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by ecoffey 15y ago
That was incredibly insightful. I really liked the comments about Warrior Scholars.
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by ecoffey 15y ago
Really interesting reading that Joel on Software now. Had me thinking of the Jimmy Fallon skit where someone held up a QR code in the background that I scanned with my phone, opened in mobile youtube, and I was watching more content.
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by ecoffey 15y ago
(summarizing some observations from the chat). I really like the idea. I can see myself using it at coffee shops, or other places for impromptu groups. I wouldn't mind seeing a web-app just because I think that would be even easier to pull
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by ecoffey 16y ago
What about it is unusable? I think the GitHub commit monitor series is useful as a working example you can play around with.
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by ecoffey 16y ago
I feel like he is both right and wrong, and for all the wrong reasons. His hunch is that for the most part .Net developers are bad, and by and large I agree with that. Because .Net is used in a lot of Enterprisey places, and it's so easy t
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by ecoffey 16y ago
I love the remote it looks awesome. Just the shape of that box makes it seem like it would awkward to place it anywhere.
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by ecoffey 16y ago
Is that really the shape of the case? It looks ridiculous! EDIT: I used boxee about 6 - 9 months ago an old XP machine and it was nice, but still enough rough edges to be annoying at times. As anyone used it recently on say, a mac mini a
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by ecoffey 16y ago
GTK+ was my first foray into GUI programming when I was a kid, and I still think it's pretty slick. I really liked the concept of boxes and nesting stuff, and how it would figure out how to lay it out. And that it could all be done in cod
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by ecoffey 16y ago
I know some of the SimpleGeo folk, and they are highly intelligent, awesome people.
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by ecoffey 16y ago
I really like that Eric Lippert dropped this little nugget on us as the end of a long and nerdy blog series :-) I would love to shadow that compiler team for a week or two, and get to sit in on some of those discussions.
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by ecoffey 16y ago
I still want an option to default open the reply at the bottom of the message instead of the top
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by ecoffey 16y ago
The site definitely feels snappier than earlier versions! I'm excited to be able to this for more US domestic flights. Keep up the good work!
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by ecoffey 16y ago
I didn't want a subsidized one, since part of the attraction was that it would work with any GSM carrier.
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by ecoffey 16y ago
I was going to buy one after my t-mobile contract ran out. They just didn't give me enough time :-/
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Interesting insights into evolution of resource management in .Net (from 2000)(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by ecoffey 16y ago|0 comments
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by ecoffey 16y ago
I think read part of that as well, I just don't do Java dev day in, day out is all :-) But this got me thinking about compiler tricks in general, and how they can be a good thing. For instance in C# the keywords foreach, and using are just
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by ecoffey 16y ago
"parametric polymorphism" is fancy way to say "I'm declaring a type that is composed of other types". The canonical example is a set. In C# (that's what I'm familiar with) we have IEnumerable<T>. It represents enumerating over some
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by ecoffey 16y ago
You mean you support C# 2.0, since var, LINQ, et al run on .Net 2.0 :-P Doing a full blown Linq Provider would be pretty cool, but would also be very very very time consuming to get right. Expression trees are pretty cool, but you're still
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by ecoffey 16y ago
You don't need the cast :-) Func<int, int> Sum(int x) { return y => x + y; }
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by ecoffey 16y ago
I skimmed part of this, and had to giggle a bit at this quote (of a quote): "It's clear that C# isn't the best language to use for Web Development. Just ask the guys who are writing the frameworks with it." Sure C# is verbose. But I still
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by ecoffey 16y ago
"If the browser supports CSS3, Gmail will render the pages using these specifications, rather than its traditional approach of using the Document Object Model (DOM)." Better go build a GUI in Visual Basic to track the IP as well!
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by ecoffey 16y ago
You could use Reflection to search for types based on structure. But there is no syntax for it. Actually Linq + Reflection is some of the most entertaining code to write C#. Example: http://github.com/ecoffey/Bebop/blob/master/Bebop/Beb
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by ecoffey 16y ago
SIGH , climbs back on bike
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by ecoffey 17y ago
I would have to disagree with the other repliers that this is cultural. I was born and raised in the US (assuming that is the culture the article was working from), and I very much agree with a lot of what you said. I have a decent number
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by ecoffey 17y ago
I thought I was the only one who didn't pay attention to lyrics. My friend and I kinda of resemble that dynamic. He loves some of the shittiest songs (imo) because of interesting lyrical content, where as I totally ignore them. If I like
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Ask HN: Boulder, CO meetup
2 points by ecoffey 17y ago|0 comments
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by ecoffey 17y ago
Here is how I (try) and explain it to my coworkers when they say "svn branches as well". You are right. Svn can branch. Can. But branching in svn is always a dangerous proposition. There are a lot of mechanics involved with branching it
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by ecoffey 17y ago
I'm in!
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by ecoffey 17y ago
Haha, well right we're all different breeds of nerd. I was thinking about it more at lunch, and what really tweaks me is the whole "I do this cause it's a paycheck" vs "I do this because I hearts it" developer mentality. So maybe that's a b
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by ecoffey 17y ago
> it's more stuff like having people change the topic of conversation when you join in the circle This seems like a chicken and egg kinda thing. As a nerd I adjust my behavior when interacting with women and discussing CS-ey stuff, bec

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