experts-exchange, you mean. They eventually realised.
Posts made by trithne
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RE: What's killing off "gameified" communities (yes I made a post of my tweets, suck it)
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RE: Windows 10 Upgrade to be Free as in Beer (if you don't have an MS account, come in here and @blakeyrat will give you $50)
Some of us like stability.
That said I'm still going to give 10 a shot, but I don't see an issue with staying with the OS that meets your needs. I transitioned to Win7 because I liked the new features, not because it was new (XP's looming EOL was also a factor, but not one I was overly bothered by)
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RE: Visual Studio 2013 update WTFs
To use MonoGame effectively you need to install XNA anyway, because the MonoGame people still haven't gotten the Content Pipeline to work without it.
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RE: Just realized, web apps mean....
Pretty sure we went over Citrix here once before, but goddamn Citrix is a blight. I absolutely love the overhead it adds to every single thing and inability to interface with our local scanners.
'Computing Power is so cheap now! Every workstation can do whatever it needs quickly, and locally! How do we leverage this?'
'Centralise everything to run on a single overworked server somewhere on the other side of the country while all the local processing power sits idle, and then wonder why our single point of failure keeps failing' -
RE: Products for Dumb Suckers
Hush. I don't know where that L came from but it's here to stay now.
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RE: Products for Dumb Suckers
On the other hand, someone says 'Chocolately' in a technical context and I think of the Package Manager, so it's doing its job.
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RE: Don't try to move Steam on *NIX
And yet, I'd be willing to bet that anything you downloaded with the Steam Workshop will still be there.
Workshop files are kept somewhere stupid, and unsubscribing from something only tells Steam to stop keeping it up to date. There is no 'Delete this Item' option anywhere in Steam.
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RE: New Masters Program in Software Engineering
I would suggest learning hg instead of svn, though
What little tinkering I've done with VCS has been using BitBucket, and I don't recall offhand if I was using it in Git or Mercurial style. I think Mercurial, but I could be wrong, as it's all at home and I am not. It really just comes down to everything I've worked on has been a solo gig, and while VCS can be very good to have even solo (I kinda wish I'd been using it while doing some things that I've then had to roll back), I've never needed to. A poor excuse, but one nonetheless.
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RE: The thread of movie titles and absence of badges. In previous episodes, it was signs you're getting older, chiropractic vs. medicine, atheism vs. Mormonism and religion vs. science with no existentialism nor philosophy thrown in
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
I once had a debate with someone who used that line, except he thought it stopped at the word "things".
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RE: New Masters Program in Software Engineering
I'm liking this
threadtopic, if only because it's helping to show me where the gaps in my own knowledge are.Being largely self-taught in C# and SQL, it sounds like I should brush up on my Python (which I've been meaning to do but putting off for months now anyway), and get into the habit of using Svn (which is another thing that's been on the agenda).
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RE: Don't try to move Steam on *NIX
That certainly inspires confidence in me to move my Steam library to my *Nix machine.
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RE: Ask the entrepreneurs advice
Unity actually does have its own IDE, in a manner of speaking. You can work around it by just making calls to the relevant libraries etc, but Unity falls somewhere between game engine and map editor.
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RE: Ask the entrepreneurs advice
...the "indie game engine" market is a little crowded. I guess I need to find something Unity can't do...
Make sense.
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RE: The thread of movie titles and absence of badges. In previous episodes, it was signs you're getting older, chiropractic vs. medicine, atheism vs. Mormonism and religion vs. science with no existentialism nor philosophy thrown in
My partner is Chinese. Her father is a medical professional, mostly in dialysis. He's also a very large proponent of a lot of alternative medicines, traditional Chinese herbalism, magnets, all that stuff. Cultural Inertia is a very powerful force.
Fortunately he keeps it out of the hospital.
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RE: Microsoft insider on why Microsoft sucks (and rocks)
My name has way too many 'n's in it, so my signature eventually became a sine wave.
But signatures simply aren't the assurance of identity that they used to be: They change over time anyway, and in the modern era of digitisation, far too easy to replicate.
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RE: Encryption: Lets ban it, what can go wrong?
Here's a few more things which could be banned in the interests of straightforward communication:
Compression.
Binary file formats.
Unnecessary use of Unicode éntities.
Use of metaphor.
Sarcasm.
Being mean to politicians.My VISA card number is 1234 5678 90AB CDEF. I have nothing to hide and nothing to fear!
Anonymity and Pseudonyms are currently popular targets.
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RE: The thread of movie titles and absence of badges. In previous episodes, it was signs you're getting older, chiropractic vs. medicine, atheism vs. Mormonism and religion vs. science with no existentialism nor philosophy thrown in
Another one for getting older...skin tags. I can deal with all the rest, but skin tags are the height of annoyance.
Thankfully I don't get then anywhere visible. Unfortunately, I get them in my armpits, where they get sore when I exercise.
Those bloody things. Those and Kidney Stones are my big annoyances over the last 5 years or so.
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RE: Finance
Not an option. A bachelor's isn't a perk like it used to be, but in most professions an employer won't even care to interview you without it.
Actually, scratch that. You need a master's.
Which of course will lead to a generation who are going to stay in school until they're nearly 30 and will come out with no actual experience in how things work and a lot of theory on how they think things work.
Oh, that's now. Whoops.
I went to University to get out of a social and career rut. Didn't finish, dropped it halfway. It did wonders for getting me out of a shitty lifestyle though. Didn't even study CS, did Linguistics.
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RE: Lessons in EOL
Pretty sure 2000 pro or NT4 workstation where not server releases. They where however business only not consumer like 9x or XP
I don't actually remember how or why, but I came into personal possession of Windows 2000 at the time of relevance and used it as my home OS for some years, despite XP being around too. I mostly just recall spending a while convincing Win2K to cooperate with DirectX.
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RE: Visual Studio 2013 update WTFs
When I switched to VS 2013 Community, I decided to do it the clean way - Removed VS2010 completely first. I faff around with XNA a lot, and everything I could find on forcing XNA into 2013 required the updated WP8 Emulator, which I apparently couldn't install because Windows 7. In the end I had to reinstall VS2010, install XNA, copy XNA into VS2013 and change some numbers, then uninstall VS2010 again to get it working.
(I could just stop using XNA, but fuck that)
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RE: Debugging doesn't work like I want it to!
This is what makes me glad I'm self taught and I'm just here to get a stupid fancy piece of paper.
Ugh. I dread the idea of having to go and get the fancy paper. I have a suspicion I'll actually get worse as a result.
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RE: Lessons in EOL
I'm not really seeing those excerpts as patronising. Rather matter-of-fact, really.
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RE: $10 PROVES this is a Paid Job
But the best thing about those Nigerian Princes is that the last monarch of Nigeria was Queen Elizabeth II, so apparently all these spam mails are coming from... Prince Charles?
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RE: Unique datetime
I'd be talking to the client; not posting about it here.
our interactions are proxied by sales and account management goons
I gather that Weng is working at a place where the programmers don't get to talk to the client. Sales staff are frequently not inclined to listen to why something doesn't work, and just expect you to make it work.
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RE: Unique datetime
Why don't you just overwrite the file?
Because generally I try to avoid giving the Client an excuse to shriek like a banshee at me.
"It's according to Spec" just gets "You should know better"
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RE: Microsoft now takes bitcoin
I have come to the conclusion the internet is full of failed Economics graduates, based on the popularity of cryptocurrencies and people who spend hours in MMOs playing the market.
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RE: Unique datetime
My gut response is to go the 'throttle the jobs to 1 per minute' route, but if a throughput of > 1/min is expected, then start viciously leaning on sales to tell them their shit stinks. Or find a way to tell them their shit stinks directly.
Filed Under: I was under the impression they hired us for our skills, Apparently those skills do not include knowing why your shit won't work
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RE: Microsoft now takes bitcoin
there's something about a currency that is all but impossible to trace that means people want to get their hands on it
Novelty.
The only people who really benefited from cryptocurrencies were manufacturers of FPUs.
And a few who got in on the ground floor and cashed out.
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RE: And back out
Bots are much less entertaining than using poorly-implemented functionality in interesting ways.
Also while threads and the front page are now legible, profiles are not:
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RE: Typical C++ Bullshit (TRIGGER WARNING: contains C++)
Skyrim felt particularly bad for this, but Skyrim was clearly designed around being played on a controller. Earlier games didn't have that problem.
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RE: Typical C++ Bullshit (TRIGGER WARNING: contains C++)
As a hobbyist game developer, I'm curious - are these concerns just as valid today?
IIRC, the XBone and PS4 are both running on bog-standard x86(-64?) architectures, as does the XB360, it was just the PS3 that was
a complete mutant.
If those are your target platforms, code as if you were planning to run the game on one of those 'gaming laptop' things.
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RE: From my friend who works in IT at a school, here are some screenshots of PDFs:
If scaling factor is whole number, it shouldn't be issue. Unless you have yo-momma-waist-inches screen. Or if scaling factor isn't whole number, naturally.
1920/1080 = 1.777777.....
2560/1600 = 1.6That might be it.
(Yes, I'm not running at true 4K because my current video card apparently caps out at 2560*1600, which I didn't check ahead of time. I have arranged for a better video card for the upcoming gift-giving festivities to fix that issue)
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RE: Cards Against Humanity is like if I got control of a successful e-commerce site
Has anyone ever intentionally called you the wrong pronouns?
Not intentionally, but I also don't go around asking people to refer to me using bun/bun/bunself.
An extreme example, yes.
But if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it asking to be called a goose doesn't make it one.
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RE: From my friend who works in IT at a school, here are some screenshots of PDFs:
I can't imagine how much you can improve over YouTube's 1080p in image quality
I have a 4K monitor. I can't full-screen Youtube videos anymore because they look like pixelated arse.
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RE: Congratulations on your glorious four hours of downtime
Navajo Nation
Maybe I just play too much Shadowrun, but I keep expecting this to turn into "And then they annexed Arizona".
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RE: Congratulations on your glorious four hours of downtime
It would be nice if they would clearly and easily show how Community differs from Professional, but the quick glance at a comparison chart I saw when I got the Community edition didn't show anything meaningful.
**Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community:** - Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.
Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in organizations:
- An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.
For all other usage scenarios:
- In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community.
- In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.
I think it's mainly just 'It's professional, but free to use, unless you're enterprise.
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RE: Congratulations on your glorious four hours of downtime
These guys use vim and emacs and stuff..
"Man I loved how computers worked in 1988! Let's have the 1988 experience ALL THE TIME!"
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RE: Cards Against Humanity is like if I got control of a successful e-commerce site
There's a group I occasionally play CAH with who have an entire system in place for removing cards from the game if someone doesn't like it. CAH appeals to the sort of people who do that, for some reason.
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RE: New Skype Design (also Skype mobile and stuff)
The girlfriend's computer's Skype updated to skeumorphic speech bubbles and shit a while back, but either she rolled it back or there's a way to turn it off, because it isn't like that now. I just haven't let Skype update.
Modern UI design (which is heavily affected by everything's-a-phone-worms) just loves its whitespace. Too much condensed data is hard.
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RE: Cards Against Humanity is like if I got control of a successful e-commerce site
your credibility is inversely proportional to your "privilege."
That basically describes the "Progressive Stack".
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RE: No Youtube video will ever be watched more than 2,147,483,647 times...
Argh, Hanzo'd.
My very first thought was "Why a signed int? Are they expecting videos to be watched a negative number of times?"
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RE: IIHS prejudiced against fat women because the fat dummy made for them won't help? I guess?
It doesn't matter who you are and what you can do, we need to fill a quota?
Somewhat. Equality of Outcome vs Equality of Opportunity.
way to tell an idiot they're an idiot
It's not like that's going to bother them.
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RE: IIHS prejudiced against fat women because the fat dummy made for them won't help? I guess?
Bootstraps—A reference to the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" canard about self-reliance, which elides systemic disadvantages and privileges conveyed on individuals by the kyriarchy.
I always find these to be the most telling. These people quite simply do not believe in meritocracy.
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RE: IIHS prejudiced against fat women because the fat dummy made for them won't help? I guess?
Maybe, but 'hir' is one of those made-up pronouns that people in certain internet circles think should be used, and she fits the profile.
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RE: IIHS prejudiced against fat women because the fat dummy made for them won't help? I guess?
Hexfat—Fat cursed upon a child by hir mother. Usage: O NOES HEXFAT!!!eleventy!
The correct word to use for non-gender specific individual is "their". As in "this person was probably not given enough attention by their mother as a child".
Stop making up pronouns, Internet. Grumble.
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RE: India needs you!
To whom do the outsourcers outsource?
Eventually all work on the planet will be done by one man.