AngusMcQuarrie

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by AngusMcQuarrie 11y ago
Re: the Akka.Net stuff, there is indeed an implementation of an Actor model framework - Orleans. Now it was developed in house at Microsoft and hasn't gotten a lot of attention from developers other than Microsoft employees, but it&#x
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by AngusMcQuarrie 12y ago
His publisher has stated that despite his public support for assisted suicide he didn't take his own life.
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by AngusMcQuarrie 12y ago
Interesting how we're happy to talk about companies in a Positive light that do good things, but don't want to name names when it comes to the shit-holes we've ejected ourselves from.
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by AngusMcQuarrie 12y ago
This is the same thing people said about Microsoft products in the 90s. Some of them (Like office for example) still are in that position.
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by AngusMcQuarrie 12y ago
Not sure where you're getting your information from. SF became more expensive than NYC a couple of years ago. http://www.cbsnews.com/media/top-10-priciest-us-cities-to-re... http://www.fool.com/in
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by AngusMcQuarrie 12y ago
Speaking as a privileged cis straight white male under 40 here, can we at least as a community agree to roast assholes who sexually harass our female compatriots alive? If I ever caught someone I know pulling shit like that, I would make i
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by AngusMcQuarrie 12y ago
There was also a talk on this from Mike Action (Engine Director at Insomniac) at GDC this year. He echoed the same sentiment that cache misses are the main source of performance problems in software. I only partially agree, as network cal
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The Rolodex(gamasutra.com)
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by AngusMcQuarrie 13y ago
I for one do not want to live in a society governed by "Twitch plays constitutional law".
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by AngusMcQuarrie 13y ago
>I remember I mentioned this to an associate one time. He asked me if I had done this with him. I answered yes. He challenged me to prove it. I went down a list of his cognitive biases, how they fed into his decision making process, and
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by AngusMcQuarrie 13y ago
Do you know if counter-suing for some form of extortion over frivolous IP lawsuits (or threats thereof) has ever been attempted or tested?