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Living Room / Re: work bathroom story
« Last post by f0dder on October 06, 2011, 04:34 PM »
call it The Engineers Log or something
...no wonder they complain ;)
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Living Room / Re: work bathroom story
« Last post by f0dder on October 06, 2011, 02:29 PM »
You are an engineer...
Is he? With bathroom sensitivities like that, I'd expect marketing :P
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Living Room / Re: Steve Jobs is dead.
« Last post by f0dder on October 06, 2011, 02:16 PM »
On the note of him not 'Giving To Charity' for any of you people who are "Hating" on someone who just passed...for reasons NONE OTHER than his lack of charitable nature:
"NONE OTHER"? That part of the equation is just a bonus bit, a final "oh yeah, in addition to being a nasty piece of sh*t business-wise, he's also a scumbag in person"... not the sole reason for not mourning his death.
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Living Room / Re: Steve Jobs is dead.
« Last post by f0dder on October 06, 2011, 01:12 PM »
I think he was a great innovater-inventor
More like a polisher.
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Living Room / Re: Steve Jobs is dead.
« Last post by f0dder on October 06, 2011, 12:22 PM »
Steve Jobs showed little inclination to use his personal wealth for philanthropic purposes.

And, strangely for a self-professed Buddhist, he did not embrace environmental concerns

Says it all really, what a horrible human being he was.
WTF this is the most heartlesssssss comment I read today.
-lotusrootstarch (October 05, 2011, 08:46 PM)
Oh, I'll try to best that, then:

Little Stevie is off to the iCloud, and iDon't care - it's time for iPartying.
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Living Room / Re: Berkeley scientists make pictures from brainwaves
« Last post by f0dder on October 06, 2011, 12:15 PM »
This is your brain - this is your brain on acid.
-f0dder
No dude, this is your brain on magnets...  o_O
Magnets - how do they WORK?!
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Living Room / Re: Massive Security Vulnerability In HTC Android phones
« Last post by f0dder on October 05, 2011, 11:08 AM »
A followup that says... pretty much nothing.

Are they going to limit their data collecting to a sane level? Or are they merely going to (attempt to) block 3rd party access to the logs?

It hardly seems like they acknowledge they've been doing anything wrong O_o
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Living Room / Re: Hoping for a Patent Bloodbath XD
« Last post by f0dder on October 05, 2011, 11:06 AM »
Seeing fanbois get their knickers in a knot when they can't get their hands on the latest iDevice just because their precious, innovative, company used someone else's tech would make me so happy.
That makes two of us. Anything to piss hipsters off makes me a happy camper.
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Living Room / Re: Berkeley scientists make pictures from brainwaves
« Last post by f0dder on October 05, 2011, 11:05 AM »
This is your brain - this is your brain on acid.
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What options does that leave for Fido, and the BBSs if the internet's TCP/IP v? gets perverted into (Uber regulated) Cable Pay Channels?
TCP/CP.
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Eóin: interesting - I only thought Android devices allowed Java Dalvik code, didn't know about NDK! JNI sucks monstrously, but it's better than not having the capability.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Filenames with a leading dot?
« Last post by f0dder on October 04, 2011, 01:16 PM »
Apart from that, Explorer won't let you create files or folders (or rename files or folders) "without a filename" before the "extension"
Correct but who on earth really uses it (there a literally dozens of file managers that do a 10x better job than windows explorer)?
My guess is +90% of all Windows users? :)

I'm on explorer2 myself, which does a lot of stuff better than standard explorer... but it does use standard explorer's "create new file/folder" methods.

I don't really see the point in using something that's even potentially troublesome, there's usable characters with even lower ASCII codes :)
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Living Room / Re: Hoping for a Patent Bloodbath XD
« Last post by f0dder on October 04, 2011, 12:57 PM »
Samsung is a major supplier for Apple, and I'd love to see them flex some muscle and decapitate Apple. Oh... how sweet that would be~! =P
+1.

And if the whole current Amerikan patent system would go belly-up in the fight, that'd be icing on the cake.

We can dream, can't we? They haven't taken that away from us yet.
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I didn't have the luxury of waiting to see how that turns out so I opted to write a portable C++ core and glue it to separate Android/Java and iOS/ObjC user interfaces.
I can see how you can glue a C++ core to iOS/ObjC, but how do you do it for Android?

As for Rhodes, no experience with it, but... Ruby? Ugh. A lot of the people I see praising Ruby are those "Anti People" (first they make the move from Windows to Mac, then they make the move from Java to Ruby... and are probably too young to have ever touched C or C++).

The language is cute enough and all, but I personally don't see the attraction to it (apart from Rails, but that's "just" a framework). The mainline implementation is S-L-O-W, being a dynamic language is has relatively poor tooling support, and (again, because of being a dynamic language) it's a second-class citizen on the JVM, Dalvik and .NET VMs. And then there's the utter configuration & maintenance hell - Ruby is known for even non-major versions breaking backwards compatibility... and that's "just" the core language, it's libraries are even worse.

Fun if you like playing on the bleeding edge, but not something I'd personally choose for professional development.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Filenames with a leading dot?
« Last post by f0dder on October 02, 2011, 05:37 PM »
Pretty bad idea for regular files anyway, since a fair amount of software will break on those files.

Really? I stumbled upon ... zero ... in the last 16 years (since win 95) and I test new software every day...
A lot (perhaps most) software will be able to open and save those files just fine. I've bumped into a fair amount of software with minor quirks, though - usually involved around "getting file extension from after the first '.' in filename", and often related to "tile type" detection. Usually not too big a deal, but an annoyance... and knowing what kind of path-splitting code we wrote back in the DOS days (and the mentality carried forward), I'd advice against leading-dot names for regular files.

Apart from that, Explorer won't let you create files or folders (or rename files or folders) "without a filename" before the "extension" :)
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Living Room / Re: Massive Security Vulnerability In HTC Android phones
« Last post by f0dder on October 02, 2011, 05:10 PM »
I wonder if it's intentional data-harvesting/back-dooring or just a sign of very, very poor judgment and crap programmers. Given how blatant it is, I almost can't believe it's intentional back-dooring...
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Living Room / Re: Massive Security Vulnerability In HTC Android phones
« Last post by f0dder on October 02, 2011, 04:40 PM »
Pretty bad thing, stuff like that really shouldn't happen.

That said, I'm very satisfied with my Desire S.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Filenames with a leading dot?
« Last post by f0dder on October 02, 2011, 02:35 PM »
Pretty bad idea for regular files anyway, since a fair amount of software will break on those files.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Logging out of Facebook is not enough
« Last post by f0dder on October 02, 2011, 02:32 PM »
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We are currently preparing a new Text Expander software with a MS Office like Ribbon user interface:
Ribbons are fine when you've got a gazillion different menu items, especially mode and/or context sensitive ones.

From your screenshot, it looks like you're doing ribbon exclusively for "so ein ding müssen wir auch haben" reasons - a shame, since it's so damn unserious, and one of the reasons a lot of people hate at ribbons in general.
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Developer's Corner / Re: How To Write Unmaintainable Code
« Last post by f0dder on September 28, 2011, 01:23 PM »
and built her reputation back when transparent 1-pixel gifs were considered a brilliant web hack.
What, why are you using past tense?
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As far as SQL goes, I love it. It's such an elegant language.
Right up until you have to do anything remotely complex, when it turns into a nightmare of proprietary vendor extensions, (even more) messed up syntax and horrible performance (cursors, I'm looking at you!), et cetera.

Stored procedures (combined with update triggers) is an interesting idea, but personally I'm not a big fan of the database process spawning external tools, probably while in the middle of a transaction and everything... is the MySQL database even on the same computer as the media files being indexed?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Logging out of Facebook is not enough
« Last post by f0dder on September 26, 2011, 11:08 AM »
I have the whole "apps" platform disabled in facebook, because I don't use it and I see it as a security risk. When visiting a lot of pages, I get a "you must have the facebook social platform turned on to view this box" kinda things... also when logged out.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 8 Fast boot time ? Check this out...
« Last post by f0dder on September 25, 2011, 04:02 PM »
They abandoned their own technology -Silverlight ?   :huh:  Man, this is really bad message for all those .NET developers.
Good question - I don't know if it's going to be in the metro version of IE10 or not, but it'll definitely be available for the desktop version... and .NET applications are first-class citizens for WinRT (the replacement for Win32), silverlight is just another .NET aspect.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 8 Fast boot time ? Check this out...
« Last post by f0dder on September 25, 2011, 02:19 PM »
Atleast windows tablet will support flash, multi-tasking and many other features that apple failed to do so.
Will it, now?... for Metro, anyway. Yeah, you have the option of installing 3rd party browsers, but the message is clear.

Anyway, I installed an x64 preview on physical hardware, and the results were craptastic. Long story short, if the end product is anything like this, I might be driven to linux (or, hopefully, can stay on Win7 until MS realizes the error of their ways and come up with something good). Not going to do a long review now, but I'm pretty certain you'd feel a lot less schizophrenic if you dropped a wagonload of acid and watched artsy french noir movies.

As for boot speed, you probably need an UEFI system to make it go fast, as BIOS initialization eats a lot of time.
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