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by grokys 5y ago
I went to visit a friend's parents a few years ago in Calabria. They don't have running water after 8pm, houses have home-made water tanks that they fill during the day that they use to supply water after that time. Bear in mind t
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by grokys 6y ago
I've been wondering - would it be possible that something like HIV comes along, only airborne? This would be a nightmare scenario obviously, but is it possible?
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by grokys 7y ago
Maybe this is pretentious, but to say vinyl sounds "better" or "warmer" is missing the point for me. IMO one thing that records have is "personality". Those clicks and cracks of the old records I found for £2 i
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Avalonia 0.9.0 – a cross platform XAML framework for .NET(avaloniaui.net)
7 points by grokys 7y ago|0 comments
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by grokys 7y ago
They look like telephone poles to me.
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by grokys 7y ago
We're trying to do that over at https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia if you're interested. Doesn't have MS (or any other company's) backing, and is still in beta, but quite usable for creating x-p
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by grokys 7y ago
.NET Core isn't based on Mono.
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by grokys 7y ago
Welcome to ~~software~~ humanity.
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Announcing the Open Sourcing of Windows Calculator(blogs.windows.com)
2 points by grokys 8y ago|0 comments
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by grokys 8y ago
Ah yes, apologies if I overstated. I should perhaps have said "some people in many parts of Italy still resent...". I'm often told by friends from the south about how the north treated the south during and after unification,
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by grokys 8y ago
Italy was unified in 1871, in part by force. And many parts of Italy still resent that and consider themselves Sicilian, Napolitan etc rather than "Italian". I can't speak for Greece, but Italy is a really BAD example of a &q
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by grokys 8y ago
If you're interested in seeing how a GraphQL client might look in .NET, over at GitHub we've been working on an experimental LINQ-like GraphQL client for our APIs: https://github.com/octokit/octokit.graphql.ne
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Microsoft Creates Half-Electron Quasiparticle for Its Future Quantum Computer(gizmodo.com)
3 points by grokys 9y ago|3 comments
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Avalonia Beta 1 Released! A cross platform XAML UI Framework(avaloniaui.net)
4 points by grokys 9y ago|0 comments
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Is the world really better than ever? (2017)(theguardian.com)
1 points by grokys 9y ago|0 comments
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by grokys 10y ago
I find that if your comments consist solely of commented out code, then you both don't need to comment in English and you remove the need for an SCM. /says so many people I've worked with.
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by grokys 10y ago
I think the Roslyn compiler does something similar to what you're suggesting. http://www.dotnetcurry.com/csharp/1258/dotnet-platform-compi... > Every time a developer changes a single character in any of t
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When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism(the-american-interest.com)
1 points by grokys 10y ago|0 comments
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by grokys 10y ago
Yep, something similar happened to me - I released what is now https://github.com/punker76/gong-wpf-dragdrop on google code in 2009 (I think) then pretty much lost interest. Forward on a few years and @punker76 had upl
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by grokys 10y ago
And in most places in the world, that is basically unobtainable. A rather serious case of SV-myopia here I suspect.
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by grokys 10y ago
It's based on the XAML family of frameworks so lookless controls are probably the biggest differentiator between the frameworks you mentioned. Qt is C++, I've not tried any .Net bindings for it so I can't really compare. Xama
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by grokys 10y ago
Yeah UWP has a lot of good features but I always find when I go to it that it just lacks so many basics. It's like they kept building good stuff on top of Silverlight which stripped out a lot of useful stuff. Having said that I've
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Avalonia Alpha 4 – A cross-platform .NET UI framework(grokys.github.io)
95 points by grokys 10y ago|18 comments
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by grokys 10y ago
>I must say that this website comes across as very unprofessional due to the total lack of any design elements which would make it more easy to consume the content (spacing, choice of font) > Nathan Willis, who has been an LWN contrib
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by grokys 10y ago
Because I hate them. EDIT: Ok, I'll explain :) : because when I open a file, I want to see the code, not folded regions telling me that it has constructors, properties, and methods. That's not interesting to me, it just obfuscates
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by grokys 10y ago
Custom controls are supported, although I'm not sure that inheriting from Canvas is the best way to do that. See e.g. https://github.com/Core2D/Core2D for an example of an application with lots of custom controls.
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by grokys 10y ago
Yep, we have a Direct2D backend (in fact that's our main one - the others are lagging behind a little)
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by grokys 10y ago
Honestly - no idea. However our backends are pluggable so in theory you should be able to adapt it. However, I imagine our performance at the moment exclude use in games. It's something that needs to be optimized.
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by grokys 10y ago
There's already https://github.com/picoe/Eto if you want to use native controls - if that's what you need go for it! But there's a need for both approaches IMO and hopefully Avalonia can start to fill on
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by grokys 10y ago
Yep, I agree - Eto is great for native controls! I consider Eto and Avalonia to complement each other rather than as competitors.

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