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by bwarp 15y ago
Possibly, but isn't the entire carnival of Apple the same? Tell me which bit of my post was not factual?
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by bwarp 15y ago
It'll be another ceremony. A parade of metal and glass. A celebration of our supposed progress. Another device for consumption. A window into a walled world. Another false need. Another life not really improved despite their insistence that
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by bwarp 15y ago
Psychs (both types) who are funded by medical insurance are the issue. They're being effectively paid commission from the insurer to find anything that could be wrong with you so they can eat. The moment you get sick in the US, you are a la
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by bwarp 15y ago
This is where we are. We use Crucible/Fisheye as well which really just makes things painfully hard.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Brandy Basic is pretty much that: http://sourceforge.net/projects/brandy/
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by bwarp 15y ago
Rubbish! http://www.southgatearc.org/news/november2010/make_a_transis...
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by bwarp 15y ago
HTML5 is a piss poor evolutionary abstraction of what was effectively SGML and scripting carnage. If you could start again, would you really end up with HTML5?
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by bwarp 15y ago
Well actually, I reckon yes. Much to my parents' latent terror (I didn't tell them until they came back from holiday), at the age of 15 a friend and myself built a small blast furnace using some ceramic pots, bits of stone lying around and
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by bwarp 15y ago
Cool - I bow before your Eliteness! (pun intended ;-)
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by bwarp 15y ago
Considering the web server takes less than 5% of the execution time in my stack, I'm not bothered and 99.99% of you probably shouldn't be either. It'd be a better performance improvement to rewrite the stack entirely in C than change the we
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by bwarp 15y ago
Get a Cub monitor though - it's not the same without one!
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by bwarp 15y ago
Semantically speaking, understanding is simply knowing enough to recreate something, preferably with your own aquired skills and knowledge. We're all just fancy parrots wrapped up in monkey bodies. To be honest, the bedrock abstraction shou
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by bwarp 15y ago
It doesn't get us anything at all other than a fucking huge rabbit hole to stare down every time you do anything. Lets look at a pretty naff case for .Net CLR on x86 for windows workflow: application -> xaml -> framework -> serv
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by bwarp 15y ago
Not until the printers can make their own CPUs and complex parts such as threaded rods. That is a long time off. 3d printers are supposedly promoted as printing themselves i.e. as self-replicating. They are not. They print a small fraction
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by bwarp 15y ago
I was the proud owner of an ARM copro [1] many years ago (I still have the Master it was plugged into) and the first Acorn RISC machine (an A310 with 512k RAM if I remember correctly). They were and still are extremely powerful and producti
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by bwarp 15y ago
Good for you! I (the parent of your post) actually have a BBC Master (and the advanced reference manuals) lying around still for precisely that reason. It's quite a handy and very powerful little machine to be honest. It even runs LISP (Aco
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by bwarp 15y ago
RAM, separate GPU+core and profit buy the looks.
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by bwarp 15y ago
A complete understanding if you ask me is one which requires no impenetrable "black-box abstractions" to be substituted in the abstraction hierarchy. In the case of a CPU, you would have to have a full gate level understanding of it and an
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by bwarp 15y ago
It's an awful community (no pun intended). There are some of the worst people on the Internet hiding behind it.
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by bwarp 15y ago
My god I remember that guy from the late 90's. There was an Internet fad around then. Now I feel old.
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by bwarp 15y ago
At the risk of sounding like a whinging old man, but do we really need 1Gbit to the home at the moment? If you take the UK as an example, a lot of the country (outside major cities and metropolitan areas) is still stuck on 512kbit. The sam
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by bwarp 15y ago
I didn't eat meat for about 5 years. One day I just bought a quarter pounder with cheese from McDonalds for no particular reason other than I felt crappy after being sick for two weeks. That was the tastiest thing I'd ever eaten! At the sam
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by bwarp 15y ago
Just as an anti-point to the above... I'm doing some in depth analysis to see if it's a suitable replacement for C#/.Net framework in our current application stack (message oriented CQRS architecture, web front end). We're doing this by rew
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by bwarp 15y ago
I've got one of these: http://www.avalontest.com/e-store/media/prod_full/hp_6236b.j... It's terribly useful. What you do is read the voltage you want from the device, turn the knob to the voltage you want and plug it in! It was made in 19
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by bwarp 15y ago
Indeed - but that is the nature of the Internet. There should always be a counterpoint to a good view.
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by bwarp 15y ago
You've obviously know very little about the motivation of Go then...
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by bwarp 15y ago
And you are a sanctimonious twat.
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by bwarp 15y ago
These are pretty much the reason that Go exists.
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by bwarp 15y ago
My father tells me of such stories of the Autobahn. Usually terminated with much pant-shitting by three Trabants trying to overtake each other...
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by bwarp 15y ago
Upvoted. Spot on. It's nowhere near as dynamic as a basic dynamic language. So much so that I just don't bother with dynamic in C# (I also don't bother with nullable types and a load of other features as well but that's another story). Howe

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