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901.
by meaty 14y ago
It is probably the Guile extension language variety of scheme which is the "official GNU extension language". It makes sense really.
902.
by meaty 14y ago
We had swipe cards at university which did this sort of tracking and this was in the early 90s. It was not uncommon to take 3-4 people's with you to swipe and register. When they worked this out, it was scrapped instantly. Stuff like this d
903.
by meaty 14y ago
Microsoft Research: innovating to keep ideas away from other technology companies through patent hoarding. I'm not convinced anyone should be developing this product.
904.
by meaty 14y ago
However, patents versus material commitment are very different. The latter requires some effort.
905.
by meaty 14y ago
Quite funny film. The premise appears to be happening around me (in London, UK) as the social housing and unemployable people have lots of children compared to non-social housing people. I'm not talking small amounts more - we're talking 6-
906.
by meaty 14y ago
Microsoft's current strategy with everything seems to be: "me too! me too!!!"
907.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes but persecution of children is usually a good turning point where people start caring about the politics. According to my father, hardly anyone gave a shit about the stasi in east Germany until they started breaking families up. I imagi
908.
by meaty 14y ago
Might try this with my father's collection of photos from east Germany in the 1970s and 1980s. It'd be interesting to compare the Marxist state to the current one. Good excuse for a holiday as well :) Thanks to the poster for this: it's a g
909.
by meaty 14y ago
They were submitted to launchpad over a year ago. No action was taken by canonical despite extensive debugging information being provided. I don't have the report ids any more.
910.
by meaty 14y ago
It doesn't actually work properly from our preliminary testing which causes us a number of problems thanks to some legacy ActiveX crap we've been trying to kill for years.
911.
by meaty 14y ago
C version because I was bored: int is_valid_email(char *email) { char *at = strstr(email, "@"); if (at <= email || at == strlen(email) + at - 2) return 0; return !isspace(*(at - 1
912.
by meaty 14y ago
Well it was our operations guys who refused anything but Ubuntu because "they had installed it at home". We now no longer have operations guys and the development team own the infrastructure :)
913.
by meaty 14y ago
This is normal for Ubuntu kernels from experience. They are shitty. Various server releases have given us hell. They're fudging them somehow. We moved to debian after numerous problems and have had no issues since.
914.
by meaty 14y ago
This is unfortunately true. He could shoot a child in the face and get a pardon...
915.
by meaty 14y ago
Having worked for the MoD in the past, shit like this gets punished big time. They have quite stringent rules for managing credentials. Whoever printed that out will probably be fired pretty much straight away.
916.
by meaty 14y ago
That's not how humanity works.
917.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes - we've just been royally raped by this. It's mainly down to virtualization and MSDN license coverage though. Screw them - we're moving some of our shit to Java/Linux (some of it is already there).
918.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes it's horrible to administer. We have high profile DBAs. One of them was on the SQL Server team a few years back. A huge amount of work is generated for them that is unnecessary on other platforms. SSIS is a pile of shit. It's impossible
919.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes that's still twice the cost and we're in enterprise license territory and have 4 machines. That's only a quarter of a million pounds to half a million pounds change...
920.
by meaty 14y ago
I'm always a bit surprised that SQL Server doesn't get the recognition that (IMO) it deserves As someone who has spent 13 years with it and has dragged himself through multiple certification cycles, the reason it doesn't get recognition i
921.
by meaty 14y ago
People should however be allowed to make mistakes.
922.
by meaty 14y ago
It means that if it happens or is required then due process is followed and information is available to us. However those who do nefarious things certainly don't do email.
923.
by meaty 14y ago
You are probably one of the last bastions of common sense. Everyone is eager to sell out their data.
924.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes but we're still protected by DPA and European data protection law.
925.
by meaty 14y ago
Yay to the EU Safe Harbour. Oh no wait a minute. This is why we host all our stuff ourselves in a UK DC. Snooping legislation is crazy in the land of the free
926.
by meaty 14y ago
Actually no we don't. The physical models are scrapped yearly, our predictions are incredibly inaccurate and we can't shake a stick at the to tiny amount of broken data we hold and extrapolate it. Every corporation and politician clamps ont
927.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes us evil Eukaryotes are responsible for the demise of this planet. Why don't we all do the honourable thing and kill ourselves rather than solving the climate problems with taxation and working out how to trade carbon and leverage trade
928.
by meaty 14y ago
Agreed. Ironically the only tolerable music theory book I read was "music theory for dummies". Actually learned something from that before falling asleep. Then again, mashing 3 or 4 memorised chords on an old korg trinity gets you quite far
929.
by meaty 14y ago
It's more down to the sorts of roads. If you're doing 37mph it's usually in residential areas and extra-urban areas. These are notoriously full of traffic lights, other cars and humans which result in braking regularly and therefore costly
930.
by meaty 14y ago
Regarding updates - yet...

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