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by spongle 13y ago
I used an Apple one (one of the large ones) on a 2010 MBP. It was error prone and made my fingers numb after a while. Not only that, the full pad depression to click is awkward and configuring sensitivity for tap to click was never just rig
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by spongle 13y ago
I'm a firm believer of "yet" there :)
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by spongle 13y ago
I'd have agreed with you once, but I broke the trackpad on a ThinkPad a couple of years ago and out of apathy i switched to the nipple mouse and I haven't looked back. It takes more practice but it has excellent precision and infi
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by spongle 13y ago
Reasoning is sound. however have you considered charity and socialism (particularly marxism-leninism)?
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by spongle 13y ago
Spot on - yes you have.
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by spongle 13y ago
You have to wait for them to turn up patiently. They do every month or so, usually when some corporation has a stock clear out.
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by spongle 13y ago
That's always been the case. I did think about what I'm saying. Not everyone has a useful function in society. It's a total fallacy that jobs are available for all and that it's a good metric for the success of a society
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by spongle 13y ago
Codeine rocks. I used it for a while after I broke my ankle but you're right: it is addictive. After the doctor pulled the prescription, I had to come down off the stuff slowly and cocodamol was the only option. I decided to go cold tu
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by spongle 13y ago
This happened in suburban London. The supermarket was king. Then along came delivered groceries and everyone does that and just uses new "local supermarkets" to pick up a few impulse purchases and medicines. As a result, every row
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by spongle 13y ago
Isn't a better solution to live in a less populated area than stuff your face in a smart phone though[1]? This is what I'm working on, slowly. [1] I'm being a hypocrite there as I'm sitting in an ASDA car park on my smar
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by spongle 13y ago
So I should keep funding my local bookshop which I have to walk to, has no titles other than the paperback chart full of trash like fifty shades, takes weeks to get an order in (which I have to go and collect) and costs more? I should also
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by spongle 13y ago
I've not had any problems myself buying new machines for my company but personally I tend to buy 2-3 year old ThinkPads off a eBay. They are less than 20% of the retail cost and are in perfect condition always. I'm typing this on
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by spongle 13y ago
It works sometimes and not others. For example, if someone put as much effort in .Net's original collections API as they did with Java JCF, many a facepalm would have been avoided. To be honest the whole JSR process is usually hindered
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by spongle 13y ago
It's actually pretty easy these days. I haven't seen a single machine since about 2008 that doesn't work straight away off a vanilla windows cd. occasionally you get a missing graphics driver but windows update just pulls a W
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by spongle 13y ago
Well I'll bite on the whole anecdote thing. My anecdote simply states that nothing is perfect and things do go wrong. A more pertinent question is: is that less problematic as far as you are concerned or as far as the users are concern
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by spongle 13y ago
I disagree. Ubuntu hosed our central devops MySQL completely on a 10.04 LTS update... As with everything in IT, YMMV.
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by spongle 13y ago
Indeed. We have 6x 42U racks across three datacentres in the UK packed with network hardware, servers, san and other kit. Stuff doesn't really go wrong that often. Our ops guys probably go there once a quarter. Most of the time, you c
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by spongle 13y ago
That doesn't quite work for us. All our front ends/service and infrastructure nodes are virtual but databases are all dedicated. This is because no virtualization tech likes handling large nodes (FCAL, 48 cores, 256Gb RAM). We los
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by spongle 13y ago
If they sorted all that shit out (which i entirely agree with) they might even pull some enterprise customers in from the Microsoft direction as well. The Cocoa framework is pretty nice compared to MFC and comparable to WPF. We played with
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by spongle 13y ago
Agree but we don't have much of a choice. The cost and risk associated with cleaning it up is actually more expensive than leaving it. Visual Studio would do fine if it was a 64-bit binary. The memory ceiling of 32-bit processes is the
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by spongle 13y ago
And by the lack of comments here, it looks like about as much of a shit is given about this one as the last.
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by spongle 13y ago
Which is what I'm stuck with (I'm not junior staff either btw - been doing this lark for 26 years). We don't load all the projects at once. This is actually the debugger failing to load all the symbols into the vshost process
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by spongle 13y ago
Our product is very non-trivial! That's just one deployable endpoint. We have 131 projects in total. some of our application silos are more complicated than other companies entire businesses are. One subsystem has 450,000 LOC in just c
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by spongle 13y ago
You sometimes get good support. I've spent too much time on the phone to then (as a gold partner) and got sod all back on most occasions. If you're lucky you get a workaround but most of the time it's denial.
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by spongle 13y ago
The first outsourcing disaster I experienced was view state related. Back in 2003, a membership management app I inherited managed to hang of view state. Each page would throw 2.5Mb across a LAN. It sucked. It also had numerous bad patterns
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by spongle 13y ago
None whatsoever. We killed R# and VisualSVN. Do without the former and use TSVN for the latter. We have 34 projects loaded in the solution so it hits VS's limited 32-bit process restrictions pretty quickly causing the debugger to break
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by spongle 13y ago
Sorry signed up to say this - been lurking a while but this one infuriated me terribly. The only reason ASP.Net MVC looks good is because you were a WebForms user before. If you've come from other tech, it's still a stinking pile