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by shubb 10y ago
Very bookmarked!
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by shubb 10y ago
That's pretty much a Linux installation pretending to be an app. I'd see it as a workaround not a solution. The underlying problem with android, as touched on in the article, is that your hardware vendor is the administrator of
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by shubb 10y ago
Also, last time I tried, the virtual graphics cards in the vm were much less powerful than a fully drivered up raw graphics card even on Linux, unless I was doing something wrong?
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by shubb 10y ago
Current generation are in many ways built around the limits of HDMI. With this new generation of HDMI, we might get to see 4K in each eye at a very high frame rate. High frame-rates reduce VR sickness so they are not just a nice to have, an
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by shubb 10y ago
My major mistake was taking a job that I doing stuff I didn't care about because it was a good career move. I learned that I need to care what I'm building (self actualize), and if I don't then work feels like selling my life
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by shubb 10y ago
It looks like this lite version loads all the map imagery as images (tiles) from the server. This compares to full version which uses Javascript to render some of the roads and symbols as some kind of vector drawing on top of less detailed
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by shubb 10y ago
Just went on a trip with my recently retired father. The effect of a total change of routine, new experiences and challenges, emotional experiences (stress, wonder, happiness), was huge. It was the first time I saw him look alive in month
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by shubb 10y ago
There are a number of miscalculations which mean contributions would never have funded these schemes. One is the number of years people live after retirement. Another is that pensions (due to their terms) have outpaced wage growth significa
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by shubb 10y ago
However, this is a law, and laws must be written to be read very litterally. They could have made the law more general by talking about 'messages' or 'accesses a server'. They said app used. That genuinely could compel G
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by shubb 10y ago
It is unlikely that this will ever take off. As I understand it, the idea of this project is to build a microkernel and associated systems that might compete as an alternative to the Linux kernel. This would allow things like, more elegant
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by shubb 10y ago
A whole career of very short jobs isn't great though. One particularly valuable kind of experience is seeing a project through and understanding how early decisions went awry later on. Some older coders I work with might not have obses
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by shubb 10y ago
Vim is a useful skill to have because sometimes you need to configure a server. However, I'd encourage you to really learn a modern editor like Sublime before emacs, then visit emacs long enough to figure out if you want it.
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by shubb 10y ago
C is largely used for embedded / engineering / systems work. That work largely gets done at engineering companies that also employe mechanical and structural engineers. They like degrees and apprenticeships as routes to entry - th
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by shubb 10y ago
I haven't been able to find any mention of this online. It was around 2009, and I may have misunderstood what I was being told...
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by shubb 10y ago
The chip design. It was a PVR box and an activist group wanted to opensource the DRM system they were using because they knew some important codes were baked into the chip so they took them to court. The court felt that the functionality wa
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by shubb 10y ago
The worry, places I've worked, is that the GPL would spread to proprietary stuff, like a kind of legal infection. They worry that if they use an AGPL javascript library for the video player on their front page, they'll have to ope
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by shubb 10y ago
This guy got downvoted, but this is true for various legal reasons, especially with likely regulatory changes due to brexit.
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by shubb 10y ago
And imagine the inducements they must have offered MS to build a datacenter here. UK.gov actually has a semi-inhouse cloud called Crown Hosting that might win new business from Azure. They don't offer the functionality needed to produc
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by shubb 10y ago
If they are billing customers in euros or dollars, the azure price stays the same - it's gone up because the pound has gone down. UK wages in pounds will probably stay the same, so for an international customer the price of labor here
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by shubb 10y ago
Don't do process for its own sake. Before you do any practice, understand what it is for, and what you hope to get out of it. Trial it and abandon if is more effort than reward. Make doing the right thing easy. Commits to source contro
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by shubb 10y ago
The thing with a BSD project is that it is a kernel, a distribution of slightly modified and configured 3rd party applications, and a bunch of 1st party applications. OpenBSD project includes stuff like OpenSSH, time sync tools, an SSL impl
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by shubb 10y ago
Most people are writing business logic not algorithms (a website not a video encoder). If that's you, you should also check out BDD esp frameworks like cucumber, as that may be useful.
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by shubb 10y ago
Regular conference goers - what conferences would you recommend if you had to pay for your own tickets?
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by shubb 10y ago
These objections don't totally match my limited experience (not done this in a long time). When I did a lot of HDL work, I found that the main challenge was to stop thinking of hardware design like programming. This is why dynamic typi
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by shubb 10y ago
In Enterprise Land a lot of people use ETL tooling as an alternative / in addition to writing SQL. Databases, data interchange formats, and the concepts they represent are mapped out in graphical tools like ER Studio. The SQL operation
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by shubb 10y ago
The last of your questions is really good. A lot of research labs do hire developers as staff on various projects. Those roles tend to be a little lower paid than industry, but you get to work on interesting things. Sometimes academic emplo
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by shubb 10y ago
Genuinely useful and bookmarked
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by shubb 10y ago
The major problem for me with MVC, is that people build complex applications on an MVC framework and then try to shoehorn various things that are definitely not views, models, or controllers, into the pattern. I've seen applications th
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by shubb 10y ago
I've always seen design patterns principally as a way of communicating what you are doing to other programmers who come later. For instance, MVC is a very popular design pattern. When you read code built according this pattern, even if
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by shubb 10y ago
Being employed via 1 or more companies is not protection. The UK government is persuing people who were hired as contractors via a staffing agency which then encouraged them to set up a personal Ltd company. Typically these contractors pay

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