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by meaty 14y ago
I thought the whole bible was patronizing drivel personally.
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by meaty 14y ago
Yet they are still entirely impractical for what we do. There is no one size fits all methodology which results in a heterogeneous communication layer. This means that you end up with technology fragmentation and therefore additional comple
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by meaty 14y ago
I don't think that carriers will take a rapid release cycle.
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by meaty 14y ago
And? Apart from the Kernel, 7.5 and 8 are pretty much identical and 99.9% of all apps work fine on both. I have both devices sitting in front of me. The same cannot be said between say Android 2.3 which is still in circulation and 4.whateve
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by meaty 14y ago
It depends :)
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by meaty 14y ago
I hope they don't do an Android I.e 18 fragmented broken rarely upgraded OS's with horrible carrier customisation. This is the area that Microsoft with WinPhone 7+ and Apple with iOS have got right.
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by meaty 14y ago
I've read a thousand versions of this blog post over the years. It's decidedly abrasive as I'm tired with reading it to be honest. There is nothing new to be added to the discussion apart from people blindly falling over the same point, whi
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes heterogeneous systems are much easier to deal with, although from experience certain systems are a pig to deal with from end to end (anything Microsoft as a rule). Different languages are just different forms of integration and the mant
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by meaty 14y ago
> The requirement list for a typical enterprise project is the bribe trail. I think this is purely a stereotype. The behavior experienced is largely down to the fact that a large body of humans can't come up with a single consistent v
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by meaty 14y ago
They didn't write it: it happened, by which time it was too late...
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by meaty 14y ago
I love all these articles which are wholly ignorant of how complex software is in reality and how such advice isn't necessarily good. Sometimes decomposition results in problems at the other end of the scale such as communication performanc
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by meaty 14y ago
I'd be the same but on the basis that I spent about £750 on text books at university when I went. Recouping a chunk of that by reselling them was important. You can't do that with e-textbooks and I bet they cost the same. plus eBook readers
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by meaty 14y ago
And I thought this was going to be a computer enclosure made out of cardboard.
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by meaty 14y ago
So basically it's an opportunity as always to monetize everything rather than lead to real social improvements?
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by meaty 14y ago
I'm actually pretty much in the same place. I spend most of my time in front of windows and all I can say is that it is the spawn of hell. When it works, it works pretty well but if something goes wrong you're going to lose half a day to it
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by meaty 14y ago
Most non major urban areas give less of a crap about such things. It's only the cities that care. The internet doesn't have as much penetration as you think.
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by meaty 14y ago
That will be because the nefarious asshat (Zuck) can find more ways to obtain data without you having much choice.
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by meaty 14y ago
Huh? Only! I live in London and have 5 people on the end of a 12Mbit down and 1Mbit up and it's fine. The company I work for has 100 people on a 40Mbit fiber. This is all fine. People are just greedy bandwidth whores these days.
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by meaty 14y ago
Annoyingly this wasn't always the case. Since privatization this has been the case. Prior to that you could get a TOPS terminal/feed for a nominal fee and do what you want with it. Now, it's covering arses and nothing more.
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by meaty 14y ago
CPanel is always hacked so it's hardly news.
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by meaty 14y ago
Directed microwave weapons (fry RF circuits), guided high energy lasers (physical damage), barrage nets (trap), radio jamming (kill ability to return information), doping logical resting points with glue (trap), ASTOR radar (finding source
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by meaty 14y ago
I think KDE's source control system would prove otherwise...
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by meaty 14y ago
Connection reliability (we upload large files), the .net API is unreliable in the AWS SDK and lots of spurious issues. We've basically had to implement a retry wrapper around their API.
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by meaty 14y ago
Sounds about right. Perhaps people actually don't care about it or know who Sergey Brin is (I mean he's not exactly A-list). They're too busy making pittance and getting on with life to worry about such things, as am I.
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by meaty 14y ago
That genuinely doesn't surprise me at all. I've used both extensively and Azure definitely has the edge with respect to performance (and management which is pretty neat). Also I've had severe reliability problems with S3 over the last coupl
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by meaty 14y ago
On the subject of countermeasures: I worked for a defense contractor over a decade ago which was developing countermeasures for such things. On the basis of supply/demand, they obviously weren't doing it for a laugh. With a relatively uncon
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by meaty 14y ago
I make no assumption. It's only because I've been there. I was you based on how you describe yourself about 2 years ago. It did some serious damage to my life and I don't wish other people to go through it.
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by meaty 14y ago
I'm not saying they all suck. I'm saying that they change how people communicate and in an decreasingly meaningful way. So much context and depth and therefore meaning is lost the moment you remove physical emotion from communication. Peopl
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by meaty 14y ago
Unfortunately not as they contain sensitive information (financial contracts).
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by meaty 14y ago
Different layers of abstraction. JavaScript embedded in a PDF probably turns up as a string after being parsed. It doesn't necessarily get eval'ed. It's turtles all the way down, until you say no.

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