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by jstclair 13y ago
CER is part of the hosting work done for SQL server integration (i.e., SQL server hosting the CLR), not Singularity. For Singularity, they used an extended version of C# called Sing# (based on an earlier research project called Spec#) http
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Thomas Frank on Academic Capitalism(thebaffler.com)
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by jstclair 13y ago
We were pretty successfully rather quickly, and the attendees quickly grew past most local company's ability to host our meetings. Costs in Norway for rooms/food & drink is higher than normal; plus, we tried to bring in a lot of externa
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by jstclair 13y ago
Just one caution - when I was helping to set up a local user group, a lot or companies wanted a guarantee that no poaching would occur, and tried to make that a condition of their participation. Of course, we couldn't do that, but at the sa
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Typescript: Announcing 0.9 preview(blogs.msdn.com)
4 points by jstclair 13y ago|0 comments
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When Dickens met Dostoevsky(the-tls.co.uk)
11 points by jstclair 13y ago|1 comments
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by jstclair 14y ago
Erik Meier & co used it to enable Haskell as a scripting language (in 1998!). See his "Confessions of a used programming language salesman", HaskellScript PDF: [ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/emeijer/papers... ]
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by jstclair 14y ago
Has anyone tried running the F# through IKVM[1] (.Net <-> java)? That wouldn't solve this, but it should be possible to run F# on a JavaVM. [1] http://weblog.ikvm.net/
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by jstclair 14y ago
If your second point were the dominant factor, then Android should been hit even harder( in the US), since Google Voice has been included since 2011.
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Resharper 8 Early Access launches(blogs.jetbrains.com)
2 points by jstclair 14y ago|0 comments
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by jstclair 14y ago
Or SQL. After teaching a couple of classes in logic, it's quite easy to get the gist of. In fact, as I was wrapping up grad school (in philosophy, as it happens), I suggested that if people weren't going to go on and teach philosophy, they
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by jstclair 14y ago
There's quite a difference between the "normal" voices in OSX, and the high-quality ones. If you have a few spare gigabytes, try out the French, Spanish, and Swedish versions. For my kids, it's at least a few minutes entertainment to make t
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Aaronson's reply to Dyakonov (on quantum computing scepticism)(scottaaronson.com)
1 points by jstclair 14y ago|0 comments
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by jstclair 14y ago
It took me a double-read to understand you meant "...funded our solution (to [crapware] junk like this): ninite.com" Upon first reading, it sounded like "to junk like ninite" Great stuff!
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by jstclair 14y ago
Electric cars could be the next ring tone market. Personally, I'd love galloping horses...
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by jstclair 14y ago
"Windows Server 2008/R2 shipped with ~230 cmdlets. Windows Server 2012 beats that by a factor of over 10 shipping ~ 2,430 cmdlets." http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/05/30/...
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by jstclair 14y ago
What's the scenario exactly? You can't make use of AD and DFS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_File_System_(Micros...
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by jstclair 14y ago
All of that was true for older editions as well (2008, 2008R2). Of course, the 2012 version has a lot of new features!
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by jstclair 14y ago
I thought one of the coolest feature was the ability to add and remove the entire UI: http://blogs.technet.com/b/klince/archive/2012/04/02/windows... In short, the previous Standard / Core SKUs are gone, and you can switch between them as
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by jstclair 14y ago
Actually, for 2012, kickers are 61% for 50+ yard field goals [1], including an incredible 10/10 performance. [1] http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/stats/byposition?pos=K
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by jstclair 14y ago
What are your thoughts about flat networks (mentioned by someone in the comments on the original article)?
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by jstclair 14y ago
No, that's what you meant.
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by jstclair 14y ago
For a Hyper-V Windows client, you should be using Remote Desktop. The Hyper-V desktop client is really designed for simple installtion & management. For other OSs, I'd imagine installing a native client (ssh/X) on the host would be a be
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53 'Arrested Development' jokes you probably missed(splitsider.com)
1 points by jstclair 14y ago|0 comments
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by jstclair 14y ago
Slight correction: Microsoft SQL Server added MVCC in 2005 (READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT).
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by jstclair 14y ago
Yes, of course, but see reply down-thread. I was called by the school, so the school nurse had made an assessment that the situation was non-critical. Since ambulances are a limited resource, why take it away from someone who could be in cr
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by jstclair 14y ago
About a year, after living in Bergen for 10. But only my second trip to Storgata 40, and if you've actually driven there, you'd know that the signage is pretty terrible, and -- along with the construction -- it's pretty non-intuitive to get
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by jstclair 14y ago
Actually, my big mistake was not keeping the taxi I'd taken from work (normally, I take the tram & train) to pick him up at school. He was in pain, but not anything I'd consider taking the ambulance for (and the driving distance from hi
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by jstclair 14y ago
Yep; on the first try. Unfortunately, I was trying to drive my son (who had broken his arm) and the Google driving directions would only display the list mode, rather than on the map. I ended up finding the building on Google Maps, then dro
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by jstclair 14y ago
I had to go to the main emergency room in Oslo last week. iOS6 couldn't find it, or even the correct street. Looking at the map in detail later, it didn't even have a building at the correct location. I was furious.

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