Encosia

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by Encosia 12y ago
I use a desktop as my main dev machine, and I haven't tried to supplant it with any of these portable machines, just supplement. I do run Visual Studio, WebStorm, Photoshop, etc. on the Surface though, no problem, to code and push real
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by Encosia 12y ago
I traded in my MacBook for an i7 ATIV Book 9 Plus about a year and a half ago. The Samsung was (I think) thinner and lighter than my Air, but had a higher than MBPr resolution display and i7 processor. Basically like a high end MBPr in an A
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by Encosia 12y ago
On my Samsung ATIV (QHD+), I found that running the display at half the native resolution dramatically increased battery life and didn't seem to look any worse than a normal panel with a ~72 DPI native resolution.
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by Encosia 12y ago
How disappointing that GoDaddy chose to shut the PaaS offering down, just to have these folks dedicated to working on a website builder for the lowest end sites on the web. Seems like a waste.
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by Encosia 12y ago
If your taxes are complicated enough to pay for a high tier of TurboTax, you may be better off finding a good CPA. I'm an independent consultant, use QuickBooks throughout each year, and have used TurboTax for quite a while out of iner
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by Encosia 12y ago
Considering we're talking about people choosing to visit my site, your analogy seems almost exactly backwards. They're walking up to me, not the other way around. And, come on. The ad on my site takes up a miniscule fraction of th
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by Encosia 12y ago
That's not very nice. Surely you wouldn't look a real person you barely know in the eyes and call them annoying and desperate for something that trivial. Regardless, I was hesitant to add the nag, but I've only received posit
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by Encosia 12y ago
Because it's not a question mark in the first place for most people. Does it really make you happier if Amazon keeps those pennies instead of me using them to pay Linode? If I point you in the direction of a bad product on Amazon, it&#
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by Encosia 12y ago
Speaking as someone who runs several sites which cater to several demographics, you are very correct.
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by Encosia 12y ago
I think you're too suspicious in the case of developers reviewing books. There's just no where near enough upside in Amazon affiliate money, compared to what people in our profession make normally, for anyone to ruin their credibi
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by Encosia 12y ago
Keep in mind that a lot of ad blockers are blocking third-party analytics too these days, so measuring an AdBlock ratio by pushing events into GA isn't going to be very accurate. I display a gentle plea to whitelist my site ( http:&#x2
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by Encosia 12y ago
When no dialogs are open, the overwhelming majority of the UI is WPF now though, to my knowledge. I remember running debug builds of 2010 that showed paint rectangles and there was basically nothing that wasn't WPF even in that first W
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by Encosia 12y ago
Visual Studio itself is a WPF app, for what it's worth. I can't imagine Visual Studio being rewritten as a "Modern" app any time soon. So, it makes sense that MS will continue to invest in WPF.
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by Encosia 12y ago
If I understand correctly, the implication is that if science can make us live a thousand years, a 62 year old would be almost every bit as vital as a 32 year old. The life extension would be at a fundamental level, not just keeping older f
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by Encosia 12y ago
As a student, you should look into this program: https://www.dreamspark.com/ There are some great cross-platform developments in the pipeline that should allow you to have a native Linux experience approaching VS the future
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by Encosia 12y ago
A big part of that is employers not wanting to invest in someone who is about to permanently leave the workforce. If the retirement age scaled with lifespan, or adapted along the lines of what landryraccoon suggested, that would probably ch
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by Encosia 12y ago
About as well as Xcode runs on my Windows machine, but there are always VMs. (I wasn't who downvoted you, BTW)
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by Encosia 12y ago
There's been a free version of each Visual Studio release for about ten years.
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by Encosia 12y ago
There was a pretty painful, several-hour Azure outage recently, but 102 outages is over an order of magnitude higher than my Pingdom/Clicky uptime data for a few sites in US East last year.
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by Encosia 12y ago
Caching HTML to disk via W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache is really all you need on most hosting. I never got around to putting Apache behind nginx, but have still survived some relatively large traffic spikes for a personal blog (e.g. 100k
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by Encosia 12y ago
There's a spec table toward the top of the article that specifically mentions Linux support (though that's a bit vague).
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by Encosia 12y ago
There was a specific mention of Linux support in one of the spec tables toward the top of the article.
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by Encosia 12y ago
2015 Community Edition (which is basically VS Pro) will be free for non-enterprise use.
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by Encosia 12y ago
IE has been automatically updating for a while now.
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Microsoft reportedly working on brand new web browser for Windows 10(theverge.com)
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by Encosia 12y ago
I wasn't selling a commodity product or very fungible service, so that type of bidding process wasn't relevant to these particular situations. In the end, my government clients all received great total value (i.e. relatively high
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by Encosia 12y ago
It can be tricky to balance between going broke and accidentally showing ads that some users dislike when you're using a large network like AdSense. As someone with a browsing profile that isn't targeted by those kind of ads, I&#x
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by Encosia 12y ago
This has not been my experience with selling to US State governments. Most (all?) are required to the take the lowest bid that satisfies their requirements, but they are free to craft their requirements so that only one vendor can possibly
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by Encosia 12y ago
Wait, what? In terms of market share, OS X is to Windows as Windows Phone is to iOS. Sometime about a year ago, Windows 8 alone already had higher market share than all versions of OS X combined, and has only been increasing the lead since.
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by Encosia 12y ago
Do you recall how you found the first version that you purchased? What I'm wondering is if the free marketing on sites like Armor Games was a key part of the initial push to be discoverable on the app store rankings. Of course, the exi

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