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by b0 14y ago
I've never heard the one-eyed trouser snake one before - I nearly spat my (non-Olympic-overlord approved) water in my ThinkPad :-) They are by far the worst mascots ever.
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by b0 14y ago
As the parent commenter and a previous resident (of Leyton), you've nailed it there. Our landlord upped our rent from 1000GBP a month to 1400GPB a month the moment it was announced.
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by b0 14y ago
I'll give you some ideas why it's an absolute fucking disgrace: * Rapier missile launchers installed on residential flats. * Dispersal Zone around Olympics which has kerfew, 42,000 strong mostly private police force and all legal rights sus
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by b0 14y ago
That wouldn't be that horrid Adobe forms thing that sits on JBoss would it? (we have a VM for that!)
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by b0 14y ago
Good stuff. Can you please make the text darker - I suffer from some sight problems which make grey on grey quite hard for me to read.
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by b0 14y ago
We run around 400 VMs across 44 (big scary) servers and I find that VMware only exists as a cop out for bad planning and bad architecture, albeit more cost effective than fixing it. It also shoots you periodically like 2Tb LUN size on our v
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by b0 14y ago
New VMware is probably more expensive than old vmware and it's expensive enough already. Every portrayed advantage of virtualisation is not cost effective when you have to pay their extortionate prices. Xen/KVM and HyperV have a serious adv
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by b0 14y ago
Sorry I will clarify with a genuine question: where is the public source code with changelog? It seems like a snapshotting tool, so you check out the stub and then dump the snapshot into it from the depot. (this is similar to how Windows is
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by b0 14y ago
Looking at the code, you have to check out the source and then run another script to check out the source from Google's private source control system/depot. Why it isn't just in a public repo, I don't know. It looks like it is set up so the
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by b0 14y ago
I thought TCP over TCP was a sin?
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by b0 14y ago
It depends where you live. My local Tesco is like fort Knox as it is right next to a council estate.
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by b0 14y ago
It's a commentary on how providing isolated islands (app stores) damages the distributed nature of the world wide web. Effectively every app technology is a landgrab by some entity who wants some exclusive chunk of the web with their own ru
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by b0 14y ago
Of course there are. They just aren't as noisy which is why you don't think they exist. Away from the buzz of the tech cities, the trendy "apps" culture and tech giants, there are lots. In fact, these people are actually the silent (and bet
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by b0 14y ago
Excuse my ignorance on the matter but you make yourself look immature, arrogant and patronising and this does no credit for your project or yourself. So basically, NaCl: 1. Validates the binary image. Of course that validation has no holes
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by b0 14y ago
Some little known facts which point to your assertions being wrong: 1. IE4 worked on UNIX (Solaris/HP-UX) and supported ActiveX. 2. MainSoft provided tools to port your ActiveX to UNIX (Usually a straight recompilation and little else requi
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by b0 14y ago
Not quite, and I'm not confused. Both have sandboxes (ActiveX since Windows 6.0, IE7), both have restricted APIs, both run native code. PNaCl is equivalent of silverlight which is cut down CLR. More performance - I doubt it. CLR+JVM is pret
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by b0 14y ago
Well actually you're wrong on the following point: There's nothing you can achieve with up-front planning that you can't achieve by refactoring your design after a release If your application is relatively standalone then yes, but if you
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by b0 14y ago
This is all a terrible idea and it will fragment the Internet as we know it. The internet is not a budget strip-mall of different low grade outlets; it's more an orchard full of fruit you can discover and pick at will from millions of trees
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by b0 14y ago
They use scp now rather than ftp. They don't use git because it's too complicated for contractors to handle.
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by b0 14y ago
I'm not sure I agree. I've watched large numbers of people crash and burn running 'agile' processes. Agile doesn't work at all with large numbers of people on code that is constantly changing. Regardless of how you package it, the only way
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by b0 14y ago
I've worked in a couple of companies that did this. We had the following flow and it worked great: Task assigned to developer via email, developer takes current release tar from ftp and untars, does work, creates patch, forwards patch to co