porlw

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by porlw 13y ago
1. Computer tech seems to move in a ~20 year cycle, so after that amount of time you will have "seen it all" to a certain extent, and you can apply your early experience to the new wave of technologies. For example, centralized ma
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by porlw 13y ago
At least you're only forced to pay for the BBC if you watch TV. You're "forced" to pay for the commercial channels every time you buy something that's advertised on them.
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by porlw 13y ago
Is there any way to force it to keep the assets for open tabs in the web page cache? If I have a few tabs open I should be able leave the browser, run enough stuff (take a call, play a game, text) to force the browser code to flush from mem
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by porlw 13y ago
It's interesting that this is in a very functional style, no global state is used.
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by porlw 14y ago
Looks like Neal Stephenson was on the right track: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
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by porlw 14y ago
Confession time: The first and only software T-shirt swag I ever received permanently traumatised me and set the internet back 10 years. I downloaded Internet Explorer 3 on launch day and received a "Midnight Madness" T-shirt for my efforts
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by porlw 14y ago
So the language should by default be safe, with extra effort required to perform unsafe operations. Then lazy programmers will write safe code!
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by porlw 14y ago
Turbo Pascal. It has a similar set of capabilities to C (including pointers, in line ASM, arbitrary memory access, etc.), ability to call C code, so integrates nicely with C libs. It has slightly better type handling - e.g. you can declare
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by porlw 14y ago
If you can, grab an HTC One S while they're still available - it's got decent specs and premium build quality with a 4.3" screen. It's also very thin, so handling is pretty much the same as my old 3.7" Desire.
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by porlw 14y ago
Um, you do realise that the very reason you can dial up your peers pretty much anywhere in the world today is down to agreements made in the ITU?
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by porlw 14y ago
Clojure can draw on the whole Java ecosystem, so it's immediately useful, which gives it a great entry point.
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by porlw 14y ago
One problem is preventing the client from making use of the software when there is a dispute about payment. Due to the laws regarding unauthorized access to computer systems, it may not be legal for you to remove or even communicate with yo
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by porlw 14y ago
This is a much better idea than trying to impose a late payment fee - set your rates 10% higher, offer a 10% discount on early payment.
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by porlw 14y ago
Check out taint mode in perl. It's been around forever, and I don't understand why all web frameworks don't have a similar concept.
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by porlw 14y ago
I'm not based in the US and I find the situation is reversed. I have an app (Market Access) for my Android phone that allows me to control what network gets reported to the Play store, so I can install apps from wherever - I just set it to
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by porlw 14y ago
My problem with ads and social networking buttons is the latency they introduce in to browsing. If a page load hangs, most of the time it turns out to be waiting for a response from a third party web site, which has no relevance to the cont
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by porlw 14y ago
Given the way its distinctive looks divide opinion, I'd say that the Thinkpad is the laptop equivalent of the 911.
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by porlw 14y ago
I think you can index JSON using a function based index, which will probably cover a lot of use-cases.
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by porlw 14y ago
Your white label product is a mass market thing. F500 companies expect a more hands service. Here's what I would do: Offer an initial consultation period (say 2-4 weeks), at a suitable rate ($100 - $200 per hour) Spend the time meeting with
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by porlw 14y ago
Does Apple contribute back to BSD on any meaningful level?
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by porlw 14y ago
I'm glad. When it comes to problems with Credit Card storage, it's much more secure to lose the data than to have backups lying about the place.
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by porlw 14y ago
Where I live you generally get 30 paid days off per year (10 national holidays, 20 discretionary). Most large companies I've worked for require that you take one contiguous break of at least 2 weeks at some point during the year. Long enoug
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by porlw 14y ago
I wish people would stop harping on about the UK TV licence fee. TV in the US is not free - you pay for it every time you buy something made by a company that spends money advertising on TV. It's practically impossible to opt out of paying
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by porlw 14y ago
Before AOL there was Compuserve and Delphi. They were all eventually forced to open up their walled gardens. Facebook is trying to be the middleman in its user's online experience, and we all know what the internet does to middlemen.
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by porlw 14y ago
For an example of non-finance related rates, general Oracle contracts start at around 400UKP per day. I work with Oracle Retail (Merchandise ERP), which commands 500UKP plus.
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by porlw 14y ago
I believe that FB is way overpriced, but as Keynes said: “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” ...so shorting it is still risky.
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by porlw 14y ago
Best bit: “The development board plugged the chip into had a fault: there was no current being sent down the power supply lines at all. The processor was actually running on leakage from the logic circuits. So the low-power big thing that t
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by porlw 14y ago
That's true - how about repeating the test with valid code that DOESN'T throw an exception. - Edit - Just tried it, it's not even close (on FF4): tryCatch with undef - ~55,000 ifCheck with undef - ~2,000,000 tryCatch with Object - ~100,000,
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by porlw 15y ago
...except the ecommerce system won't do things like stock control or replenishment, it just sends messages to the systems that handle those things - so then how do you know when something is going to be ready at the store? I'm a retail in
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by porlw 15y ago
The best way to lead clever people is to clear the way in front of them and let them follow the path of least resistance. If a "clever" encounters an obstacle they will devote their energy to working a way around it, so you need to make sur

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