teh_klev

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by teh_klev 6y ago
Let me also introduce you to one of Scotland's finest...the Square Sausage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne_sausage
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by teh_klev 6y ago
> BASIC was pushed on to the home micro scene by Microsoft BASIC existed on many different platforms (including mainframe and minicomputers) long before MS got in on the act (see also the sibling comment here about when BASIC was invente
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Given the UK's commitment to ban the sale of new fossil fuel cars, and the likelihood of the EU following suit, I think Tesla's lunch is about to be eaten. Why do I think this? Well, up until now none of the European car manufactu
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Maybe stick a ;) on the end to show a tongue in cheek comment :)
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by teh_klev 6y ago
What a supercilious and condescending response, and verging on snark. Sure all software is likely to have bugs, but some software is likely to have less bugs because there's more test coverage or the software is conservative about what
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by teh_klev 6y ago
https://github.com/DigitalMars/Empire-for-PDP-10/blob/master...
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by teh_klev 6y ago
And well done for you, I use Azure. Let's give us all a pat on the back.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
"Bro" I sure as hell did and even watched the video. There's enough in there to read between the lines that they've got a DR solution. And to be honest the amount of nit-picking by AWS/Cloud fanbois is verging on co
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by teh_klev 6y ago
So how can you comment on, or have a critical thought about an article, if you're just reading a bunch of other comments likely left by others who also likely didn't read the article? I find that genuinely baffling, and somewhat w
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by teh_klev 6y ago
It never fails to amaze me how many HN contributors don't seem to read the linked articles yet seem compelled to tell you off for things you've already accounted for, explained and justified.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
This article is utter bollocks. I tried hard to read to the end without laughing out loud, in particular this about candidates: > 1. they give a shit about Scale Most companies I interview for, I, shall we say, don't give a shit abo
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by teh_klev 6y ago
> Or maybe you're saying it was DOA? Pretty much. The only time I've ever seen Silverlight apps in the wild were for streaming use (Sky/Now TV for example).
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by teh_klev 6y ago
> It got so bad that a VP ended up making a pronouncement, declaring a war on broken links. Probably Scott Guthrie initiated that. As some nobody I once emailed him directly because I'd discovered a bug in some framework thing with
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I don't know how long ago you're speaking about, but Silverlight and Flash were at their end of days even back in ~2006. Apple just nailed the coffin shut. That's not Microsoft's fault, there was a sea change in the indu
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Any time you're "buying" a phone on a plan then it'll involve a credit agreement and there'll be a bank involved somewhere. So when you walk into your local phone shop pick out a nice shiny handset and decide on a m
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I'm with you there. I switched to foobar2000 back in the early 2000's after getting royally fed up with WinAmp becoming crashy and to be honest I just hated the UI (I never found a skin I liked). I still use it today as my main mu
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by teh_klev 6y ago
>It’s not their obligation to do so. I respectfully disagree. If you're making claims, especially in a discussion that is perhaps contentious or controversial, it is absolutely your responsibility to back up these claims. We shouldn
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by teh_klev 6y ago
> This can take the form of “citation needed” or “sources please” bad faith sniped requests for “evidence.” If someone makes claims (extraordinary or not), then they should be able to back them up with evidence. Asking for a citation or
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Veteran journalist and author Robert Fisk dies aged 74(irishtimes.com)
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I'd never heard of Bongo Cat until now and it brings back fond memories. Back in 2006, a while after the passing of my previous cat (Kira), I became the new subordinate of two six week old sibling tuxedo kittens, Buzz (male) and Blosso
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by teh_klev 6y ago
The "M$" monker was only mildly amusing on Slashdot in the 90's, these days it's plain tedious.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I totally take your point, especially the second paragraph, and agree. Maybe it's the deep cynic in me that tends to read these articles as another "oh look Windows bad" write up, rather than analyse what can happen if a stea
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Well that behaviour can still be configured on Windows with not much effort provided your sysadmins RTFM. It's about how well you secure your machines, regulate behaviour and ensure good platform hygiene, the OS you're running is
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Whilst I don't wish to rain on the author's parade, but from the final screenshot (and what I suspected), they're running these tools as Administrator (root), so they're pretty well elevated privilege-wise. If an attacke
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, but I found this funny, just like the submission. There's sometimes an awful lot of po-faced folks on HN, even when the post is funny and heartwarming.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Got my BBC B in 1983 for passing my 'O grades' with reasonably decent scores. Whilst I loved the gaming it was the programming that I enjoyed the most and honing my 6502 assembly chops I'd been getting to to speed with on the
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by teh_klev 6y ago
The burden of proof absolutely lies with you if you're going to make such claims. If you can't or won't back them up with a source or citation then I'm just going to ignore you, what you write can't be trusted.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is p
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by teh_klev 6y ago
This ^^^ we do a 30 minute standup every morning (remotely) and it's mostly the same except we get about three mins per team member. It's also a good time to bring up issues if user stories/acceptance criteria aren't wel
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by teh_klev 6y ago
> YouTube absolutely responds to DMCA notices, Sure, but these aren't proper DMCA claims. As kristofferR pointed out there are other extra jurisdictional mechanisms that Google employ to make your life difficult as a creator. And th

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