bananas

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by bananas 12y ago
Agree. I didn't go to a single lecture after 2 months at university (electrical engineering). My TA was shit as well - was too tied up in computer vision research and found us inconvenient. However we formed a club (5 of us who actuall
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by bananas 12y ago
Definitely but that gurantee is thrown away the moment you pull a 3rd party black box in. I'm suggesting it's feasible but not necessarily perfect and when it does go boom, which it does when you have 100 million HTTP hits a day,
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by bananas 12y ago
This. Most of the code I write is gluing stuff together rather than inventing new things which is what I'm paid to do. A lot of people say this stifles creativity and is boring but the productivity is off the scale. I've built thi
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by bananas 12y ago
Yep but you'd know which dereference it was if you unrolled it. Nulls happen unfortunately even with the best checking and intents.
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by bananas 12y ago
Why? We write less code in Java than we did in C#. To be fair NetBeans writes most of it. I still write C and don't hang myself because it doesn't have generics!
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by bananas 12y ago
LINQ isn't a magic bullet. collection.Where(s=>s.Transaction.Amount < 100).OrderBy(s=>s.Name).Single(); I'll let you debug the intermittent NullReferenceException that threw in production with no PDBs...
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by bananas 12y ago
The only bad choice was the foundation on which to build the product. The above technologies are pretty much a response to the world being better elsewhere. Unfortunately the responses are pretty immature, poorly documented with bad support
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by bananas 12y ago
And msbuild will no longer work. I agree with you though - its a PITA.
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by bananas 12y ago
That's a living hell. I wish you good fortune.
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by bananas 12y ago
As for the company, we've got over one million lines of c#. As new subsystems appear they are being moved to other technologies (Angular + Java + Jersey + maven + guice + Jetty + Redis + postgresql). This takes time. The amount of code
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by bananas 12y ago
Have you tried merging a JSON file? XML is a shit ton easier. I can't see this as a good thing.
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by bananas 12y ago
I've been through EVERY ASP.net update on every version of .net and every MVC update from CTP2 onwards, dealt with WWF being canned and rewritten, moved APIs between old SOAP stuff (asmx), WCF and WebAPI and rewritten swathes of ASP VB
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by bananas 12y ago
I found you have to drink a lot of it before it becomes drinkable which is a bit of a catch 22...
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by bananas 12y ago
The end has been marked for over a decade you realise?
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by bananas 12y ago
It's dead. Start again.
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by bananas 12y ago
What happened to Vita Cola? Only drinkable thing from Germany :) I have East German parents and they lived on that stuff until the wall came down.
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by bananas 12y ago
This is £70 in the UK. That nets you a Lumia 520 as a comparison point. For £30 more you can get an 8Gb Moto G. I can't see it selling here.
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by bananas 12y ago
That's basically rubbish and misinformation. You're complaining about WDM audio. There's built in WaveRT and external ASIO stacks as well. The latter has become the standard on Windows for professional audio and is direct har
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by bananas 12y ago
I don't buy that. Everyone I know has a sub $100 USB interface hanging off their machine and swears constantly at the latency and wishes they'd just stuck with ASIO on Windows... Personally I still have a workstation... As for the
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by bananas 12y ago
Yes I because: 1. They actively monitor your connection to be able to determine whether or not you have "infringed". This has non legitimate utility. 2. They are building a mailing database which whilst is under a mild agreement
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by bananas 12y ago
I'm terminating my Sky account over this today. At no point is this in my interest as a customer. They took £750000 to voluntarily violate my privacy. They obviously will have to develop a heuristic for suspicion and store suspects som
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by bananas 12y ago
£19 each way from Waterloo to Barts. That's expensive.
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by bananas 12y ago
Works fine with Google Maps for me, even in blackwall tunnel. I think there is some inertial navigation through device accelerometers as well.
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by bananas 12y ago
TFL and AA road watch know that so there is no reason Google couldn't. It's all data - after all the cabby most likely got it from the same data through a different aggregation medium (radio/paper).
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by bananas 12y ago
Google is pretty good at that too and knows what the traffic is before you get there. It's impressive but no more impressive than navigating a 4 million line software product intuitively...
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by bananas 12y ago
Screw the black cabs. I didn't realise what a rip off they are until I started driving around the city myself regularly with Google Maps which to be honest with traffic aware routing destroys "the knowledge" instantly. Black
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by bananas 12y ago
In this case it is. Privacy is about control and unless you have absolute control you cannot guarantee any privacy at all. And you don't control your phone's operating system, the GSM module OS/firmware, the carrier, the cl
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by bananas 12y ago
The two are entirely incompatible.
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by bananas 12y ago
My approach is different. I still use a completely Google tied Moto G with everything turned on. Hiding in plain sight (the grey man principle) is a better tactic. If privacy is required, I leave the handset at home and get on my bike. Ther
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by bananas 12y ago
Until you reboot and it doesn't :)

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