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by rahoulb 13y ago
I agree. I've always said that RSpec is about documentation, not testing (hence the name - it's a specification for your code). However, recently, I've been using Minitest-spec; not quite as readable but less magic and it fee
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by rahoulb 13y ago
It's subsidised in that they are fronting you the money. My wife has about £100/month disposable income and pays about £30/month for her handset and contract. When her renewal comes around she can buy the handset for, say £40
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Twitter has changed a lot. When I started out on it, I was a freelancer. It was a great way to chat about work and trivia to other people doing similar jobs, whether I had met them or not - a sort of online "water-cooler" I guess
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by rahoulb 13y ago
As well has helping with verification, I find unit tests help with design. I write less code, and that code is simpler and with looser coupling when I write tests first.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I don't agree with the "people can't create" thing with tablets. I do a podcast entirely on my iPad, I also record music on it - and in both cases significantly prefer it to doing the same on my computer. I also sketch s
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by rahoulb 13y ago
There are a number of rumours of Apple trialling a 12 or 13" iPad going round at the moment [1]. To my mind, that would be Apple cannibalising Mac sales - an iPad that big would be aiming squarely at Macbook Air territory (especially c
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by rahoulb 13y ago
When Chip and PIN came in, as part of the TOS that you accepted by using the card, it included a clause that the bank is not liable for any fraud on the card as Chip/PIN is unbreakable (the implication being you must have given away yo
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I use FreeAgent (as it doesn't feel like I'm using an accounts package). The place I used to work used Xero, which is a bit more traditional in how it lays things out (for example, Xero uses ledgers, FreeAgent just has you categor
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Yet my accountant and I use web-based accounts packages, making the desktop OS irrelevant. The same will be true for many other categories of software.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I would say phones are already fashion statements (or at the very least lifestyle statements, if you want to make the distinction). I'm sure Steve Jobs understood this - since his return, Apple has consistently made emotional appeals,
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I'd say it's more likely to be iPod touches - only the newer touches are getting ios 7 and there's no contracts (and hence no "cheap" upgrades). Plus It's also quite likely to belong to a child. Anecdotally, I
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by rahoulb 13y ago
That does depend upon your circumstances however. Often there are hard dates that can't be moved - because they are external to your organisation; the autumn TV schedule, or launching at a particular conference are two that have hit me
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by rahoulb 13y ago
As someone that has smoked [1] I think legality is important - but it's also the relatively mild effects. If you're getting frustrated at work, you can take a break, give yourself a quick "boost" by stopping for a cig, a
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Although both are American companies operating under the same rules, there is a fundamental difference between Apple and Google's business models. Apple makes its money from selling you new hardware every year or two - they need to m
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by rahoulb 13y ago
"Repository" isn't a technical word. It's a basic spelling mistake and the proof-reader should, at the very least, pick that up.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
By OSX 86 community do you mean Hackintosh users? If so, Hackintoshes are, from Apple's point of view, piracy anyway. Apple makes no money on the OS (which they sell for a few dollars) and all their money from the hardware the Hackint
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by rahoulb 13y ago
In my experience Mac users tend to be quite scrupulous about paying for their software.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
One thing I noticed is that they said the 5S is a "forward-thinking" device, implying that they've got more planned for it.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I live in England and I have been arrested. This means that GCHQ (and by implication probably the NSA), already have my fingerprints.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
> How we got 60k users in 60 hours: make something useful that people really want. And tell them about it in a way that they understand
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by rahoulb 13y ago
The JIT restriction is because the OS won't let you mark data pages as executable for security reasons (Safari, as a trusted app, is the only exception). EDIT: changed wording for clarity
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by rahoulb 13y ago
RMS doesn't seem such an extremist any more.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
As I understand it, it's not the same as Android though. The app requests to wake up at intervals, and if the OS decides it's OK (based upon battery, network activity and how often you use the app) the app is granted that access.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
That's pretty much why I avoid office. Just save, don't interrupt me, or reqire me to wet things up, just get out of my way. There's no reason it can't be "easy and fun" like on an ipad apart from years of &quo
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by rahoulb 13y ago
The other replies explain the benefits of Apple hardware but I have to emphasise the trackpads - every other trackpad feels like dragging my fingers through mud in comparison and the gesture-handling is really slick.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
This is Horace Dideu's take on Apple's revenue: http://www.asymco.com/2013/08/22/the-revenue-table-imperial-... Profit-wise, Apple claim that their digital stores only break-even, but revenue-wise,
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Also interesting that the Telegraph's reporting on the same story ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/1026117... ) is pretty much a straight regurgitation of the Independent's versi
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Ubuntu Edge isn't a straight-forward phone OS though - it was intended to be a desktop/laptop replacement in a phone-sized package (run the Phone UI when disconnected, run a "desktop" UI when connected to an external mon
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by rahoulb 13y ago
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/14/obama-secret-ki...
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by rahoulb 13y ago
"Spiked" used to be "Living Marxism", which was the magazine of the Revolutionary Communist Party. The RCP members I used to know (only a handful) would revel in their own inconsistency - so since the demise of the RCP

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