unicron

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by unicron 15y ago
I did the same. Plus the education was an expensive proposition that had no return as just about everyone I studied with now understands. I know a qualified BSc mechanical engineer who works in a supermarket for wage scraps.
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by unicron 15y ago
I'd rather build it and see - it's more fun.
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by unicron 15y ago
Perhaps they do not wish to be educated? That is my impression. Don't sort out education, sort out the social stereotypes and cultural issues that turn people into pieces of shit. Education will fix itself then.
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by unicron 15y ago
Hence why all my family members who work in construction have very cheap Nokia phones. The problem is solved. They work in crappy environments, cost $20 to replace (my father in law has 5 of the things in his truck) and last days on a batte
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by unicron 15y ago
Just use a Java EE 6. They got rid of all the horrible bits. It's actually really nice now. Host on Glassfish v2.
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by unicron 15y ago
I viewed the comments just to write what you have. It's like reading CNet. Someone should write an app that turns shitty articles across lots of pages into one page!
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by unicron 15y ago
Two reasons: 1. It's bloody slow. Well it is here in the UK. Even Bing is orders of magnitude faster. 2. It's now expensive.
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by unicron 15y ago
> forced by a family member to be a Windows support desk, you have my pity.... Thank you - it's nice to know there are people out there thinking about us :(
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by unicron 15y ago
I reckon that "drug induced microkernel" was a stab at Tanenbaum :-)
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by unicron 15y ago
> Being able to have non-techies run Fabric tasks is definitely a goal that's passed me fleetingly in the night. Isn't that equipping monkeys with guns? We all know what happens when you do that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AabGdnTx
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by unicron 15y ago
Tempted to stick it inside my BBC master case and run BeebEm on it :)
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by unicron 15y ago
It's good but it's hard to skip large spans i.e. years.
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by unicron 15y ago
Well we should obviously NEVER EVER use any LISP derivatives (car/cdr/cons). These sort of articles make me sigh. They are narrow minded and miss the point that everything is a compromise and choosing the right compromise is the art, not a
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by unicron 15y ago
Take Trac, stick that in jpython on top of the JVM and you're done!
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by unicron 15y ago
> Let me finish on some faint praise: they are by FAR the least worse of all the 'enterprise' software we use :-) That's like saying "they're the least bad rapist". I do agree though!
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by unicron 15y ago
Four words: "You shouldn't have to". Unfortunately, due this responsibility being approximately 5% of my time, I don't have time to invest in to-and-fro with Atlassian. I expect something to work (ironically like Trac did - its predecessor)
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by unicron 15y ago
I wouldn't want to be saved by them :)
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by unicron 15y ago
Adn they ruined it hence my original point.
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by unicron 15y ago
Hm I bed to differ. Have you ever used C#?
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by unicron 15y ago
I've seen this many times. Mainly due to burnout. Some of the more fast paced "big consultancies" in the UK tend to do this to their staff (I'd name names but I'd get sued) resulting in resentment towards employment. They literally beat eve
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by unicron 15y ago
Unfortunately yes. Someone please save me (I'm serious there!)
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by unicron 15y ago
Crucible/fisheye - slow. I mean really slow. Unusably slow both with respect to the UI and back end. Half our team use IE which it just doesn't work in at all. Chrome is the only thing it just about crawls along in. Incredibly difficult ke
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by unicron 15y ago
Another product about to be ruined... (I'm not an Atlassian fan)
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by unicron 15y ago
WRT scalability - it's scaling UI components over time. I build large complicated metadata driven applications and it's quite hard to compose an application on the fly. Agree with performance. I hope WinRT is better. I have little faith bas
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by unicron 15y ago
Doesn't scale up as well as win32/GDI. Requires much faster kit with graphic hardware acceleration to run (we had to bin about 200 Matrox Parhelia cards and replace with hefty NVidia cards to make use of hardware acceleration where GDI was
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by unicron 15y ago
Similar! I was using Debian on a compaq dual 200MHz Pentium Pro desktop until about '02. I was pretty much 100% of the time on the shell so I really didn't need anything more. Mutt for email, irssi for IRC, links for browser, vi for the edi
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by unicron 15y ago
That's because your MacBook Pro is poorly designed. I had the same problem with mine. One reason I sold it - impossible to sit with it on my lap. Another example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AZzPZ0kjyk I now had a ThinkPad X220 which
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by unicron 15y ago
It's just a fancy thread pool/task queue with a fugly syntax extension not some magic unicorn that poops rainbows. Java/C# don't need a language extension - the functionality exists outside the semantic boundary of the language. Another cl
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by unicron 15y ago
I've put together a few things with Objective C over the years dating back to OSX 10.1 (yuck PB sucked then) to iOS. Most ended up being ported to Java or C#. The syntax IS absolutely horrible if you ask me as it results in crazily verbose
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by unicron 15y ago
That's down to WPF which is a total pile of shit to be honest (having spent the last 3 years with it). It's nothing to do with the language.

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