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by borland 9y ago
Very much agree with this. Having developed many websites and many apps, HTML and CSS are really quite terrible when compared to something like iOS' auto-layout system, or even something like a DockPanel in Xaml (WPF on windows) Howeve
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by borland 9y ago
This is the exact opposite to ruby, which uses `0..n` as inclusive, and `0...n` as exclusive http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9690801/difference-betwee... I always remembered it as "the third dot makes it b
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by borland 10y ago
A plus one from me. I've used WSL for the last couple months to run a bunch of ruby and postgresql based stuff and once I got past a few teething problems upgrading it from ubuntu 14.04 to 16.10 it's been excellent. The performanc
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by borland 10y ago
Urgh. I don't agree that Winmerge is "beautifully polished", even measured against the low bar of open source software. It's ugly and hard to use - I'd switch to beyond compare every time.
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by borland 10y ago
Personally I'd say .NET, but I've got a windows development background. On many angles (open-source project count, speed of most-optimized code, etc) I think Java is clearly ahead - however on many other angles, I think .NET wins.
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by borland 11y ago
> judging the direct merit of each others work is hard. Mostly because the work is a spectrum between “core” work, that is required, and “new features” You can't implement the new features without the core work to provide a foundati
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Show HN: A C# Implementation of Apple's Grand Central Dispatch Serial Queues(github.com)
7 points by borland 11y ago|0 comments
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by borland 12y ago
BEWARE. When I try log in it says my apple account has been locked out for security reasons. I went and reset the password and successfully logged into a bunch of other apple stuff, but when I tried to log into maps connect it said I was lo
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by borland 12y ago
I really like the look of the "Sections" for managing setup/teardown of tests. I'm envious and next time I'm hacking on our in-house C# test framework I'm going to try very hard to implement them! Neat!
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by borland 13y ago
I like iOS 7 a lot. Why isn't anyone saying so?
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by borland 15y ago
Where's the "Yes, but I never actually use the interface, only third party apps like Reeder on iOS" ?
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by borland 16y ago
UTC+13, even. We're still on daylight savings time in NZ
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by borland 16y ago
Of course not! You're trying to sell software right? If you had some customers at your startup coming to you and saying "Well, we want to use your software, but we don't like your pricing, so we're just going to pirate it instead, is that O
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by borland 16y ago
I get slowdowns caused by text rendering in terminal when rsyncing large numbers of files. It's easily worked around though, just minimize the terminal window
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by borland 16y ago
I'd disagree with web workers needing to access the DOM. If you're storing application state in the DOM, you should reconsider the design (or lack thereof) of your application. And sure, I'd like IE9 support too. And a pony.