stusmith1977

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by stusmith1977 14y ago
It's a chicken-and-egg situation, agreed, It just seems really strange to me that they spent so much effort pushing and developing the software side, without putting any effort into the hardware, when the two clearly have to go hand-in-hand
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
Sorry, didn't really clarify what I meant by mainstream: easily available to purchase, by non-techie consumers, from a high-street shop.
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
Does anyone else think it weird that the first mainstream hi-res displays weren't pushed by Microsoft? Let me explain... Back when WPF was still called Avalon, Microsoft were pushing the technology as a solution for the soon-to-be-arriving
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
> Duplication of module dependencies is also tedious and error-prone. You can combine these with RequireJS as well. Instead of: define(['a', 'b', 'c'], function () { var a = require('a'); var b = require('b'); var c = re
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
It does seem surprising, but ARM BASIC was fast. Seriously fast. I read somewhere that it was later optimized further for the ARM3, so that its core working set (for common operations) would fit inside the ARM3's cache. When you consider th
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
Email addresses, agreed, not so much. But one thing that annoys me where I work is our logins are of the form 'u0123456' (roughly sequentially allocated, but starting from 0100000)... and they're tied to our source control system. So you lo
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
UK here: 35 hr week (which I generally stick to), 28 days holiday (rising to 30 in a couple of years, plus I usually buy 5 extra, plus public holidays). What's interesting is I work for a large multi-national (listed on NYSE and TSX) - loca
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by stusmith1977 15y ago
> Explicit access to PC as a register, makes "computed goto" trivial and very natural. Am I right in thinking ARM uses this model? I haven't worked on them since ARM2, but I have a hazy recollection...
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by stusmith1977 15y ago
Completely agree. I once worked at a bespoke software shop where they had 'proper' developers upstairs, and support developers downstairs. (Quotes used to indicate how that made the support staff downstairs feel). Most projects taken on by
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by stusmith1977 15y ago
The question is why are American manholes round. You can walk quite a way in Britain before you see a circular manhole cover. Domestic drain covers are almost always rectangular galvanized steel, and aren't actually that heavy, so dropping
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by stusmith1977 15y ago
Agreed. Always keep SRP in mind. In effect, this is IoC for views. Having a separate manager to manage views and their lifetimes is very useful. Need a popup dialog view? Manager handles it. Views have prerequisite views (like sign in, or l
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by stusmith1977 15y ago
Just to present an alternative: I found for apps which don't use many forms the above plugins can be overkill. I used something like the following: https://gist.github.com/2049308 ..to provide simple form-to-model and model-to-form conver
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by stusmith1977 15y ago
...but I'm quite happy with my 35-hour week, thankyou. There's a lot that's wrong with the UK, but being forced to work for free thankfully isn't one of them. I just can't imagine where people get the time for a 50-60 hour week. Once I've b
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by stusmith1977 15y ago
Reminds me of a friend who used to run IT for a school, telling me the feature he looked for in educational software was greying out the 'print' button for 30 seconds after it had been clicked. Otherwise, the scenario was: kid clicks 'print
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by stusmith1977 15y ago
There's also the EU, which (particularly with the EU Bill of Human Rights) acts more and more as a reasonably sane constitution for the UK.
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by stusmith1977 15y ago
Oh boy that's a biggie here. Last year the raise given for "exceeds" was around 1% - 3%. For comparison, inflation is running at about 5% in the UK, so effectively if you work as hard as you can, you still get a pay cut. Currently, I'm inte
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by stusmith1977 15y ago
Hmm, according to this page: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/ The cheapest server (compute+database) is $100/month. That can't be right, surely? Is there really no intermediate pricing? What am I missing?
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by stusmith1977 15y ago
I'm not a fan of sotware patents, but perhaps there's a halfway house towards getting rid of them: Make software patents only holdable by a real person (i.e. not a corporation), and not transferable. Any money received from a patent infring
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by stusmith1977 16y ago
I don't think so, because it never goes any further than those initial harrassments. If someone had got a loan in my name, I think I would have received escalating demands, culminating in a court summons. That never happens - they just keep
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by stusmith1977 16y ago
They're a deeply sleazy company, along with lenders like PayDayUK. They mass-cold-call people asking to "discuss their application for a loan", when those people haven't made an application. They send threatening emails to folks saying that
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by stusmith1977 16y ago
Heard this one before, and it made me think of the barometer problem: http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/barometer.asp
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by stusmith1977 16y ago
Agree here. Bending over to change does your back in. And when the poop has gone up their back or down their leg, you want a surface you can bleach. Also agree on sleeping separate - we put ours in the nursery after three nights. He sleeps
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by stusmith1977 16y ago
New father, with 8-month-old son: - The first three months just have to be got through. Think of it as a survival test. Lack of sleep, complete change of family dynamics, no sex, no relaxation. - You might well find yourself resenting the b
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by stusmith1977 16y ago
I strongly disagree. If you're expecting the first value of a list, what use is nil? If you have a list of Ints, then what can you do with nil returned? It's not an Int. Nils have a habit of propagating through the whole type system, and yo
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by stusmith1977 16y ago
As a curious european, I always wondered: who decided female nipples are shocking, but male nipples are acceptable? It's rather like saying, "you can show milk bottles, but only if they're empty".
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by stusmith1977 16y ago
Well I don't have either, but if I were buying, my thoughts would go like this: "If I get an iPhone, I know which one to buy (iPhone 4), and I know it will all work out of the box". "If I buy an Android phone, I have to compare between abou
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by stusmith1977 16y ago
...with the sub-text being: develop on FF (best tools)... all other browsers are roughly compliant... except for IE, which needs additional testing. Ouch.
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by stusmith1977 16y ago
Not sure what country you're in, but here in the UK the law is on your side. * Get everything in writing. Keep copies. Inform both MS and the collection agency that they're in error. Send it recorded. Make them sign for the letter. * Next,
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by stusmith1977 16y ago
Ditto, a couple of hundred years ago being pale was fashionable - it meant you were rich enough to not work outside. Nowadays of course, we mostly work indoors - so being tanned is fashionable.
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by stusmith1977 17y ago
Slightly off the wall idea... but you could buy an old Archimedes or RiscPC off eBAY. There's an ARM assembler built-in (OS, BASIC V, assembler, and some apps are in ROM).

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