staofbur

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by staofbur 9y ago
The less said about Xcode the better ;) Haven't had any Mail.app problems yet but I run an empty inbox.
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by staofbur 9y ago
It's really not. I suggest you sit down over the next couple of weeks of your life and tot up the time spend on trivial issues that shouldn't exist. That Visual Studio hang or crash that kills your entire debug rig that took you a
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by staofbur 9y ago
It certainly doesn't have a very good filesystem though. NTFS is horrible on lots of small files due to MFT contention. Even arguing with fstool for a bit doesn't improve it. Check out 50k files on Linux/OSX: 2 mins.. check o
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by staofbur 9y ago
25 years windows here. I suspect it is some variety of Stockholm syndrome or the fact that several years of "problem attrition" as I call it numbs you to the fact that it isn't a routine thing facing weird issues every day. T
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by staofbur 9y ago
I'd say the ones I have managed have less problems but not seldom had problems :)
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by staofbur 9y ago
This is normal corporate IT on windows. The biggest battle I have is with operations teams who require that you don't have administrative privileges on windows dev machines. This cripples development teams instantly because you just c
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by staofbur 9y ago
Mercurial is much nicer on windows. Git could have been the same but it targeted unix likes to start with and didn't evolve into something even remotely portable for a while. I use fossil for my own projects. I find that agreeable on a
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by staofbur 9y ago
To be technically honest here, NTFS and NT don't have a max path length problem and are optionally case sensitive. This is the abstraction layer over it (win32). I'm not sure if that does trip over that issue as I didn't expe
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by staofbur 9y ago
Not really. You could write a git client for windows that didn't have these issues.
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by staofbur 9y ago
It is definitely a matter of quality because I support a team with the same issues. I see the cumulative cost of quality issues daily.
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by staofbur 9y ago
It's actually pretty horrible but that's not windows' fault. It was designed for case sensitive unix systems with the appropriate ssh infrastructure and other shell tools in place which windows didn't have. There are som
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by staofbur 9y ago
Definitely agree with vagrant. Vagrant incidentally is monumentally horrible on windows as well.
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by staofbur 9y ago
No it's really not. I've been using windows since 1992 across tens of vendors and it's the same story. It has literally never changed. I find Lenovo to be the least crap. I was 50/50 Linux/windows dev. Windows dev i
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by staofbur 9y ago
Indeed. It's a big cost escalator. We have split architecture across two DCs we own and AWS. AWS is a bad deal when you get to our size. If we moved our DCs entirely into AWS we would literally triple costs overnight. On top of that, o
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by staofbur 9y ago
We're not all grumpy :)
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by staofbur 9y ago
I haven't seen anything that doesn't require an MS account on the store.
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by staofbur 9y ago
Same problem with the T420, T420 and T440 I have had. The T440 I couldn't get more than 3 hours out of it compared to 7-8 on windows. They had the PM set up properly. Powertop shows loads of things constantly waking the devices up.
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by staofbur 9y ago
As someone who just switched from windows to Mac, when you pick windows you also gain periodic show stopping problems, kafkaesque hoops to jump through randomly in the middle of your workflow, a slightly terrible security architecture and t
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by staofbur 9y ago
I still can't face looking at the JS ecosystem after dealing with Netscape 4 back in the day. It did me some psychological damage which will never go away.
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by staofbur 9y ago
The arbitrary limit is a performance thing. Fits neatly in one UDP datagram and passes through everything unhampered by MTU etc. Agree that burning the whole thing down is the right thing when you get to this place :)
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by staofbur 9y ago
There is a benefit of abstraction here. If the manufacturer sells unreliable products that cost the retailer money then the retailer will not want to sell it. This will cause unreliable products and manufacturers to die rapidly which is a g
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by staofbur 9y ago
Technically speaking this is lawful under the interpretation of the law. That doesn't make it desirable, ethical or morally acceptable on any level. At the same time, in any very complex set of overlapping rules, it only requires findi
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by staofbur 9y ago
This actually annoys me badly. One of the problems I see regularly is applications that fail to log enough of the stack to see what the entry point of the thing that actually went wrong is because the syslog packet size is set to 512 bytes.
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by staofbur 9y ago
Let me just clarify that I don't use Linux on the desktop. I find it quite horrible to work with, particularly since the demise of Gnome 2. On the server and for development, it is fast and efficient. Most of the development work I do
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by staofbur 9y ago
I think most of the shit is concentrated on a couple of notable platforms: Windows and Android. Outside of that space I've noticed less productivity hampering nightmare tools and OS features. Really I get perhaps one or two bits of stu
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by staofbur 9y ago
This makes me think of Enders Game.
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by staofbur 9y ago
And inside that an 0402 MLCC (they do actually do that)
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by staofbur 9y ago
I've been lurking here for a few months and this has motivated me to comment. As a former prolific RiscPC user, the hardware and software was rubbish at a technical level even if it worked well from an end user perspective. I would not