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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Thanks for the tip, I'll check them out.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
That makes sense and sounds a lot simpler than how I was trying to read the samples at first.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
I should have but I haven't had time to look into it and understand it yet, maybe a future post. There's a lot of stuff in the framework for parallel programming now, time to figure out which is still relevant.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Hi HN, I wrote this post because I wanted to point out how far C# has come from it's V1 and suggest you have another look if you haven't seen it since then. Sometimes its reputation isn't deserved, though sometimes it is. I'd really appreci
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The Evolution Of C#(exceptionalasp.net)
13 points by barrydahlberg 16y ago|9 comments
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Took me a moment to realise the code is so weird because he's doing this in AutoCAD. My brain blocked out most of the site and went straight to the middle of the code.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Hah! Let's hope it wasn't the little boy on his home page then... http://sam.ai.ki/
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
The little boy picks it up and throws it again?
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
That's why it's nice that everything you need is free including web, Windows and even SQL. http://www.microsoft.com/express/ I think the best argument here is regard students running Macs at home which I have no reasonable counter to.
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Tell HN: Fiddler complains about Hacker News
42 points by barrydahlberg 16y ago|2 comments
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Fron what I read the Mono compiler for VB.Net is reasonably complete so to answer your question, it's there but more difficult than it should be.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Ah, thanks for the link. We don't have anything by that name but I did something equivalent that was specific to my university anyway.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
It depends if the learning environment is already all Windows or not. I don't hold much hope for a high school being anything but. The other thing people are forgetting is that starting with VB.Net gives a nice predictable IDE which any stu
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Fair comment and I kind of agree in spirit. Java hasn't really been living the dream lately though. At my high school we were taught to use Word and Excel because those were considered essential skills. We could have learnt Open Office or s
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
What is an AP exam? I'm from New Zealand so I'm guessing it's something we don't have.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
I'm using http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password primarily on my Windows machine and synced to my Mac via Dropbox. It still in beta for Windows but is working great for anything browser related. There are a few things it doesn't
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
They wouldn't require a lot of startup (if any) but wouldn't be able to raise a large amount of money, either. I think you just said everything is OK.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Undownvoted for being somewhat relevant. We are really talking about different languages though.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Although I should point, C# is my language of choice on .Net.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
VB.Net is far closer to C# or Java than VB6. It's like a real grown up OO language now.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
To be honest I think VB.Net is a decent choice for a high school level course. It's an approachable modern language backed by a huge framework with easy access to web, Windows and console programming. The IDE is free and relatively user fri
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Mm it's an interesting idea actually. E.g. I don't mind that other people message me via Facebook, I just find it annoying that I need to be there to read it.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
True but in theory the advantage with RackSpace is you can mix and match to balance the cost of your known requirements with the flexiblity for your unknown.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
I'm suprised to see a setup using 50+ instances running on RackSpace cloud, wouldn't it have made sense to start moving towards dedicated servers by then?
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
I think what I missed was a great big screenshot of browser with a "Send To BarryDahlberg" button in it. Random feature suggestion, when someone receives a link they should be asked "How do you want to receive Minklinks in future? Email, Tw
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Can you add something that tells me what it does without having to watch through to the end of the video? Even after watching it I'm wondering how it knows which friend I want to send to and why it's anti social, does it not say who it's fr
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
A pretty ordinary HP 15" laptop (6730b) is my main machine currently. It runs Windows 7 64 bit and the occasional Ubuntu VM where required. Currently open are: * Visual Studio 2010 (twice) * SQL Management Studio * Firefox (twice) * .Net Re
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
A fun example I had to deal with was a big site which processed lots of terribly formatted data to build its content. One particular rule for processing incoming data relied on breaking a big blob of text into very specific fields based on
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Because have you ever tried to file a bug report with MS? That's not really fair, there are some great teams in MS. My impression is that the difficulty of communicating with anyone useful correlates pretty well with how enterprisey the p
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Where are the http://www.gridspy.co.nz/ guys, this is right up their alley...

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