RuadhanMc

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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
Mono was collateral damage of Novell's purchase by Attachmate. Mono probably didn't rate a mention in the negotiation's around Novell's acquisition. The idea of a safety net for projects like these is just an illusion. There's never a safet
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
Attachmate has no obligation to do anything. They could just discontinue MonoTouch, Mono for Android, etc, and all existing customers would be left up shit creek without a paddle. So the fact that they have signed an agreement that gives Xa
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
This is really great. The future of Mono was not assured there for a while, but things are really looking up now. I guess the conspiracy theories about Microsoft trying to crush Mono by proxy through Attachmate were way off base.
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Novell and Xamarin Partnership around Mono(tirania.org)
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
Perhaps what we need is a radical shake up of our schooling system, but also a re-evaluation or how we raise our kids. Chew on this: "Nearly 6.2 million students in the United States between the ages of 16 and 24 in 2007 dropped out of high
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
Society as a whole gets richer, but within those confines the rich can get richer and the poor can get poorer. Granted the poor today (I assume) have a higher quality of life than they did 50 years ago, but their expectations for life are a
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
That's not been my experience.
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
That is pretty staggering... This too: "When ABBA was active, only the Volvo car company made more money in Sweden.".
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
Pretty sure that you are thinking of Norway. Sweden doesn't do oil in any serious way. Sweden is trying to be oil-free. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Sweden_an_Oil-Free_Socie... According to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
If they aren't already doing this, then they should really start soon.
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
I wonder if there is anyway for them to balance "extensive testing, and careful releases" with "getting a quorum so that the early adopters find it useful". There is a way, but they need to do more groundwork. Facebook started University
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
I think he was comparing life generally in the US and other Western Countries to life in Russia, China, Iran, etc. Western Countries are no angels, but by and large their is far less repression and corruption. BTW -- the Government is made
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
He's getting stuff done. That's what great programmers do. Also, a PDF viewer isn't simple . If he can write a PDF viewer -- that works with a variety of PDF files -- in a short space of time, I wouldn't really mind how he organizes the co
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
It is probably because people are comfortable with the familiar. Sure, a warmer earth might be a positive-sum change, but there's an equally good chance that it won't be. So why take the risk of losing what you have if you can avoid it?
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
Is removing bias even possible? I mean, even if you succeed from removing your own personal bias, can you be sure that the person who wrote the material from which you learned had successfully removed their bias? And the person from which t
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
Dammit Microsoft. I'm rooting for you but you just don't get it, do you? Someone that tries to please everyone, ends up pleasing no one. Touch + mouse does not compute. It's like mating a horse with a donkey. Do you really want your next pr
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
If Microsoft abandons .NET... I'm done.
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
Yes, it irks me too. I consider myself a "hack" when it comes to programming. I tinker, I play, I build, but I have mostly surface knowledge. "Hacker" is a term that should be reserved for real programmers who actually know what they are do
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
Hopefully it means the death of Messenger. And hopefully they don't make Skype like Messenger. They really did their best to kill Messenger over the years with all the re-writes.
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
Hence the "logical" bit. It's not logical to have the period or commas outside of the quote if the quote actually includes a period or comma.
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
Well that is a fair point. It is a bit annoying how Microsoft tries to fit groups of products under the same umbrella even when they do not necessarily fit together. I have grave fears for Skype.
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
Wasn't part of the problem for eBay that they did not actually own the core p2p technology that Skype used and instead licensed it from the former owners? Has Microsoft purchased that as well or are they just going to write their own? In wh
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
I'm not denying it -- I just took issue with your sweeping statement. Taste when talking about programming languages, frameworks and so on, is individual (like everything else in life where "taste" is involved). Since Microsoft's Server and
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
taste ... a statement that is high on sugary content but low on nutritional value.
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
WinC++ is a pretty average name. What was wrong with Visual C++? Seems like a pointless change which they will probably waste a few million on.
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
Until Embarcadero release a 64-bit compiler for Delphi they will not attract any new developers.
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
I imagine that the experiences that you have while taking certain drugs don't just exist in a vacuum and disappear when you re-join earth. They stay with you. It is another experience to add to all of the other experiences that you have had
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
It's not really a different discussions if you viewed scored comments as filtered comments.
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
How about just having a finite amount of time in which to read the news? I'd prefer to focus on attention on filtered comments rather than waste time skimming hundreds of comments.
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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
Without the comment scores we're confronted with a wall of text that is hard to filter. Should I have to read every single comment just to find the gems? Comments scores have their downsides but they make filtering out noise much easier. Un

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