TheRealDunkirk

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by TheRealDunkirk 12y ago
With Microsoft, I think Minecraft 2 is a given. You didn't expect Disney to NOT release another Star Wars trilogy after acquiring the franchise from Lucas, did you?
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by TheRealDunkirk 12y ago
I ran Gentoo for about 5 years. Most people miss the point of it. It was created to create other "distributions." Where I worked, we actually needed that capability, but never found the time to create our own profile, and prune ou
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by TheRealDunkirk 12y ago
My dynamics professor mentioned to me that most of the physics world considered themselves to have conquered human knowledge at the end of the 19th century. The famous apocryphal quote from the head of the patent office saying that everythi
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by TheRealDunkirk 12y ago
I've never seen the Microsoft astroturf so vigorous. The same thing happened when this topic came up on /r/apple. I mean, it's /r/apple, and the pro-Microsoft position was the VAST majority of the comments and
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by TheRealDunkirk 12y ago
Well, crud. OK. Thanks for the warning. <hangs head/>
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by TheRealDunkirk 12y ago
I had seen that linked writeup before, but was confused, because much of that code looked unnecessary for EF6. I relegated it to only being applicable to version 4. Indeed, all I needed to do (as below) was use .SelectMany(). That being sai
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by TheRealDunkirk 12y ago
You're dead on. This was the missing link for me. I'd seen .SelectMany() in examples of self-referential tables, but not as the main tool to traverse sub-child relationships.
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by TheRealDunkirk 12y ago
THANK YOU for this link. It's extraordinarily on point for me. My boss went to the recent MSDN conference in Chicago, and he came away with the conclusion that we should not use it, so it may be out of my hands at this point. But your
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by TheRealDunkirk 12y ago
Yet another piece of mature web-development puzzle that Microsoft is trying to emulate. That's great, and good luck to them, but my recent efforts with trying to use Entity Framework suggest that this may not be a viable solution for a
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by TheRealDunkirk 13y ago
> Can you show me a work environment that is not hostile to anyone? That strikes me like saying that all sex is rape, it's just a matter of how violent or unwilling.
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by TheRealDunkirk 13y ago
I love all the random people piling on as though they're intimate with the parties or facts involved, taking 140 characters as a single data point to pair with their prejudices to draw a line to a foregone conclusion. It's a very
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by TheRealDunkirk 13y ago
Sure, it'd be great if the author open sourced it if he's no longer interested in doing it, but whatever. My license is still valid, and it still does everything I paid for it to do. If someone wants to take up the charge and make
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by TheRealDunkirk 13y ago
> Mono clearly undermines that b/c it allows you to "easily" jump ship to a free platform. You know, I tried that. I've tried to run about 3 .NET programs, written for Windows, under Mono on Linux. They all have had s
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by TheRealDunkirk 13y ago
And Ksplice.
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by TheRealDunkirk 13y ago
Email sucked for a decade because spam got out of control. I ran a hand-built email server in my home for years, and know this problem decently well. However, with the ability to train their filters based on SO MANY people, Google fixed it.
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by TheRealDunkirk 13y ago
I credit Nat and Miguel for making Linux on the desktop a possibility . (I believe it was Ximian desktop on RedHat that made people finally stop and think, "Hey, there might be something to this after all.") That being said, I wi
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by TheRealDunkirk 13y ago
Seems to me that a lot of what Joel was complaining about could be mitigated by some well-placed comments in the code. "This function is 2 pages long! Oh, this part does that, and THIS part does THAT. I see what's going on. This i
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by TheRealDunkirk 13y ago
"... can be absorbed by a healthy economy and healthy society..." Are we playing Spot the Problem with the Argument? Because I think I have a possible winner.
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by TheRealDunkirk 13y ago
People like this -- and I've known several -- are suffering from an acute case of knowing their situation perfectly well. They know that they don't warrant the salaries they're receiving for the work they do. They fight again
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by TheRealDunkirk 13y ago
I ran Linux on the desktop for almost 20 years, till recently taking a Rails job where EVERYONE used Macs, and finally bought a MBP. This refrain, "OSX is Unix," seems to be very common, but I'm not feeling it. As I just twee
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by TheRealDunkirk 13y ago
Whatever. If you don't think this sort of thing isn't happening at EVERY web top-100 web site, you've got another thing coming.
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by TheRealDunkirk 13y ago
And within this one microcosm, you've captured the entirety of the problem that we now face with the US government. No one is willing to sacrifice their vote for the greater good or long-term viability. All they care about is THEIR pocketbo
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by TheRealDunkirk 14y ago
Where's the "'bout tree-fiddy" option?
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by TheRealDunkirk 14y ago
The Linux desktop never did any better -- RELATIVE to the rest of the market -- than Ximian Desktop on Red Hat 6.2. If de Icaza wants to blame someone for the failure of the Linux desktop, I would point the finger back at him. He's the one
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by TheRealDunkirk 14y ago
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2012/postgresql-is-our-new-de... Despite the reasons they gave, did they see the writing on the wall that made this the time to make the leap?