Posts by amanfromarse

Re: Oops, an expensive and unfortunate mistake for some

They're giving refunds for recent purchases.

Re: My own creativity is expressed not through writing plays

@itzman

Your Left/Right comments, thinly-veiled self-aggrandising bollocks.

Intelligent devs are going to use JSP or PHP? Seriously? It's 2016!

Re: Yahoo?

Netflix and Paypal appear to be happy with it.

Re: Are there any techies in the Ministry of Fun (DCMS)?

@LucreLout

>What we should be doing is making extensive use of the directorship disbarment laws...

Absolutely. The only solution, perfectly elucidated.

She's been CEO for 5 years!

They've already commissioned a second series because of the success of the first.

There is so much wrong with this article.

Iron maiden t-shirts? Wtf?

The tech stuff is vetted and all technically possible, if unfeasable. But it's drama, it's OK. It's still a million miles from what's gone before.

Elliott articulate? What? Only in his head. I guess Alastair watched a couple of episodes max.

They acknowledged the fight club influences and twisted and played with them, switching unreliable narrator to narrator taking to himself to narrator talking to the audience.

I'm obviously a fan, but I hated it at first as I thought it was just a fight club rip-off, then I got it.

Too much of the criticism reeks of watched a couple of episodes, Alistair and commentards.

Re: Hmmmm.... Interesting

@cheesytheclown

>As a matter of fact, at this time, most of the top video games on those platforms are written in C#.

Really? Ios and android?

Re: The Abyssmal

>But then 99 percent could probably be found in Aesop and Homer.

Agree 100%

But there is stuff worth watching. Mr Robot?

Re: Full of win

>Ian Duncan Smith has already pointed out that this Labour invention is deeply flawed and plans to scrap it.

Duncan Smith redefines reality on a weekly basis to suit whatever hole he is digging himself out of, so excuse me while I PMSL at any opinion that he holds.

Re: Pyhrric victory

>>People are emotionally disturbed if they have political views that don't line up with yours?

>I think you're being a little unfair there.

No comment required.

>The only labour party members I know celebrating Corbyns win are those too young to remember the 70s - Generation Y and the Millenials.

Know a lot of labour party members, do you?

Re: Nominative Determinism

I could have written your first paragraph about myself, but the second, no.

I used to read several .net blogs, Hanselman, Haack, Conery, Skeet. You really think that they all chase the new shiny? My experience is the opposite of yours and that usually, not always, developers who didn't read .net blogs were 9-5ers.

Re: "Almost certainly"

>The 2 most popular brands of 'e-juice' have been found to contain chemicals that are not safe to be inhaled and those are the ones that are supposed to be legitimate.

Absolute bollocks. You're parrotting tabloid crap.

Re: @Lucrelout

@lucrelout

Piketty has been so widely and thoroughly discredited by now than I'm genuinely surprised to find someone citing him.

Absolutely, completely false. The supposedly flawed figures, which he addressed, did not impact his basic premise.

Re: Om nom nom, tasty bait.

Oh dear.

Re: нет!

Relational and native JSON types.

Re: It's like the sixth form common room

Good luck getting a mortgage with 4 x income multiple and 10% deposit. Even if you find one, the interest rate would be astronomical. The average age for first-time buyers is now 35, according to Money Supermarket. Your original figures were rounded up by about 8k above actual, so forgive me if I take your latest projections with a pinch of salt.

Which age groups are going to get a 5k pay rise then? Your base of 40 hour weeks is not universally attainable, hence the number of people claiming tax credits.

It's pretty tough for a lot of kids at the moment and this budget hasn't helped them at all.

Re: Why do government projects fail?

@Lee D

Not in this case as it's GDS.

Re: Dublin Rape Crisis Centre

You need to calm down.

Postgres..

The licenses are for Oracle ERP not just the db.

Downvoting because

Perhaps they're downvoting you because it's you and they want to see one of your 'how dare you downvote me' tantrums.

Re: You like MS Products

You've decided that the abandoned MS tech debate is limited to .Net only, nobody else has (oh, and you've also decided that Silverlight, VB6 and FoxPro can't be mentioned).

This is a pattern that's built up over decades. I concede that some changes were necessary, but, for example, moving from VBXs to OCXs was of no benefit to devs, resulted in repurchasing for exactly the same functionality and typically introduced more bugs (which I blame on the mess that was OLE2). Killing VB (much as I hated it) was madness. MS had a massive userbase there. MDAC took years to stabilise and encompassed several abandoned technologies.

My definition of 'supported' includes bug-fixes, enhancements and fixing behaviours that are major bug-bears for devs. Your definition of 'supported' seems to correspond to my definition of mothballed. All the big names in Silverlight and WPF dev have moved away, generally to non-MS platforms, because they considered the platforms dead. Are they idiots too?

You also seem to think that code is just going to run on Linux. Have you tried to run anything non-trivial on mono? I don't know how long you've been on the MS stack, but based on my experience the reality for devs never matches the marketing and something as large as making .net cross-platform could take years to stabilise.

I'm already seeing articles on using Nuget to deliver PCLs and platform-specific assemblies. I understand why they're doing it but it still makes me shiver.

Not strictly accurate.

Alan Cooper always struck me as a bit of an egotist.

A different perspective:

http://www.forestmoon.com/birthofvb/birthofvb.html

Re: The King is dead....

I've not used Xamarin, but I have used Android Studio betas.

What advantages does the former have over the latter for Android development?

Re: is it not easier

You earn a shit load more working with traders than you do teaching kids.

However, most kids are OK when taught by a decent teacher, but I've never met a trader who wasn't an irredeemable c***.

More AC pro-MS propaganda.

Why would anybody move from Linux to MS? It just doesn't make sense if they have linux experience.

In my experence, mainly banks, Java systems are nearly always deployed to linux (or other non-MS) servers, although development is frequently on Windows workstations.

>With the wholesale move to Azure going on in the enterprise at the moment

That is utter bollocks.

Re: What do we want from Coders?

Seriously, WTF is a phase diagram?

Re: All things to everyone...

Things you never thought you'd see:

#1 "To quote Slade:"

Well done sir! Made me smile.

Re: Too little too late? don't be preposterous!

It's not absurd, maybe premature.

You have seen the market share for WinPhone and Surface?

>>what kind of moron leaves the wifi enabled on a superhub anyway.

Me.

Do tell what catastrophe awaits me.

Re: JavaScript is code...

Python, yes.

>>If you have an object of type T that you have dynamically allocated and you push a pointer to the object onto a std::vector<T*>, then a copy of the pointer is pushed. If you dereference the pointer and push the result onto a std::vector<T>, then a copy of the object is made. Collections always make copies. So collections of pointers make copies of the pointer and collections of class instances make copies of the instances themselves (using copy construction IIRC).

Realising this, years before SO, and before the STL made it into the standard library, made me quit C++. There was nothing in the STL documentation that suggested this was the case.

So C++, no.