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by randomhunt 11y ago
I travel on a train for a medium length journey 2-4 times a week. In the last 12 months I've noticed that the transition from never seeing a Surface (Pro) to seeing 5-10% of tablets being a Surface (Pro). The vast majority are iPads st
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by randomhunt 11y ago
> I'm well aware that Skype did not change for the better after MS took over While I'm acutely aware of the negative impact various changes had on privacy, cf the leaked documents referencing it, however I'm not sure that
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by randomhunt 11y ago
I only use Windows 10 in a VM for browser testing but I just disable the Windows Update service. I have a PowerShell script which can enable it, hang around and disable it again later which I use when I want to do updates, i.e. when I'
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by randomhunt 11y ago
> The real and politically-incorrect reason for the higher prices is that the cost of doing business is higher in Australia. For example, the minimum wage is very high and consumer protection laws require the company to provide a 2-year
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by randomhunt 11y ago
I'm hoping that Android gets a lot better on the battery usage before that happens in earnest though. I've read they've focused on this recently but I haven't had time to drill into details. I love Windows Phone and have
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by randomhunt 11y ago
In Belgium BASE, which is owned by KPN, do a reasonable deal compared to the others with BASE 0. Its technically a monthly invoiced plan but works as a pay as you go card - you only get charged for what you use. Its basically the same price
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by randomhunt 11y ago
"It's evident from watching these that he is almost without exception the smartest person in every room he's in." Careful...your "idealogical function [is] leaking through"...
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Perhaps re: HN, and if so I apologise for confusion, but for Ninite it's CouldFront (d3doxs0mwx271h.cloudfront.net). I spent a short while investigating if there was an easy way to get it working but ended up just giving up on the site
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Please don't go to Cloudfront, it's truly horrendous (wearing my end user hat) to see so many sites have problems and timeouts because of them. For example Ninite.com moved to them and now the site is virtually unusable because of
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Wouldn't it be ironic if both the established newspaper brand and the Q&A site both used Google advertising...
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Don't you think Win9x would _scream_ on your GS3 though? ;-)
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by randomhunt 13y ago
QNX?
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by randomhunt 13y ago
In The Netherlands a lot have migrated to Nokia Windows Phones. KPN have been doing some very good deals which make the phones free and the contract prices very competitive with a guarantee of a new phone yearly if you migrate from their Bl
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by randomhunt 13y ago
The right tool for the job. I wouldn't try to cut a piece of wood to length by using a hammer. Declarative languages tend to lend themselves to being used at a much higher level, for example easily encoding rules regarding salary payme
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by randomhunt 13y ago
I'm impressed by your ability to ignore good advice and common sense. I presume you haven't been in an organisation where all the hot new things come in and screw things up with this kind of thinking? In general you just get that
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Google has always done this, if really always felt like they're so smug they know better than you. I've been complaining about it for well over a decade, and the reason is I travel a lot for business and hit exactly the problems y
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by randomhunt 13y ago
> The fact they're using Google's attempt to bid for the patents originally against them is even worse That's just lawyering 101...it's a very common thing to do to try and add "weight" to your arguments is
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Microsoft consumer product support is indeed utter crap, but I've found their developer support amazingly good. We had a weird issue with something on Azure, raised the issue and got not only somebody very knowledgeable replying quickl
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Yeah I had the same, I figured out it was more the acceleration that was the problem rather than the cursor movement itself...moving slower than usual meant I could use it without problems.
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by randomhunt 13y ago
I did exactly the same! The Moving Truck icon is inspired...Photoshop could learn a few things ;-)
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by randomhunt 13y ago
I thought one of the changes in later versions of PowerShell was there is now an internal version of wget? I know when I use the gnu one I have use specify "wget.exe" instead of "wget" (Invoke-WebRequest) but I can'
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Maybe he's thinking of the Daily Mail? [1] [1] http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=stree...
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Any idea how you're going to release it? (productise/monetize or open source) I hacked up in the past a temporary solution using PowerPoint running on stripped down older laptops in the foyer and outside meeting rooms in my old co
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Really? I would have thought the group of people taking this rather capitalist route would not be reading a left leaning newspaper like The Guardian. For example its obvious you don't, otherwise you would realise The Guardian has been
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Doesn't that save a version with screwed up formatting though? e.g. logo in the headers missing
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Many years ago towards the beginning of my career proper in technology I first came across the phrase "the September that never ended." Asking a close grey beard he chuckled, explained poetically about newsgroups and finished with
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Yeah this was what I was hoping for as well. Does anybody know when its likely to be released?
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Yeah his reviews are very good. I do feel it would be nice to have a bit of a comparison section at the end though, to discuss some of the more technical details within the operating system landscape. For example timer coalescing/race
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Indeed over the long term modules isn't a bad idea as the interface requirements and discoverability would benefit massively from better tooling, a la optional typing.
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by randomhunt 13y ago
Out of how many of the big ones are using scripting tools/language-to-language translation though? Hint: much more than you seem to be aware of/think. Whether its Google Web Toolkit/Java/C#-to-Javascript generators, Clos

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