upthedale

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by upthedale 15y ago
Very true. It is my understanding though that the primary use case of the VM role is to allow legacy applications to sit in the cloud without needing to rebuild for the Azure platform.
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by upthedale 15y ago
Since graduating a year ago, I seem to have turned into a Windows guy, simply because I use it all day at work. Having a reflective moment a couple of weeks ago, I decided to learn something completely different (for me) and try Ruby. Not w
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by upthedale 15y ago
It's and apples and oranges comparison though. For those that like their acronyms, Amazon's service is infrastructure (IaaS) whereas Azure abstracts more aware providing a platfrom to build on (PaaS)
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by upthedale 15y ago
> but some people don't consider anything not made by Microsoft worth using. Also some people don't consider anything made by Microsoft worth using. Perhaps your senior programmer did fall into the former category, I don't know. However
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by upthedale 15y ago
The music matching service does sound genuinely interesting, though I am unsure about how it works as a yearly subscription. Surely once you've matched your songs, that's it (until next time). Would the pay per use model not make more sense
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by upthedale 15y ago
Somewhat off topic, but I am reminded of a paper I had to critique a uni: "A Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake It" [1] The paper reasons that following a strict process is unrealistic, but that it is still worth it to "fake" a pr
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Home working: Why can't everyone telework?(bbc.co.uk)
19 points by upthedale 15y ago|34 comments
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by upthedale 15y ago
a Vaio X and Vim, Chromium and Xmonad is a perfect dev box. I have never used a Vaio, but I would question how much one contributes to being a perfect dev box. You can install Vim, Chromium and Xmonad on any other machine. im still using
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by upthedale 15y ago
In fairness, this has nothing to do with Win7 specifically. The NCSI service was introduced with Vista.
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by upthedale 15y ago
Great idea. Will there be later events? I ask because the exam season is currently in full swing for some students who may be otherwise interested.
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by upthedale 15y ago
I consider myself a "Cloud" engineer and architect. I build enterprise systems hosted in Clouds. Developing in the Cloud has its own intricacies, but I'm getting off topic. My point is that to me, "Cloud" is a software engineering term. It
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by upthedale 15y ago
Windows Azure isn't just .Net. There's Ruby, Python, PHP and Java. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/interop/ [edit] I've just thought, the Ruby and Python support might technically be through .Net via IronRuby and IronPython, but I
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by upthedale 15y ago
I disagree. I haven't read the full article yet, so I haven't read any justification for the design choices, which I think is useful to give my initial gut feelings. Also, IANAD (I am not a desginer). I find the LHS to be so messy and incon