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by jcheng 15y ago
Microsoft makes decisions like this ALL the time, ones that 1) appear ridiculous to the casual observer; 2) turn out to actually be rational if you think very hard about it and have enough background information (which is almost never avail
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by jcheng 15y ago
Please do write that post, I for one would love to read it.
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by jcheng 15y ago
> on a directory-tree data structure Or on a directed acyclic graph of refs; that's the definition that made everything click for me.
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by jcheng 15y ago
From what I've seen, not really. GitHub.app saves you from needing to know what staging, push, pull, fetch are. If you're already productive with Tower then I think going to GitHub.app would be like putting the training wheels back on.
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by jcheng 15y ago
I was thinking the same thing. This problem seems extremely well suited for C/C++, and C#/.NET makes it very easy to call directly into native libraries.
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by jcheng 15y ago
People with toddlers? A lot! :)
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by jcheng 15y ago
Thanks for the info. Is there a setting for max number of simultaneous instances? If your app gets slashdotted are your potential costs completely unbounded? (Just out of curiosity, I'm not a GAE customer)
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by jcheng 15y ago
But it's 880 instance-hours per day. So assuming that "el-cheapo" dedicated box has similar performance characteristics to one GAE instance, then you'd need 37 of those boxes. My question is why the heck 31.42 CPU hours turned into 880 fr
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by jcheng 15y ago
Have you seen PowerShell? It has only shipped with the OS starting with Windows 7, but it's a surprisingly powerful shell--in some ways it looks way more powerful (and complicated) than bash and the like.
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by jcheng 15y ago
The same could be said of many of my CS friends at MIT.
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by jcheng 15y ago
You went past theory, straight to tautology.
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by jcheng 15y ago
Here's the AnandTech writeup (and as you expected, it's way better than the Register one): http://www.anandtech.com/show/4455/amds-graphics-core-next-p...
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by jcheng 15y ago
The R language ( http://www.r-project.org ) is inherently well suited for auto-vectorizing. There are a couple of packages for GPU-accelerated processing already--currently heavily skewed towards CUDA though. http://cran.r-project.org/web/
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by jcheng 15y ago
+1. The "Coding Soundtrack" room seems to be the most popular room on the whole site.
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by jcheng 15y ago
When Microsoft shut down Windows Live Spaces they provided direct export to WordPress and strongly encouraged their user base to take advantage--is that close enough? http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archiv...
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by jcheng 15y ago
I've been using Tower for a few months, GitHub.app for a few minutes. Tower makes a lot of sense if you understand how Git works--it uses the same vocabulary (branches, remotes, fetc/push/pull, etc.) and encourages the same workflow. GitHub
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by jcheng 16y ago
Technically C# isn't a static language anymore :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_4.0
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by jcheng 16y ago
More likely a proxy server issue; make sure any HTTP proxy you use is bypassed for localhost and 127.0.0.1. If that doesn't work, come visit us at http://support.rstudio.org !
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by jcheng 16y ago
For us, it was never about which approach was more lucrative. We want RStudio to be the de facto IDE for R. How could it be anything but open source?
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by jcheng 16y ago
> But you make native dialog calls too? Yes, sometimes we call back into native code, especially to do things like file dialogs that you really prefer to be native. > Care to expand on how Qt, GWT, pure Javascript mix? I think you g
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by jcheng 16y ago
You're better off looking at the Boost ASIO examples here, which the RStudio code was originally based on. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/doc/html/boost_asio/exa...
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by jcheng 16y ago
Thanks! It's HTML/Javascript. (Note that you can use it as a webapp, we couldn't do that with Qt obviously)