smithjchris

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by smithjchris 17y ago
Typical HN attitude. Head up arse.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Actually I think people spend more time raping people than using .net at the weekends: http://www.google.com/trends?q=rape%2C+.net&ctab=0&g...
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Precisely my problem... apathetic developers!
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Most "industry" developers can barely use Subversion. How are they supposed to handle Git?
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Err malloc, free, pthreads are all abstractions and are not black box generally. You can look in them and find out what the hell is going on if you need to. C is great at networking (sockets), concurrency (pthreads), security (brain) and r
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by smithjchris 17y ago
The problem with a university education is that it is becoming less relevant. A formal education doesn't necessarily teach people to deliver software, which is critical for the captialist society we live in to operate. A monoculture is see
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Me neither. Sounds like words for the sake of words.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
You need to understand C to understand how Ruby works via observation. Observation and reverse-engineering visually is more important than you think. Understanding programs and being at one with them is the true path to enlightenment, not
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by smithjchris 17y ago
I agree entirely with this. I am not intending to start a flame war here, but this is how I see it: My rationale is that C/C++-based software powers nearly of all computer CPU cycles these days either directly or indirectly. From mobile ph
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by smithjchris 17y ago
That is precisely the idea. And it works. How do you think 90% of the legal and accountancy firms in London work?
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Just like Aids....
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by smithjchris 17y ago
I think the people who buy enterprise software should read this. It's about "how to get raped" and can teach you some policies to counter things like this. They also forgot: Try doing a cash back-hander to the CTO, which is considered almo
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by smithjchris 17y ago
The menu REALLY pisses me off. It's like being buggered by a traffic cone.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Nearly fell off my chair laughing. Thank you :-)
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Confirmation that we, in the UK, are fucked.
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CA eTrust antivirus destroys things, then commits suicide.(dynamoo.com)
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by smithjchris 17y ago
XML is definitely not a programming language. It's not turing complete.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
From experience (my sister-in-law and a couple of other family members), they have a high return rate. People expect them to behave like a full blown laptop but they don't.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
At the risk of being ridiculed because it's not trendy: C#, ASP.Net Web Forns and SQL Server 2008. It's all down to the tools for me.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
I was just stating that Theo will undoubtably turn up with some hilarity. He will most likely end up whipping the anoncvs mirror administrators into shape. I do agree with the article. At the end of the day, it's about as bad as people who
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Idiot. Wait for Theo to comment on this one. It's surely be a laugh.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
We do it the other way round to your suggestion. SQL Server + NHibernate does handle the CRUD stuff, custom fields and DDD-based domain logic very well. NoSQL (CouchDB in our case) doesn't handle transactions, locking and business rules eff
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by smithjchris 17y ago
I think he's moaning because he's in the SEO business. Basically, his entire working knowledge is shattered by a viable Google alternative. Now he's got to understand two ways of working (PageRank vs whatever Bing uses). I think that has
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Particularly when you go "against the grain" on here. If I dare say anything negative about LISP, Emacs, the environment or business mentality, I get shot down straight away.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
How can it be a fact if it's not substantiated? It's all down to opinion, which I chose to share. Now some replies which are all my opinion again. a) All my keybindings are approximately vim-like. Mutt uses vim as an editor. I use the mou
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Emacs is for people who want to have a versatile do-it-all environment. Vim is for people who want to process text efficiently. Typically, software with such a high level of integration sucks. It's a collection of mediocre tools rather tha
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by smithjchris 17y ago
First thing I do is configure the backup software! It defies belief that a lot of people don't consider this in these guides.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Terrible HCI. Another form of mystery meat. Giving some people jQuery is like giving a monkey a gun.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Lovely project. Wish I had the patience for that (and a nice logic analyser). By the time I'd started at university, it was all FPGAs, HDL and simulation. A shame really. The nearest I ever got was a pure TTL digital clock.
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by smithjchris 17y ago
Looks like it has too many points of failure i.e. the design ultimately sacrifcies rigidity and strength for convenience. Bicycles have to be extremely strong, or this happens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe6KqdJndcU I'll stick to my

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