meaty

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by meaty 14y ago
Financial services. Test ratio is 1 test per 6 loc. Not a record. There are some seriously big apps behind closed doors. Its a different world to the public facing web.
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by meaty 14y ago
However framework vulnerabilities offer a consistent attack surface which needs little analysis or tailoring. The only vulnerability we've seen (ms11-100) was swiftly dealt with and would have been eaten by our up front load balancers anywa
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by meaty 14y ago
I am of the same opinion. Having trialled both extensively, we stuck with asp.net MVC and SQL server. Expensive but well engineered.
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by meaty 14y ago
Similar here in the UK. I bought an unlocked Nokia Lumia 710 for £99 new and am on a £20 a month giffgaff pay as you go service. 800 mins to any number, free calls to other giffgaff users, free texts to any network and unlimited data.
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by meaty 14y ago
Agree with this entirely. Plus monolithic blocks of crud like visual studio are hideously unreliable I find.
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by meaty 14y ago
That's one of those toolchains which just makes me go: huh? I don't really understand why this exists let alone why anyone would want to use it. For ref I sit in front of visual studio 4 hours a day and am pretty handy with gcc/gdb/vi as an
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by meaty 14y ago
I was recently informed that it's not that easy to do this in the US.
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes we've had online petitions in the UK for years of this kind and absolutely nothing at all gets done. Its the equivalent of sitting down and doing fuck all and making you feel happy doing it. Its another form of quelling dissidence from
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by meaty 14y ago
I would write it up but you're not allowed to (check the license that comes with windows server and the .net SDK). Anecdotal evidence points to go being faster on nearly all counts bar regular expressions once you know what you are doing. T
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by meaty 14y ago
I think this is the most elegant set of reasons. We actually test incoming staff to make sure they are aware of complexity by giving them programming tasks that they can hang themselves with by using the wrong data structures or algorithms.
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by meaty 14y ago
Well to be honest we decided to use go for a couple of things rather than c# (out logging back end and configuration store forked from doozer) and it ended up being used for considerably more in the end precisely because it is very easy to
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by meaty 14y ago
Ngen is useless if you're deploying to IIS. Think of views, asp.net pages etc. You're to going to put them in the GAC are you. Ir makes pretty much no sense to ngen anything other than stuff exposed to com or core framework bits. All you do
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by meaty 14y ago
This. One of the most important things I've learned over the years is fail early and verbosely. My code is always littered with pre and post condition checks. As a side effect, we discover 99%+ of bugs before production every time.
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by meaty 14y ago
With c# though it has to compile it again at runtime which destroys your advantage.
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by meaty 14y ago
I'd rather like to see a version of this that lets me know which ones I've already seen so I don't have to waste my life watching them again.
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by meaty 14y ago
I don't think it works like that. The amount my house is worth is based on the number of rooms, the location and the condition, not the accumulated effort to build it.
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by meaty 14y ago
These are all artificial values i.e. they are a niche and you have to find someone who wants to pay that for it. Technically, my signed (by Bill Gates and Paul Allen) copy of "The MS-DOS Encyclopedia" was supposedly worth about £500 but it
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by meaty 14y ago
Everything is cached on the device. It's only a matter of time.
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by meaty 14y ago
Until someone breaks it that is. Then there will be two independent markets appearing: legitimate and cracked.
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by meaty 14y ago
Fair point actually!
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by meaty 14y ago
Thanks - that's pretty much what is in my head as well.
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by meaty 14y ago
Well as a user of both, it's certainly factual. I have no problem with this. For reference, I hate both companies equally!
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by meaty 14y ago
Well actually the only real benefit is staff availability if you scale up. We've gone from 8 to 150 staff in about 8 years and I doubt we could fill those positions if we weren't close to London.
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by meaty 14y ago
Nice - didn't notice that you're building a DC. I think you're one of the few companies I'd trust with the task :)
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by meaty 14y ago
Bytemark are in York. I don't know anyone else up there but it's nicer than Newcastle.
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by meaty 14y ago
Take cash from VCs, burn it on shit (some of which is legally dubious such as the rise of the ticket tout startup), fold making no profit.
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by meaty 14y ago
Having been in the "industry" for a large number of years now, I genuinely don't find that any of the startups are congregating around the these new areas unless they are VC funded burn-out outfits which to be honest I wouldn't poke with a
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes there has: mortal kombat. It captured the essence of the game perfectly and lets face it, the sound track was awesome. Flawless victory!
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by meaty 14y ago
Office is built on higher level APIs than win32. COM would be a major sticking point though ad that entire stack is huge.
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by meaty 14y ago
My arse. Sorry but this is link bait.

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