jstclair

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by jstclair 14y ago
The link should probably go directly to the job posting, since the StackExchange -> Channel9 posts don't really provide any additional information. The compilerjobs link ( http://www.compilerjobs.com/db/jobs_view.php?editid1=648 ) has a
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Revisiting event delegation in Knockout.js(knockmeout.net)
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Using async/await in .NET 4(blogs.msdn.com)
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by jstclair 14y ago
You raise a good point: is there something like http://pinvoke.net/ for non-windows interop? I know that mono is wrapping things themselves, but on open wiki might help.
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by jstclair 14y ago
I've heard the same thing about banking the support calls for an unknown future problem, and my reaction is always the same; "We have had 2 devs working on this problem for x hours, at $y per hour. MS support calls are purchasable in packs
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by jstclair 14y ago
Why doesn't PayPal and other services add a Verified Paypal code to a user's account page. And train users to login during these phone calls and ask the caller for the code? The training itself - if you're being verified, you should do the
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by jstclair 14y ago
The article summary of Universal Music's defense seems to say that since Universal had no procedures in place to determine if something was fair use, they can't be liable for the portion of the DMCA that punishes take-down attempts that are
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by jstclair 14y ago
If you're going to make a tortured analogy, it would help if you actually understood the things you're comparing. The writer clearly doesn't understand Breaking Bad.
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Httpsys - native HTTP stack for node.js on Windows(github.com)
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by jstclair 14y ago
And it would have been the 91st Congress, which as you can see, had a pretty-substantial Democratic majority: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/91st_United_States_Congress
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by jstclair 14y ago
US currency isn't printed on paper.
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Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Each Donate $100,000 For Marriage Equality(huffingtonpost.com)
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GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3 billion healthcare fraud settlement(latimes.com)
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by jstclair 14y ago
This is a little misleading; an internal checkpoint happens upon transaction commit[1]. The comment makes it sound as if one or more transactions can commit before a checkpoint writes them to disk. [1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib
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Raymond Chen: How did real-mode Windows fix up jumps to functions?(blogs.msdn.com)
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by jstclair 14y ago
I don't really want to rehearse that argument again; and this seems to be waaaaay outside the scope of the original post. And, incidentally, nice moving-the-goalposts - you avoided the question of whether putting Trumpet Winsock et al. ou
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by jstclair 14y ago
You're not the only one who was there. And some of us discrete with your interpretation(s). When Microsoft included TCP/IP in Win3.11 for Workgroups, they killed a lot of proprietary, expensive products. Should that have triggered an anti-t
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by jstclair 14y ago
Say hi to my bro!
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by jstclair 14y ago
I just fund out that one of my co-workers raced in the Isle of Man TT last year, so perhaps motorcycles spurred thoughts in me of bug-eyed insanity
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by jstclair 14y ago
Great remind about unsuccessful ideas; as I prefaced my original remark, I am impressed by his accomplishments. And I have no doubt that he (or someone else, eventually) would be able to build engineered organisms that could "work" (in the
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by jstclair 14y ago
I'm unclear on what you mean by "they" when you say "either they work or they don't" - his bugs? Or the way in which those bugs, once released, solve a particular problem? Or once released, those changes are non-harmful? My problem with ris
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by jstclair 14y ago
But isn't the past 5 years a pretty-clear demolition of the idea that bright, well-trained people have a handle on systemic risk?
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by jstclair 14y ago
I respect his accomplishments, but someone who gets thrills from life-endangering pursuits is not the person I would want releasing artificial-organisms into the wild to save the world.
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by jstclair 14y ago
IIRC, though you write in a managed language, it's jitted at install time so it doesn't run under a managed runtime.
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Microsoft and NetApp bring FreeBSD to Hyper-V(blogs.technet.com)
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by jstclair 14y ago
Not just could , but did : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/csharpfaq/archive/2012/04/26/async-t...
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Async/await FAQ (.NET)(blogs.msdn.com)
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"Code is Law". Literally.(nakedcapitalism.com)
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by jstclair 15y ago
And similar to German WWI "Lozenge" aircraft camoflauge, which I'm surprised the OP didn't mention: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lozenge_camouflage
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by jstclair 15y ago
My dog (miniature schnauzer) bleeds quite a bit during her period. Apparently, it's not that uncommon.

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