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by gecko 14y ago
They have a couple of markets they can go after pretty easily. * Gaming. It's fairly easy to port games between Xbox and Windows, and this device has been shown to integrate nicely with Xbox. Whether that's enough is anyone's
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by gecko 14y ago
In general , Metro applications must go through Microsoft's app store. There are three exceptions: 1. You can add self-signed certificates and side-load. This is actually quite easy for developers, but a no-go for most people;
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by gecko 14y ago
Indeed, and combining it with pyflakes makes for a great combo, ensuring that code you commit both looks generally correct, and passes basic sanity checks.
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by gecko 14y ago
Okay; I get why we're having different experiences. When I'm writing managed code that needs to work heavily with COM, I write it in C++ using ATL, and expose that a level higher for calling from .NET. This avoids 90% of the issues you're
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by gecko 14y ago
I actually work at Fog Creek for Joel; I just happened to pick an absolutely horrid way to phrase what I was trying to convey. (I edited the original post to clarify.) The memory management is the part of COM that leaks through the abstrac
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by gecko 14y ago
Where have you found the abstraction leaky? I've generally found it works just fine; the only leaky part of it I've found is in some of the Microsoft-provided .NET wrappers, which I've seen leak memory. (Directly using the COM objects wor
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by gecko 14y ago
You can't send closures over channels in Go.
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by gecko 14y ago
If you accept the default prompts, it's enabled automatically on iOS 5, and, because it's keyed based on your phone number, also automatically used when messaging other iPhone users. Combined, not only do people use iMessage; it's resulted
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by gecko 14y ago
The new screen is the same width as the old; just taller. If you look at the images in that blog post, it's pretty clear that a taller screen would be fine. It's the wider screen that really suffers. So I think his points hold.
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by gecko 14y ago
Having been there at the time, IE on Mac was the best browser on that system at the time, by far . Netscape 4 looked like a bloated piece of crap that emulated random bits of Appearance Manager, crashed constantly, and had a nasty tendenc
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by gecko 14y ago
While that's true, the restriction is done in such a way that there'd be no sane way for most people to get their .emacs or equivalent loaded onto the thing, which would make such a port beyond useless. Android's far looser restrictions me
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by gecko 14y ago
OS X is not really a BSD. True, its userland comes from a mish-mash of NetBSD, FreeBSD, classic big-U Unix, and OpenBSD, in roughly that order, but xnu is not a BSD kernel, and while it supports many FreeBSD APIs (e.g., kqueue), that's don
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by gecko 14y ago
Historically, there were a collection of commands that ran on login (e.g., checking for mail, giving a security report, etc.) that you wouldn't want popping up when you were just firing up additional sessions with su or the like. I'm not s
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by gecko 14y ago
Rolling things up into a single response here: 1. Emacs Lisp is a real Lisp. Full stop. 2. That said, Emacs Lisp is based on MacLisp (no relationship to Macintosh), which has dynamic scoping, not lexical scoping
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by gecko 14y ago
I'm not on the Trello team, but I've spoken to them about this, and the short version is that it's tough as nails to do this in a sane way that also works across a wide-enough cross-section of browsers to be worth the dev time at the moment
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by gecko 14y ago
The iPad version is on its way, but it's a bit off yet. There's a vastly improved iPhone version that's going to come out first, plus...something else...that the team has been working on.
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by gecko 14y ago
It still does; I had to go through this yesterday. I don't mind Chrome so much per se , but this also means you need an application-specific password for Chrome OS, at least for he initial sign-on, which I find oddly frustrating.
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by gecko 14y ago
I'm a heavy Emacs user, and I don't agree with that statement. I can see three places you might be coming from and feel that way: you use Eshell; you use ansi-term mode with e.g. bash; or you simply barely ever hit shell, instead using th
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by gecko 14y ago
To give a counterpoint, I not only know maybe a half dozen people who voluntarily use Outlook; I know at least two who voluntarily use Outlook on a Mac . I think the fact that few developers enjoy using Outlook is causing you to overgene
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by gecko 14y ago
Kiln uses LINQ to SQL and Dapper, for the same reasons StackOverflow does: the combination combines speed with flexibility. We expect to ditch one or both in the medium future (we want to support more than just SQL Server), but it's a good
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by gecko 14y ago
I don't like it, and we don't use it at Fog Creek, but, yes, it's VERY heavily used on piles of projects I know. It's not as efficient or flexible as NHibernate, but it's far easier and vastly better integrated into Visual Studio, making i
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by gecko 14y ago
You would need to RDC into at least one machine and run the scripts from there, in that scenario--so no worse than where you are now. Note that Windows 8 removes the distinction between Pro and other editions.
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by gecko 14y ago
For the .NET components, yes, although I know there have been some rumblings about leaving it. (I don't know why; I don't work on that component.)
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by gecko 14y ago
We store it entirely in RAM. ES stores data on disk for persistence, but prefers to keep its working set fully in RAM, and will (by design) crash by default if it runs out of memory.
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Trello can now show you everything you're working on at once(blog.trello.com)
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by gecko 14y ago
We heavily use elasticsearch as part of Kiln's infrastructure. We've actually found it to be an insanely useful tool: it scales extremely well, it's highly redundant, it's trivial to extend, and it is fast . We've managed to move every
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by gecko 14y ago
"It depends." Generally speaking, your servers will be bound to the same Active Directory domain, so if you're logged in via AD, and AD says you're an admin on the boxes you're trying to hit, you're good. This is called trusted authenticat
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by gecko 14y ago
Because, faced with the fact that C++ makes an octopus by nailing extra legs onto a dog, D decided the right thing to do was to staple-gun them onto a cheetah instead. D, at the end of the day, is C++ with cleaner syntax . Yes, you've got
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by gecko 14y ago
That's largely because that's not really how Microsoft envisions you using PowerShell. The Windows way is to run the tool locally, edit the resource remotely (kind of like Emacs' TRAMP mode v. Vim users always sshing into the box). In thi
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by gecko 14y ago
Kind of, but you're doing it wrong. The bash way to remotely administer a server is to SSH into the server, then run your commands there. While that's technically possible with PowerShell in recent versions, it's not how PowerShell is desi

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