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by meaty 14y ago
Hardly. I put the kits together in my spare time in the interest of spreading knowledge. The designs were open and published in a magazine in the UK as well. I don't do it any more because I am too damn busy, but the moment I retire, I'm no
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by meaty 14y ago
Most people who benefit from these sorts of products don't have a firm grasp of math and engineering to start with. Our education sucks in the US. Giving them a helping hand is a terrific way to swell the ranks of STEM professionals and in
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes I will. I find it embarrassing in the same way as I find computer science portrayals in movies embarrassing. Hax0r the planet etc... Making money - selling overpriced modules and branded crap for way more than marginal profit (compared
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by meaty 14y ago
Is it just me or are Amazon starting to look like 'omni consumer products' these days? Diversification yes but jumping on every bandwagon...
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by meaty 14y ago
Yeah I actually designed two kits for maplin in the 90s before they started shipping velleman shit and containers full of Chinese plastic crap. Everyone sold the tools, kits and parts already. All that had been achieved is the application o
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by meaty 14y ago
Am I the only one who finds the 'maker movement' slightly embarrassing. There are plenty of us before Limor who did the same stuff without the fanfare and movement crap. This isn't a flame - I'm just surprised that the application of spin m
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by meaty 14y ago
I'm not signing up unless I can see what I'm getting first (like all the other vendors allow) Also, you're fighting the likes of Ocado, Abel and Cole, Waitrose there. That's not a fight I'd walk into myself.
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by meaty 14y ago
The "tube" was the BBC micro's major expansion bus. Technically, it's a high speed asynchronous, buffered parallel IPC channel with no specific purpose. Rather neatly, you could chuck a second CPU on the end of the bus and just use the host
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by meaty 14y ago
You can't really unit test blurry text.
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by meaty 14y ago
This is great. I've been considering building a BBC master into an old ThinkPad chassis for about 10 years now. There's absolutely no way an efficient unit could be produced with "normal" beeb discrete hardware so FPGA would be considered.
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by meaty 14y ago
+1 for this. I've had it installed permanently for a few years and it works perfectly. You can even emulate Tube connected processors!
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by meaty 14y ago
Depends if they blew the traces off the board (that happen to my Master Turbo). Soldered on paperclip fixed it but was probably a small fire waiting to happen.
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by meaty 14y ago
I have a 2000 table, 45000 sproc legacy database on my hands. 20 mins to deploy the schema. Its what we expect but the maintenance cost is extreme, its not testable. That's where the ORM comes in for legacy stuff. We're moving the schema sl
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by meaty 14y ago
Schema management is one of the features I really want to use in an orm as it's the main pain in the ass when it comes to dealing with relational databases.
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by meaty 14y ago
Indeed. I'd say they were Darwin award candidates.
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by meaty 14y ago
Universal point to point encryption with pre-shared keys would solve this instantly.
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by meaty 14y ago
And here's the Western European version which is much scarier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Menwith_Hill I went on site there to install some engineering management software and you are escorted around with an SA80 pointing at you mos
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by meaty 14y ago
This a million times. I just tried it on my WP7 device and to be honest I can't tell the difference between this and my exchange account.
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by meaty 14y ago
To be honest, CalDAV is shit and doesn't encompass the feature set that either outlook or windows phone support. Microsoft are on the working group for the next gen stuff as are google so I'm sure there will be some convergence in the futur
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by meaty 14y ago
Yet. Don't piss off potential customers. Its business 101.
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by meaty 14y ago
They did for some things. There are several factions inside Microsoft, some more respectable than others [1]. We managed to get MSRPC/DCOM documentation out of them no problems at all. TBH there was very little internal documentation on it
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by meaty 14y ago
Not strictly how it is. Here's what I saw: They were preparing the specifications before the government action. I worked for an organisation which was working with them at the time and they were pushing drafts of their documentation to us -
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by meaty 14y ago
I took in a cat from a shelter that looked worse than that. No shit. Its face had a tumor from birth to the point it couldn't meow - just make farting noises, much to everyone's amusement.
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by meaty 14y ago
I think people who used Tk with other languages (which TBH it didn't really fit cleanly with) were scared away from Tcl. I never found a use for Tcl myself but I had no problem with it.
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by meaty 14y ago
This is exactly what they should be doing, but they will downplay it as all the publicity will actually detract from the current ruling elite's appearance (even if it wasn't them who made the law up).
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by meaty 14y ago
I think they got bored and continued to roll out more draconian surveillance laws instead which are obviously of more interest to the political elite... I have very little faith in the government to do the right thing.
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by meaty 14y ago
Well actually even trusted CA's are not that trustworthy as we've seen recently by the number of revocations. Probably a better approach thank just nuking it would be for Google to import a public certificate into their store for your self-
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by meaty 14y ago
Someone needs to fire their UI guys
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by meaty 14y ago
Google don't really prescribe what happens with Go from what I can see. It's left up to the Go team who's focus is to produce a general purpose language and the community who want a stable product that fills their needs as well. Google take
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by meaty 14y ago
I think the notable exception to that rule is Go. Go is imported by Google, not exported by them. It's also got good funding, a large number of well known core team members (who won't let it die) and a good license which protects the users

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