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by jasallen 11y ago
There is no penalty to being told "no". That also applies to "I think I know the answer". There is no penalty for being told "no" there as well, so once you have a reasonable guess why not check it? Disagr
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by jasallen 11y ago
Would kill for dates on each these messages!
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by jasallen 11y ago
Purely a guess, but I'd say the alcohol rinses away the standing water on the blades, leaving only the airborne moisture to deal with.
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by jasallen 12y ago
Totally agree. I simply cannot see Lynda.com's current (amazing) setup blending well with LinkedIn. Lynda.com is going the way of the History Channel.
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by jasallen 12y ago
I think with "No, Totally" in particular, the "no" is refuting something implied. So with "Makes you want to hit them", you are instinctively saying "no" the cultural prohibition against violence. &
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by jasallen 12y ago
If you worked at a start up in Detroit, you were defacto a part of the Gilbert Mafia. I don't say that disparagingly, Dan Gilbert crew have done great things for the city, but its a one shop town. A2 lacks a Dan Gilbert to make all th
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by jasallen 12y ago
No, it's just utterly nonsensical.
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by jasallen 12y ago
That deals particularly with mixing and matching awaits and Results in complex manner. I wouldn't call "don't do that" "very complicated".
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by jasallen 12y ago
My mistake and too late to edit. I don't use "await" and I misread this at first. Actually the classic tasks way would be to add these to an array of tasks, and then "WhenAll" for the continuation.
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by jasallen 12y ago
Noone suggested it was not built on top of Tasks. I make it a rule never to question Eric Lippert, and I won't do so here. That said, right, the current continuation bit requires IL foo, but as the ones writing the code, there is alwa
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by jasallen 12y ago
Exception propagation is one area I have to agree. Still, there was no reason to invent whole new language semantics for that. As far as simple flows, I'll disagree. The Task Library allows for normal workflow operations and your de
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by jasallen 12y ago
Why is that easier than using a blocking call directly on the Task object that ReadAsync returns? Like ".Return" or ".Wait"
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by jasallen 12y ago
I continue to find using explicit "Task<T>" types directly more intuitive. I've wedged in ASync/Await here and there to see if I felt good about it, but I never did. I would always find declaring a Task and attac
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by jasallen 12y ago
Honestly, the things you describe are not that bad. If they are writing code that passes the test cases, move on and be happy. If you'd described things like circular dependencies and passing brittle "magic strings" through
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by jasallen 12y ago
He gave an off the cuff answer that was wrong. He didn't write an essay about it that was proofread and considered. I'm not surprised that people are assuming they 'know his heart' based on one quick answer, but I am d
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by jasallen 12y ago
It's a skill to speak well in public quickly and smoothly. Unfortunately sometimes you don't have sound bites ready, and the thousands of faces staring at you make it hard to do analysis on the spot, so you answer the first answe
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by jasallen 12y ago
Even in the cartoons it seems most are correct. As someone who first learned how to focus and get-things-right by drawing at an early age and since, I found it pretty unlikely this premise could be correct. Not thrilled with the drawing gu
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by jasallen 12y ago
The pressure is still 1/3 of an atmosphere approx, regardless of mechanical or gas. The more salient question, to ask those who have experienced it, how do those parts of the body respond to less than normal atmosphere pressure. Soun
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by jasallen 12y ago
Parent is referring to the "demo application", though I personally disagree that one should worry about it on the demo app. The docs sure, but the demo app is readable enough even if you're not a coffeescript aficionado.
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by jasallen 12y ago
More opinion and supposition masquerading as dietary advice. Morals and feelings of "eeeww" do not count as sound scientific nutrition principles.
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by jasallen 12y ago
Should have stopped at "Eat food. Not too much." Mostly plants is fine, but so is mostly lean meat and some plants.
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by jasallen 12y ago
Which is why for so long people believed that salt was the cause. But in your situation salt is also a proxy for a lot of other things that were wrong with your diet. Gobs of processes carbs, no 'good' cholesterol, a lack of pro
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by jasallen 12y ago
He managed avoid the "flat" vs. "dead" controversy by making up a new convention altogether.
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by jasallen 12y ago
Unless while away you are on any page with a facebook 'like' button. In which case they can monitor exactly your behavior. Fortunately there are very few of those. 0_o
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by jasallen 12y ago
Yes, yes they are. I have a problem with this, as I don't foresee a hockey stick growth business model that doesn't also involve false claims, but maybe I'm just that guy who didn't get it. As previous poster said, focu
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by jasallen 12y ago
I would take 'enjoy the ride' a step further. Use the ride. If you are never anything but a successful entrepreneur you will fail: 1) To be a good boss to anyone except the elite talent 2) To understand how/why gears of pro
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by jasallen 12y ago
I am currently scraping for brand product and nutrition data. Having to build custom scrapers per brand is hell. I have a dream to use something closer to OCR against a rendered page, rather than parsing DOM. That way it would be less cus
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by jasallen 12y ago
Well, you are correct that fat has been incorrectly vilified. Most of the rest of what you say is logical leaps based on inconclusive data, which is just as bad as what the fat haters did years ago. Don't get me wrong, a lot of what yo
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by jasallen 12y ago
Xamarin's IDE is not as good as VS, but it is often much better than XCode, and C# and F# are both more pleasant languages to work in for people with the vast majority of experiences (C++, Java, .Net, Ruby), so even without all the cro
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by jasallen 12y ago
This post is brilliant and correct. The best part is where he closes with the acknowledgement that the system works... to a limited degree. He's not just slamming it . It is actually an ok way to minimize risk at the cost of upside

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