nick_riviera

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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Do we really want unification across those platforms? Not joking but x86 on phones doesn't work either. More suckery to come...
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Confirmed here as well. Just had an audit smackdown. Problem is you never know you're in compliance or not due to various usage policies of MSDN licenses etc for internal use and the definition of internal use changes depending on how
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
I wasn't actually - never used Qt (been stuck in win32 and Wx). Thanks for pointing it out :)
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
It's possible. You can nickel treat alu to give it a consistent durable finish as alu oxide is quite easy to dent and this deposits some on the surface. Another thing I've seen is that a friend of mine's MBP has started to di
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Another DSL. Structural DSL like this: form { input { name = "bob" label = "Bob" } button { action = #{bean.submit} } } I've actually wrote a C code gen
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Its nickel which is present in the alloys they use. Unfortunately once you're sensitised to it then you're screwed. I am unfortunately screwed. This is a fairly big issue for a lot of people. Even my doctor asked if I use apple pr
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
I've had to cover all exposed metal parts on my MBP in vinyl. It gives me a rash otherwise. I bet he didn't think of that when choosing materials...
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
I suspect they are the 2013 Retina MBP of cars. Even the rather unreliable MultiJet engine I have in my car has had a total maintenance bill of around $2000 over 70k miles. This was for an EGR valve that got stuck and a timing chain.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Thanks - I will investigate this one.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Mainly FXML (I hate XAML as well) but it's better than Swing.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Very true, but system-wide consistency across all participants is a different problem to external reference accuracy but it starts as a reasonable basis that you can reason about.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
I don't think it's a matter of taste. TBH I write very little of the code that is checked in to the source control. The IDE does all the boilerplate. I literally design the method signatures, define the access policy for the metho
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
I disagree with this, as a part time Java developer (I do C# most of the time). The points I disagree with: 1. OO is bad . Every paradigm is bad if you misuse it. If you build deep abstractions then you will hang yourself regardless. Some
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
We had radio time receivers (Rugby MSF, now Anthorn MSF) for a long time in the UK. Just plug them into an RS232 hole and have a site-wide master NTP server on that box, fire up the daemon and you're done. I think the last one we paid
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
HN hostilities already... Even Reddit (yes REDDIT) is better than this hole.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
I don't disagree with that at all. The stats are completely bollocks but they indicate a trend reasonably well even with the selection bias. What I'm saying is that they do have influence and after all, that's what GCHQ are a
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
No they're not. There are some online pollsters such as YouGov who predict significant outcomes with quite good accuracy. We're not talking about vBulletin polls or anything here - their entire business is polls. They also monitor
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
+1 for this. Grouping by ASN and netblock owner would be nice as well. I'm happy to shoot down entire ISPs.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Side note and possibly off topic. I have the 2001 Encarta dictionary, print edition! Wonderful book. Shame to see them shutting the project down. I wish they would release everything into the public domain.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
The problem with the $25 handsets is that they are unusable abysmal pieces of junk. I've used an $80 Android and it was impossibly horrible. The 520 is pretty neat and performs well. My daughter has one. I'm one for Android though