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by rossng 12y ago
Quite right - they're not on the same level. However, both are certainly 'user-hostile'. The thrust of my argument was that most large companies are bad at communicating about technical problems because of the way the message
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by rossng 12y ago
No company is immune to making ridiculous statements - Apple told people not to hold the iPhone 4 the 'wrong way', for example[1]. I can believe that management at Lenovo simply can't understand how serious this incident is -
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TrendCalculus [pdf](bytesumo.com)
2 points by rossng 12y ago|0 comments
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Open Programmable City Region(bristolisopen.com)
1 points by rossng 12y ago|0 comments
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by rossng 12y ago
I have spent quite a bit of time in the past trying to import CSV data to SQL Server. It's just about possible, but bcp (and its format files) are absolutely horrifying. As far as I could tell, other methods of importing data involved
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London Datastore(data.london.gov.uk)
65 points by rossng 12y ago|3 comments
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by rossng 12y ago
The original Operation Flashpoint game did almost exactly that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FADE
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by rossng 12y ago
Part of your problem is probably that it's not really news. Pretty much everyone knows that climate change is happening and that we should be doing something about it (not that that translates to much action). The IPCC keep publishing
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by rossng 12y ago
I've been surprised by the amount of hate for Australis. Are the people who criticise it actually using it? I've moved back from Chrome to Firefox and I'm a big fan of the changes that they've made. A lot of clunky inter
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by rossng 13y ago
Most likely the individual countries will keep doing it - even if EU may no longer require them to.
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by rossng 13y ago
DOT/GraphViz [1] is very powerful. You might find it a bit unwieldy at first but, as with everything, editing in plain text is often faster than trying to use a GUI. For extremely simple stuff, you can use TGF [2] to represent the grap
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by rossng 13y ago
I think it's somewhere between the two. Software development is both creative and rigidly constrained by existing techniques/technology. Claiming that it's only one or the other is simply creating a false dichotomy.
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by rossng 13y ago
The framework is completely free and MIT-licensed, so I suspect that a literal interpretation of your comment is absolutely correct.
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by rossng 13y ago
Indeed - he basically just said to the ISPs 'do this or we'll make you do it'. Thanks to the (abysmal) technical knowledge of our MPs, any site-blocking bill would have flown straight through as soon as the phrases 'cybe
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by rossng 13y ago
That's beside the point. Yes, if you don't want to deal with Access then you can go and find a job at a smaller, more agile company. However, there are always going to be a lot of people who do work in vast, stuck-in-their-ways
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by rossng 13y ago
The big deal is that in an office you tend to have access to the following only: * Microsoft Office (slightly out of date version) * Internet Explorer 8 or less * Adobe Reader * Crappy SharePoint installation If someone can find a way to r
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by rossng 13y ago
Nest, being owned by Google, probably have the best chance of running a secure infrastructure. The other companies involved in home automation? Not so much. The kit will probably be about as secure as most SCADA systems - and that's go
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by rossng 13y ago
I switched from Chrome to Firefox Nightly (i.e. Firefox with Australis) a couple of months ago. I really like it. There's no noticeable performance hit, but I'm definitely finding it more stable. My favourite recent feature additi
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by rossng 13y ago
I use BackBlaze for several hundred GB of data - and that's mostly over a 3Mb/s ADSL connection. It's been running for several years now and I can vouch for it being absolutely rock solid.