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by meaty 14y ago
If an ORM is slow or buggy, you're using it wrong or its crap. Most things that claim to be ORMs are really not very good quality. Try hibernate / nhibernate with ehcache cache backend. We find both to be an order of magnitude faster than h
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by meaty 14y ago
Actually I think the motivation is that the schema exists in code rather than in the storage engine. That gives the amazing productivity boost of not having to load the schema into the database engine - something you appreciate when you hit
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by meaty 14y ago
That's usually because the architects don't give a shit about the storage model and recognise that the external interface/contract is far more important and that can be mapped to whatever schema supports the model. That's their domain. All
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by meaty 14y ago
Oh yes we all live in the land of the ideal where everything is functional and has no side effects of course and we're blessed with parenthesis. There is a huge difference between an if and a function. Consider SICP where lazy evaluation is
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by meaty 14y ago
We "spike" stuff i.e. do a quick sanity check before we commit to something. A pattern will become apparent there and then if there is one. Sometimes this spike is re-factored into the product or is scrapped and rethought. Multiple eyes see
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by meaty 14y ago
I'd probably actually break it into TimeSpan arithmetic for the sake of clarity and the fact that it won't require comments or so many brackets: var accumulator = new TimeSpan(); accumulator.Add(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(currentTimeOfDayIn
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by meaty 14y ago
To be honest, most of the ifs I write are usually error handling conditions so I sort of agree with the principle. If you've been writing OO code for 10-15 years, you evolve into a model which is pretty if and block free. It just sort of ha
608.
by meaty 14y ago
In full agreement. We have a rule about only using patterns if they become apparent rather than selecting a pattern up front.
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by meaty 14y ago
I doubt it. Much as myself, I wouldn't invest without expecting a sensible return. I did stop giving about 2 months ago and poured it all into debian. Now I'm doing the capitalist thing of whinging about how my investment was misused.
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by meaty 14y ago
I am considering this myself. To be honest, I only got my first 'in my hand all the time' smartphone at the end of last year. The only positive use for it so far has been to check bus times when out (TfL.gov.uk) and read the odd pdf. The la
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by meaty 14y ago
I can't stand watching people parenting like that. It's sad to see the rejection. To be honest I was a victim of such things back in the day and it did a lot of damage for years. I was always second to whichever current affairs program was
612.
by meaty 14y ago
Cash, promotion, merchandise, landscape subscription, bug reports, forum help (I have over 3000 posts on Ubuntu forums), stackoverflow, testing to name a few...
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by meaty 14y ago
That is the vomitous self-congratulatory thing I've ever read and what I've come to expect from our multi-millionare South African marketing overlord. Mark: if you're reading this, please take note. Translated: We're going to push our own g
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by meaty 14y ago
Just to back up the OP's claim for him/her: I've worked in unskilled labour, defence, engineering and finance professions, finally settling on financial software. They're all just as packed with a shit-ton of politics as each other. The wor
615.
by meaty 14y ago
I bought a copy after it was discussed here a while back. Overall it's a very good book and is worth purchasing IMHO. There are some notable holes and assumptions but it's probably the best attempt for a number of years.
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by meaty 14y ago
Which collaboration features are missing? Don't forget to explain alternatives to lync, SharePoint and SkyDrive and the venerable exchange as well... For ref, I did the full technical evaluation for google apps for two companies 200+ employ
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by meaty 14y ago
Usually the worst 90 second example which is my point.
618.
by meaty 14y ago
I'll give you that for pink Floyd :) Perhaps they should ship as one mp3 with a cue file?
619.
by meaty 14y ago
This times a million. If it's got more than a few sheets or few hundred rows then you will find out how much of a difference there is. That ain't much in the scale of things either.
620.
by meaty 14y ago
Not going to happen. Not now or ever. Why? * trust. People don't trust google with their data after a few major fuckups. The same goes for all cloud providers. * hard to control information flow. * absolutely worthless support * features ar
621.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes if you have the relevant group policy rules and filters in exchange.
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by meaty 14y ago
Just pirate it then. To be honest, I download the track elsewhere always and pay for it if I think it's worth it and delete it if it's not. You can't tell much from a 30 second clip most of the time, especially when the motivation is still
623.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes I was there then - in fact I had a load of DRM'ed tracks from iTunes back when I owned an iPod. Why would you trust Apple not to do it though? They haven't exactly been trustworthy on any front over the years.
624.
by meaty 14y ago
This is the sort of reason I buy my stuff from Amazon / 7digital. The mp3 container format has no provision for DRM so it cannot be abused.
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by meaty 14y ago
Agreed but to be honest there is nothing else that has that good integration that you can shoehorn your entire business process into. As for startups taking this on, there isn't a chance in hell. The problem is too big to solve quickly enou
626.
by meaty 14y ago
Welcome to software development. You have just discovered exactly what 90% of it is. applying canned solutions to known problems. Roll up your sleeves and dig in. Even our massive financial platform is a glorified CRUD box with a mere three
627.
by meaty 14y ago
The build quality is good but the designs are rubbish. They put glass on impact points, mount everything on ribbon PCBs which pack in and do their best to thwart repairers with funny screws and what can only be described ad a rats nest asse
628.
by meaty 14y ago
Orders of magnitude better for navigation. Far more up to date data, faster, speed limits on it, proper accurate turn by turn and its 100% stand alone without a network connection for all features. I did try google maps on android but it wa
629.
by meaty 14y ago
HP 50g RPL (calculator stack language - lisp like). Maths refresher including statistics. How to grow mushrooms (not dodgy ones).
630.
by meaty 14y ago
710 user here. I've been given two iPhones since I got this. I really don't like iOS even compared to an older WP7.5 device. The killer app for me is Nokia drive. There is literally nothing better out there.

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