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by jpatte 13y ago
Not at all. Suppose you need a stapler for some work. You don't have one, but you know a colleague who does and who is willing to happily share it with you. You could go to her office, open the second drawer in her desk, take the stapl
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by jpatte 13y ago
So, calling a "getter" method is slower (x1.5 to x2) than directly accessing a private field. Nothing new here: everyone with a fair understanding of how computers work should know that calling a [virtual] function is a more compl
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by jpatte 13y ago
The main problem of pen+paper is it's only 2D. Modeling an entire process may require a lot more than 2 dimensions, so trying to put it in 2D is actually harder than modeling it freely in your head.
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by jpatte 13y ago
Unfortunately I didn't have time to read these articles in depth, nor do I have the time to write a detailed answer now - sorry. But it seems to me that the situation has changed since these articles were written, at least concerning t
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by jpatte 13y ago
On Windows 8 (not sure about RT) you can indeed turn off automatic restarts, as described in the first answer here : http://superuser.com/questions/490993/is-there-anyway-to-sto... Though it's a shame this op
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by jpatte 13y ago
For anyone interested, Norbert Elias (1897-1990) wrote a very enlightening book "The Civilizing Process" describing how these small social structures evolved into States as we know them in Occident [1]. Excerpted from a summary [2
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by jpatte 14y ago
That makes sense; however as a visitor of this page I don't know about all these details so I might think it's a possible error and I shouldn't trust your app. Basically there is a small risk to lose potential users here. I suggest choosing
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by jpatte 14y ago
Am I the only one thinking there is something strange with the numbers in the screen capture ? the time is 4:42, the plane lands at 5:23, it's a 33 minutes drive... so you should leave in 8 minutes, not in 18 minutes.
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by jpatte 14y ago
Knockout ( http://knockoutjs.com/ ) definitely rocked my world. Forget about manipulating the DOM with code (using jQuery or anything): now you have a nice separation between your UI (defined declaratively) and your business logic. Just cha
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by jpatte 14y ago
From the article: "If the compiler/debugger is able to create this "evaluate every piece of line" format for functions (generating new ones when needed), then we can use the stack to check which branches we've taken — they're on the stack,
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by jpatte 14y ago
I find "Git Source Control Provider" to be a very decent plugin to work with. What's so wrong about it ?
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by jpatte 14y ago
By reading this "job description" for project managers I still wonder why on earth would people think management is a natural step in a developer's career path (at least here in Europe). These are different jobs entirely! How are the experi
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by jpatte 14y ago
Unfortunately no because chances are this open source code is using some parts of the Win32 API that are not supported by WinRT, so you would have to replace the invalid API calls by the new (probably asynchronous) ones... Maybe even comple
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by jpatte 14y ago
That may be because there are several forms of polymorphism. What you had in mind was subtype polymorphism (aka substitution), while he might have had another form in mind like parametric polymorphism (aka generics). http://en.wikipedi
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by jpatte 14y ago
It's true for Windows RT indeed, but the article was explicitly referring to Windows 8. And AFAICT myself WinRT has always been presented as a new API designed for new kind of Windows applications (i.e. Windows Store apps). It doesn't make
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by jpatte 14y ago
"Windows" no longer supports multiple windows on the screen. I don't understand how they can make such a bold claim and get away with it. That is NOT TRUE. A power user who needs multiple windows will quickly understand that using the Des
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by jpatte 14y ago
IMHO they only push developers to start building Windows Store apps because, well, they need apps in their store. It doesn't mean you should stop building apps for the desktop.
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by jpatte 14y ago
What I don't understand is why you feel like you are supposed to use "Modern UI" apps on your big screen. You are not. Everything you enjoyed to do with Windows 7 is still possible with Windows 8. Just because there is an alternate way to d
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by jpatte 14y ago
You can still click at the lower left corner of your screen to switch to the start page (exactly as you would open the start menu in Win7); then if you organized your favorite apps icons on the left of this page you should still be able to
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by jpatte 14y ago
Exact same problem here too. We submitted a game which transmits no information whatsoever, so we didn't feel the need to provide a pivacy policy. Yet they made us submit again to fix just that. I think it's safe to assume that every app sh
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by jpatte 14y ago
I've been using Virtual CloneDrive on Win 8 RTM since the first day I upgraded my computers (about 2 months ago), because I had to re-install several softwares from iso's... It worked just fine, and I actually never suspected any incompatib
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by jpatte 14y ago
The C# Language Specification for Asynchronous Functions ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2375... ) is available for download since 4/13/2011, and they have been many drafts before that.
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by jpatte 14y ago
if that public API is intended to expose data at the field level > That doesn't make a lot of sense. An API is an interface, which in this case exposes data. The fact that this data is held by objects at the field level as nothing to
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by jpatte 14y ago
Pretty girls in online dating websites face a similar problem : their inbox is basically full of generic "hello" messages from guys hoping to reach them. I wonder if this solution - the more popular the girl is, the more you have to pay to
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by jpatte 14y ago
OO purists actually frown upon the kind of stateless Manager objects you suggest. Yes, but pure OOP has been proven impractical many times over the last 20 years. What we are looking for here are practical rules that will help us organize
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by jpatte 14y ago
A simpler example. Should the BankAccount class have a transferTo(BankAccount other) method to transfer money into another account? A BankAccount is a data object, so no processing in there. You could have a Banker object (or a MoneyExcha
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by jpatte 14y ago
Clearly the goal here is not to simulate an ecosystem where agents, buyers and sellers happily live together. However, the idea here is to organize your object model exactly as you would organize a group of employees. Each of these employee
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by jpatte 14y ago
contract = agent.makeContract(property, seller, buyer) seller.signContract(contract) buyer.signContract(contract) agent.registerSale(contract) Nothing complicated here, really. Just follow the "natural" flow and respect each a
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by jpatte 15y ago
I don't see how your example contradicts my point of view. When you move things from a fairly popular system to a widely popular system, you expect it to work as well as before. Now instead if you had chosen an obscure system nobody cared a
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by jpatte 15y ago
IMHO, "being portable" is more about "being available to many users" than "being available to many systems". Focusing on ancient and obscure systems (used by who, exactly?) while ignoring systems used by a large potential users population d

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