machinecoffee

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by machinecoffee 6y ago
This is one of the cool things about NextSteps' Foundation classes (now Cocoa) where they have explicit immutable collection interfaces.
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by machinecoffee 6y ago
My favourite line from this is: “Any integer between -2 billion and 2 billion is seldom a good representation of anything.” I think that's something Ada got really right.
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by machinecoffee 6y ago
>Or that 65,000 lines in a source file isn't enough? I would hope that was from auto generated code somehow..?!!
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by machinecoffee 6y ago
I would disagree, a sensible limit that cannot overwhelm the machine even if a multi threaded server is processing its maximum number of emails, should be enforced. The correct response to a breach of this limit would be for a reply email t
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by machinecoffee 6y ago
iPads have found many niche uses, e.g. in retail, and for people on the road who use only a few apps (e.g. sales or health professionals) iPads are also great educational tools where kids can interact with the device but don't have to
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by machinecoffee 6y ago
>anyway, i find windows 10 to be the superior os. Why would you compare iOS to Windows 10? The better comparison would be Mac OS X (Microsoft I noticed couldn't wait to get to 10, won't be long before they're calling it
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
I would say nowadays, from a scale-up perspective we've never had it better. Multi-core CPUs are cheaper than ever, and terabytes of RAM are not uncommon. The only problem is that to have an HA solution with these monster machines, you
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Hydrogen powered delivery trucks to be tested in the Swiss Alps(uk.reuters.com)
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
In your haste to get everything back up and running again, don't forget to change the database credentials or you'll be back in the same boat again :)
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
Seems to be largely written in C and Objective C, with Gnustep providing the Foundation Kit. Objective C I've found to be a great and productive language for writing GUI based apps, with the selector based event handling. Nice work by
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
Which would actually work nicely with a fibres library, so you can yield while you're waiting for the io to complete.
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
Well, clippy didn't last long (although I miss the cat a bit), but the clippy jokes seem to have lasted forever.
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
I'm struggling to see how to add songs to a playlist for my iPod - ok its old (2007 ipod nano), but I love it, so I guess I'll struggle on. Saying that, lots of people complained about iTunes, especially that it tried do do too mu
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
Which then raises the question, how does - if at all - Ubuntu make money for Canonical?
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
One format that doesn't seem to get much attention nowadays is RTF ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format ), but there's no reason it shouldn't be readable for years to come.
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
The thing also booted up faster than you could blink. Of course that might have changed if they added more system services, but from POST screen to a usable desktop was easily under 15 seconds.
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
>Epically focused leadership. Just to support that, I remember hearing a story told by Larry Elison (they were apparently neighbours for a while), where he would pop over to see Steve, and would be subjected to the 100th viewing of Toy S
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
On a slightly related note, I have to say I love the whole folklore website. It adds a really human face to the fascinating developments in IT at that time, and a lot of that I think comes from Andy Hertzfeld who tells a story really well.
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
It's hard to be nice and fluffy in a market where there's a lot of competition, but there's degrees. When you deliberately attempt to sabotage other people's software that has to run on your OS, but competes with an MS P
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
I had a Mac Performa from the OS 7 days, and Inside Macintosh from the same time - but with the C API from what I remember, and used Metrowerks CodeWarrior as the development IDE. It was a great introduction to GUI programming, and CodeWarr
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
WinHlp32.exe "All Windows help information is available online. The Windows Help Viewer is no longer supported in Windows 10" Wow, that's the end of an era. I suppose that also means all WIN32 API documentation is no longer a
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
MS also attempting to use its monopoly position on the desktop to damage a competitor, there's no heroes in this fight. I say attempting because, thank goodness, MS no longer has the stranglehold that it used to have - due to Google at
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
>who had an effect that writing lost a lot of overcomplication I hope you're not referring to NewSpeak from 1984 which was an invention by the party to limit people's expression so that they could not verbalize disloyalty, and
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
I can't imagine why anybody would see RUP as a bad process to follow. Things I like about it are: 1. It's focus on the User and the business case. In the RUP documents you have to describe what business problem you're trying
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
>Apple Watch doesn’t natively, and even if it did, you still have to charge it at night The way around that is to charge it earlier in the evening before bed - I do that and it lasts me easily until the following evening. But it's a
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
As the owner of a Nest (pre-Google acquisition), I can only say that it's not been a positive experience for me. Condescending emails about how many 'leafs' I've earned every few months and forcing me to login to the dev
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
Whilst battery farming is cruel and inhumane to the animals, it can be done in a better way. However, foie gras can never be done humanely, it's a horrible practice where the animal has to suffer in order for a diner to have 5 minute
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
I cannot tell you how long I've spent frustratingly re-discovering this fact over the years and different Windows versions.
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
Diseased animal fits Windows 8.0 quite nicely I think.
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
It's the "uncrop" feature I'm really waiting for :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo

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