StrawberryFrog

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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Yes but. Imagine yourself as a user of this service. You sign up, get the "email confirmation", think everything is good. A day later you notice that it isn't working, check up, actually read the email and click the link. Now you want to re
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
That sort of this is also easy to do in C# or any strongly typed language. Similar things in c# are the DBNull type which "Represents a nonexistent value" from a database ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.dbnull.aspx ) and T
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
C#'s type system is a bit messy over there. Besides Func<T> and Action<T>, there's also Predicate<T> , which works the same as Func<T, bool> except for being an entirely different type that's non-trivial to c
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
So, generic type erasure is still a bad idea.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
I don't think it's huge. Compare "Honey I lied about cheating on you" with "Honey, I didn't tell you that I was cheating on you". It's a fine line when it's information that you know is relevant.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> the law takes a backseat when security and anti-terror are involved Read that statement. Again. Are you worried yet? Are you saying that Europe is not governed by law, and citizens protections are optional there, or just that this is
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> There's a difference between hiding something and simply not announcing it loudly to the world But not a huge difference. It's something that would definitely be of interest.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Quite likely. That'd doesn't make it legal, necessary or even a good idea.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> There are a number of reasons why both the government and the companies would want to keep it secret: Which are much the same reasons why someone who has stolen a TV would want to keep that secret. It doesn't make it an idea worth enc
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
How does the "The Patriot Act seem to trump the EU law" ? In what sense? I reject the idea that a US law is more important in Europe than an European one. If that is what has happened, then it is wrong. If nothing was hidden, why is this po
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
"European Union legislation requires companies to protect the personal information of EU citizens" It's the law. What's more, it's a good law. I am concerned that they broke it, and seem to have tried to hide this.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
I have worked with coders who were lightning fast at asp.net, and those who wrote tested, maintainable, readable, extensible code that was an asset to the company years later. These are seldom the same person. Be careful. Still, for a start
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
MVC or webforms? I'm doing some MVC work at present, and it's a good platform (I can't compare it to RoR or others, I don't know them well enough, sorry). For those who know .Net well, the hard/novel part is the Javascript+jquery client-sid
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
"Plans to create new exceptions to copyright laws, including a "limited" right to copy legitimately purchased copyrighted material for private use were announced in the Government report. " http://www.out-law.com/page-12128 So if I read t
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
The grid element is one of the inputs from Microsoft. This is not very surprising - it uses the basic concepts from the grid in WPF and Silverlight. It's pretty a cool way to lay things out.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> If she hasn't had the locks changed by now, She did. I don't see why you need to speculate on that point; in her first blog post that brought this whole mess to our attention, she said "Although I had the locks changed" ...
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
You should guess that; since it's what she said. I don't know why cletus didn't pick up on that.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> Maybe it's different in London compared to NY I've seen the kind of guys described in zed's first para, in Finance in London. I don't think it's different, but YMMV.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Update: the same article can be found online here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9aac5f80-b924-11e0-bd87-00144feabd...
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> There's the potential that the mainstream media could have a field day with this. It's on the front page of the Financial Times today (Friday 29 July) in London. The article is fairly short, is based on the original blog post and the
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> Silverlight is still limited to Windows and Mac And as a direct consequence of Silverlight not being all that popular, that will not change. Sadly.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
they had that, it is called silverlight. People didn't want it all that much.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
It's hard to see what else you can do about destroyed family heirlooms.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
All right then. I'll give Tallulah von Strumpet-Hausen and Martin Soulstealer the benefit of the doubt ;) if your point is "you don't actually know" then mine is "you don't need to even care".
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> "we've made sure our customer is whole." When it gets to personal things like "found ... grandmother's jewelry" and "I don't have the mental energy to take those last few steps into my apartment. It's too creepy in there anyway." It'
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Your home owner / contents insurance almost certainly doesn't cover you for this, and never did. Letting a stranger stay for a few nights in exchange for money is not novel to Airbnb, and will be excluded.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
As far as I know "Fake" is the surname that she was born with.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
Oops, my mistake.
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by StrawberryFrog 15y ago
> If they had built something that looked and operated like a 747 nobody would have cared I don't entirely agree. With a space program that "looked and operated like a 747" - assuming you mean a relatively routine and reliable spaceplan

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