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by balakk 15y ago
> until they start offering Linux nodes, which will, in all certainty, never happen. I wouldn't be too sure - it is a serious gap in their offering, and MS can be pragmatic if it's to their advantage. > How does it deal with autosca
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by balakk 15y ago
I guess you'll have to wait a bit. Azure VMs don't have a persistent file system yet; and the Azure Drive is not quite a reasonable alternative.
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NASA's new Mars rover "Curiosity" to carry nuclear batteries(mars.jpl.nasa.gov)
18 points by balakk 15y ago|8 comments
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by balakk 15y ago
I like this a lot. I'm a lil too cheap to buy, but I'll at least throw in a word of appreciation :) This is almost an essential service; it's what Google Reader should be; it's slicker, tasteful and fast. Some suggested improvements: The to
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by balakk 15y ago
Similar library from MS : RxJS: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11/HTM07 It's available for the CLR as well: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/gg577609
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by balakk 15y ago
If I am not completely mistaken, the pattern that's being hinted is called Command-Query Responsibility Segregation(CQRS) in certain circles: http://cqrsinfo.com/documents/cqrs-introduction/ While making the problem easier, I do not know
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by balakk 15y ago
I always thought loon was a shortened term for "lunatic". Not that I'm calling RMS one.
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by balakk 15y ago
It can be used with MVC, but the problem is MVC is still C# centric - as in the scaffolding bits that it generates are C# (or VB). There's also the question of Razor supporting F#, which is not yet there. I remember somebody spiking some c
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How can a time function exist in functional programming?(stackoverflow.com)
3 points by balakk 15y ago|0 comments
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Monads in F# - solving some poker questions(navision-blog.de)
1 points by balakk 15y ago|0 comments
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Survival skills: World's oldest man(Apr 2011)(mensjournal.com)
2 points by balakk 15y ago|0 comments
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by balakk 15y ago
Hi, yes these were just published on the MSDN site. There's some material from the book, and some new content. For additional background, here's the author's post: http://tomasp.net/blog/real-world-book-msdn.aspx
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by balakk 15y ago
Ironic that SQL is mentioned here - I think the idea is close to Multi-version concurrency control, which "real" databases have been doing for years now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiversion_concurrency_contro...
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Real World Functional Programming - Book excerpts(msdn.microsoft.com)
52 points by balakk 15y ago|2 comments
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by balakk 15y ago
If you use Windows, there's built-in Speech recognition. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms723627(v=vs.85).as... There's a server version of it with Microsoft Lync I think. Microsoft also has a cloud service for the same: http://
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by balakk 15y ago
I was thinking bigger.. how about a new car? electric of course. Completely different from what we know. A mobile computer we can travel in.
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by balakk 15y ago
I need an "Arrange" feature.
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by balakk 15y ago
I've been using Opera for about 11 years now. When I started, there was nothing that was better. Even with that huge advertisement widget. It still is extremely competitive, if not leading in most things. For casual browsing it is unmatch
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by balakk 15y ago
i thought jugaad was a hack.. not a native hindi speaker though. It's a word that has exactly the same +ve and -ve connotations of a hack.
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Zip files all the way down(research.swtch.com)
4 points by balakk 15y ago|0 comments
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by balakk 15y ago
I'm curious, what's with the cruddy URLs? For eg: https://plus.google.com/113882113745075873153 Why the gargantuan number? Yeah, it's in trial, but still..
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by balakk 15y ago
> The question at that point is naturally "But if you don't know that's a GET request then why are you using an API?" Your efforts to build what you perceive as the more accessible API is appreciated. However please take the time to und
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by balakk 15y ago
I think you're mixing up multiple things. - HTTP is a protocol. - HTML is a markup lanaguage. - REST is an architectural model for building web services . They are all different. > HTTP is not a programming language.. > HTTP status
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Organizational charts in major tech companies.(flowingdata.com)
2 points by balakk 15y ago|0 comments
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by balakk 15y ago
VMRole still isnt IaaS, since it doesn't have the equivalent of EC2's EBS backed instance storage. The Azure drive is close, but still not the same. So if you need persistence on the instance storage, you'll still have issues. I hear it's
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by balakk 15y ago
The author responds to that point in the blog's comments section.
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C# Light Syntax(trelford.com)
1 points by balakk 15y ago|2 comments
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by balakk 15y ago
More precisely, the Azure storage API is HTTP/REST-like. Hence it practically supports any language that has a HTTP stack.
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by balakk 15y ago
In Opera 11.11, I seem to get a max of 8 instances going, but not more. Is there a technical limitation, or a deliberate restriction? Memory seems to be OK, the browser is just past a Gig. Although this is a 32-bit OS, I don't see a memory
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by balakk 15y ago
On windows have a look at http://poshconsole.codeplex.com/ Same idea, with powershell as the base.

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