teddyuk

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by teddyuk 7y ago
This doesn't happen to me in the real world, this is how it goes with my wife: > "Hey, mind if we do to Subway instead?" > "Okay" > a night of arguing > "I didnt even want to go to Subway, I wanted
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by teddyuk 7y ago
something I have noticed with vs 2019 is that it creates lots of processed, presumably to try and give itself more than a single 32-bit address space
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by teddyuk 7y ago
I'm not sure that is right, Sinofsky was brought in to fix windows dev after the vista fiasco, he did a good job on win 7 then went off piste with the metro ui in win 8 and that was it for him
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by teddyuk 7y ago
They also contain decades of bodges and quick fixes to get stuff to just work - working out what they need to keep and throw away must be a nightmare.
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by teddyuk 7y ago
could everyone who makes up GNU who don't like RMS just fork it and work on that instead?
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by teddyuk 7y ago
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by teddyuk 7y ago
what's it like working for paul? :)
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by teddyuk 7y ago
Just stop what you are doing, you need to have a way to generate revenue if you want to sell it.
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by teddyuk 7y ago
except they used sql server and sql server performance with this is awful, oracle would have been able to handle it much better
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by teddyuk 7y ago
onboard customers slowly and charge them - as you scale, make sure your charging as well and get paid. you don't need to go from 0 - 100k a month in a single month, octopus could because they have backing.
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by teddyuk 7y ago
Going to the cloud won't save you money. Going to the cloud lets you scale beyond your own data centre Going to the cloud can be cheaper if you use the elasticity and make good use of PaaS services (servless,paas, etc)
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by teddyuk 7y ago
because they didn't know what they were doing - I can say this as this is what the blog shows, they don't understand databases and customers (including me) have suffered this
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by teddyuk 7y ago
From the "sql-as-document-store" post, I re-read it every now and then to realise how actually terrible it is: "For a many-to-many, we do something a bit naughty: we store the values with | characters between each value:&quot
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by teddyuk 7y ago
"To bring Octopus Cloud to market quickly, we did the simplest thing possible; we took our self-hosted Octopus Server product and bundled it into an EC2 instance for each customer that signed up. We had to make changes to the product,
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by teddyuk 7y ago
Twitter asks for a phone number for security and then sends sms's to tell you, you have a direct message or to wish you a happy birthday. Twitter know it is a rubbish security system but they do it as it is another channel to send thei
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by teddyuk 7y ago
at least they can do something about it!
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by teddyuk 7y ago
Can you give up your american passport and then stop or do you have to do it for the rest of your life?
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by teddyuk 7y ago
"respect the existing code" <-- for me, this means respect the people who wrote it especially if they are still about. Don't just trash it, learn it, understand it, talk about why it could be improved - people write crap c
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by teddyuk 7y ago
Same, I really don't like it when i see massive build/deployment scritps
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Ask HN: How many lines of code is your build script?
2 points by teddyuk 7y ago|2 comments
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by teddyuk 7y ago
a few million years bc - one dinosaur grunts to another
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by teddyuk 7y ago
In london commuter trains are over crowded and they spend millions (billions?) every year on upgrading and it costs me about £900 a month to use these trains. If governments incentivised companies to encourage remote work, this money would
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Ask HN: Macbook Air for Development?
2 points by teddyuk 7y ago|5 comments
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by teddyuk 7y ago
do you get a refund if you die?
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by teddyuk 7y ago
Having millions of people regularly commuting into major cities is a disaster. You create all this traffic, congestion on trains, sometimes people packed liked sardines for what? To sit in an office and work less than you would in the peace
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by teddyuk 7y ago
I live in a village and there is a village face book group, literally an un-marked amazon delivery van needs to go through and someone will post "suspicious looking vehicle seen driving slowly and looking at each house" <-- roa
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by teddyuk 7y ago
I find pluralsight pretty infuriating - the speed the presenters talk is really slow and they keep repeating the same thing, it typically goes: - hi, i am going to talk about something - in the next section we will talk about that thi
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by teddyuk 7y ago
and almost always turns out to be false :)
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by teddyuk 7y ago
This 1 million percent! There is a real danger someone will come in, shout a lot and say the answer is to now re-write it all or buy in a system, maybe even outsource it to save money. Don't fall for it - have good tests and incrementa
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by teddyuk 7y ago
Whenever I have worked somewhere and someone has complained and got no where, as soon as they lawyer up it goes to the top of the pile, 200% vip treatment!

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