms with purpose-built apartment buildings nearby, the apartments having been constructed for the farm workers. Every time I hear about one of these 'living at work'
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by mb_72 11y ago
Comments like this have been made on the Xamarin forums a number of time - that it's too expensive for 'hobby' developers. I'll make the same comment here as I made there, that as a Xamarin Mac (Indie) developer I'm
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by mb_72 11y ago
I don't believe for one moment that corruption and tax avoidance has been eliminated from Greece. I would wager there are a number complaining about the 'harsh' EU treatment who have also not done the right thing by their gov
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by mb_72 11y ago
I've had an endoscopy before, to push down some food stuck at the top of my stomach, with no sedation or numbing. Being held down by a couple of nurses and the doctor whilst the procedure was done three times - the first two times I pu
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by mb_72 11y ago
Half-Australian and half-Estonian here; I can only agree with your sentiment. It seems to me that decades of corruption, tax avoidance and financial mismanagement is responsible for the position that Greece is in today, and I don't see
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by mb_72 11y ago
I'm glad you raised this to counter the mis-information posted by the parent. I also worked for several years in Tallinn (I'm half-Estonian, half-Australian), and the information provided by the parent ss simply not true. This rei
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by mb_72 11y ago
I am no expert, but I am guessing like with most things the newest medical technology starts of at it's most expensive point, then decreases over time (as economy of scale or improvements in production efficiency kicks in). So if this
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by mb_72 11y ago
I do accept that it is a complicated issue, and realise also my own attitude towards poker machines is that of a reasonably-sophisticated gamer who could never see the point in playing such 'games'. I also, perhaps fortunately, ha
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by mb_72 11y ago
I wouldn't work for gaming company in the same way I wouldn't work for a weapons company. Poker machines cause a lot of problems to not only individuals but to families; time and again I read about someone massively in debt in the
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by mb_72 11y ago
Well, the 'matching' might be correct at a certain point in time, but people do change. These kind of questions might nail how people feel and think and act now, however what about the future? Relationships start and finish all th
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by mb_72 12y ago
My thoughts too, but I guess any ingress of sea water makes it necessary to junk the engines. Also, once you've solved the 'landing problem' once, presumably the method can be reused on each and every subsequent landing; if y

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