Posts by cmannett85

I'm looking forward to trying out CLion, having used IntelliJ for Java every now and then - but it's startup time is just as awful as Eclipse.

I'm a C++ developer mainly so I bounce between Eclipse CDT and Qt Creator. Qt Creator is fantastic: light-weight, great auto-completion, and great profiling and debugging tool integration. Oh and it's free. Eclipse is bloated shite.

They sound great - but they're in London. Any chance of you filming them so us bare-foot Golems in the North can watch?

"to lead the world in this new economy, we need the most talented and hardest-working people."

Which translates as: "American developers are expensive, and so are training programs/scholarships/apprenticeships"

I like this guy, he's excellent advertising for things like ProtonMail. They should roll him out more.

Shame about the TSX disabling (though understandable). It's almost certain that TS is going to be added to the C++17 release - let's hope Intel have it sorted by then.

" I keep getting the loading thing in the top right & "service The service cannot be accessed at this time" message pls HELP"

I love getting bug reports like this.

Are issues being found because we are looking harder, or because more are being made, or both? Who knows, as you can't come to any useful conclusion from this data.

Main advice is probably "drop the sarcasm"

I'm out.

“We are Agile”

Whenever this is said, bad things ensue.

"...at this far out, the best data speed possible is about 700 bits per second."

But I thought all comms were done through subspace?

My Note 2 died a couple of weeks ago, my immediate thought was just to replace it with the latest incarnation - but then I started looking at offerings by OnePlus and Xiaomi and was blown away by the value for money.

I settled on a OnePlus One 64GB and can't be happier. The camera isn't quite as good as a Note's, but then again it's HALF the price!

Bollocks to the pair of them. Grados all the way.

More importantly: Where do you buy a silver leather sofa!?

"has the simultaneous multithreading (SMT) ... this technology essentially turns each physical core into two or four virtual cores. A hardware scheduler interleaves the virtual CPU threads into the processor's execution queues"

So, not simultaneous then - or have I misunderstood something?

Most of the time I buy vinyl from Bandcamp which comes with a flac download. Or I buy straight from the label which, 9 times out of 10, offer the same digital+physical package.

I spend £50-100 on music a month - I do not see what Spotify can offer me.

I spend hours every week finding new bands to try out from genre sites and music blogs. The bands I like invariably put their stuff out to stream for free so you can try before you buy (usually from Bandcamp or Sound Cloud). If I like their stuff I buy it on vinyl or tape, and with that I get a FLAC download which I can stick on my phone.

And I think that's what their market research has failed to grasp - if you're going to buy a digital release, why would you need a physical medium for it? People buy physical releases nowadays because they want an emotional connection to it: vinyl sleeves have a particular smell that changes over time, the 'ritual' of wiping dust off a side and carefully aiming the needle, etc. CDs, DVDs, SACDs, BluRay, etc. have none of these qualities which is why no-one is interested in them anymore.

I take music playback seriously and I actually work in digital pro-audio, so before anyone spouts something about the old analogue formats' deficiencies, here's a John Peel quote:

"Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, "Listen, mate, *life* has surface noise.""

"Filling a disk drive enclosure with helium, a much lower friction environment than plain old air"

Then why not just use a vacuum?