Encosia

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by Encosia 16y ago
It sounds like you've been working in soulless corporate sweatshops, which would be just as miserable regardless of which platform they adopt. Policy is the only thing preventing you from using log4net for logging and NHibernate for ORM (a
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by Encosia 16y ago
ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET WebForms are both built on the same ASP.NET platform. You can even use some of the simple WebForms controls, like the Repeater and Menu, in ASP.NET MVC views.
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by Encosia 16y ago
Completely clean... Except for DateTime types. Since it uses JavaScriptSerializer under the hood, Json() serializes DateTime values as \/Date(ticks)\/. That, of course, is more the fault of JavaScript lacking a Date literal than Microsoft
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by Encosia 16y ago
I've been very happy with ASP.NET MVC 3's support for the new Razor view engine. I took the leap early and built a couple production apps on that platform. All has been well, thus far. Exposing your models as RESTful endpoints that return J
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by Encosia 16y ago
Of course, if many people used that threshold, almost no story would ever reach 100 points in the first place.
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by Encosia 16y ago
By the same token, is there any reason to assume that someone who uses marijuana doesn't drink irresponsibly too? While I was in college, the two seemed pretty inseparable on average.
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by Encosia 16y ago
The last few studies I've seen on moderate alcohol use have concluded that its short-term effects on the brain aren't necessarily cumulative over the long term, as opposed to conventional wisdom.
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by Encosia 16y ago
javery and I basically pair program during our TekPub recordings, using SharedView and Skype. The hosting SharedView user has asymmetrically better control of the editor, but it still works out great for us. Not quite the same as a collabo
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by Encosia 16y ago
Writing code is easy. How many developers can't type at least as fast as they think already? Writing something that makes sense later is the hard part; especially if you aren't the one reading it. Ultra-terse code is rarely helpful in tha
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by Encosia 16y ago
Thank you for the kind words. It's always great to hear that someone's been able to extrapolate a useful approach/direction out of my rambling.
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by Encosia 16y ago
Yes, absolutely. As someone who has contributed a fair amount of content to SO, I would wholeheartedly support modifying the CC license on the content I've contributed. I much prefer the idea of that to the idea of allowing my answers to
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by Encosia 16y ago
PR and public sentiment have become meaningless in these things. People may moan about right and wrong, but they don't alter their behavior. Just look at how little impact the outrage at child-groping has ultimately had on the TSA. Compani
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by Encosia 16y ago
SEO is non-deterministic enough that I hesitate to even speculate, but the clean markup on sites like eFreedom is probably a lot of their advantage. Stack Overflow buries its content in quite a bit of presentational markup. Everything els
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by Encosia 16y ago
> TeslaTouch was developed at Disney Research That's a good start.
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by Encosia 16y ago
> I wonder how long it would have taken Microsoft to respond to a similar situation. When ASP.NET's AES implementation was exposed to automated attack recently, the DevDiv guys got out in front of the issue with a workaround in about fo
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by Encosia 16y ago
The thing about Panopticlick is that the two most "accurately" identifying methods aren't stable fingerprints. As soon as you install an update to one of your plugins (the constant Adobe updates come to mind), your fingerprint is altered. S
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by Encosia 16y ago
CSS3 transitions are virtually indistinguishable from native animations and transitions, when applicable (i.e. CSS3 obviously can't be used for some things, but is a 1:1 replacement for things like page transitions).
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by Encosia 16y ago
Discounting games, the majority of the apps I've downloaded from the app store could be written with HTML5 and distributed as Titanium or PhoneGap wrapped apps. Some of them probably are and I'm just unaware of it. For that matter, if I di
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by Encosia 16y ago
You'd likely never even know that an HTML5 app wrapped in PhoneGap or Titanium wasn't native. There are many of those on the app store already. In fact, the subtitle of the book specifically mentions the app store: Making App Store Apps
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by Encosia 16y ago
> It is not until the last page of an EIGHT page article that it becomes clear that Mr. Borker is quite troubled financially. This is no formula for success. > He won’t get specific about his annual income, but he tallies the busine
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by Encosia 16y ago
Maintaining a self-hosted WordPress installation is awfully easy since they added the one-click updating for plugins and WordPress itself. I agree that a neglected WordPress install is a liability, but it takes negligible effort to keep
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by Encosia 16y ago
I don't think that was the entire Atlanta data center, for what it's worth. Mine's in Atlanta too and I haven't had any recent downtime.
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by Encosia 16y ago
I think Microsoft gets less credit than Google for acquisitions because they're actually better (note: I didn't say good) at rolling acquisitions into the company and moving forward with a product. Most people don't think of successful Mic
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by Encosia 16y ago
Data point: As someone with a five-figure Stack Overflow reputation, I have received zero (0) job offers related to my Stack Overflow account.
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by Encosia 16y ago
This stood out to me in the sustainability document: > As noted last year, the IRS has opened an audit of the Mozilla Foundation. We do not yet have a good feel for how long this process will take or the overall scope of what will be in
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by Encosia 16y ago
When I heard this news, I assumed it was related to something like the licensing agreements Microsoft has with third parties, rather than their simply being spitefully "evil". If they licensed H.264, for example, surely that license would
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by Encosia 16y ago
Maybe not. At the same time, they eventually aren't going to have a choice, and waiting only deepens the inevitable cuts. I don't subscribe to any of the Beck-type fear and paranoia, but I do believe our legislators are going to find thei
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by Encosia 16y ago
Absolutely. I'm in my 30s and haven't noticed any decrease in my ability to continue learning. It's definitely a challenge to discard your old mental models if/when they start to become hindrances, but far from impossible. My Mom (nearly
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by Encosia 16y ago
I agree that it's too simplistic to ignore the chain reaction of side-effects those changes would have. I also agree regarding creative solutions, though how would you even begin to put a user-friendly interface on that? That said, it was
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by Encosia 16y ago
Once you've "solved" it, click the Twitter sharing button (don't worry, it doesn't share anything immediately) and extract your solution's URL from the popup.

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