rjempson

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by rjempson 11y ago
Awesome news. Hopefully it will render herbicides useless.
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by rjempson 11y ago
I think I just witnessed the day Hacker News died. This thread is appalling, much like the article. I'm no Windows apologist, but the article was a ramble about windows 8 with a paragraph tacked on the end, and the comments here are
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by rjempson 11y ago
I wonder what he is talking about. I recently created a script that can build our whole cloud based test environment from scratch. It creates the servers, downloads and installs the platforms, builds and deploys our software. Maybe he is
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by rjempson 11y ago
Here is an idea, sometimes it is a good idea to look inwards rather than outwards.
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by rjempson 11y ago
She won the lottery.
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by rjempson 12y ago
Much like tattoos.
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by rjempson 12y ago
Or they could just make sure the have a good spidey collection.
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by rjempson 12y ago
I should watch that movie, could be amusing. However I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I don't think the study reached a conclusion as to how many children someone might have, merely that the sperm quality was higher&#x2F
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by rjempson 13y ago
Are you saying no game is relevant if there is a more difficult game (and that is assuming what you say is true or even provable)? And as someone who has played 100's of hours of both Starcraft and tournament chess, I can assure you t
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by rjempson 13y ago
I am just wondering whether you can write your own wrapper class that implements (exposes) the read method and doesn't expose a close method (or expose a close method that does nothing) and pass that in? I am not suggesting this is a g
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by rjempson 13y ago
I don't like LinkedIn for similar reasons but I somehow feel I will offend people if I drop out, and I have had some decent leads from it over the years. The import contacts feature is particularly nefarious, it says "import" but it actuall
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by rjempson 13y ago
I think this comment is even more naive than the game UI comment. Excel has one of most complex UIs in existence. I seem to recall reading once there are many 100s of developers on that team.
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by rjempson 13y ago
I don't really get your point. Its obvious that game developers would produce better interfaces / experiences, because that is what they are selling. Enterprises are selling a product or service, and the customer paying the bills doesn't s
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by rjempson 13y ago
Nothing like broad sweeping generalizations to make a good story. I have a few points to make : 1. End users have an incredible ability to complain that software doesn't meet their very specific and peculiar requirements at any point in tim
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by rjempson 13y ago
I think this has parallels with the saying "I'm not young enough to save the world".
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by rjempson 13y ago
Buyer's pride perhaps?
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by rjempson 13y ago
This is an example of why analogies should never be used (except perhaps if trying to explain a concept, not something tangible). ATM software has nothing to do with the backend storage of the data. My point is that I bet when the data is
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by rjempson 13y ago
I can't read the article, probably a HN DOS. However, I really can't see the point of doing DRM in html5, it will just result in browsers becoming the equivalent of the evil plugin everyone hates(only certain browsers/platforms will be able
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by rjempson 13y ago
Calling "copyright protection" a straw-man is in itself a straw-man.
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by rjempson 13y ago
Nothing sucks in readers like a bit of Microsoft Schadenfreude. The may as well have implied the electricity powering the computers was to blame.
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by rjempson 13y ago
Nice headline, but I can't see what this has to do with Excel.
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by rjempson 13y ago
You are right that it was a generalization, however you are pretty much arguing the same point as the author. I remember seeing a matrix/graph in a book, maybe 'code complete' or some other popular book. It basically had complexity on the
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by rjempson 13y ago
What happens if the data has spaces in it or new lines in it? in other words, how do you escape a space / new line?
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Sony Launches Worlds Fastest Personal Internet in Japan(escapistmagazine.com)
2 points by rjempson 13y ago|1 comments
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by rjempson 13y ago
On a tangent, where the author says "Have you ever seen anyone play Angry Birds on a desktop?", funnily enough I have. My 5yo son has played a lot of angry birds on my phone, 3 stars on all levels of space. then last xmas someone gave him
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by rjempson 14y ago
They are going to call it iNanny
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by rjempson 14y ago
That is why some organizations don't allow adhoc data fixes to be run in production. Best practice is to backup the database, run the fix against the backup, test the fix against the backup, and all being well run the fix against productio
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by rjempson 14y ago
I'm sure this article is most interesting to those that would never buy a Microsoft product. Spurious.
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by rjempson 14y ago
err : A$1099 * 1.04 = US$1142
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by rjempson 14y ago
Yes, it must be the case that not every child loves preschool. And I would expect parents to deal with it at the individual level, so if a particular child found it traumatic then the parents should trust their instincts and withdraw the c

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