meaty

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by meaty 14y ago
I'd rather have one piece of gold than ten turds.
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by meaty 14y ago
Warn yes, ban no. That is the problem. Anything which takes choice away from the user is negative if you ask me.
483.
by meaty 14y ago
until you get to the end game and you realise you have a lemon on your hands which is going to require a rewrite because it's so slow when you throw 10,000 users at it... "Be mindful" is probably better advice. Tradeoffs are easier to make
484.
by meaty 14y ago
ActiveX still works fine on IE10...
485.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes this has shot us. Your approach is much better. Half of our outsourcers use Firefox with a screenshot tool which is a java applet. This just stopped working. So Monday is going to be a days work for our operations guys to sort out the m
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by meaty 14y ago
Yeah that's because it's what people want to pay i.e. not much. As for a NetBook - have you ever used one to do something serious on? Absolute joke. The things are the worst thing on the planet. As for my T61, I bought it for half the price
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by meaty 14y ago
WTF are you smoking? My Lenovo T61 has two batteries (9 cell+ultrabay). I get 8 hours. It's also 5 years old and just doesn't break - it's been dropped, had drinks in it, thrown a couple of times, used in the rain. Plus you could beat an el
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by meaty 14y ago
Enforcing the type is important. For example float vs decimal types in finance. You really want your bank running on floats when doing interest calculations?
489.
by meaty 14y ago
Quite possibly. I agree with your second point, which is why I am a senior member of an architecture team in a company with 80 developers. It's our job to make sure ass and elbow confusion doesn't compromise the product.
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by meaty 14y ago
That's probably 10s of thousands of eyes who don't know their arse from their elbow, including the guys who wrote it. Possibly 2-3 people have read it who know their shit. The rest are just consumers. Frameworks only centralise the security
491.
by meaty 14y ago
Read the damn vulnerability description. I've actually just finishing the QA cycle on our app for this and its a very niche issue.
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by meaty 14y ago
Perhaps they should have done this up front, you know as part of the engineering, hence my point. Stopping and thinking for a bit usually covers these problems. I've read a huge chunk of the rails framework source code and it certainly used
493.
by meaty 14y ago
Bullshit. Rails pushes low time to market. That is all. Its built with precisely no engineering design or quality control on top of a poorly specified rickety language in a community of hype. However, my original generalizes the problem as
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by meaty 14y ago
Well that's not really a surprise. Perhaps the "Rails generation" will gain some engineering, product selection and QA skills now. There's a big reason banks operate the way they do with the kit they do.
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by meaty 14y ago
We had Dacta in the UK. It was paired with a BBC Micro and we wrote our own software in BASIC. Was awesome.
496.
by meaty 14y ago
I tried that one - didn't wash with the wife.
497.
by meaty 14y ago
Depends. I wrote a rather complicated corridor based routing algorithm for a courier company in the UK which worked on real time traffic data. It was only 11 files and 12,000 loc and that was their entire business model.
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by meaty 14y ago
If you're trading, keep it all out of the database. It won't scale and latency is terrible and unpredictable regardless of the engine. Keep the database for storing stuff that you don't need in ram. Keep the rest in ram and message queuing/
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by meaty 14y ago
Off the top of my head, the op is probably talking about the off the shelf stuff available for mq stuff and integration which is unsurpassed in java, plus the very low latency IO. TBH when I write java, I usually write virtually no code: I
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by meaty 14y ago
This is not the case. All software has bugs and security holes. The thing is that we haven't found them all. Its a constant game of cat and mouse which will never end. Java has had a lot of bad press recently, but that doesn't suddenly make
501.
by meaty 14y ago
Idempotent, not immutable.
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by meaty 14y ago
They've done this before a few times here in the UK.
503.
by meaty 14y ago
Flatbreads in frying pan. Actual bread takes 10 minutes of attention and about 2 hours of wall time.
504.
by meaty 14y ago
We purge appliances regularly. Seem to collect microwaves and bread makers from relatives who think we are poor and need them. We make bread by hand (only takes ten mins) and everything that comes out of a microwave tastes like shit.
505.
by meaty 14y ago
I disagree. We cook anything for a family of 5 with virtually nothing. Two stainless pans, a roasting tray, frying pan, 2 knives, 2x wooden spoon, metal strainer spoon, peeler, a whisk, a pyrex jug and a couple of forks. Probably cost us
506.
by meaty 14y ago
Having been a university student and knowing the types who circle around on campuses, they'd just beat it out of you.
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by meaty 14y ago
That's why we have valgrind and glib. At the core, a good language shouldn't really have any of these things you say built in - they should be built on top of the language itself.
508.
by meaty 14y ago
Well that puts a higher price on stolen student id cards!
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by meaty 14y ago
Especially the picric acid recipe which our chemistry teacher decided to "do for us" to show how dangerous the JRCB was. Cracked the glass in the fume cupboard. Best chem teacher in the world: Mr Atkinson, I salute you for making it interes
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by meaty 14y ago
That is very true. I must have stolen half the lab store at school :)

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