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by robgough 16y ago
I couldn't imagine coding C# without a debugger (Visual Studio). I couldn't imagine coding Ruby or PHP with a debugger. Maybe I've just not been incentivised enough to learn how to properly debug Ruby/PHP though.
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by robgough 16y ago
When the app store for iOS was released my first thought was that the Mac really needed one of these, mostly based on how easy it is to install things through Linux package managers like apt - and of course updating everything easily was ni
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by robgough 16y ago
I'm surprised you didn't know about the online thing, and even more so that your associates have barely heard of them. They have advertised a fair amount - try asking your non IT literate and gamer friends. Oh well.
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by robgough 16y ago
LoveFilm is very big in the UK, and would say the NetFlix of Europe is an apt description. I think this deal has to be good for both parties here, and would be surprised if they rebranded LoveFilm. It's a good name.
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by robgough 16y ago
I agree, and am hoping they will sooner, rather than later, rewrite it from scratch. I did just move to an SSD over Christmas though, and must say it is significantly better now - especially noticeable is I no longer seem to be getting beac
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by robgough 16y ago
I recently upgraded my MBP 5,1 from a WDC Black to an OCZ Vertex 2E and I'm really impressed. My XBench stats aren't as high as other people with the same drive, but I'm more than happy w/ it.
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by robgough 16y ago
I'm curious as to whether the Windows Phone 7 devices scroll smoothly, in many ways their phone team seems to be working closer to the Apple-way than the Google-way.
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by robgough 16y ago
I once named a deployment system "Parachute". Because, as with a parachute... we were f*cked if it didn't deploy properly. A tenuous link, but we still laugh about it now. And because of that, you would never forget what it actually does. I
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by robgough 16y ago
Exactly. All's well (for the most part) in the major cities, but if you're not in one of them you're damned. Basically, it's BT network for sneakernet for you. Good luck finding a BT reseller that's not got bandwidth caps or some sort of sh
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by robgough 16y ago
This is highly dependent on where you live. Varying wildly between exchanges.
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by robgough 16y ago
Yet another proud reason to be British. sigh ... and so much for our sarcastic sense of humour. Although, maybe this says more about the people we have acting as judges in our legal system, than anything else.
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by robgough 16y ago
For whatever reason, this doesn't seem to be available in the UK app store.
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by robgough 16y ago
If you read the article you'll see he mentioned that he wrote the blog software too... so no, it's not wordpress.
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by robgough 16y ago
I would have thought it was a great way of letting both parties know they have a similar sense of humour, and sets the tone for future emails (i.e. they don't need to be overly formal). Quite nice really - and I would also presume the sende
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by robgough 16y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that "high school" in the UK finishes at 16, so he didn't so much as drop out of school as decide to not go to sixth-form/college (which is optional - and is usually two years and fits between high school and
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by robgough 16y ago
Wasn't there talk about Facebook switching to ARM servers at one point? What happened to that?
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by robgough 16y ago
Fingers crossed, though I rather suspect they will keep this schtum (especially if they've gone non-apple). Alternatively, I might just be full of Mac Mini Server boxes — but I wouldn't bet on it.
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by robgough 16y ago
I presume there's no info about what kit they're actually using in there? I'm guessing it's not XServes?
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by robgough 16y ago
Your thing about sleep surprises me, as that's my favourite feature of the Mac. Whereas I can't truly trust my Win7 HP to come back from sleep OK, my MBP is always perfect. It eats a lot of power while sleeping, which I've never really fi
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by robgough 16y ago
Actually it's not difficult to set off with the handbrake on at all.... That's why so many people do it accidentally. You do feel it though.
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by robgough 16y ago
Interesting. Etsy was the idea I had years before they actually did it, and always regretted not following it up. Hmm...
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by robgough 16y ago
and if you run out of space in misc.txt, there's always stuff.txt too.
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by robgough 16y ago
As a .net developer, desperately trying to move away from the MS stack, I was hoping this was going to be someone asking Ballmer why people creating startups should choose the MS stack over the open source, or really any other, route. I wou
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by robgough 16y ago
You don't sound overly confident about it, and simply from that I'd have to lean towards "no". I'm not sure about the technicalities, but can't you start some sort of partnership/consortium situation where you can bid for (and work on) larg
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by robgough 16y ago
And so it begins...
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by robgough 16y ago
This is great news, if for no other reason that prowling google for answers is 100%[1] more effective than it used to be, as most searches lead me straight to stackoverflow. [1] well, 100%-ish. I've not measured this. Nor am I going to.
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by robgough 16y ago
You can set up shortcuts for those things with a combination of BetterTouchTool (free) and Divvy (not so free). BetterTouchTool might even do everything you need, but I'm not completely sure about that.
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by robgough 16y ago
It took me over two years to find that checkbox, as I didn't know to look for it. Not being able to dismiss a dialog box with the keyboard was driving me mad. System Prefs>Keyboard>Keyboard Shortcuts>"All Controls"
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by robgough 16y ago
Really impressive. You can add more gradient points by clicking where you'd like the new colour to start, and you can remove by "dragging" them off. I'm sure I'll make use of this.
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by robgough 16y ago
I use ninite all the time (it's brilliant!), but only ever for initial installation. Does it handle updating apps?

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