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I'm talking supported builds, not signed builds. You know with the pile of pre-paid support credits that we get with our partnership agreement which are supposed to result in solut…

Not related to the site, but now there is an audience... regarding asp.net mvc: Can we have support and out of band releases for asp.net mvc without having to go through connect or…

Not for a minute. The releases are pretty much shelved after v.next. To add to that, the support you do get is crappy, even as a gold partner. ASP.Net MVC is awfully designed and r…

That does it. I'm defending my airspace with anti-drone drones (until they are illegal).

IE4 ran on Solaris and HP/UX.

Agree about using data but the main problem is trust autonomy which allows them to develop incompatible systems. For example every damn A&E department in the country has a differen…

I was in a hospital the other day with my wife. I watched a senior consultant try and find a printer in AD (because the one on his desk was broken). This was to print a request for…

Another creation by Colin Furze here: the flame throwing scooter, which incidentally got him arrested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UNr1XClnec I wish I had the time to do pointl…

They do. I tend not to write oodles of test cases up front in favour of simple scenario based tests applied later on. I add pre/post/invariant-condition checks in the code as I wri…

Obligatory XKCD about the trackpoint: http://xkcd.com/243/

Happy birthday - typed on my T61 :)

It is also true when testing is included and pylint are used, which is the issue. I can write a 500 line C# program and it works reliably first time with no crashes, type inference…

100% sure. I've seen the source code for trident via shared source a few years ago. Its well written and fairly modular. It has COM/IDL bindings but the core is very clean. I'd say…

And this and VBA is why office is so irreplaceable. I wrote a report generation tool in 1999 with word 97. It picked a report definition off a file share, assembled documents from …

IE (well trident) isn't tied to Win32. Office I'm not sure but I understand they've rewritten swathes of it for 2013.

What makes you think there are any win32 APIs left? RT talks to NT.

You are correct :) I cannot writing my own read!

Better solution: tell them you're an ex OpenReach engineer - they let you right through to second line straight away. Repeat the story until you get what you want.

It's BT - they own the phone network as well so it's free.

Thats the trick I use, or pretend you are old and on a bad line. The latter gives them the impression that you're easy money.

We get these in the UK all the time. Usually either try and hold them on the line as long as possible (if bored) or tell them to "fuck off" straight away.

Well you kind of justified my point: The iPhone is a crappy phone with crappy battery life and has a crappy camera. None of this is desirable nor unique (O2 XDA kind of nailed all …

+1 for idiocracy. There is so much of society crammed into that film it's unreal. Warning: it's by mike judge of Beavis and butthead fame so you have to look past the fart jokes. "…

More than that in most cases: http://www.ppa.co.uk/about/activities/environment/ppa-enviro...

About 6-8 cups a day. 2 of which were Starbucks medium americano and the rest were french pressed from various brands. Pretty strong stuff as well. I'd agree about the caffeine sen…