Posts by topologicalanomaly4747

We all love bonking to pay, but if you bonk with a Windows Phone then Microsoft has bad news

Re: NFC? No fucking chance.

Contactless cards are a thing.

Brits rattle tin for custom LCD Raspberry Pi funbox

I really don't get the advantage of this as oposed to the 7' "official" display (which is still not very good at 800x480)?

They cost about as much.

What upgrade cycle? Tablet sales crater for fourth straight quarter

List of shame

Boy I'd wish there was a list somewhere with all the tech analysts and tech journalists who sang the end of laptops and desktops just a few years ago.

I say now what I said before. By 2007 PCs got "good enough" that most people skipped that upgrade cycle (and maybe they still use those systems today - a core duo with 4gb ram is as good today for email/browsing/movies as it was than) leaving them with funds to throw towards a tablet. How many of those are buying a new one? Probably the ones who bouht the 1.0 version of whatever (ipad 1, etc.) if they feel the need for a device to leave on the coffe table/night stand.

The day when nobody had one and everybody wanted one passed and people returned to buying laptops and desktops for work and cheap 50-200$ tablets for the kids and netflix in bed.

Adobe Creative Cloud 2014: Progress and pain in the usual places

Re: I need to get this to my client right away.

As funny as it is, it's also wrong.

My work-from-home setup's better than the office. It's GLORIOUS

Re: Company Car vs Company PC

You:

- include dodgy tools in your webapp to allow code updates directly on the production server

- updates that sometimes break the whole app including your insecure backend "hidden" access and need to wake me on call to fix it

- code updates you forget to commit to the repo (you barely know how to use anyway) and so get overwritten on the official update

- spawn 500 instances of your crappy - no error treatment - code and then ring the sysadmin up to complain that the dev server is slow

- app that floods the internal network with requests it never listens to anyway but slow everything to a crawl

- ask me after I kill the shitty app what requests did it make because you have no idea

- write code worse than 100 monkeys with 100 typewritters

- don't say thanks after I find the exact line of code and reason that your shitty app crashes

- line I have to find and show because untill then you insist it's a system issue

So you bet your hipster canvas bag you don't get admin privileges.