seanx

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by seanx 14y ago
There was a book on this a few years back: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140167129/jimloyshom...
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by seanx 14y ago
Sony Duo 11. I have one as my primary dev machine and it works pretty well + I can play Civ 5 on the plane.
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by seanx 14y ago
Well there is me. I wanted a dev machine that I could use as a desktop, laptop or occasional tablet. I ended up with a Sony Vaio Duo which is pretty good at what I want. Or there is my (leaving) boss who has a laptop, desktop and iPad but
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by seanx 14y ago
How the hell can a doctors visit run to $800?
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by seanx 14y ago
I'd drop serious dollars on one of these if it had more ram and storage.
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by seanx 14y ago
Windows 8 supports multitouch trackpads on new computers. Many older laptops can also get gesture support with the correct drivers. My 18 month old laptop has pinch support + all the edge swipe gestures.
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by seanx 14y ago
For our CEO and GM, that's true. Add a citrix client and it could be an only computer for the rest of our staff except for me.
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by seanx 14y ago
This post would have made a lot more sense if I had the slightest idea who any of the sports players or teams were.
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by seanx 14y ago
Driving to ski fields will be fun:)
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by seanx 14y ago
A friend of mine had $3m stolen by his business partner who simply wrote out $500k cheques and took them to the bank. The bank oked the cheques despite knowing that he had no signing authority. Once it all came to light, the bank then sued
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by seanx 14y ago
Could you do this with a high strength magnetic ring?
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by seanx 14y ago
Your blog doesn't support comments. Is that a feature too? As a developer I sympathise, but as a user I don't. I can understand not supporting IE 6 and 7, but not supporting 8 and 9 is not a feature, it's a lack of feature. It's saying th
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by seanx 15y ago
For all you ever wanted to know about removing drm: http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/
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by seanx 15y ago
Win Phone 7 Mango (should be released later this month, can get it now if you know where to look) has an IE9 based browser that supports html 5 etc
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by seanx 15y ago
The moment a decent windows 8 tablet comes out, the iPads in our company will be gone.
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by seanx 15y ago
The thing is that you will have a choice. I'll be able to get a 17" hex core, dual HD power machine while my wife/kids can have a arm powered tablet. Both machines will be able to run the same metro apps. Personally, I like power tablets.
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by seanx 15y ago
I have come to the conclusion that 0 based indexing is basically building "off by one errors" as a language feature. The fact that for(int i = 0; i < length; i++) is nicer than for(int i = 1; i <= length; i++) is irrelevant. The c
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by seanx 15y ago
It's different in new Zealand. If you don't like the waiting list you can have private insuanace or pay yourself for a private hospital. We did this when my wife had a melanoma. Waiting list was 3 months (non urgent) so we went private.
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by seanx 15y ago
Australia requires a different version of many games because it has more stringent age ratings. This means that a separate distribution agreement is required for Oz (and thus for new Zealand because the Yanks can't tell us apart). This tr
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by seanx 15y ago
If driverless cars start reducing the car road toll then motorbikes will start to look really dangerous:(. I suppose we could get self driving motorbikes but that would be missing the point of riding.
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by seanx 15y ago
IIUI Anders isn't suggesting that null isn't necessary, but that you should be able to say in code: this type does not allow nulls (or this type does allow nulls). We have this with value types, int or int?, but not with reference types.
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by seanx 15y ago
>> WinPho is bad Win Phone is fantastic but incomplete. I.e. not all the api's are there but the bits that are there work well. I haven't used the latest xcode, but when I was developing for iPhone (2-3 years ago), it was god awful
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by seanx 15y ago
Why USA only? Makes it unusable for me:(.
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by seanx 15y ago
And if delphi had complete GC, i would probably still be using it for new projects.
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by seanx 15y ago
> I like simplicity. Simplicity tends to perform well, and being simple also means it has little space for problems. I like simplicity in my code, I am far less concerned about simplicity in the underlying libraries that I use. GC makes
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by seanx 15y ago
Personally, I'm not an android, or open source, advocate. I don't use it at the moment and I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to someone else. All the phone oses I have have used are flawed to some extent and picking one is a matter of d
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by seanx 15y ago
"The majority of skilled developers prefer Macs or Linux." Do you have any data to back that up or is it just an uninformed opinion? In my experience the majority of skilled developers use windows but I wouldn't try to extrapolate from my
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by seanx 15y ago
Gruber is an Apple fundamentalist, preaching to the choir. There is only one true way and all facts will be interpreted or ignored in favour of that way. Dissension is not allowed in his church, if you disagree with what he says then do so
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by seanx 15y ago
Open is not a bool, it's a float. Android may not be "open" but it is still far more open than IOS.
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by seanx 16y ago
Also, some recent MS libraries for .net are released as open source (e.g. MVC) and consequently work just fine on Mono when released.

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