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541.
by meaty 14y ago
Doesn't surprise me. Even if it was an accident, it's improbable. Then again, back in the dark ages, we found that if NT3.51 was under heavy load, it was possible to generate two identical guids in under 2 hours of wall time.
542.
by meaty 14y ago
I'm not sure java is being increasingly scorned. The scorners are just noisier.
543.
by meaty 14y ago
Only problem is that xylitol gives you the shits. My dental hygiene routine which has worked well for 20 years is brush my teeth twice a day, avoid dentists altogether (most of what they do is unnecessary) and soft drinks and stay the hell
544.
by meaty 14y ago
I wonder if it'll be an honest account of Jobs' life or just the popular bits. There is a big difference between the man and the legend.
545.
by meaty 14y ago
This is quite interesting. Citing the reasons of the decline of IRC makes it a more attractive prospect if you ask me now. Time to dig out irssi again :) I was a user of IRC around 1998-2002 (I was a quakenet op) but I got lazy and bored of
546.
by meaty 14y ago
Thanks didn't know that :) sortable as well!
547.
by meaty 14y ago
I think Mr Un is absolutely spot on with his agenda but he's got to unravel many years of crazy before him without getting knocked off himself.
548.
by meaty 14y ago
Not at all - you just missed a few facts that need considering. Lets rip it to bits some more: It's in system.windows.forms isn't it? Don't really want that dependency and associated resolution being dragged in to a web app otherwise the co
549.
by meaty 14y ago
Well Nokia bought Symbian from Psion... S40 is still their monumental achievement: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16712308
550.
by meaty 14y ago
Sounds like Thompson or whoever they are called this week.
551.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes until we get to: List<List<Tuple<int, Dictionary<string, object>, string>>>
552.
by meaty 14y ago
And if you've worked on a large project with a lot of cats to herd for both platforms, you will appreciate java very quickly.
553.
by meaty 14y ago
This times a million. The amount of shit I have to deal with where people have used it in criminal ways is unreal. Fine examples: .ToList() materialization multiple times in a call graph. Ok so the thread is eating 200mb of ram?!?!?! Generi
554.
by meaty 14y ago
That's not much. We handle that every 7-10 minutes and these are complex quoting, transformation, credit scoring and CRM functions. WCF has been a big problem for us.
555.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes our entire financial platform depends on WCF but the OP is right - its not reliable. We've had unpredictable latency, crashes, hideous bugs and configuration hell.
556.
by meaty 14y ago
No its not actually. The scope of the legal agreement is undefined and may or may not encompass bits of the framework which mono implements or may implement in the future. So don't count on it, which is what our rather expensive lawyer told
557.
by meaty 14y ago
Oh I completely agree with you and were moving to java slowly. All in saying is that WCF is about the most mature thing that shifts SOAP on windows which is the backend of most of our integrations unfortunately (they are corporates mainly).
558.
by meaty 14y ago
This is because you can't measure it accurately. It's akin to religious interpretation. Unfortunately there is plenty of room to divide people and draw up conversations for the analysts to sell. Browser market share is so incredibly off. I
559.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes this is obviously True at least for us. We've got one windows 8 user out of 22,000 people and its one of our QA team on a surface. Our app is productivity based and I don't think windows 8 is attractive to this segment.
560.
by meaty 14y ago
That's inline with what I'm seeing. Were dropping .net slowly as it's simply unpredictable to manage costs and the staff quality in London to be honest is shit.
561.
by meaty 14y ago
Probably the end of older generation COM C++ stuff that is being pushed to .net (server 2k appears to have finally bit the dust in corporates) and reasonable maturity of WCF.
562.
by meaty 14y ago
Or just use java and benefit from mature libraries and frameworks, tooling and package management that isn't a piece of shit. Your insurance is the openjdk then rather than a thinly veiled promise not to sue from Microsoft.
563.
by meaty 14y ago
Oh 100% I do. The best selling is the cheapest Chinese crap still, followed by the mega laptops followed by the ultrabooks. Outside Starbucks and excessively middle class areas, cheap is king.
564.
by meaty 14y ago
They probably replaced the lid assembly whereas most vendors you can replace the panel with little effort (I did it on my ThinkPad in 30 minutes with the wrong tools for the job :) Considering the SSD and battery have the shortest lifespan
565.
by meaty 14y ago
Defective APC charge regulator apparently. To be honest they were good and their insurance paid out very quickly to both us and the site owners.
566.
by meaty 14y ago
I doubt that happens any more. The whole unit will get swapped out instead. They are not repairable. Everything is glued in and not removable. I've had a fair amount of apple kit - I've found it to be hideously unreliable, clunky and of dub
567.
by meaty 14y ago
Invest in build quality and reliability, potentially at the cost of end-user repairability. Have you used a ThinkPad? Reliability, quality and repairability. Only apple have managed to destroy the concept of repairability. Even no brand C
568.
by meaty 14y ago
Let us not forget the little considered other cause which usually takes out your tape infrastructure as well: fire. One outfit I worked decided to stick a brand new APC UPS in the bottom of the rack as it was in their office. It promptly ca
569.
by meaty 14y ago
What killed me: Ms11-100 security patch. Utter disaster that broke our entire cache and UI layer. Literally our kit jumped from 10% utilisation to 90% overnight resulting in a last minute rollback. Didn't show up in load testing. business a
570.
by meaty 14y ago
That rapidly changes the moment you get knocked off. Someone pulled out on me in Clapham and clipped my panniers and nearly knocked me off. Scared the shit out of me. Humans are just sacks of jam in an accident. No thanks.

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