wildjim

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by wildjim 16y ago
The level of virtualisation, or the way resources are shared is also rather critical. Fully virtualised servers are not necessarily all that efficient either, especially if they're configured to do simple resource dedication among the hoste
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by wildjim 16y ago
Apple fanboi.
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by wildjim 16y ago
But I've seen this sort of crap in all sorts of "standard" lib's in Python, and it never seems to get cleaned-up... ... I really hate having to use Python.
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by wildjim 16y ago
Most of the slang is also Australian, and some, like "Chavs", is becoming more recognised outside the UK. However, I'm sure it would only take a few years living in one country to pick-up local slang. With globalisation comes comes a great
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by wildjim 16y ago
> Napoleon called the English "a nation of shopkeepers". Not a lot has changed, then...
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by wildjim 16y ago
I seem to remember a statistic where UK is reputed to have a greater number of dialects than any other country in the world, which probably has a lot to do with the difficulty people have with understanding some accents (tried Glaswegian, a
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by wildjim 16y ago
Several developed nations have companies (etc) guilty of disasters similar to these. e.g. Union Carbide.
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by wildjim 16y ago
> I wouldn't actually call it a Lisp on its own. It is a derivative, a less directly powerful form. But you could argue every language is a derivative of another, or another's functionality, or style, or... To fairly call a language "
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by wildjim 16y ago
I kind-of thought that was what a patent-troll did these days: get as many wide-ranging patents as possible, no matter whether they should've been granted, and use them to either batter the competition (i.e. with license fees or unending c
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by wildjim 17y ago
Money pays for the tech toys that so many of us enjoy. Money pays the bills, of course, and these days, the cost of living can cut a hefty wedge into that money... TBH, if I can pay the bills, save for retirement, and have a little left for
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by wildjim 17y ago
Quick note, before I read the article: Watched a documentary recently, experimenting with 3hours/day. It was cancelled after a week because the "victim" was showing dangerous side-effects and beginning to show major-organ dysfunction, appa
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by wildjim 17y ago
So long as I can replace the dumbed-down supplied OS, I'm happy.
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by wildjim 17y ago
Cobol's last gasp...
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by wildjim 17y ago
What's wierd about what you've just said is that you obviously don't have a web tablet -- a Nokia N810, a Samsung Q1, a Viliv S5, a UMID mbook... ? What really makes the iPad any more special, especially considering the price? Please don't
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by wildjim 17y ago
Statements like - "Katz doesn't believe that people are morally obligated to pay back their debts." I'm not sure I disagree -- "Usuary" used to be thoroughly illegal/immoral/etc didn't it? ... and "People are brainwashed to think that pa
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by wildjim 17y ago
Is it really? Don't you get sick of being "always on" sometimes? Perhaps the averse reactions here have something to do with too many of us living in densely populated/over-populated or even over-stimulated environments; the short-attenti
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by wildjim 17y ago
They are Research Scientists?
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by wildjim 17y ago
They need to make this work, otherwise they'll never be able to catch up to the Android's, iPhone's and Maemo's of the smartphone world, let alone trying to persuade "smartbook" manufacturers to use WinMo7+ instead of some Linux variant...
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by wildjim 17y ago
> This leads me to believe that there must only be chips that support one or the other. IIRC, Qualcomm are preparing the very first baseband/radio chip(s) that can support both. I believe it's a soft-radio, so you can reprogram it fo
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by wildjim 17y ago
You could also argue that the tablet market is already interesting despite Apple -- e.g. Lenovo's Skylight, ChromeOS, other Android tablets (e.g. Archos') and even Nokia's venerable N800 series. And that's ignoring fully Windows/Linux capab
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by wildjim 17y ago
+1 It is standard for everywhere except the USA; mobile usage has been traditionally significantly higher in Europe than USA, so you wouldn't really want to miss out on that market!
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by wildjim 17y ago
Oh man, this is such a shame. I read much of his online book before deciding to buy a paper copy, figuring the result was definitely worth the money, therefore the guy deserved to be paid; this was a few years ago. I don't exactly remembe
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by wildjim 17y ago
It's a sad and disappointing article, and too many "observations" seem rather biased and couched in the claim of multiple years of experience; though I highly doubt it's very broad experience, because the views are too narrow. I strongly s
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by wildjim 17y ago
Haskell, too?
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by wildjim 17y ago
But that's also the experience of a certain percentage upgrading from Windows 2000 -> XP -> Vista -> Blah. The rule for Windows used to be "always reinstall, never upgrade, it never works 100%"; TBH, I'd have trouble believing
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by wildjim 17y ago
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-qu... It's basically very accurate.
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by wildjim 17y ago
If you felt that strongly, then letting it out is the same as letting it go. Psychologically, it probably set him properly for his next role. Good on him for not cowing under the "business norms" here. And as to hurting his reputation: th
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by wildjim 17y ago
Didn't Microsoft used to use a "quota" system for their certification, too? They determined how many people, per country, they would allow to be certified, and if too many got the passing mark, the raised the requirement "appropriately" for
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by wildjim 17y ago
Non-Education Board certificates are not a baseline for anything besides having read the book and paid the money. They are essentially meaningless, these days -- more a way for a Com to fleece you -- and seeing them on a CV, I tend to view
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by wildjim 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cil (Also know as MSIL)

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