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by Delmania 10y ago
> P.S. I never got into ASP/ASP.net ... is that what people use .net for most these days? For web development, yes. MS's REST framework is called WebAPI, and most people pair that with Angular, but you can use your poison of c
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by Delmania 10y ago
I'm missing something. Almost $19000 for a phone that has less features than a $600 iPhone? I know Vertu is trying to be a luxury brand, but usually when a company sets themselves up as one, their offerings are at least as good as c
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by Delmania 10y ago
> What's so scary about CPS? CPS is like the police. In general, a large number of the agents are decent people who are trying to do what's best for the children. However, you will get some agents that tend to be over zealous
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by Delmania 10y ago
> CPS has basically unlimited power to take the kid for any contrived reason they can imagine BEFORE it goes through any kind of court... all based on their perceived notion of 'what's best' for the child. This is 100% abs
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by Delmania 10y ago
The short answer is that yes, with tools like Omnisharp and Xamarin Studio, you can write code targeting the CLR on OSX and Linux. Omnisharp basically interacts with Rosyln (the .NET compiler) to provide integration for various editors. Th
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by Delmania 10y ago
Fair enough, I was thinking about Apple Maps.
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What's the best way to get an invite to Lobsters?
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Having worked in many large corporations (and seeking to get out), admitting mistakes and problems can not only harm your PR, it can also open you to liability. Also, given that the CEO of the company seems to emulate Jobs and Jobs never ap
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by Delmania 10y ago
> Some days, I wonder if I'll get lucky and manage to go the next day without thinking about the enormity of death. Why? The fact we are aware of our death is important.
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> VS, Eclipse, and IntellijIDEA very likely won't. VS was first released in 1997; Eclipse in 2001; and IntelliJ in 2001 as well. I wouldn't take that bet.
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Memento mori, everyone. Are you living like you're going to die?
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What choice did he have? He probably went through the classic 7 stages of grief. In the end, his death was inevitable (as is all of ours), he just was faced with it as a reality as most of us think it is many years off.
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by Delmania 10y ago
> This is partly the fault of the FSF having poor communication, of course. You've highlighted here one of the biggest reasons why the FSF is demonized. The organization has made and continues to make significant contributions to
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> Do you not have control over your life if proprietary pants software cools your legs when it's hot? Do you have the source code to firmware on the chip in the pants? Can you install a custom version? That would be consistent with
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by Delmania 10y ago
It's Linux, not GNU/Linux. The other problem is people don't consciously associate Emacs or GCC with GNU or the FSF, they're just tools on a machine.
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by Delmania 10y ago
> The FSF has had a massive impact on the world. It has? I'll accept that only for the conception of FLOSS. However, I would then say that the OSI and Linux Foundations have had greater impact. They relied on the RMS's licens
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by Delmania 10y ago
I could have sworn the "Javascript Trap" mentioned that issue, but I think the viewpoint is that minified JS is the compiled version. So long as you provide the raw files, it's fine.
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by Delmania 10y ago
> What's the reason that's not considered a problem It's considered a problem: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-se...
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by Delmania 10y ago
> That's just what the world needs. More bikeshedding You pretty much summed up one of the two biggest issues at why the FSF has not had a larger impact on the world. The organization makes issues over these kinds of details and th
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by Delmania 10y ago
> Is that trust justified? Not on the scale of you, but on the scale of everyone working the helpdesk in your company. Why did you hire that person, and then not train him correctly?
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> By the time I get to the whiteboard stuff, I'm looking for someone to want to engage with me, not an attempt to stump them. Dredging this comment, because while this article is not about whiteboard coding, it would inevitably be m
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by Delmania 10y ago
As I mentioned in my response, knowing that trees are used for various artifacts is important for the people who are implementing said artifacts. A well done implementation hides that detail, focusing on ensuring the implementation is corr
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by Delmania 11y ago
The quickest way up the ladder is to prove to the person above you that his (or her concerns) are yours, and to proactively solve them.
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by Delmania 11y ago
Both this comment and the parent comment appear in some form when a celebrity related articles appears. Neither one takes into account the fact that Hacker News is a site for new of interest to hackers. That means occasionally, there will
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by Delmania 11y ago
I'll be listening to Purple Rain and 1999 in a few to remember his music.
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by Delmania 11y ago
> Something that has been bothering me lately. I have no memory of 99% of my life. Those would be your mental filters at work. Your brain is always sweeping itself, trying to take information and move it into long term storage to help ke
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by Delmania 11y ago
You don't need to learn either C# or Windows programming in general to use F# effectively. .NET is a different story, as it provides a lot of core functionality. F# was the first cross-platform language from .NET, so it has better sup
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by Delmania 11y ago
> From a security perspective, we ask: why are you developing applications that can't be ran by normal users? Really? This question from a security engineer on Hacker News? I can tell you've never developed on Windows because (
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by Delmania 11y ago
I suspect those users do care about freedom. The issue is that most people view a computer as just a tool to do work, not a political statement. The concept of software freedom make little sense to most people, and for good reason. The F
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by Delmania 11y ago
This is where there is a division between the way the FSF presents itself, and the way the software is used. Without a kernel, the claims that GNU is a replacement for UNIX is disingenuous. GNU Hurd is not production ready. It is a series

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