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by itsananderson 11y ago
The only comments I see here seem to be taking the the article literally, but I have a strong suspicion that it's largely a parody of the Trump/Cruz talk talk on the Middle East, ISIS, and Islam. > The ugly situation on the gro
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by itsananderson 11y ago
99% of the painful Node stuff on Windows comes down to native packages. To even compile, you have to install Visual Studio. Then you have to hope the module developer has a build definition that even works for Windows.
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by itsananderson 11y ago
TL;DR In addition to switching from "preview" to "beta", Microsoft is open-sourcing Visual Studio Code ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode ) and adding plugin support.
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by itsananderson 11y ago
The value provided isn't necessarily silent updates, but making updates available without jumping through the app store. It's still up to the app developer whether they prompt the user before installing the update. In fact, the Co
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by itsananderson 11y ago
Heh. I wrote a post about this last year (and I'm not the first) http://willi.am/blog/2014/07/16/storing-data-as-newline-deli... The main unique thing here is the proposal that tools like Excel shou
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Software Engineering and the No True Scotsman Fallacy(willi.am)
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by itsananderson 11y ago
Demo at http://bl.ocks.org/peterbsmith2/a37f2b733a75a6f348c2
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by itsananderson 11y ago
The big difference I'd point out is that breakpoints can be added and removed at runtime. Sounds like what you're describing is a situation where you have to modify your source code to add a breakpoint (similar to a "debugger