WDCDev

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by WDCDev 10y ago
Police unions want large busybody departments and they don't care who pays. They just know that once a new police officer is hired SOMEONE will pay.
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by WDCDev 10y ago
Our Sydney EC2 DB instance is stuck spinning in the "stopping" state so we are basically offline right now. The team is working on getting a new DB instance set up, but I read that our payment provide, Westpac, is also having is
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by WDCDev 11y ago
This is a horrific comparison, and supports the case for more diversification of Apple's product lines not less. Kimberly Clark is an extremely diversified company in the home goods and HBA market. Some of the brands they own: Kleenex
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by WDCDev 11y ago
Why invest in Apple if so much of its value is wrapped up in one product line? This is the challenge facing Apple.
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by WDCDev 11y ago
Corporate exploitation of our natural resources is an entirely different topic. There are some tangential parallels, but overall I find that analogy pretty weak.
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by WDCDev 11y ago
The difference between then and now is that there is much more awareness about what is considered right and wrong with regards to our national parks. Not only that, but folks are much more educated now then they were 100 years ago. You wou
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by WDCDev 11y ago
Because in both cases I linked to, the perpetrators were under the age of 25. Sure it's anecdotal ... but you did ask.
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by WDCDev 11y ago
I REALLY want to explain this away as the complaining from some grumpy park rangers. Then you have these stories and you begin to wonder if there is something generational going on. Prom Date spray painted on Black Rocks - http:/&#x2F
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by WDCDev 11y ago
Last I saw it was about an even when expressed as a percentage of GDP (around 44%). I don't think the that really invalidates my main point. The Chinese have a massive industrial over-capacity that will have to be either liquidated or
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by WDCDev 11y ago
The best evidence I have seen for falling Chinese demand for natural resources is over-capacity, and not some tranistion to a services based economy. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/07/more-pain-ahead-for-china-st
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by WDCDev 11y ago
Heh ... I immediately thought Kozmo.com myself. History is repeating itself.
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by WDCDev 11y ago
Investing in HomeAway based on Airbnb's value assumes BOTH are fairly valued. HomeAway's p/e is over 400 right now on a $3 billion market cap. AirBnB is valued at $51 billion.
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by WDCDev 11y ago
Self censorship is one of social media's greatest accomplishments.
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by WDCDev 11y ago
Do you honestly want to work for an organization that would ding you for sending a .doc or .docx? I surely don't.
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by WDCDev 11y ago
I had a missed payment on a less than $10 balance and was hit with a $25 overage. I complained, had the overage removed, paid my bill and since then have never used their service again.
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by WDCDev 11y ago
WCF has quite a bit of adoption in the .NET community. I am currently working on a major WCF project that uses TCP streaming and named pipes. This is the third project I have worked on that uses WCF, and I have been working on the .NET pla
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by WDCDev 11y ago
Yeah I am not so sure I would serve content using Katana. I am using it to horizontally scale out data services used by clients around the world, hosted in Azure. It's simple to deploy and manage. I also don't have to mess with
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by WDCDev 11y ago
Katana can host your services for you outside of IIS. You can use Web API and Nancy with it. I am sure someone has figured out how to setup servicestack as well.
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by WDCDev 11y ago
WCF was built for the WS-* world, and as such is over-loaded with complexity that is covered up by way way too much abstraction. If you don't need WS-*, use Web API services self hosted with Katana if you need to exchange data between
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by WDCDev 11y ago
It's not just private prisons, it's the correctional officer unions too. They benefit greatly from large prison populations.
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by WDCDev 11y ago
To give you some perspective. When Time Warner and AOL merged back in 1999, AOL was valued at $166 Billion.
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by WDCDev 11y ago
That's ridiculous. No one's commitment to any organization or cause should be questioned if they choose to see their child born vs. coming into work.
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by WDCDev 11y ago
Tablets are content consumption devices first, and productivity devices second. I love my iPad, but I see very little reason to upgrade it considering its perfectly suitable for reading books, browsing the web and watching the occasional m
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by WDCDev 11y ago
You can. I just drag the arrow that appears on broken execution "upwards" to a previous line of code. There might be another way to do it.
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by WDCDev 11y ago
- .net which is just a renamed MFC - This ridiculous comparison shows just how clueless you are about the .NET platform and Windows development.
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by WDCDev 11y ago
WPF is, by far, the most pleasant and flexible thick client, windowing system out there. XAML is a bit verbose, but the binding capabilities combined with an open source MVVM framework like Caliburn allow you to build extremely flexible UI
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by WDCDev 11y ago
The entire runtime stack is open source. https://github.com/dotnet/corefx https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr
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by WDCDev 11y ago
The push to open source started under Ballmer and has been gaining momentum the past few years. You saw some of the very early open source work debut when Scott Guthrie open sourced ASP.NET MVC 2 in 2010. He (Guthrie) blogged a few times a
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by WDCDev 11y ago
Me too, and it is why I am more active here than on Reddit. The fact that Reddit has to tag posts as "serious" gives you an indication of how challenging it is for interesting and honest discussion to take place over there.
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by WDCDev 11y ago
Speaking personally, yes I am very excited about .NET on *nix platforms. I am currently working on architecting a decent sized cloud application using .NET, Django and ElasticSearch. The entire platform will be built on Linux (CentOS or U

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