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by meaty 14y ago
Microkernels are easy to debug. Compared to say an SOA platform with 200 service endpoints, a database with about 2000 tables, integration with 15 other providers with XML, CSV, SFTP and some wierd shitty non standard binary protocol. All w
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by meaty 14y ago
The argument is actually about what you own. Is it the media or a license for one person to play it? Most people I know are fed up with such word games and just plain old steal the bits and bytes (well duplicate them - whether or not that i
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by meaty 14y ago
Exactly the same way as other media. In fact sometimes worse. I have tried to sell a few bits of software via eBay (used windows XP pro retail box) which have been uninstalled or replaced with partner action pack licenses. After a day or so
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by meaty 14y ago
Actually the only answer to feature creep regardless of project size is "we'll get back to you with a new quote". Simply because you dont know how much effort is involved on the spot. People who buy things from you know how to screw things
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by meaty 14y ago
Storm in a teacup will result in more bittorrent seeds... More seriously: my kids school are always using their smart whiteboards to play YouTube videos and DVDs on, particularly on pre-Xmas slacking week (the one that the teachers think ev
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Windows 8: A thorough evaluation(youtube.com)
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by meaty 14y ago
Great article. I did Fourier Transforms in EE maths and could apply them but never properly understand them. Typical calculation versus understanding. The greatest graphic in this entire article is if you ask me: http://betterexplained.com
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by meaty 14y ago
Bin your shitty ISP. I just switched to Andrews and Arnold and the main site still works. They have an active no censorship policy.
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by meaty 14y ago
To be honest, it scales up pretty well lines of code-wise. You just need to break it up into smaller apps.
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Yes and that is with regulation. Imagine what Facebook is like.
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by meaty 14y ago
That I do. People know how banks operate and they are regulated. The same is not true for Facebook, which makes negative policy decisions all the time.
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by meaty 14y ago
Thanks for the rational reply. For ref, I don't do nothing - I do a lot of charitable work which benefits people directly (children with neurological problems). No stock, no schemes (other than gift aid). I won't go into the amount in detai
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by meaty 14y ago
I stand by my point. I'll have done net more positive things by sitting on my arse doing nothing, which I haven't been.
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by meaty 14y ago
Problem is Zuck wants your soul and takes it for far less than $500 mil then sells it to other people and gives someone some stock with those strings attached... When you put it that way, he can't be anything other than an asshole.
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by meaty 14y ago
You would look a gift horse in the mouth if the mafia gave it you right? It'd come with strings attached...
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by meaty 14y ago
It's not about what but to whom. To whom is hard to control and is made harder on purpose as after all, their entire model is based on encouraging sharing legitimately or otherwise. Don't underestimate the power of the majority to make a cr
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by meaty 14y ago
I had the same problem with my old Acer timelineX. CPU could hit 95oC quite happily and shut down. To be honest I just ran Linux in a virtual machine on it in the end. It made the difference between 10h and 2h of battery life as well. This
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by meaty 14y ago
In my case I prefer sensible pragmatic names with some sort of hierarchy rather than random words from the dictionary.
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by meaty 14y ago
Our guys are mainly in the field so its probably a different model.
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by meaty 14y ago
Well he deserves the hammering. The guy is clearly immoral and has damaged people's privacy and the world wide web forever. $500mil doesn't suddenly make that ok, especially considering the charity is basically a quango.
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by meaty 14y ago
I vomited a little when I read that :)
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by meaty 14y ago
Same with finance sector. Everyone has iPads. We spent the majority of the last year optimising our web app so it works nicely on iOS. We're even doing offline apps soon for data collection. People don't even use Excel now - our platform is
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by meaty 14y ago
Judging by the ratio of upvotes to downvotes, I think there is a divided opinion which needs discussing. I'm open to both sides of the argument.
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by meaty 14y ago
You are correct. I don't "beat" it into them - I spent literally years doing 1:1 with people and providing learning material, defining tasks and milestones and days in the lab. I want people to react to this because I think the issue requir
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by meaty 14y ago
Knowing where to look and what order to do things in is the key to success on this. Without understanding in a reasonable order you're screwed, hence your Vcc problem. If you dredge through the basics up to BJTs, you would suddenly realise
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by meaty 14y ago
I work in the financial services sector now. We see the same thing with maths, stats and finance as well as electronics. People can't even do basic projection calculations such as TVM because they don't know what a logarithm is. True knowle
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes indeed - the same :) They were cheaper than Estes igniters as well!
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by meaty 14y ago
I think there are more kits now. There used to be kits for oscilloscopes, test equipment etc. Now these are black boxes, some of which are a joke. We had something better than stack exchange - we got an electronics book and a maths book out
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by meaty 14y ago
You mean Handspring Treo - yes I had one - a 180g... No awesome here if you ask me. It is packaged in shiny and shipped out of the door. Forrest Mimms books were crap to be honest. They were recipe books with very little practical use past
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by meaty 14y ago
The kits didn't survive, but the parts did. The problem is no-one knows how to use the parts unless they are assembled into kits. The whole maker movement solves this by making kits, therefore raising the bedrock abstraction for knowledge w

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