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   Mobile industry undergoing promising transformation(economist.com)

   1 points by friism 18y ago|0 comments
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   Machines that can see (computer vision in advertising and more)(economist.com)

   1 points by friism 18y ago|0 comments
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   by friism 18y ago

   The MVP programme is highly regarded, I think -- perhaps that could be be amended to celebrate open source contributions to a wider degree or a parallel programme established. Codeplex and Microsoft releasing open source code in general (eg
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   by friism 18y ago

   I agree with spoiledtechie that C# is a nice programming language. Recent versions enable very concise higher-order functional (=fun) code to be written. The generics implementation has few warts and tooling is good. Another gem is SQL Serv
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   by friism 18y ago

   I agree, ASP.Net bends over backwards to give a winforms-like experience (which invariably it doesn't). Some features (databinding?) seem to have been incorporated just to enable drag'n drop visual development, which is only really useful w
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   by friism 18y ago

   Agreed, Real Genius captures the insanenes (sic) of Caltech and the people who go there perfectly.
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   by friism 18y ago

   Yeah, the conondrum of how to sum up the relevance of an article in a headline. I didn't mean to deceive, merely to give an edge to original titel.
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   by friism 18y ago

   You're absolutely right. I still think the article is uniquely relevant to TDD however, in that TDD explicitly mandates chopping tasks into small chunks and this research seems to validate that approach.
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   Motivating Minds (The Economist on why TDD makes you work harder)(economist.com)

   29 points by friism 18y ago|14 comments
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    by friism 18y ago

    I don't want to discredit Mr. Arringtons efforts (which do look positively herculean), but many months ago, with posts becoming increasingly scandalous in their wording I unsubscribed from the TC feed and haven't looked back. If the stories
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    by friism 18y ago

    We have have a similar thing in Denmark, it's called "stamp-support" (due do the cost of distributing). The logic goes that print media still serves as feeder for stories that eventually gets published online and therefore newspapers should
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    by friism 18y ago

    For C# and Java, I can recommend Peter Sestofts Precisely books. They're short and to the point: http://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/javaprecisely/ http://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/csharpprecisely/ (Author is my thesis advisor, so beware)
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    by friism 18y ago

    It's worth noting that Flex Builder 3 is free for students: https://freeriatools.adobe.com/flex/
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    by friism 18y ago

    Sorry.
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    Microsoft releases free, open source, MVC-based CMS(visitmix.com)

    5 points by friism 18y ago|8 comments
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    by friism 18y ago

    Has anyone bred one than gets past the dip after hill and doesn't somersault? The ones I have now seem to have optimum suspension for quickly motoring over the initial bumbs, but they all die in that damn ditch...
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    by friism 19y ago

    http://ted.europa.eu/Exec?DataFlow=ShowPage.dfl&Template... Quote: "Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. However, to prevent disruptions in service to our normal users from bulk downloads of TED data, we res
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    by friism 19y ago

    Scraping EU public procurement contracts from the "Tenders Europa Daily" database ( http://ted.europa.eu/ ). There's more than a million documents with each document requiring up to two requests. Been at it for several weeks with a multithr