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by pointyhat 15y ago
This requires me to sign in to a Google account (I don't have one). Bring back usenet!
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by pointyhat 15y ago
That's what comments are for. If something is ambiguous, then you should comment it. As for your approach, I do like that better.
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by pointyhat 15y ago
This is perfectly valid code. You cannot modify a collection which is being iterated safely so it's the best way to handle the situation.
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by pointyhat 15y ago
What you describe are "appliances". Single purpose items. Computers, are by nature interchangeable with respect to their use at the whim of the user, without cost. They serve many purposes interchangably. What I am concerned about is that
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by pointyhat 15y ago
That is precisely it. Which brings me to the point here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3003812 "We're slowly being led into paying incrementally for utility computing on a device we actually paid up front for". If it's no longer a
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by pointyhat 15y ago
Lucky for Manhattan. Borrowing something for a week is a good way to find out if it suits, which it didn't. The person I borrowed it from was one of the people above who have discarded it. I gave it back as I discovered that it could be h
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by pointyhat 15y ago
It is though. What is it if it's not a computer?
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by pointyhat 15y ago
Taking the top 100: http://www.alexa.com/topsites : YouTube, BBC, Xvideos, Xhamster, Pornhub, Youporn, Dailymotion, Netflix... It's always choppy over WiFi in London from experience as there's so much interference from the amount of WiFi n
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by pointyhat 15y ago
I agree with the OP: > Oh, bullshit. Do you really think there is someone siting around at Apple dreaming up new ways to take away your freedom? Yes - more precisely they are working out new ways to charge you for it. We're slowly being
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by pointyhat 15y ago
IMHO I think that's wierd. I'd never consider using a computer in any of those places personally. I consider them all "downtime".
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by pointyhat 15y ago
It's a fair point. I'm looking out for small-form-factor Windows 8 devices which are hybrid tablets (much as the ThinkPad X61 but less clunky) and have 10 hour+ battery life. I'd argue that there is no dedicated tablet market then.
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by pointyhat 15y ago
80% I'd say. It seems to go like this: 1) They bought it with a purpose in mind but it didn't work quite as well as they were hoping (khan academy, mapping, general use, recipes in kitchen, streaming video). 2) The games last a while but th
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by pointyhat 15y ago
Composability is what makes something greater than the sum of its parts. The iPad, I found, is so constrained as to be useless. I know of very few people who are still using their iPad regularly after 6 months or so precisely because of t
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by pointyhat 15y ago
I can't say I expect anything less from Adobe having been through the rigmarole of getting a bug fixed in Fireworks CS2.
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by pointyhat 15y ago
All I'm saying is that it worked for me. How are you hosting it? I'm using Apache 2.2 with mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 10.04LTS. Don't use mod_python - it's terrible.
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by pointyhat 15y ago
From observing other people (I consider myself to be the least important person on the planet): It is usually the self that matters the most until you become part of a family. At that point: Some people mature into people who put their fam
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by pointyhat 15y ago
I'm in the UK. I spend as much time as possible with my children so that I can teach them that a 37 hour working week is actually normal and that they don't NEED to become an American-style 80-hour-a-week corporate slave. Humans have needs:
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by pointyhat 15y ago
...until you plug Greenhopper in.
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by pointyhat 15y ago
Trac, Redmine, Flyspray, Mantis, JetBrains YouTrack. Even Sharepoint and the ASP.Net issue tracker starter kit.
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by pointyhat 15y ago
I'm talking about the "maintenance agreement".
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by pointyhat 15y ago
Switch to the postgres backend. The default sqlite one can get quite slow in high concurrency situations, although I've actually had 50 peple running quite happily off the sqlite backend.
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by pointyhat 15y ago
Yes - lots of people like it. It's actually an incredible piece of software which allows you to build what you want on it.
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by pointyhat 15y ago
Thanks - I will do that today.
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by pointyhat 15y ago
I use Trac for all those things with the following plugins: * Time tracking: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TimingAndEstimationPlugin * Planning/reporting: simple trac reports + wiki dashboard. * Customer service, we have a separate
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by pointyhat 15y ago
It is indeed interesting. Thanks for your report. I genuinely wish I'd had your experience.
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by pointyhat 15y ago
No they are absolutely abysmal. Stay away for your own sanity. My FINAL experience with JIRA + Fisheye + Greenhopper + Crucible nearly made me cry. This is on an 8 core Xeon, 12Gb RAM, 15k SAS RAID and Ubuntu 10.04LTS and Sun hotspot VM.
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by pointyhat 15y ago
That's rather interesting actually - nice bit of reading - thanks :) I did kind of passively think that more syntax was not the way to solve these problems but shrugged it off. I've been slightly worried about the complexity of C# after so
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by pointyhat 15y ago
I genuinely give as much of a shit as I did before they extended it and I'm sure that is the case for the rest of the population. This is more about PR and marketing than it is about law.
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by pointyhat 15y ago
I'm not sure it's the software. It seems perfectly ok on my Sony VPCJ1 which is a proper piece of kit with a decent touchscreen.
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by pointyhat 15y ago
Last time I wore a suit was at a funeral in 1992. I've not used one at all since, which includes for job interviews, a couple of pitches, business meetings, formal events and a presentation or two. I find it's more important to be an hones

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