Posts by Will code 11 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Apr 2016
The extra threat here is the expansion of when this happens. Anything with a custom quote like plumbing or building work has a “what will this person pay?” approach to pricing. Multiple quotes can mitigate that to some degree.
The approach moving to “anything you buy on the Internet” is a big change.
Was surprised to see cooling reported as really good for the gen 8. We’ve had a bunch of cooling issues with the gen 7, caused enough throttling to make dev work quite frustrating. First bit of load is fine, anything even slightly sustained and it seems to have trouble dissipating the heat
Not a huge surprise for an ultra portable, just not something that I’ve seen reported by others much.
I wouldn’t fixate on the 6. That’s the incredibly low number from the press release. May have minimal bearing on the number of issues seen in reality but not confirmed by apple staff and reported as this problem
Not hating apple, just saying don’t trust phrases like “very small number of customers affected” from corps with large pr machines.
Liked your comment, just a clarification on this one:
"When we went to Iraq we were fighting terrorists, when we went to Afghanistan it was the same"
Iraq was to depose a dictator that was thought to have weapons of mass destruction rather than fight terrorists. After the invasion it was spun to be about terrorism and that spinning has succeeded. In reality it created many more terrorist by inspiring people against the 'west'.
The invasion of Afghanistan was about terriorism.
'Don't be fooled by the ISPs like Vodafone, who now don't have specific line rental charges'
I think that's the point, add the cost to the broadband package so that you see what you're paying for. No more misleading adverts with headline figures of £5 a month when you cannot get it without the £20 a month line rental
"nobody does this"
We do. restore production backup, anonymise it appropriately and then use it for integration testing. Handy for performance tests and data dependent tests when you don't have sufficient unit test coverage. The testing of the backups is an added bonus
Does require sufficient hardware so is not free.
We also do proper bcp tests but those are months apart.
Lines of code is a useful metric for understanding how much info devs need to understand when working on the code. I.e. it's one input into how complex the codebase is.
As others have mentioned, it's of no value for assessing whether an individual dev is any good or not. It's no good as a target but can tell you something about system complexity assuming your devs aren't over optimising for conciseness.
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