michaelneale

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by michaelneale 15y ago
Thanks - that explains it. Although I object to just using the headline of the page (as I think the ex-wave is more relevant than the 'aussies' bit - but I guess there is novelty for the rest of the world).
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by michaelneale 15y ago
aside: how/why did the title change from the original that I posted? (I gave a title, but it seems to have forgotten that and reverted to the article?)
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Aussies' fix for 'stagnated' email (smh.com.au)
232 points by michaelneale 15y ago|102 comments
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by michaelneale 15y ago
I have had it twice - both times I was working - so I pretended to go along with them. I faked crashes, and restarts (each that took ~ 5 minutes) while I went on with my work. At about the 50 minute mark they seemed to realise (both times)
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by michaelneale 15y ago
Currently doing/attempting/have done. Seems to be that working mostly at home (or being very near home) is an enabler, otherwise it would be too much absence. Just being there seems to be a big part of what kids need.
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Languages, Verbosity, and Java(informit.com)
2 points by michaelneale 15y ago|0 comments
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by michaelneale 15y ago
This would have to be over a magnetic surface - like maglev trains http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev (which apparently are not technically trains).
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by michaelneale 15y ago
That is my memory too (Australian) - Peavey were cheap but reasonable. Loud, reliable but sounded pretty bad. Mesa was certainly top end boutique.
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Google Wave and the mythical man month(rethrick.com)
398 points by michaelneale 15y ago|103 comments
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by michaelneale 15y ago
Well she did pretty well, need to spend more time. The problem is the lure of "moshi monsters" (which I am realising is a social network by stealth) - just one tab over ;) It is really fantastic - the subtleties of dealing precisely with a
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by michaelneale 15y ago
Fantastic - I am going to see how my daughter goes with this (8 years old) - previously has been python which was great - but she could do this on her own.
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Waving goodbye to Google - on the exodus of Wave engineers(rethrick.com)
61 points by michaelneale 15y ago|4 comments
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by michaelneale 15y ago
The last time I tried it the results weren't great. That in itself isn't a problem but most of them were plagiarized from other designs (from the web). It wasn't easy to track all of them down, so it is probably reasonable to assume that a
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by michaelneale 16y ago
"thank you" for agreeing - as in for being 22 and still feeling that way. Phew, it isn't just the age. I think that there are plenty of people interested in tech with nothing to do with any "social" aspects - it is just that social is new t
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by michaelneale 16y ago
It is all fun and games, and a bit childish. Obviously google are not offended, just trying to get some PR about it - just business. But the argument "I rather Google spend.." can be applied to anything - it isn't as if they haven't be tack
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by michaelneale 16y ago
Kohsuke's post: http://kohsuke.org/bye-bye-hudson-hello-jenkins/
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by michaelneale 16y ago
You can even have groupon.com/australia/... For example, when you go to www.apple.com.au it redirects you to www.apple.com/au and no one thinks anything of it. So this is either silly, or it is about more than the domain name, and more abou
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by michaelneale 16y ago
Well on the software side I saw it as the difference between software as a product, versus bespoke development (although it can get fuzzy with enterprise sales, I am sure) - but the principle is the same. Many consumers == no wasting time (
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by michaelneale 16y ago
Interesting - I have heard other people use the "have you stopped beating your wife?" question as their false-dichotomy example, but didn't realise it was in wide enough use that Andrew could use it with many people realising what he was me
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by michaelneale 16y ago
It would be an odd move in terms of the market though? ie how many windows machines/networks are there which are hooked up to PLCs (well, there are a lot, but many orders of magnitude less than consumer uses of windows and pcs). Having sai
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by michaelneale 16y ago
Perhaps - in that article it read to me like that was being as a bit of an excuse to move to android (of course it makes sense for many reasons). It certainly sounds better than "we stuffed up - going to android" - sell the upside !
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by michaelneale 16y ago
Nowadays not so much on the computation side (even handshaking is fast), but for mass virtual hosting it is very annoying/difficult without SNI (need so resort to multiple ips or having wildcard certificates and running under subdomains). I
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by michaelneale 16y ago
Is there a similar thing for Sydney?
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by michaelneale 16y ago
Thankfully that bit is fine on a mac. And really - that is 90% of it there - the rest is a distraction. Their icons are, well, tasteless is the best way to describe them. I know people don't often talk about usability and developer tools -
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by michaelneale 16y ago
IDEA (IntelliJ IDE) is a diamond - but not visually. In terms of editing (and this applies to scala, ruby, javascript as well as java) the experience is amazing - it really understands what you are doing. But it is the ugliest thing... just
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by michaelneale 16y ago
I am surprised how well it runs considering it is a VM in a VM.
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by michaelneale 16y ago
I used Antares plugin back in 2000 - and usually would do it by hand for a final take. Occasionally I would use it in automatic mode but with limited parameters to not make it sound un-natural. It is surprising that this stuff is only recen
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by michaelneale 16y ago
So here in Australia we use plain old paper and pencil ballots (it is the same in every state - it's Federal). How does electronic security compare to pencil on (anonymous) paper ? I am sure paper fraud happens - as would manual counting (i
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by michaelneale 16y ago
There is also http://www.pollenizer.com/pollenizer-investing-in-web-startu... (Sydney based, AFAIK) - they are nice folk too. Great to see !
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by michaelneale 16y ago
I think I agree. Perhaps if it was titled "Thread versus Evented single core servers" it would make much more sense. Having said that, there are ways to scale out to fill the cores for event based, and in some cases (ie nothing needs to be

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