thepp1983

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by thepp1983 8y ago
Well I have a stalker. Lies. BSODs are Kernel panics. These happen in every OS. They can be caused by failing hardware, iffy drivers etc. Are you going to claim that you never had hardware fail? never had a dodgy capacitor on a video card?
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by thepp1983 8y ago
Oh great a comment pyramid. I am not going to answer this point by point because I will be here for the next few days. > Meanwhile, millions of Linux users have no problems with Steam or Dropbox. But you have unspecified problems, and th
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by thepp1983 8y ago
> You confuse your subjective experience with the overall picture. No it is a common complaint that has been happening for years (over a decade) with all manner of consumer laptops. > The list of devices which kernel does support is n
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by thepp1983 8y ago
1) The problem is that not every company has the resources to maintain its own fork of the code base. Some of us are one man bands, work in quite small teams of less than 3 or 4 developers. This idea that people have the resources to mainta
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by thepp1983 8y ago
This attitude is just an excuse to hand wave away genuine criticism of shoddy engineering. After yesterday's NPM fiasco sorry but it is your project. You should fix the problems or don't release it out in the world.
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by thepp1983 8y ago
> That's preposterous. If you downloaded a random MSI marked "Windows [your version]", installed it on Windows [your version], and it crashed, you wouldn't blame Microsoft. No. This is the fundamental misunderstanding
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by thepp1983 8y ago
> This is a problem with Slack, not with Linux. This the attitude I always get and it stinks. I have sitting on my desk at home an Amiga 1200 (released in 1994). I can download a lha archive with a program in it, extract it and run it. A
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by thepp1983 8y ago
> You are contradicting yourself here. No I am not. I was just saying that the only thing I've hadn't have work out of the box was some dodgy PCI card from China. It is literally the only thing in the last ten years that wasn&#
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by thepp1983 8y ago
It doesn't work well OOTB. This is just incorrect. I've been using Linux/Unix for about 20 years now. There are still loads of things that just do not work and I really expect them to work. I am not talking about specialist h
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by thepp1983 8y ago
The problem is not whether YOU use the advanced features. It is whether someone else does. I generally don't require any better than Markdown and for larger documents I just LaTeX. However I am normally sent work documents with all sor
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by thepp1983 8y ago
None of the parties that are involved in Linux actually care one iota about the desktop. At best it is a side project. It is phones, servers and embedded, Only a very small percentage of what is a shrinking market uses it uses it on the des
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by thepp1983 8y ago
Firstly Be above the politics. Do your job and just be yourself and be nice and polite to your work mates. You lack communication. When you get a crap spec like the ones you have obviously got. You should reject it with the exact reasons wh
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by thepp1983 8y ago
A slight aside. I had a really good coding assignment once. It simply said "Make a working clone of this webpage, zip it up and file it to us". I could have just nicked the jQuery code (this was before a lot of the frameworks have
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by thepp1983 8y ago
In my general experience. I think with younger men in their twenties it can be a little difficult if management lets them get away with being a bit too unprofessional. They wanna prove themselves so sometimes a bit too much testorone in the
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by thepp1983 8y ago
TBH mate. It seems you are incapable of having a sensible discussion about any of this. You seem to use your own definitions to words that don't match up with any sensible term that can be found online anywhere and then claim I haven&#
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by thepp1983 8y ago
Critiques of Capitalism was specifically mentioned, Marx is pretty much the most influential one. Capitalism has brought a huge population of the world out of poverty in the last century. Wars over resources isn't capitalism, most star
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by thepp1983 8y ago
I normally just wanna hack out a problem first, work out for myself what the short comings is with my first approach and then make all the relative changes.
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by thepp1983 8y ago
If the test is like that I have zero interest in working there. This is for two reasons 1. I don't like silly games in interviews. You aren't respecting me or my time before I am working for you, you aren't likely to while I
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by thepp1983 8y ago
Programming culture is not hypertoxic. Maybe it is in the United States in the UK pretty much everyone just sits down and gets on with it.
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by thepp1983 8y ago
Personally I can't stand these tests either. I normally complete them fine. However I've been to job interviews where they force me to code live in front of several people and I couldn't get half a line of code out before one
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by thepp1983 8y ago
> Yes, it's a feature of the real world system for which the term capitalism was coined by it's 19th Century critics, and it's been a prominent feature of every real example (including, to a varying extent, the modern mixe
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by thepp1983 8y ago
> Crony capitalism is an economy in which businesses thrive not as a result of risk, but rather as a return on money amassed through a nexus between a business class and the political class. No crony capitalism is not a feature of capita
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by thepp1983 8y ago
Also as I previously replied to your original statement capitalism != corporatism. The large tech companies should have been broken up about 5 years ago. The only reason that any of us have job is because capitalists in the 70s and 80s popu
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by thepp1983 8y ago
Capitalism != Corporatism. We have a problem with corporatism not capitalism. Please learn the difference.
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by thepp1983 8y ago
Ximian and then Xamarin implemented it with Mono. Yes I am sure that it takes a lot of time, but anyone who is willing and able can do it there is no-one stopping anyone from doing it. The spec is open, the source code for pretty much every
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by thepp1983 8y ago
In a weird way I kinda like these totally mental systems. It really ups your skill level for debugging if nothing else. I've worked with lots of proprietary CMS systems and I kinda got into a groove with working with them. I knew exact
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by thepp1983 8y ago
Scott Hanselman is a workaholic. He is also very evasive at answering questions directly if it isn't politically expedient. I have noticed this both in a few email correspondences I've personally had with him and through his comme
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by thepp1983 8y ago
We had a developer meeting a few weeks before he left the company and he said "I designed the system in the pub" ... I like my beers but this guy was on another level.
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by thepp1983 8y ago
I don't believe that for one second considering the hacks that Facebook has had to do around the limitations of PHP.
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by thepp1983 8y ago
LOL. The long as short of it as a contractor I have to get it done. It will be probably me making the changes later and I make sure I put these things called comments in. Also developers pretending code quality is an either or proposition i

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