meaty

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by meaty 14y ago
Agreed - its a stinking turd, but at least it's not oscommerce :)
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by meaty 14y ago
I think its a naive attempt at describing worker processes and application scope. if you have a worker process per endpoint which is common with .net apps and lots of endpoints, its quite hard to balance resources. This is true. In PHP, non
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by meaty 14y ago
Th problem is whatever you do you're locked into an ecosystem of some sort. Even open source software. Have you tried building a portable c program on windows, Linux and OSX? Java is the least painless thing but we all know that's just anot
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by meaty 14y ago
Businesses do go to war regularly against nations. Its pretty much how the mineral, precious stone and oil industries work. Afghanistan looks like a useless chunk of dirt until you dig some holes. If Microsoft did it, I'd probably laugh a b
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by meaty 14y ago
Well what do you expect them to do? I think they would be batshit insane to do otherwise.
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by meaty 14y ago
Are you serious? I wrote an x86 NT utility back in 1996 on NT4 (with no service packs). It still executes and works perfectly on an x64 Windows 8 machine. That's a mere 17 years ago. There are two APIs now. The old one isn't going away eith
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by meaty 14y ago
This is welcome news. At least they are listening to people these days.
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes but Microsoft activation can make than damn hard if they want to.
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by meaty 14y ago
Actually this is not true on windows phone 8 and windows RT. The only requirement is that you use the native API which means the browser back end will need to be ported to it. This may be or may not be hard work.
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by meaty 14y ago
Seriously you can turn all that on if you want. My keyboard has a volume control. And use PowerShell ISE as your command line.
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by meaty 14y ago
Agree with this. Surface RT is painful. Especially office.
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by meaty 14y ago
Same thing, but I dislike Windows 8 in the same way I hated the bad bits of vista. I'll live with it if my ThinkPad dies big time though. The concept is really good but the execution is a bit clunky. I'm quite happy with the tiles concept.
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by meaty 14y ago
Never had that problem!
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by meaty 14y ago
I can't tell the difference in speed between a 2007 Lenovo T61 and a 2010 MBP. Works fine for apps. Windows 8 actually makes distinction between documents, apps and settings.
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by meaty 14y ago
Which is still an issue for a lot of people who depend on them.
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by meaty 14y ago
They already have been doing that for a long time. They are in compliance now.
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by meaty 14y ago
I understand the premise of the fine, but how is this supposed to help the consumers and businesses who now have to foot the $50 bill per seat?
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by meaty 14y ago
I don't think they can just cut off every Microsoft consultancy, every Windows user and throw them out of the EU. If they did, I'd be heading to Brussels with a pitchfork along with about 100 other people at my company.
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by meaty 14y ago
What motivation have Microsoft got to pay this?
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by meaty 14y ago
Sorry I will be 100% honest - I misread the first paragraph in the last message you posted. My apologies.
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by meaty 14y ago
I think you are smoking crack. Our AD is on azure. Its not designed for http specifically. The azure web instances bit is but the whole platform is IaaS style. So hadoop with SQL server (even ESENT if you want a key-value store) and MSMQ/Bi
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by meaty 14y ago
That's web sites. That's a fraction of the real world, which is my point. Most businesses don't run over HTTP. If most of the top 500 web sites disappeared, the world wouldn't stop. GitHub is not a good measure of popularity of a proprietar
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by meaty 14y ago
Yep the consumers buy a laptop because it is pink or cheap which usually ends up running windows as its the only thing at the price point. When they buy a tablet, they buy a shit no brand one running an ancient android release, realise it s
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by meaty 14y ago
Uptime is not a problem. Stuff breaks. Being able to contact someone, get a root cause of an issue and get help to mitigate it is what is important. In our case, a trial with Hetzner found their support to be somewhat lacking if something w
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by meaty 14y ago
Because its not opinionated at all, allows you to do what the hell you want and has very good support. I've been burned by AWS and GAE support which is sometimes non existent. If you're running your business off it, you can't afford that ri
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by meaty 14y ago
Perhaps us .Net devs are the silent majority? Windows pays the bills for a lot of people. One of our clients has 17,000 windows desktops, 3,500 windows laptops, 500 windows servers and a team of 80 people looking after it all. None of this
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by meaty 14y ago
Yep it is expensive, bit hetzner are unreliable, their kit performs poorly, their support sucks and you can't deploy a sql server instance quickly (the latter is quite useful if you use sql server).
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by meaty 14y ago
It's tidier than AWS and GAE, better performing and slightly more expensive. Tooling is good, support is excellent (I can get someone who knows arse from elbow on the phone in 2 minutes flat). Some of it is a little odd, but it makes sense
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by meaty 14y ago
Azure is quite scary good but the main problem is that people really don't understand what it is. If they actually work through that, I fully believe it will win. We have a couple of Linux instances on azure to give you an idea how odd it i
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by meaty 14y ago
Start, type, search results. Its had that since vista!

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