custardcream

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by custardcream 12y ago
1. Have you asked any women who aren't in these specialist areas why they aren't or have you read the arguments by the politicians and (I hate using the word) extremists? I have listened to both sides. Women aren't in tech be
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by custardcream 12y ago
You probably want FORTH then :)
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by custardcream 12y ago
Tl;dr version: Everyone offended with everything and everyone reading about what they should be offended about in a media outlet using one liners suggesting that they should be remembered for a clothing choice rather a scientific achievemen
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by custardcream 12y ago
Well it depends how you do it. There's certainly some mileage in doing it like that properly: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lukeh/archive/2007/10/01/taking-linq...
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by custardcream 12y ago
Yeah my 5 year old is sitting there eating a sock.
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by custardcream 12y ago
Excellent. Thanks for the tip.
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by custardcream 12y ago
I wonder if DHCP works on Hyper-V again now (it didn't for the 10.0 cycle which was a PITA)
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by custardcream 12y ago
Well considering most of these binaries are tied to app stores and talk to the web they're about as much use if the vendor pulls the plug.
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by custardcream 12y ago
Source? AFAIK only .net will which is not visual studio.
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by custardcream 12y ago
One thing has for me: people are spending lots of money on them. Top slicing that is pretty easy. Oh and most problems are solved or canned so all we're doing is gluing things together and making it look pretty (which is what programmi
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by custardcream 12y ago
As someone who is old enough to have written "programs" and sees the instant relationship to "apps", I vigorously disagree. Lets consider these points: 1. Firstly there are competing platforms on which to deploy your pro
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by custardcream 12y ago
That's not going to happen any time soon. Not because they don't want to but because the whole process would be monumentally complicated and expensive. I suspect we'll see a new 100% managed code IDE in the next 3-5 years tha
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by custardcream 12y ago
Within the last couple of months literally. I think to be honest that some of the stuff Microsoft have been working on behind the scenes is probably scaring the crap out of Apple and Google. There's not been a platform as holistic and
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by custardcream 12y ago
Yes. It's now Microsoft circa 2001.
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by custardcream 12y ago
Yes there is. It's the world wide web. An interoperable universal interaction standard. Or it was until Google started pulling an IE6 game. I use Firefox for everything because there is no central motivation to specialise. If a site do
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by custardcream 12y ago
That's basically it but the amount of light reaching that sensor is improved by a somewhat larger lens than you usually get on a smartphone.
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by custardcream 12y ago
This. to quote my father (who is actually a professional photographer): Pissy lens; pissy photo. You need chunks of glass at the moment regardless of sensor size. I carry a basic DSLR around with me (D3100) and a decent but cheap lens (AF-S
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by custardcream 12y ago
Definitely. I've got a centos 6.5 VM that is a master svn server for a multinational with a 22Gb repo and 190 users and does front end http and ssl for 45 requests/second (average with peaks of 200/sec) and it barely touches
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by custardcream 12y ago
That's of absolutely no use when the box is under heavy load. Perf counters just stop working. We had a system wide thrashing problem with ReaderWriterLockSlim which doesn't work properly under load. Took 15 mins to log into the b
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by custardcream 12y ago
I'll add something here. The CLR is a PITA when it goes wrong. Its a total bastard to debug. JVM on the other hand has wonderful instrumentation capabilities at runtime. At best you get a minidump out of a CLR process that is misbehavi
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by custardcream 12y ago
Virtually none of SQL server is. Most of SharePoint is. Exchange is all c++ still. So we might see SharePoint for Linux yet. The other two I suspect are very tied to win32.
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by custardcream 12y ago
My sister is a psychiatrist and has the same opinion on the subject. There's nothing wrong with postulating and analysing it, even if the views are perhaps unpopular. Nothing should be beyond discussion even if it's uncomfortable
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by custardcream 12y ago
I get what you mean but a tab is purposely meaningless and unqualified. It means 1 indent, not 8 spaces, 3 bananas or one tree. It is a unit. How the user displays that is up to them.
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by custardcream 12y ago
The dictionary in front of me disagrees: "A key on a computer keyboard that, when pressed, inserts a special ASCII character used for formatting text, as in indenting a line or block of text." Actually going back it means tabula
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by custardcream 12y ago
Go uses tabs. That's the law. It's in the documentation. Groups of spaces and tabs are semantically different. Tabs mean indentation. Spaces mean spaces.
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by custardcream 12y ago
I don't really want that. It's a PITA getting a job lined up for when you've quit plus the garden leave time. It's easier when there's just notice to consider.
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by custardcream 12y ago
UK here. The current company I work at tried to get me to sign one. I took the contract to my solicitor who just crossed it out and said hand it back and tell them to accept it or fuck off. There were no complaints. Sometimes you just have
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by custardcream 12y ago
Yes, SunOS4, Solaris and HP-UX. Never had any problems but then again we pretty much kept the hardware alive after vendors had deployed everything. Also Oracle on a VMS cluster which was a joy. To be honest windows (NT series) operating sys
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by custardcream 12y ago
Always price. That's the biggest driver for adoption ever.
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by custardcream 12y ago
Similar situation. I deal with Unix/windows approximately 50/50 from a devops perspective. My word I'll also take anything Unix over windows at the moment regardless of the tech. To be fair in the short term, windows is maxim

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