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by togusa 11y ago
Yep that's horrible whatever the basis for it is.
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by togusa 11y ago
Oh wow that's just horrible. I wish I hadn't looked now!
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by togusa 11y ago
It does but as you say due to the emperor's new clothes every few years, the loyalty isn't there now. I know of no companies doing greenfield desktop dev that are using any of their tech. It's all Qt, CEF, python/wx and
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by togusa 11y ago
Yep definitely the worst thing ever. Not just that though; everything. I've lost so much hair in the last few months over trying to get a CD environment up on windows.
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by togusa 11y ago
Shareholders.
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by togusa 11y ago
Because people would build for that instead of Win32.
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by togusa 11y ago
Hell yes. Watching packer shit a brick 5 times a day trying to upload virtualbox guest additions via WinRM makes me want this yesterday. Also I had to up the memory ceiling on WinRM to 800Mb (WTF!) to even get it to complete.
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by togusa 11y ago
Yep. Java looks good on paper, is mature, has good libraries, good IDEs and good support but boy is it painful to write it in any large quantity.
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by togusa 11y ago
They place restrictive rights on the usage of the software and retain the ability to revoke your license. BSD does not, ergo it is different.
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by togusa 11y ago
Makes sense. Bet it's a Broadcom NIC if it is. Those things are nothing but trouble. I have no idea why HP ship them in their mid-high end kit.
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by togusa 11y ago
Why use sqlite when you can invent something new which has no concurrency semantics and eats up inodes?
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by togusa 11y ago
No it says nothing of the sort.
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by togusa 11y ago
Versus BSD: Whatever, just remember we wrote it and if it fucks up, don't blame us.
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by togusa 11y ago
Don't worry there's still plenty of wrong out there to be ( www.abovetopsecret.com )
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by togusa 11y ago
Definitely. My mother has a 3gb cap on her broadband every month and this is going to basically break it. Fuck them for even daring to do this. It's authoritarian arrogance, nothing more.
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by togusa 11y ago
It's even worse for some enterprise with VL agreements like us. We have a 1 year window to get everyone on windows 10 from the release date. Needless to say a few macs and centos boxes have made an appearance and everyone suddenly know
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by togusa 11y ago
I do a lot of voluntary support on reddit. There are literally 10 people a day who this breaks for just on there.
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by togusa 11y ago
If only they did this in the UK. Although when I went through school, A level mathematics didn't even touch anything past polynomials and physics didn't go much past classical mechanics and energy. Now they're all over calcul
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by togusa 11y ago
They also had full VAX 11/780 clones! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron_K_1840 Oh and wonderful art ( http://imgur.com/GPPI56E ) but that's another topic.
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by togusa 11y ago
I've used 7, 8 and 10 extensively. Windows 8.1 with Classic Shell's start menu is the sweet spot at the moment if you ask me. It has the explorer and task manager additions that windows 8 brought in, boots faster than 7 and doesn&
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by togusa 11y ago
> Yes. You can downgrade Windows 10 to whatever you installed it on top of. This doesn't work in a huge number of situations. It just reports failure.
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by togusa 11y ago
I agree. This is the fourth major issue. Firstly they told everyone that they're not going to fully describe updates any more. Then there was the whole telemetry thing. This was closely followed by a test update was pushed out recently
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by togusa 11y ago
My EE professor said to me once: "Quantum electrodynamics and shit. I'm not a physicist." I wasn't all that impressed with that answer until many years later after reading Feynman lectures.
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by togusa 11y ago
Bollocks.
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by togusa 11y ago
For reference, Gamma Group are a well known bunch of evil bastards in the UK. Nothing they do is considered honorable. Literally nothing. They also pretty much have a license to do what the hell they like under government mandate as a lot o
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by togusa 11y ago
That's ok if you have a known good baseline configuration. In that case it's no different to say a Dockerfile. However the config management stuff seems to come to light when you've got a mess on your hands and need to ration
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by togusa 11y ago
I thought this was why things like the big end ThinkPad W-series exists? I still run 3-4 VMs at the same time on my ancient X201 on Hyper-V.
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by togusa 11y ago
Britain doesn't surrender. It just wallows in indifference ignoring laws and then promptly loses its shit when something is inconvenient.
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by togusa 11y ago
Err but old Ben's quote is invalid here. We didn't surrender, nor did we vote for this, nor did we want this, nor did we expect this, nor do we have any power to stop it or prevent it from being introduced.
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by togusa 11y ago
Well there goes democracy.

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