monstermonster

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by monstermonster 12y ago
Unfortunately yes. However there were may other bad protocols that died through lack of use. You can still vote with your feet. A vendor will not maintain a protocol stack if people don't use it.
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by monstermonster 12y ago
I don't understand your point. 80 and 443 are "well known ports"[1] which is fine. What does this have to do with ports? TCP is connection based so a client can create as many connections as it likes to a port on a host. If s
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by monstermonster 12y ago
That's my point. HTTP/2 is implementing TCP's responsibilities. Again. Badly.
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by monstermonster 12y ago
I don't get this. TCP has steams. TCP has connection mux. TCP has flow and congestion control. HTTP has keepalive. Why build another stack on OSI layer 7? Also now we have to keep state to work out what the diffs are. State is evil. Wh
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by monstermonster 12y ago
SSRS is a beautiful piece of software. SQL Server Express with Advanced Services ships with SSRS, is free , comes with all the tooling and generates PDFs too. Perhaps surprisingly, if you install your ODBC drivers for your database engine
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by monstermonster 12y ago
Will do!
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by monstermonster 12y ago
This, a million times. I'm a bit further down the abstraction chain but I am thoroughly glad I sit there all day writing C/C++ for Windows native (win32) GUI applications. I know once I've tested it on one machine it's g
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by monstermonster 12y ago
No doubt the parent point was about personal safety as well. After all the device only protects the rider.
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by monstermonster 12y ago
I wear a car. Much safer.
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by monstermonster 12y ago
Well I was the last hire in 2004 and we don't have anyone junior in our 3 person team so I can't answer that really other than a ballpark figure. A good win32 programmer with sector experience could probably jump straight in. Some
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by monstermonster 12y ago
I'm a corporate neckbeard. Probably the opposite of everyone here. And a lurker, so hello! I work for a company that ignored the industry trends, we picked a winner with "Petzold style" win32 as you put it. We have a 800kloc
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by monstermonster 12y ago
This. Puts me right off the community hearing this to and fro all the time.