OrsenPike

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by OrsenPike 13y ago
Sorry but I don't really see the link between that article and Microsoft's inconsistent use of the term RTM. They can still move to a rapid release cycle and have a solid RTM. Chrome and Firefox manage to do it every 6 weeks.
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
Google cut the price a couple of weeks back. The 8GB N4 is £159. You can grab it from here https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_4_8_GB?i...
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
Other companies are not the point here though. Microsoft is and they have been consistent in their use for the past two decades or more so why the sudden change?
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
This is the thing that has annoyed me the most about this whole thing. RTM has always meant "release to manufacturing and IT pros". If Microsoft wanted to change this fair enough but they shouldn't have called it an RTM if th
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
God yes I miss those buttons on my paperwhite :( I also wish I could turn the backlight off completely rather than just lower it to the lowest setting.
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
You need >500 karma
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
I have pretty much always done this for mail I am just CC'd on while on holiday for more than a couple of days. I don't auto delete email sent just to me though. Works well and makes the return to the office a simpler task. Anythi
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
I couldn't disagree more. Yes Office has loads and loads of extra features but I have never seen a university use anything more than the most basic of features. LibreOffice covers this completely and I find it insane that people thin
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
IMHO you started him with boring languages. C and Forth? If he has an Android phone I would have started with Java. Otherwise I would have just started with Python. He would probably have found it much more engaging than C to begin with and
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
Not gonna lie, I would buy that in a heartbeat.
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
Nice to see bug fixes from ST3 back ported. Shame that the load speed improvements are not though :(
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
I see your point but this is obviously a graphics guy (or girl) and probably not a programmer to the level that is require for a lot of the work on Firefox. Now if this new logo were designed by a developer on OdinMonkey I would say it was
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
I have owned several Macbook[Pros|Airs] over the years and consistently the biggest issue has been poor wifi. Either dropping or just being generally crappy performance wise compared to other systems right next to me on the same next work.
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
Not on Windows :/
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
I thought the same. I have unlimited data so I knew I hadn't hit any limit but thought maybe something was up with my phone. Rebooted several times. Reset network settings. etc. and nothing. I went to call them this morning but when I check
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
I noticed I had no data at around 23:30 last night and still no data at around 8:30 this morning. I was pretty surprised to see the outage last that long. Things appear to be working again now (12:30) albeit slower than usual.
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
FYI the blue theme is included as part of Update 2 for VS2012. It looks much nicer than the light and dark themes that 2012 has by default.
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
Out of all of the changes they made the all caps menu is probably the most stupid in the history of Visual Studio. Thank god for http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2012/06/14/turn-off-...
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
Thanks I will check it out
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
Anyone know if there are any Windows builds available for GCC 4.8.x ? I normally use TDM/MinGW but they are lagging on 4.7.2. Also slightly off topic how is clang on Windows these days?
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
Yeah. I am in zone 3 (15 minute walk from the office which is awesome) at £1200 a month for a very nice (large) one bed room flat. I could get a two bedroom with a little more space for the same price but this flat is gorgeous and I love th
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
To answer you questions... 1. Hardly ever. Then again I am not doing anything amazingly special or complicated. Just standard business apps. 2. That experience is worth double what theoretical education is. So make sure you DO STUFF and sti
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
That is a good starting salary. Make sure you stick to your guns when you move about. If you are staying in your area of expertise you should never take a pay cut. Ever.
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
Some places have very big bonus' with average salary. I have a few friends on 35-45% bonus on £35k a year as swdevs.
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
Yeah this is my experience as well. I was fortunate to start on quite a good salary and have managed to maintain that while changing jobs. London certainly isn't the place if you want to make a big career though. Even a start up here is so
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
The UK isn't the best place for software people in my opinion. I have been around for a little over 10 years in the field now and worked for big, medium and small companies. I think this is because people seem to gamble more in SF by invest
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
The only SE roles I know if that sort of salary range is in financial services for a couple of the top guys in the company. No way is that anywhere near standard salary for 99.99% of employees.
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
Salary: £85k + bupa + pension and a 25% of gross salary (£~21k) a year paid each quarter if objective are met (70% or above). Tech: Primarily Java with some C, C++ and more recently Go (although Go is only in our code playground, nothing ev
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
I had a 15.4" Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop from 2003 with 1920x1200 and it was amazing. When I released it a few years later it was not possible to buy a laptop from Dell with that resolution :(
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by OrsenPike 13y ago
What made this even more fun to read is knowing it was Murdoch he was twisting and twisting :)

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