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721.
by meaty 14y ago
Looking at the holes and crocks of shit we see every damn day related to HTTP, HTML, JavaScript and the whole programming model that surrounds them, it's about time someone just shot it all and started again putting security and privacy fir
722.
by meaty 14y ago
When java turned up, we were all still writing c. C++ was still fairly unstable then. Microsoft's compiler was actually probably the best on the market and it was still a hunk of shit to the point that most people just did win32+c. On UNIX
723.
by meaty 14y ago
The language is simple, which is its main virtue. Problems are easy to solve and communicate. Most problems are already solved as well which is how you spend less time writing code and more time delivering functionality (or taking holidays)
724.
by meaty 14y ago
The reason its so popular with corporates is that most of the expensive problems are already solved so building software is sticking a few well proven components together with some glue. It's also good at managing memory for you, which is n
725.
by meaty 14y ago
I nearly killed myself playing with tubes in the early 90s. The 6.3v heater circuit got a short in the transformer winding and delivered a rather painful 220v between one hand and the other, through the table to earth. Was in hospital for 3
726.
by meaty 14y ago
You still have to pay for it if you want extension support.
727.
by meaty 14y ago
Java on the server is fine if you know how not to poke your eyes out with context reloading and avoid jsp and jsf like the plague :) I find coffeescript/node.js to be a bit too trendy to trust and Haskell to be perl for computer scientists.
728.
by meaty 14y ago
Lumia 820/920
729.
by meaty 14y ago
You can get a lumia 710 for not much. Doesn't do windows phone 8 but all the 7/8 portable apps will work on it. Never test on a flagship device!
730.
by meaty 14y ago
Vs2012 crashes less than vs2010 though. Hand over your cash now for the new feature! We've bailed and moving to java on the server and web and android apps for mobile.
731.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes definitely. I'm here for the technical discussion which I think is unsurpassed.
732.
by meaty 14y ago
This really doesn't surprise me. The CLR has always been wide open for reverse engineering and decompilation. Seriously, C++ might get you further here but don't rely on it anyway. Old way of doing it: It's pretty damn easy to mod an assemb
733.
by meaty 14y ago
Just buy a different device. Jailbreaking isn't the best option as one day, they might just find a way of making it impossible.
734.
by meaty 14y ago
Its a hosting environment for SOA type applications. It gives distributed corelation, monitoring, persistent workflow and caching capability for WCF Services. Incredibly powerful and a beautiful piece of software but wholly misunderstood by
735.
by meaty 14y ago
Redundant connection - check 3g. Backup supply - check (fucking big aps). Ha cluster - yes i can fail to a vm on my desktop.
736.
by meaty 14y ago
Availability covers data loss and account cancellations out of the blue, which has happened to a friend of mine at least. this is one of the reasons I self host. Also, the machine is in the same lan as me so connectivity is never a problem
737.
by meaty 14y ago
it does. When I want it to, not when I don't want it to.
738.
by meaty 14y ago
Probably not the time to rub people's face in it, but I host my own mail server because of crap like this. Thread from the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4886236
739.
by meaty 14y ago
True also. We wrap Amazon S3's client behind our VFS layer.
740.
by meaty 14y ago
You can learn Java syntax in 10 weeks, but you can't learn how to write Java that isn't a piece of shit.
741.
by meaty 14y ago
That's vertical decoupling. Well the point of the abstraction is that you don't care about the contents, hence the term "black box abstraction". It doesn't matter to the interface consumer what the implementation is, just that it does what
742.
by meaty 14y ago
Hint: You never have to distort a design for testing, if it's not a crock. It's a great indicator of brokeness.
743.
by meaty 14y ago
I wonder if they'll go after the smaller ISPs as well which do not block anything at all?
744.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes in London we've had Goatse QR codes deployed, much to the amusement of the deployer I imagine :)
745.
by meaty 14y ago
A 20 page stack trace is the symptom of another problem, not a result of decoupling.
746.
by meaty 14y ago
Well that seals it. We had the same crap from shuttleworth. Don't piss of your customers canonical. Unlike windows, there are plenty of compatible alternatives.
747.
by meaty 14y ago
Well in the case of East Germany at least, most engineering standards were already established so it made no sense to change them. The problem that they had was ultimately the political and social system that produced the manifestation of t
748.
by meaty 14y ago
Or in the case above the DC's electrician would turn up and go "what the fuck is that mess - you're not putting that in my racks".
749.
by meaty 14y ago
He could be the first person who wants to be extradited to the US!
750.
by meaty 14y ago
Very interesting article. I'm quite surprised that they appear to use a customised Linux distribution rather than build their own from scratch properly. If you look at the East Germany in the 1980s, the various "VEB" state industries were e

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