eckyptang

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by eckyptang 14y ago
I'm talking supported builds, not signed builds. You know with the pile of pre-paid support credits that we get with our partnership agreement which are supposed to result in solutions. Every support call requires a week long argument with
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Not related to the site, but now there is an audience... regarding asp.net mvc: Can we have support and out of band releases for asp.net mvc without having to go through connect or partner support, which are both to be honest, utter shit? A
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Not for a minute. The releases are pretty much shelved after v.next. To add to that, the support you do get is crappy, even as a gold partner. ASP.Net MVC is awfully designed and rather buggy as well from experience. I've been using it on a
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by eckyptang 14y ago
That does it. I'm defending my airspace with anti-drone drones (until they are illegal).
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by eckyptang 14y ago
IE4 ran on Solaris and HP/UX.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Agree about using data but the main problem is trust autonomy which allows them to develop incompatible systems. For example every damn A&E department in the country has a different software platform or configuration. There should just
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I was in a hospital the other day with my wife. I watched a senior consultant try and find a printer in AD (because the one on his desk was broken). This was to print a request form. It was very hard for him. The form exists because they ha
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Another creation by Colin Furze here: the flame throwing scooter, which incidentally got him arrested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UNr1XClnec I wish I had the time to do pointless and dangerous things like this.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
They do. I tend not to write oodles of test cases up front in favour of simple scenario based tests applied later on. I add pre/post/invariant-condition checks in the code as I write it. It is tested incrementally by hand. The condition che
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Obligatory XKCD about the trackpoint: http://xkcd.com/243/
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Happy birthday - typed on my T61 :)
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by eckyptang 14y ago
It is also true when testing is included and pylint are used, which is the issue. I can write a 500 line C# program and it works reliably first time with no crashes, type inference errors or framework exceptions thrown. The only errors will
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by eckyptang 14y ago
100% sure. I've seen the source code for trident via shared source a few years ago. Its well written and fairly modular. It has COM/IDL bindings but the core is very clean. I'd say it was better written than chrome. It also used to run on U
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by eckyptang 14y ago
And this and VBA is why office is so irreplaceable. I wrote a report generation tool in 1999 with word 97. It picked a report definition off a file share, assembled documents from fragments on disk (up to 50 pages a pop with tables, graphs
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by eckyptang 14y ago
IE (well trident) isn't tied to Win32. Office I'm not sure but I understand they've rewritten swathes of it for 2013.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
What makes you think there are any win32 APIs left? RT talks to NT.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
You are correct :) I cannot writing my own read!
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Better solution: tell them you're an ex OpenReach engineer - they let you right through to second line straight away. Repeat the story until you get what you want.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
It's BT - they own the phone network as well so it's free.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Thats the trick I use, or pretend you are old and on a bad line. The latter gives them the impression that you're easy money.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
We get these in the UK all the time. Usually either try and hold them on the line as long as possible (if bored) or tell them to "fuck off" straight away.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Well you kind of justified my point: The iPhone is a crappy phone with crappy battery life and has a crappy camera. None of this is desirable nor unique (O2 XDA kind of nailed all of these in 2002). Apple however made it successful through
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by eckyptang 14y ago
+1 for idiocracy. There is so much of society crammed into that film it's unreal. Warning: it's by mike judge of Beavis and butthead fame so you have to look past the fart jokes. "ow my balls" is definitely a reference to wasting time on Yo
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by eckyptang 14y ago
More than that in most cases: http://www.ppa.co.uk/about/activities/environment/ppa-enviro...
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by eckyptang 14y ago
About 6-8 cups a day. 2 of which were Starbucks medium americano and the rest were french pressed from various brands. Pretty strong stuff as well. I'd agree about the caffeine sensitivity - I don't think it agrees with me at all.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
This is unfortunately normal in most public and corporate bodies. They are afraid that if they talk then information will filter across and they'll lose their remit or hold over the solution at hand. It's silly really.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
The iPod and iPhone were not leaps and bounds ahead. That is a common misconception which is powered by the marketing hype. There were other products out there which were far superior. Archos produced better music players and Nokia produced
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Sorry I should be more clear: "stepping up the game" is their marketing innovation of delivering something then announcing it rather than the industry norm of doing it the other way round and people being bored by the time it is released. U
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I agree there. It's one of the things I liked about the 710 (the hardware buttons). It is also extremely cheap here in the UK now (£89!) so screw getting tied to a contract with it.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
In the interest of backing up my statement and sticking to my guns: Take the marketing and hype away from Apple, and what is it? A Foxconn rebranding outfit, a 1990s style UNIX outfit which ships proprietary hardware and a media pushing com

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