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by pling 12y ago
Medium for OSX. Unlikely for Linux - they'd be laughed out of the building. They shipped IE5 for Unix a long while back believe it or not! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX I actually tripped
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by pling 12y ago
That means your stuff probably doesn't work on IE properly. Not joking (and I know this sucks) but there are a shit ton of IE users out there still and I'm not willing to hang our product for convenience. Vendor specific code is a
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by pling 12y ago
This is damn annoying. We downloaded a whole set of them and after a bit they all died so you have to download them again periodically. Not a viable solution. In the end we just set up an activated VM (using MSDN licenses) with RDP enabled
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by pling 12y ago
If the objective is to gain by winning then losing players aren't happy. If playing it is the point then it matters less. However most of the rip off games are chance based so playing it isn't relevant.
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by pling 12y ago
Well you're in the same club as most of us. Reminds me of: http://youtu.be/-PSeAfSKQe4
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by pling 12y ago
Well Twitter is where everyone goes now when something is broken. I'm not sure its the right solution but it's part of the way there.
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by pling 12y ago
IRC has always been wonderful in times of trouble. I'm really surprised that people have abandoned it over the last decade. I had to hit IRC when Sept 11th went down because I was stuck in a facility with no television reception and ev
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by pling 12y ago
Yeah it wasn't far off that. If the human race grew out of this disrespect for itself and utmost respect for self-gain, things would be better for everyone. It disgusts me.
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by pling 12y ago
I actually laughed hard at that. Tea nearly came out of my nose. That appears to be how all journalists deal with science these days. It gets views after all. The BBC health news section is the worst with headlines like: Eating broccoli &#x
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by pling 12y ago
Spot on. I did a contract a few years ago for a startup 'gaming' company. They were extracting cash out of people for plays in their games I.e. you buy credit and throw that into nonrefundable plays. In the end if you built up eno
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by pling 12y ago
That's my experience too. Keep losing belts, motors hoses on dyson uprights. Got fed up and bought a Numatic Henry which has been bomb proof.
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by pling 12y ago
Dyson are full of shit like that. Its all wordplay. Another fine example: http://youtu.be/MBEkP_zKKcg (EEVblog)
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by pling 12y ago
Probably a rather geeky thing to say but Star Trek TNG promoted honesty, morality and a strong sense of ethics to me. That IMHO is no different to classic moral stories as the basic premise is the same in some episodes.
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by pling 12y ago
I think it was appropriate. We were violated forcibly without consent or warning.
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by pling 12y ago
We're a chunk of glue that aggregates and monitors financial data. Not related to trading and not real time. We're basically the people who say 'it was him' when someone fucks up.
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by pling 12y ago
What I'm saying is that your product is a fit for the platform when it is an MVP. When you grow, you're locked into an expensive platform. In the short term there is no option of escape because the cost to port it becomes increasi
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by pling 12y ago
Well we were stuck in this... http://blogs.gartner.com/kyle-hilgendorf/2012/03/09/azure-ou... The SLA would have been fine if it was accurate, which it wasn't.
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by pling 12y ago
Just remember that back then your computer was unreliable and your light bulb was reliable. Now your light bulb is unreliable as well as your computer :)
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by pling 12y ago
I would do. There's a sweet spot somewhere and Azure isn't it.
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by pling 12y ago
We have two people who handle all our infrastructure. We still needed two people available to handle all our Azure infrastructure even though they'd spend less time doing things (N+1 failover). Also Microsoft doesn't give a shit i
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by pling 12y ago
I would agree there. There are plenty of API compatible alternatives to AWS services.
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by pling 12y ago
In order of cost: SQL Server, MSDN, Windows Server, Office. We got utterly raped by the SQL 2012 upgrade with the core licensing changes as we have a few 48 core machines. (enough to make us consider PostgreSQL as a serious option now) We&#
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by pling 12y ago
We're not using it other than for internal failovers. We tried to build version two of our product on it. The costs increased rapidly until it was cheaper to buy a 42U and stuff it with HP kit and pay for a fat pipe. The storage was ex
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by pling 12y ago
It is very hard to decouple yourself from the tooling and the platform specific features. The PaaS offering literally requires half of the additional services ad the basic deployment is simple and the IaaS offering is expensive and you need
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by pling 12y ago
This could also be titled "how to enslave your MVP to increasing costs in the future". Azure isn't cheap by any means when you need to scale up our out.
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by pling 12y ago
I think shell performance stopped mattering the moment I dumped my 50MHz SPARC LX for a Sun Ultra 2.
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by pling 12y ago
Yes that's the one. It's perfectly fine. I found that if you have to push it past the limit it's probably the wrong tool for the job and it's time to use Python or Perl or pick something off the shelf and think about mor
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by pling 12y ago
Mode 7 FTW along with all the artists who worked with its limited graphics support. The Mullard SAA5050 will have a special place in my heart forever.
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by pling 12y ago
I still prefer "sh" on BSD (particularly OpenBSD). It doesn't have as many knobs to turn nor as many surprises.
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by pling 12y ago
Proprietary radio stack. Nope. Never should your product be at the mercy of such things.

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