csmithuk

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by csmithuk 13y ago
It's unfortunately also very CPU intensive which is a big problem for IRC networks which handle stupid numbers of connections at the same time.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Yes. Lego, computers, electronic bits and kits to make, chemistry set, things to take apart, piles of technical books plus my father was a major clone PC importer and manufacturer for over a decade and our house was literally up to the ceil
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by csmithuk 13y ago
It's not all that bad now and wasn't when I was at school (in the UK). During my time, we had the Acorn BBC Micro to start with, then the Archimedes. These were both programmers dream machines and code we did, usually plugged into
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Not particularly excited. After spending a number of years with embedded systems, my tolerance has faded a little. We tried the "follow the instructions" and no help thing to start with. Unfortunately we were blessed with only a c
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I agree. The point was slightly sarcastic. However they're just the foundations on which you teach. Programming languages, tools and software packages are the important bits. Which OS doesn't matter really. Neither does any red vs
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I don't wish to hijack this thread but tying the Raspberry Pi to education is terrible if you ask me. I agreed about the Raspberry Pi being the best device for education right from day one. That was until my father bought my daughter o
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Windows should be a part of School Education! MacOS should be a part of School Education! It's primitive tribalism. People should learn "computing" as part of a school education as over life things are going to change and the
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I've had similar experiences with everything Samsung I've used apart from their SSDs. They just don't seem to put much engineering effort into their products. Acer knock out some good machines. I miss their Timeline series. I
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I thought that when I bought my Bravia EX but it's a pain in the ass. iPlayer is poorly maintained and it barely plays anything on a good day, the thing is impossibly slow for the first minute when you turn it on and it's the fuss
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by csmithuk 13y ago
They can start by starting again. EL is a stinking shitpile of horribleness and always has been. It's the result of the P&P team who obviously wrote the whole thing in a silo whilst the rest of the industry did something wholly dif
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by csmithuk 13y ago
This isn't actually all that secret. It's been published for over 4 years before it even managed a test flight. Having worked in that sector, the interesting shit is always what you haven't heard about.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Politics, politics, politics. Like the last 50 decades at least...
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Not really. They barely support it, it's half integrated into RPM and is impossibly difficult to persuade a lot of stuff to work with it due to system dependencies on certain jars. You end up having to pull a full JDK from somewhere el
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Yeah agree. Not going past the T420!
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by csmithuk 13y ago
No. I complain that Red Hat support a bastardised version of Java (and Eclipse) that ships with their OS meaning that for the sake of sanity you have to deal with Oracle and RH to get a cohesive platform versus the single vendor. Subtly dif
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Well I'm stockpiling T-series ThinkPads :)
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by csmithuk 13y ago
That really doesn't surprise me. I was given a brand new Sony Vaio VPC-J1 all in one. Had a niceish 20" 1920x1080 screen and an i5 so decided to try and use it for dev work. Came stuffed with crapware and Sony-isms from the star
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by csmithuk 13y ago
A million times this. We had a small division of our company using Basecamp for a bit but it got canned after some changes and they went crawling back to Salesforce. It stinks but it stinks consistently!
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by csmithuk 13y ago
You're right. But Windows has CLR which is integrated in Microsoft's support offerings.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
There are no supported versions by RedHat other than that which ships with the OS distribution. To get a recent JDK we then have to deal with Oracle as well and the cost goes right up. With the CLR and Microsoft there is one point of call u
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Depends on what you mean by data. Google/Facebook mean social and crudely document shaped data. Wikipedia means data that looks like encylopedia pages. Microsoft mean ANY data you want to shift with the same languages and tools across
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Actually no. We get 13-14 years out of Microsoft offerings which is enough lead time for test, provisioning and an 8-10 year lifecycle. Plus due to overlap we have enough time to test v.next. With respect to support you get a very narrow co
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Not suggesting Bing. I'm only suggesting "not Google". Times change. Google's core business doesn't.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Yes because it is instantly replaceable with nothing more than a meh on the part of the user.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I did the opposite. I was a Unix/netware guy for years. Netware fell off a cliff and so did commercial Unix. Left me with Linux and FreeBSD. Whilst I rather like FreeBSD, when I have to throw an architecture together that will survive
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by csmithuk 13y ago
using a computer without Google products is something that people just don't really do anymore This is rather naive. In certain circles yes but by far the majority of people use just their search.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
That's what the devil on my shoulder said to me but they're just really too inexperienced to make a call on half of the stuff they do. Ultimately this is probably because experienced people got better offers elsewhere.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I watch github, I watch their blog, I read interviews, I get the picture. It's my job to look at dysfunctional teams both from a technology and a process perspective. I've seen teams like this many times before. They are expensive
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by csmithuk 13y ago
That is the primary example I'm referring to recently. There are many more. I'll write them up at some point.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
That's fine but the first iterations were because they fucked the requirements up. Regardless of Agile/not, due diligence when selecting products or deciding to write them is required.

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