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Wow, this is painful. Definitely an early contender for worst rebrand of 2016. The video, oy-vey, pretentious does not begin to describe it. Their logo represents bits and atoms? What?.. but, why?
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Cool. If the author is viewing this, could you set a min threshold for the tooth count?
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One thing to note is that light perception in human vision is not purely additive - especially when focal planes are taken into consideration. With proper light-field technology (i.e. actual projections within a focal plane) the effect of n
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I don't think that an agency should be responsible for the testing, just ensuring that software development best practices are in place, and that the company is actually doing their internal testing.
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I am not advocating that every aspect of a system is tested by an agency, I am simply saying that there should be a body that ensures that safety-critical software development follows a basic set of best practices - avoiding some of pitfall
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Isn't it time for an oversight agency that looks at code quality within safety-critical systems? The FDA forces oversight of drugs that less than 100,000 people a year will take. Yet there is no agency looking into the software qualit
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The question is why don't these APIs require authorization in the first place? Obfuscation is a terrible security practice.
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How does space debris reach a stable enough orbit that it doesn't just fall into the atmosphere and burn up? Also (maybe depending on the first question) wouldn't the chaotic nature of space debris collisions cause less stable orb
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"Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in the eyes of a jury "
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I think all of this hinges on your situation, but personally I would not want to do this. I would prefer to have check constraints on every method than have to bolt immutability into most C# paradigms (UI, Web) where it is not a first class
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Personally, I would call it a smell to have classes that only extend minor state, especially when this forces immutability into paradigms that do not have immutability as a prime component (.net UI frameworks for example). To me IsActive&#x
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C# certainly has other options to straight inheritance like explicit interfaces and extension methods.
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This is why in most C# paradigms developers would never implement this type of state-based class model. You'd have a user class, with all the required methods that guard (at runtime) against invalid states and transition mutably as req
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This filters based primarily on the 'activity' of the twitter account - maybe Sanders is more likely to convince someone to join twitter just to follow him...
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Relatively flat design is here to stay for a while. The trend though is getting away from purely flat, to flat with subtle edges, gradiens, shadows, etc. - generally flat design with better UI cues.
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I have a nest and like it, but the issue that I hope they have fixed is the inability to calibrate the temperature against a secondary thermometer. This is a major issue as the device is designed to work with a large span of voltages that c
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I definitely agree with you. I was being a bit facetious, but I should also have said you don't solely want to be a cost-cutting measure.
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There are two reasons a company hires a consultant: They want expertise not available in-house, or they want a cheaper price than in-house. If they question daily billing they are looking for the later. You don't want to be a cost cutt
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WPF is part of .Net.
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For the same reason they're using GitHub to host all of their new open source initiatives.
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Definitely a PR move to compete with the simultaneous hacking story.
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Indeed.
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I get it, I am just saying that there are a lot of ways to make a single LED light shine, potential energy from a weight is likely the least sensical.
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Years ago there was a similar 'potential energy to electricity' buzz and I was initially quite excited. Then I did the math on how much energy is actually available (even at 100% efficiency) from such a scheme. Spoiler - it's
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This is a real problem. Not one, but two great open source WPF control libraries I contributed to got 'taken over' (bought out I assume) by a major component seller (XCEED). Of course the community contributions disappeared as the
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I use WPF everyday and it has many great features. But sadly it was conceptualized before many of the 'modern' and best features of .net. The striking lack of type support (generics), and frankly broken separation between form and
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Since there is already a mix of predicates within the query (for sub objects) they should have unified the syntax. Something like: user { id: 3500401, name, isViewerFriend, profilePicture { size= 50, uri,
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Answers from the era. Would be interesting to note the changes.
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It's also funny that Americans speak of an all encompassing Canadian accent, when Canadians would never lump the Texan, Minnesotan, or New Jersey accents together. We are a vast, sporadically populated country with as many accents as a

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