smithjchris

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by smithjchris 17y ago
It's easy enough to add. It's just a bunch of hooks that call into word and excel's internal diff and merge stuff.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Thank you - my point entirely, albeit slightly more elegantly put.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
True. Opera Mini works fine though :-)
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Err, we just use TortoiseSVN for document management. The documents go in with the source code. You can merge stuff, have multiple authors working on the same document, get a full revision history and do all that other junk that Google doc
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Your life is. For most people, it IS about having what they need. The iPhone is a wholly insignificant creation, as is my Sony W880i which had cut and paste the day I bought it and allows me to run any apps I damn well like ;-)
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by smithjchris 17y ago
How about the most important thing: You don't actually NEED one.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Google Apps doesn't cut it for more than a casual business user. The spreadsheet is hideously slow and doesn't integrate with the real data sources that organisations use, there is no equation editor for docs (a big risk if you ask me when
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by smithjchris 17y ago
HTML is not object-oriented. It maps to objects as does a relational database.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
I agree. To build a society around gain and growth is a bad idea. Several large civilizations have fallen (think Romans etc) due to this simple mistake. Modern capitalism is heading the same way. Society will divide into those who adapt
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by smithjchris 17y ago
We did this. Now our web servers sit at around 5% usage and we have to pay for the full rack that they sit in. We make plenty of cash however. "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" is spot on.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
There should be no extradition for British nationals. It should be handled according to our law. The US already have a seriously bad reputation when it comes to handling things like this so I'm sure he'll end up bagged and tagged within a
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by smithjchris 17y ago
I think you are right. There is a celebrity culture around around the Internet at the moment. Just having a blog is enough to get you on the guest list. What happened to Anders Hejlsberg and Niklaus Wirth for example? Oh wait the domain w
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Read this from end to end: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632680%28VS.85%29.... Unchanged since 27 July 1993. Used trillions of times a day by millions/billions of computers.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
I haven't got an iPhone. Instant fail.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Get a bicycle, stop commuting and grow your own food. Works for me. Costs virtually nothing. Keeps you fit and healthy. Provides 75% of our food needs. Also stop the guilt complex on quality, organic foods and branded goods. People give
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Holy crap! There goes 25 of my ESX host machines. Might have to buy RHEL now.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
I +1'ed you to make you feel better :)
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Windows 9x was a mess. That same is not true with NT which is really nicely put together. I've dragged some stuff which we wrote for NT4, recompiled it with VC++ 2008 (plus spent some time frigging VS settings) and it just worked on Win2k8
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Precisely. I forget that the 9x series of operating systems existed sometimes!
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by smithjchris 17y ago
I'll write a test case and report it at some point. It's on my TODO. Also it's not been tried against 1.1 yet.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
I have seen the win32 subsystem source (legitimately through shared source - I used to work for the British Ministry of Defence). It's very clean and tidy and not full of junk like that believe it or not. The reason it still works is tha
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by smithjchris 17y ago
NetBSD comes with a Pony :) POSIX rarely changes. They should start there and work backwards. UNIX nearly died because vendors wouldn't allow interoperability. Don't let it happen again. Look at Win32 - still works like it did back in '91
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by smithjchris 17y ago
This is the typical example where Linux suffers from lack of true engineering. The kernel API and libs should be stable, predictable and well documented. There should be no hacks to support odd behaviour because odd behaviour should not b
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by smithjchris 17y ago
In single table inhertance, any leaf node from the inheritance graph cannot solely contain a relation to another object. It has to be on the abstract base or the ORM dies when building inserts for other leaf nodes. That leaves you to impl
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by smithjchris 17y ago
This is correct. They also manage the core of the OS without all the nasty package interdependencies you get with Debian. Debian does too much. That is the issue if you ask me.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Model validation should have been there from day one. Well thats what us Domain-Driven-Design advocates push. SQLAlchemy is way more powerful and flexible. Scan the SQLAlchemy documentation for examples. Particularly storing nested struc
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Big nets.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
I'm not sure this is ethical or sane. In Europe we have working time regulations and that is for a good reason. Seems to be another attempt to justify start-up whipping tactics to cash in quick rather than build a well-backed product with
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Excellent comment +1.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Why do people virtualize the hardware and OS? Shouldn't it be a software architectural thing? That's why we have web clusters, load balancers, content-based caches, database clusters, distributed hash tables etc and not big iron mainframe

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