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   by dschobel 17y ago

   Sounds great, I just hope you guys have fantastic privacy controls when munging all those various networks together.
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   by dschobel 17y ago

   If OP and his up-voters think a creature pawing at something is a grand UX insight, more power to them. My only point is that the fact that this has been flagged before puts them in a minority.
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   by dschobel 17y ago

   That's not the point. The point was that a large number of people thought it not HN worthy. Your individual dissent doesn't matter. Sorry, democracy sucks.
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   by dschobel 17y ago

   Truth is the ultimate defense for libel suits. Saying "elite dating.com (or whatever site it is) sued a person I know for $800 for contesting the charges of a CC and here is the proof" cannot be libel, plain and simple.
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   by dschobel 17y ago

   plinq only parallelizes in-memory operations and delegates the interaction with the data-store to whatever adapter you're using. the AsParallel() should make it clear that you're taking an existing data-set (retrieved in whatever manner you
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   by dschobel 17y ago

   integrated tools to support full software development life-cycle: things like version control, test runners, parameterizable builds, etc. plus the option for commercial support.
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   by dschobel 17y ago

   That's probably a reference to their new Code Contracts feature: Code Contracts provide a language-agnostic way to express coding assumptions in .NET programs. The contracts take the form of pre-conditions, post-conditions, and object inva
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   by dschobel 17y ago

   found some concrete info from Scott Guthrie's twitter feed (he's the VP of the MS Developer Division). ------------------------------- MSDN Subscribers & WebsiteSpark/BizSpark members can download VS 2010 Monday morning. The final relea
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   by dschobel 17y ago

   Is it slower than any of the other enterprise grade IDEs (eclipse or intellij)? I haven't used the later in ~12 months but I don't remember them being particularly speedy in comparison. The only things I truly find insufferably slow in VS a
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    and I haven't had any luck finding the release version (not RC) of .net 4 runtime.
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    F# is a first class language alongside C# and VB. Major new threading framework which let's you write things like: Parallel.For(0, 100, delegate(int i) { doWork(i); } ); and to parallelize your LINQ queries with the AsParal
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    Great line re: the 'pick up artists'-- If it all sounds cheesy, tedious, manipulative, obvious, condescending to women, maybe kind of gay, it’s because it is. Pretty funny to read that coming from the Weekly Standard.
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    I don't mean to interrupt you guys but you're arguing politics on a technology site. Please stop.
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    What percentage of lines of code written for the twitter platform have just been clients? I'd be shocked if it wasn't the overwhelming majority. It may be a simple principle but it is a change in position and it screws over _a_lot_ of peopl
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    How can you reconcile: "...when we dug in a little bit we realized that it was causing massive confusion among user's who had an iPhone and were looking to use Twitter for the first time. They would head to the App Store, search for Twitte
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    Linus Torvalds famously said the same exact thing whilst bashing C++ (instead of Ruby as Zed does here). C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    I don't how long that will be true though. Xbox Live is integral to the Xbox experience and now has a fb application and all sorts of social games (1 vs 100, etc). Between that and the internet TVs which are accruing hype by the day, I thin
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    Not John Carmack, but what about a junior dev? What about the QA people? How far down the chain do you go with who gets to take a copy home? On a large operation you can't rule out the bitter ex-employee factor either.
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    The best antidote I've found to the hamster wheel of achievement for achievement's sake is Eastern philosophy. In particular, Alan Watts has been a revelation for me as he has a really jocular and irreverent view of life which is a great co
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    Ditto. Especially after one made a glib comment in front of his intern how a simple procedure (a nerve test) could potentially puncture my lung but it was my decision whether I wanted it. "What would you recommend for a family member" gets
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    It took him +1000 words to say "when it's ready". That was an epic feat of verbiage.
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    iPad as digital gameboard... that could be pretty compelling. I'd love to have a really nice high-resolution digital chessboard.
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    I think in a relatively niche community where the readership submits the content and then determines what's popular, ranking probably correlates better with quality vs billboard or other mass media where the relationship is strictly produce
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    Just the stuff worth reading from Hacker News What's the algorithm for what makes it to this site? Or is it some random guy's editorial discretion?
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    Thanks! But how can they determine the peak if they don't know how much remains unfound in offshore reserves?
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    [citation needed]
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    Yeah I don't know about the passive aggressiveness thing but it definitely shows a level of casualness that I'd be surprised to see in an interview or in a meeting with a potential investor. We once had a candidate bust an apple out of his
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    yep, they did it in 2008: http://github.com/blog/31-back-to-subversion . they amended the post since then: While this post was made in jest originally, head over to Announcing SVN Support to see that we have really, truly built this funct
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    That seems to be exactly the case. This is the full passage from the email: The next batch of units will ship no later July 30th, 2010. Based on your pre-order date (11/24/2009), you should expect your WakeMate no later than 07/30/2010, bu
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    by dschobel 17y ago

    You are correct, there is no persistence. 0MQ is basically just a step above socket level communications, while obviating all of the tedious BS socket programming forces you to do. Here's a good intro to 0MQ from lwn.net, along with sample