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Developer's Corner / Re: Anti Coding Standards (Keep Line Lengths Under 80 characters)
« Last post by Eóin on December 30, 2009, 01:19 AM »
My pet peeve is people using spaces instead of tabs. When tabs are used you can adjust their width in an editor so everyone can settle on their preferred width instead of being stuck with the authors. I find it's alway the first thing I've to change after copying a code snippet from, say, online.

P.S. I agree with you on the total line width too, 80 is needlessly small these days. Though it's still important to not go excessively long.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Stop Windows from calling home
« Last post by Eóin on December 26, 2009, 02:28 PM »
Now you can claim that feedback will result in higher quality software, but I think that when you adhere to the software and hardware standards set by the whole industry the problems you will encounter will be never be as high as when you do things your way. A thing MS is known to do
-Shades (December 26, 2009, 01:48 PM)

Care to elaborate?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have Windows Programs
« Last post by Eóin on December 25, 2009, 06:11 AM »
Haven't really put together one of these lists in a while.

For my developemnt work I rely on

For my college work it's

But perhaps more in line with the thread, these are the day-to-day apps I have to install on any PCs

In manys ways I bet outside of the specialist apps my list is rather mundane :D
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Living Room / Re: The Great Aussie Firewall to Go Ahead
« Last post by Eóin on December 17, 2009, 10:04 PM »
My understanding on that rule was that helmets for motorcyclists meant more and more people paralyzed. So relaxing that rule allowed people to chose between death and life rather than risking what many consider (for right or wrong) something in between.
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Living Room / Re: Stop-motion videos
« Last post by Eóin on December 14, 2009, 09:23 PM »
This isn't quite stop motion, but it's close in style.

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Living Room / Re: 32Bit or 64Bit? How long will they last as the most used? Take your best guess
« Last post by Eóin on December 09, 2009, 05:02 PM »
I like my OS being able to manage 8gb, even if most my apps are still 32bit :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming
« Last post by Eóin on December 09, 2009, 04:30 PM »
Well my point is that who to hire is not so much based on the language, but on the contents of what they've written. I'm trying to suggest that the difference between scripting and programming is in what you write rather what you write it in.

Of experience in the language you intend them to use is an important real life factor I'm sure.

As for what do you graduate to a programmer, runner, etc? Well when you're there you'll know you're there but won't know when you got there. :D
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Living Room / Re: 32Bit or 64Bit? How long will they last as the most used? Take your best guess
« Last post by Eóin on December 09, 2009, 03:56 PM »
Need to be able to pick more than one option!

Anyway I say both will still be here in 10+ years time. As will their successor(s?).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming
« Last post by Eóin on December 09, 2009, 03:26 PM »
The idea of a programming language is very general and encompasses most scripting languages, though not usually data description languages (eg HTML). Of course this line is blurred, PostScript is mostly used as a description language, yet it is also a fully qualified programming language. PDF's however use a simplified version of PS which isn't Turing complete and generally not considered a programming language.

But I don't really think that's the debate going on here is it? ;)

Rather I think people are concerned with what qualifies as a program in day-to-day sense. For example a basic automation script to perform a couple of simple task sequentially is very difficult to classify as a program. And from that alone it's hard to say the author is a programmer. I don't think this is necessarily elitist, but to be able to program in a useful sense you need an grasp of program flow, logic and data manipulation which such an example doesn't demonstrate.

It's the same as describing someone as a runner or a writer. Most people can run and write yet the titles imply a higher level of competency and experience in the task.

In this sense I believe it is fair to distinguish between programming and scripting, but the languages used are all "programming languages", they can just be used for both tasks
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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming
« Last post by Eóin on December 09, 2009, 08:19 AM »
kakarukeys, I'd say you're pretty much right but I'd remove the need for object oriented constructs. All a language need to be able to do is manipulated some sort of data and that's enough.

Though quoting Wikipedia is dubious it's article on Programming language gets right to the heart of the matter. The simple fact is that scripting and programming are the same thing. And HTML is not a scripting language

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Developer's Corner / Re: Programming Language Adapability
« Last post by Eóin on December 06, 2009, 03:59 PM »
I'm curious which paradigm shift you're referring to? There can be lots out there claiming to be the next big thing.
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Living Room / Face of the Future
« Last post by Eóin on December 05, 2009, 10:20 AM »
http://www.faceofthefuture.org.uk/ - this is too much fun. Upload a picture of yourself and try changing your race, age or just different artistic styles!
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fotf.png    phpGTczXs.jpg    phpkjqIc0.jpg
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Living Room / Re: Notepad Fun
« Last post by Eóin on December 04, 2009, 04:39 PM »
Why the spaces, not a complaint just curiosity :)
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Living Room / Re: Should Illegal Downloaders Be Cut Off From the Internet?
« Last post by Eóin on December 04, 2009, 04:38 PM »
CWuestefeld, I agree completely, but what we have is called capitalism by the vast majority even if it doesn't meet the correct definition. I was just going along with the popular definition for simplicity.
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Living Room / Re: Should Illegal Downloaders Be Cut Off From the Internet?
« Last post by Eóin on December 02, 2009, 05:35 PM »
People with lots of money are warping laws so they can get more, just plain old capitalism really.
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Living Room / Re: 74% of the world, Google's Chrome OS is not for you
« Last post by Eóin on December 01, 2009, 01:05 PM »
To me the idea of a PC which is only properly functional while I have net access is terrible. Even though I have broadband at home and in rented accommodation plus I have a pretty decent mobile web modem courtesy of my phone I still consider a dependence on the internet too big a liability.
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 48-09
« Last post by Eóin on November 29, 2009, 04:55 PM »
I've a somewhat related question- Are police allowed to conduct an undercover investigation of private property without a warrant? For example I know that if you invite an officer into your home they are allowed to use any evidence they happen to see against you, something which they couldn't do so if they entered without your consent without a warrant.

But does inviting a officer pretending to be someone else inside require a warrant on their part? Personally I've no real legal knowledge of this area. I ask because this case seems somewhat like an undercover investigation.


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Living Room / Re: Google execs may go to prison!
« Last post by Eóin on November 26, 2009, 08:14 PM »
As ludicrous as I consider this case to be I must say I love the idea of jail time for executives whose companies break the law. Damn right!
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 47-09
« Last post by Eóin on November 23, 2009, 08:01 AM »
I'd also like to add my appreciation of the effort you put in. You always seem to come up with a particularly interesting selection. :)
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Living Room / Re: Bad technology day!
« Last post by Eóin on November 21, 2009, 04:19 PM »
Here a similar saying declares "Disasters comes in threes".
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any XP users switching to Windows 7 yet?
« Last post by Eóin on November 21, 2009, 12:48 PM »
F0dder, I agree it's very debatable. But it's just no harm remembering that extra memory, both usage and access to, isn't the only thing x64 brings to your PC. Even if it is the most noticeable.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any XP users switching to Windows 7 yet?
« Last post by Eóin on November 21, 2009, 09:40 AM »
The thing is if you don't really need a program to be 64-bit, then compiling it that way is just an academic exercise/waste.
... [snip] ...
None of my other software is 64 bit as there is just no (way to justify the memory usage waste) need for it.
-Stoic Joker (November 21, 2009, 08:21 AM)

Well there is the rarely seen processor efficiency. In theory x64 apps should run a bit faster as they can avail of more recent processor instructions which 32bit apps usually avoid to maintain backwards compatibility with older CPUs. Exactly how that manifests in day to day applications would be debatable.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any XP users switching to Windows 7 yet?
« Last post by Eóin on November 19, 2009, 04:07 PM »
Hold on, I'm not familiar about this, can you clarify?  What is the myth?  That 32-bit applications suffer in performance in 64-bit OS?  Or that the difference in performance in general for 64-bit OS's is negligible relative to 32-bit?
-superboyac (November 19, 2009, 03:58 PM)

Since the days of WinXP x64 I dual booted with a 32bit XP install. So that's identical hardware and never noticed any performance hit on x64. Mind you since switching to Win7 x64 I haven't even bothered to add the existing XP install to the boot manager. I've just not had a reason to use it at all.
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Living Room / Re: Legal Insanity
« Last post by Eóin on November 10, 2009, 02:29 PM »
There is no "rule of law" in Korea, and laws are loosely applied or bent quite often
-Renegade (November 10, 2009, 09:01 AM)

That's kinda my point, if Korea is different in that respect then it is up to us travellers to adapt to that.
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Living Room / Re: Legal Insanity
« Last post by Eóin on November 10, 2009, 03:38 AM »
Devils advocate here, but different countries have different laws and different interpretations of the law. The guy in question may genuinely been in the wrong by Korean standards even if he wouldn't have been in another country.

It's the travellers duty to adapt to a foreign culture, in law and also in their definitions of common sense and appropriate behaviour.
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