DougWebb

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by DougWebb 12y ago
For a long time the CLR came in 'regular' and 'client' versions, where the 'client' version was a subset that didn't include server-type namespaces. There was also a Silverlight variant. These were pretty
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by DougWebb 12y ago
I imagine that if you do that, and then add files from within Visual Studio, it'll rewrite the csproj file with the individual file references. My company has had a fair share of csproj file pain caused by Visual Studio not understandi
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by DougWebb 12y ago
They're already providing a .NET web server. That's the 'self-hosting' examples Scott shows in the article: when you run the application that way, it becomes a web server for your app. It's just like a Node.js appli
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by DougWebb 12y ago
Of course it's reactionary; the entirety of ASP.Net MVC is a reaction to web frameworks on other platforms. The key, I think, is that it's a very positive way to react. In the past Microsoft always took the negative road, trying t
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by DougWebb 12y ago
We may be the only ones who write, but whales, birds, and elephants are constantly jabbering on about something . Maybe some whalesongs are poetry about existence as a whale.
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by DougWebb 12y ago
It's income without the need to work for it, which is basically the same thing as having an investor or being able to live off savings, in the sense that it allowed her the time and opportunity to write. If she didn't have those s
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by DougWebb 12y ago
I'm rude? WalterBright is being rude and dismissive to everyone who must work at a job that consumes all of their time and energy just to survive, saying that they should just go ahead and quit and start their own business, because i
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by DougWebb 12y ago
BTW, I started my business with nothing more than an ordinary computer. Really? Nothing more? You were out in the middle of an empty field, with a computer that you somehow acquired for free, and with that you were able to start a busin
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by DougWebb 12y ago
Did she live in a house made of yellow paper, and eat yellow paper as well? Who paid for the yellow pads? And how did her scribblings on the yellow pad become a best-selling novel? Did she just leave the pad in a bookstore and charge people
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by DougWebb 12y ago
I can't upvote you enough. The only smartphones I've gotten have been in the Motorola Droid family because of their fullsize slideout keyboards, and like you I still miss the physical buttons for basic phone functions.
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by DougWebb 12y ago
Oculus 2014, which would be released beta-quality in 2015 and usable-quality in 2016 as Oculus 2014 SP1.
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by DougWebb 12y ago
This is nice, but I was hoping to find guidelines about designing the syntax for a new programming language. As others are saying, s-expression syntax is simple to parse because it's basically already structured like the AST. But s-exp
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by DougWebb 12y ago
If that was the case, then emphasizing the domain name within the url would address their needs, while preserving the full url for anyone who needs/wants it. I'm looking at Firefox's url bar as I type this, and the url text i
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by DougWebb 12y ago
You have a point, and I think it comes down to how we define sentience. Would we consider a machine to be self-aware if it didn't care about being shut off? That seems like a critical aspect to me; in fact we might not realize we'
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by DougWebb 12y ago
They probably wouldn't have a drive to procreate, since building duplicate hardware and making an exact copy of their software would be trivial for them. They wouldn't fear death, but they might fear power-loss, so one drive they
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by DougWebb 12y ago
I think for the longest time, machines with really advanced intelligence would be prone to errors and mistakes that would cause more problems than actual machines uprising. Oh, that's a scary thought. Not only would they be extremely
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by DougWebb 12y ago
Your site needs to state the region that it can handle. There's no feedback or error messages when I try to type addresses near me into the search box, and it doesn't say what "Nearest Station" means.
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by DougWebb 12y ago
URLs are supposed to be atomic; there's no guarantee that truncating a url is going to lead you anyplace useful. The fact that it often does started as an accident of early implementations (hey, show a directory listing by default) fol
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by DougWebb 12y ago
That high-powered pocket-size device will be nice, but it's existence will mean that I can have a 20x as powerful desktop-sized device. And I'm going to want that for software development even though the pocket-sized device can ru
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by DougWebb 12y ago
My company's QA team set up a system like that around 1999. There were far too many false-positives, because the GUI intentionally changes all of the time during development. So instead of testing functionality, the team spent all of t
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by DougWebb 12y ago
I doubt that code written today is better than 30 years ago. We have much better tools, including source control, and much better hardware, but that's enabled us to write vastly more code than was feasible 30 years ago. I think there&#
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by DougWebb 12y ago
But if you do that, you're testing your client rather than your API. That's bound to matter: either your client is abstracting behavior and using only a specific subset of how your API could be used, or your client is not really u
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by DougWebb 12y ago
I don't think it's quite that... If a human driver makes a mistake, the driver is liable. If the car makes a mistake, the car manufacturer is liable. This is true today; if you're driving along and you swerve into someone&#x2
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by DougWebb 12y ago
My step-dad was a NYC cab driver. It's true that they're a small percentage of the population, but that's not the right way to think about it. In NYC (and other US cities as well I believe) to become a cab driver requires buy
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by DougWebb 13y ago
That's all been doable for a long time, using controlled breeding. We do it all the time with animals; look what we've done to dogs. The only difference genetic engineering brings is how quickly it can be done. But that's eug
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Not many sets of identical twins have one of the twins be the mother of the other twin. That's the weird part.
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I wonder how much of the variation is temporal instead of spatial. There are a few shots in there that were done twice with different results, showing that the signal strength in a single spot varies over time. You can't use light pain
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I doubt it. Unlike software, the material costs for a spaceflight are substantial and they're mostly/completely unrecoverable. Especially if your trial becomes an error. [edit] Also, building, launching, and operating spacecraft a
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Cool. Another of my jobs at GE AstroSpace involved writing software to help with the analysis of thermal system modeling. At its heart, thermal modeling is basically the same as one of the approaches for lighting models for 3D graphics: eve
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I hope the frugal engineering works out for them. In 1990 I spent a semester working at GE AstroSpace as an intern, and one of my tasks was a small role on the Mars Observer(1) probe. It was also a frugal, based on an Earth-orbiting satelli

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