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by meaty 14y ago
Watch this before you consider one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_%28TV_series%29 Season 1 Episode 3: The Entire History Of You
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by meaty 14y ago
I think the issue regarding the size is more that there isn't enough space to add enough fuel, a full set of avionics such as comms, radar, IFF etc and get a pilot without a growth hormone deficiency crammed into it (perhaps they are using
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by meaty 14y ago
This. Nokia 3310 style.
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by meaty 14y ago
Sold! That's just what I wanted to play with :) I reckon I'll bust the PCB in about 5 minutes though.
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by meaty 14y ago
Agreed. Steve Jobs only did it for his ego.
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by meaty 14y ago
To be honest, most of us are probably computer criminals even if it wasn't for all of that. In fact, we're probably all generic criminals anyway. That's how the government likes things.
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by meaty 14y ago
It depends on the size of the project. Our dependencies compile into 130Mb of DLLs excluding all external references. That's expensive to build.
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by meaty 14y ago
100% not joking. The questions are fine but the approach that was taken i.e. shouting over the guy is unacceptable. Watch Jeremy Paxman deal with someone. He'll let the person dig themselves a hole and politely fill it in on top of them.
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by meaty 14y ago
A professional interviewer doesn't shout over the interviewee, however incompetent they are.
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by meaty 14y ago
This is what I experienced as well. I've updated it now - it's still a dog, even compared to my 5 year old ThinkPad...
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by meaty 14y ago
How do you find office on RT? It's unusable for me. Too slow. Fortunately it's not my machine :)
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by meaty 14y ago
That interviewer was being an unprofessional asshat to be honest. I think the BBC are near tabloid when it comes to technology reporting these days.
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by meaty 14y ago
Very true regarding workstations. Although when the bottom dropped out of Sun workstation market, resellers started dumping stock and end users started stock piling. I was slap bang in the middle making cash. I made enough to buy a new Land
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by meaty 14y ago
That was in 1.0 and 1.1. Gone in 2.0+ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms379563%28v=vs.80%2...
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by meaty 14y ago
Actually if you are changing a dependency right at the bottom of the chain, it makes things much faster as each compilation unit (assembly) is less likely to be coupled to the changed code. Large assemblies are the enemy of compilation time
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by meaty 14y ago
Seriously those who know how to use it, don't use the ribbon, or the old toolbar. Those who don't know how to use it, whinge. Double click a ribbon tab to hide and use the keyboard. I will say that I actually had word 97 and word 2010 side
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by meaty 14y ago
I've got a nice Dell Precision dual 4 core 2.8ghz xeon, 32gb of ecc ram, 500gb sas 15k RAID, Samsung 840 pro scratch drive and quardro card. What am I doing to deserve this pain? My 5 year old Lenovo t61 is fine for ALL other tasks in all o
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by meaty 14y ago
Ha. Sounds like north Korea.
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by meaty 14y ago
Meeting on Friday to discuss. Budget was already available, just misplaced to be honest. I'm sure the state managed predecessors were getting backhanders. The stupid thing is they did a fund raiser for to fix a hole in the roof!? (£300 cost
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by meaty 14y ago
This is why we use svn still. Also, its easier for developers not to fuck it up royally.
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by meaty 14y ago
You've obviously never suffered a large project. Crashes, memory gobbling, random debugger failures, glacial speed, lag, project configuration corruption, UI glitches, refusing to load projects, half complete refactoring operations, search/
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by meaty 14y ago
We all miss BASIC until we actually go back and use it, at which point it starts to hurt us. This usually happens the moment we want an array and have to frig around with DIM. The notable exception to this is Acorn ARM BBC BASIC which is qu
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by meaty 14y ago
Hmm. Almost right, until they introduced ACPI which in itself is much more of a clusterfuck because most of the vendors actually do it all wrong.
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by meaty 14y ago
Great idea but that wouldn't work in the UK. The children would skive off and be found on street corners drinking WKD within half an hour.
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by meaty 14y ago
Nice - I remember the 380z. Had a bus which was a simple IDC ribbon cable, weighed a ton and sort of barely coped with CP/M.
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by meaty 14y ago
Don't disable it. Just learn about it and use appropriately i.e. hit yourself with the clue stick.
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by meaty 14y ago
I have seen various curriculum proposals, but the main problem is between the department of education and teaching unions. Teachers who can teach that curriculum are just not available. This threatens the teachers who clam up and whinge at
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by meaty 14y ago
I have no financial stake myself. The funders do not get lobbying power and it is entirely non profit.
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by meaty 14y ago
Moodle+exchange (still cheaper than fronter which was £40k+. MS will bend over for educational contracts. Exchange supports the staff better as well. Smoothwall guardian filter
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by meaty 14y ago
I'll write it all up and post it to HN shortly (will check with other members that they are happy to publicise it first). Its an academy school so they are more flexible and have 3rd party funding. Basically, the governers have a greater st

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