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by gecko 13y ago
I'm kind of surprised how close Typed Clojure is to Typed Racket. At a quick glance, they're almost indistinguishable.
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by gecko 13y ago
What's wrong with ClickOnce? I've not used it from a developer's perspective, but Chrome's installation (which uses it) always seems smooth as butter.
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by gecko 13y ago
VS 2013 adds fix-and-continue to x64 builds. That right there is enough for me. Beyond that, though, I'd encourage you to at least look at VS 2012, get past the superficial changes, and look underneath. There were a lot of performanc
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by gecko 13y ago
Unless you really need a GUI, it's insanely easy to do exactly this with PowerShell workflows ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134242.aspx ).
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by gecko 13y ago
The DOM is accessible through a dynamic, so you can directly manipulate it from your .NET language of choice.
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by gecko 13y ago
If you've historically ignored Smalltalk due to its ecosystem or non-native UIs, I'd like to suggest you take a look at Amber ( http://amber-lang.net/ ), a Smalltalk that runs on Node and works great for web dev.
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by gecko 13y ago
I get what you're saying, but it's also really weird to me. You cannot sanely use Pharo or Squeak to write native apps right now; that's totally true. You also couldn't do that for Visual Works, except for a very narrow
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by gecko 13y ago
Oh, come on. Bitbucket and GitHub both emerged at the same time; neither is a copy of the other, nor do GitHub's founders think that.
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by gecko 13y ago
I'm not exactly going to say that Visual Studio is heaven on Earth, but I can also say that I haven't seen unresponsive alert bubbles or HRESULT-based crashes since maybe 2005, and possibly the first version of VS.NET. I think
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by gecko 13y ago
PowerShell and Python both make fairly lousy CLIs out-of-the-box, and you can already talk to .NET objects in Python through either IronPython or pywin32's COM interop, depending on what you're up to. In other words: you can alre
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by gecko 13y ago
If you want some more context, I think that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678501 was the inspiration for the blog post, in part because I have a rant attached to that comment.
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by gecko 13y ago
What conclusion did you expect I'd draw, had I compared those two? I have zero experience with Oracle, and copious amounts with both PostgreSQL and MS SQL, so I was focusing on things I actually knew about.
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by gecko 13y ago
I can pretty much promise we are never going to do a BlackBerry app.
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by gecko 13y ago
I'll be honest and say that I'm a bit mentally exhausted from the NSA stories, but I think it's really healthy that they stay in the news so that people don't forget about the issues, and that we remain motivated to get
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by gecko 13y ago
At this point, your best bet, by far, is simply to host your own.
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by gecko 13y ago
Microsoft won't support a 14 year old C Standard because it's "really a C++ compiler"? When, exactly, did it from being a "C compiler" too? Since at least the last PDC, that's been the of
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by gecko 13y ago
Designated initializers are (thankfully) among the subset of C99 that is actually getting added in the next MSVC release.
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by gecko 13y ago
That looks more like what Windows 8 should've looked like in some alternative universe, rather than an upcoming copy of OS X. (Which is, I think, telling about the aesthetic movement going on right now.)
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by gecko 13y ago
I used to use it heavily. In the last few months, I've also been using C++ heavily, because I'm working on some heavy performance boosts for Kiln Harmony. But I believe I am the only person in the entire company writing C++ at t
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by gecko 13y ago
This gets repeated a lot, but I'll say it again anyway: MSVC is a C++ compiler. It happens to support some C99 (and will support more in VS2013, actually), but that's not its focus. While I, and many other Windows developers, fe
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by gecko 13y ago
Congress can legally pass laws abridging freedom of speech, and has always been able to do so. For example, if someone were to talk up and threaten my life, that is not legally protected speech. Nor is blackmail, for that matter, nor the
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by gecko 13y ago
Emacs has actually had that feature for awhile. It's a bit of a mixed blessing, to be honest; while it's great that you don't have to remember to close files when you're done with them, the asymmetry of the feature (fil
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by gecko 13y ago
Why on Earth would you not upgrade to at least Windows 7?
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by gecko 13y ago
I think CouchDB is vastly underrated as a hacker database for toy projects. We're talking about an incredibly simple database, with powerful replication abilities, with brain-dead administration, and one-click offsite backup and synch
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by gecko 13y ago
EOF, sure, but WebObjects in general? You don't actually want that. You just think you do. Look: WebObjects was amazing at the time. But have you used it recently (meaning in the last several years) to write something? Because it
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by gecko 13y ago
Seriously? Your two examples make the counterpoint to your argument. The first example in Python would be some variant of @get('/') def whatever(): return "Hello World!" Or in Ruby: get &quo
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by gecko 13y ago
The first vulnerability listed isn't a huge deal; it only applies when AiCloud is activated, which I suspect most people don't. On the other hand, the second vulnerability listed--that UPnP is available on the @#%( WAN port --sho
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by gecko 13y ago
3) If attacker has physical access to machine, and machine is powered on (direct memory access via Thunderbolt or Firewire) This may have changed, but turning on FileVault used to disable DMA in many situations (lapt
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by gecko 13y ago
It's not mobile; it's old versions of Mono having a completely shit GC. Do you know whether Unity has upgraded to SGEN yet?
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by gecko 13y ago
I don't work on the kernel, but I'd note that you can very comfortably run Windows Server headless on 512 MB of RAM--just like you can with Linux. (MySQL will experience hellishly Pavlovian pain on either OS with that little RAM,

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