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by douche 10y ago
Unfortunate title, since it's already dragging this into flamey territory... Any good information on the actual search engine? I'd never heard of it, it's before my time. TFA has about two paragraphs about it before bloviat
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Common Multithreading Mistakes in C# – Unsafe Assumptions(benbowen.blog)
203 points by douche 10y ago|78 comments
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by douche 10y ago
I'm getting there... Summer helps - I don't know what it is, but there seems to be more time in the day, even if I get up and go to bed at the same time during the winter.
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by douche 10y ago
The Pax Mongolica[1] was actually a great heydey of trade and travel across Eurasia. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Mongolica
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by douche 10y ago
Ah, it's not white privilege anymore, now the term du jour is white fragility. I can't keep up with this stuff...
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Why String Interpolation Is a BAD Thing(nicksnettravels.builttoroam.com)
1 points by douche 10y ago|0 comments
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Bring back alt.NET(dylanbeattie.net)
60 points by douche 10y ago|34 comments
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by douche 10y ago
It's really kind of cool how many of these old games were built on top of their own custom vms. Of course there is the Infocom Z-machine, going way back, that made porting between all the different microcomputers of that era somewhat
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by douche 10y ago
Maybe empathy is not a particularly useful trait for getting ahead in the world. Being overly sensitive to other people can certainly lead to a sort of paralysis-by-analysis.
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by douche 10y ago
Those Zimbabwe notes are pretty cool. Somewhere I still have the 100 billion dollar note my friend from college gave me - at the time I think it was worth about half a penny.
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by douche 10y ago
Thank flying spaghetti monster I work in a profession where you can get by on free conference t-shirts and a couple new pairs of jeans a year.
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by douche 10y ago
It's hard enough to reach a bank during its open hours, as a working person. Let's make it even more impossible, by offering it through the post office, which is seemingly never open during any time that one attempts to go the
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by douche 10y ago
> What do you call information that is produced to resemble reputable news sources but contains very little true information? The status quo. That's why I can't watch any of the national news stations. Foreign broadcasters are
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by douche 10y ago
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
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by douche 10y ago
And they were still shit all over for two generations after coming here. It's not so very long ago that Irish, or Italians, or Poles were thought of as not fully "white".
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TPL Dataflow Is the Best Library You're Not Using(blog.i3arnon.com)
3 points by douche 10y ago|0 comments
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Imaginary News(blog.dilbert.com)
2 points by douche 10y ago|1 comments
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by douche 10y ago
Switzerland developed the massed pike infantry formation tactics that dominated early-modern Europe before the advent of reliable firearms, crushed a major regional power (Burgundy), and exported mercenaries that formed the backbone of many
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by douche 10y ago
Come in early one day before everybody else gets there, pop open the panel over the overhead light above your desk, and unscrew the lightbulbs/florescent tubes. Best thing I ever did when I was in an office suite that had one switch f
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Mapping DataTables and DataRows to Objects in C# and .NET(exceptionnotfound.net)
2 points by douche 10y ago|0 comments
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by douche 10y ago
The other hand is what happens when parking lots get developed... Portsmouth, NH has made their downtown completely unvisitable by allowing three or four lots on the edge of the old downtown to be developed into mostly unoccupied luxury con
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by douche 10y ago
There were pretty extensive trading networks in the late Bronze Age[1]. I'm not sure what the accepted timeframe for the Trojan War is now, whether it is in that late bronze age period or has been pushed up into the following dark age,
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by douche 10y ago
There is a bit of an art to writing LINQ queries, but if you know what you're doing (i.e. spend a little time experimenting, with the traces turned on in EF or Linq to SQL that output the generated SQL, or a good profiler), you can wr
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by douche 10y ago
I never use the query syntax, or ever see it in any of the books or blogs I read, to the point that it threw me for a loop a little bit when I was studying for the C# certification exam, to see how emphasized it was. I learned that style lo
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by douche 10y ago
The weird SQL-ish query syntax is an abomination. But using the LINQ extension methods, making use of lambdas as you say, is gold. Most of it boils down to plain old functional map/fold/filter/zip constructs under different n
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by douche 10y ago
It took a lot of retrofitting on the F-4, too, once they were actually used in anger over the skies of South East Asia. Turns out that the technology for beyond-visual-range air combat wasn't quite ready then...
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Why LINQ beats SQL(linqpad.net)
98 points by douche 10y ago|137 comments
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by douche 10y ago
Two decent ones for game development: https://howtomakeanrpg.com/ Walks through building a JRPG-style game with Lua. Pretty impressive for the price, especially with all the royalty-free assets that are included. https:&#
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by douche 10y ago
We're mostly a MS shop, so we tend to use MS SQL Express instances on our dev machines. For the bulk of what we need to do day-to-day, this is exactly the same as if we were dealing with a full SQL server instance, a SQL cluster, or a
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by douche 10y ago
How were you doing it? It's definitely possible to embed DirectX in a WPF control, and not particularly hard to do, with SlimDX or SharpDX, in my experience.

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