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by nbevans 10y ago
From what I remember ALT.NET was pretty much a movement that was against Microsoft anti or ignorant OSS policies of the time. For instance NuGet was Microsoft's project which completely ignored the fact that OpenWrap (an OSS project) h
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by nbevans 10y ago
SQLite is a great database for microservices and other minimalist architectures. You'll never get a "TCP socket failed/timeout/reset" from SQLite - that's for sure.
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by nbevans 10y ago
This. We've been pushing Microsoft to add static site support to Azure Blob Storage for years but keep getting rebuffed. Apparently their official advice is to spin up a free "Web App" - as if that is in any way comparable to
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Microsoft will make adjustments to Azure pricing in British pound (22% increase)(telegraph.co.uk)
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by nbevans 10y ago
The list of agencies that will have access without any form of court order or warrant is truly terrifying. I had not realised it was so severe. It was promoted as being something that can only be "responsibly accessed". But this d
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by nbevans 10y ago
I'm not sure China will like the idea of being used as a "beta test" of a censorship platform designed by a western company such as Facebook. They still don't understand China do they?
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by nbevans 10y ago
That assumes the third-party is provided with the "metadata" (i.e. who posted it and to whom/where) rather than just the content of the post.
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by nbevans 10y ago
The VM was in Hong Kong. I was in Mainland China. HK is not affected by the GFW, as far as I know.
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by nbevans 10y ago
Tor stopped working (with bridge) when I was there last month. It worked for a day or two then stopped working. It didn't matter how many times I refreshed my bridges list, it just wouldn't work. Luckily I provisioned an Azure VM
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by nbevans 10y ago
I'm not a lefty (somewhat the opposite in fact!) but I would love this "fantasy" to be true. Self driving cars is literally a panacea right now, but hopefully it is achievable in my life time.
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by nbevans 10y ago
Good devs use all three platforms. Or at least two.
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by nbevans 10y ago
"Error establishing a database connection" Oh the irony :) Poor guy!
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by nbevans 10y ago
I'm an employer and I can tell you that in the UK a lot of graduates are incredibly ill-equipped. Most of our universities are not teaching the right stuff and not emphasising the correct stuff anywhere near enough. Knowing only one la
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by nbevans 10y ago
It's not so much about picking your "favourite" language. That's what drove NodeJS to exist. But more about picking a more appropriate language that has a well engineered base class library and third party libraries. T
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by nbevans 10y ago
Yeah I've done the Cloudflare + GitHub pattern as well for a couple things. But not everything is suited to that, nor needs that. Cloudflare also isn't going to cache large static content for very long or at all. Or just having an
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by nbevans 10y ago
Very accurate. The web is still highly immature and the rate of change is proof of that. Very much looking forward to WebAssembly (and its full adoption by web browsers) so then we can end this madness once and for all.
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by nbevans 10y ago
Depends on the scenario really. If you want it version controlled, yeah sure. But there are other use cases that don't need that. You just want a "publishing target" that is low cost and minimal complexity. Plus GitHub/G
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by nbevans 10y ago
Such a shame that Azure Blob Storage doesn't support "default pages" i.e. index.html Then it could be used for static web site hosting just like S3 :( See also: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/217298-st
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by nbevans 10y ago
"Costlier to maintain" how? "Not built for this use-case" errr? The real answer is licensing cost. If you already own a Windows Server license then you are free to use it and gain 41% price reductions via this: https:&
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by nbevans 10y ago
Indeed.
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by nbevans 10y ago
I meant more from the perspective that it wraps a more friendly CLI on top of a DAG of commits. Didn't mean that it's 1:1 copying Mercurial :)
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by nbevans 10y ago
It seems inspired by Mercurial?
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by nbevans 10y ago
You what?
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by nbevans 10y ago
I thought that too. What a bizarre phrase to apply to a language he clearly loves. Enterprise level type checking normally means supporting pretty much just the concept of "classes" (ala Java) and calling it a day - leaving the de
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by nbevans 10y ago
Can you imagine how long his blog post will be when he discovers event sourcing? ;)
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Recommendations for a free and/or OSS help desk software
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by nbevans 10y ago
These guys seem to be copying the Parse business model. Which as we all know worked out very nicely for the founders and investors. But very badly for anyone that adopted the Parse framework.
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by nbevans 10y ago
We use SQLite as a data integration tool. We connect to a third-party system's esoteric database using an ODBC driver. Then export tables to a SQLite database. This process can sometimes take a few minutes but is generally quite quick.
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by nbevans 10y ago
It's not really surprising though is it. He worked for MongoDB. He's a "magpie developer".
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by nbevans 10y ago
The first versions of Azure were a disaster. It took a good 4 years for MS to turn it around. So whoever this Deepak Patil fellow is - I wouldn't place him in high regard.

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