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by lusr 15y ago
For a big old school company like Microsoft to accept patches from the community is huge . I always grudgingly accepted there must be some sort of commercial risk ("Microsoft used my code and made 10 million dollars, now I'm going to sue
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by lusr 15y ago
Some great advice. I'd like to add: - Change: change is a sequence of stages you move through according to well-defined processes: (1) pre-contemplation (where you haven't started considering change, or are even aware it's an option), (2
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by lusr 15y ago
Came here to say pretty much this. Kids aren't stupid but they are not going to have the same things on their mind as dad. Dad's got a million things on his mind, and he's probably meta-observing the entire play session at the same time..
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by lusr 15y ago
Interesting: "being female in Germany at a time when most German universities didn’t accept female students or hire female professors" I'm currently reading "The Poincare Conjecture", which suggested that Erlangen and Gottingen were very o
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by lusr 15y ago
This was an entertaining and interesting story but at the end of it I couldn't help but feel a bit discouraged: "great so this means I have to go find somebody to mentor me? To fund me? Should I be talking to more potential users about m
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by lusr 15y ago
Maybe there's nothing to theorize about that's specific to girls? Sounds like my story, as a guy, and that's a subtle but important point. I used to run every program I could find, copy stuff from friends computers that was new and unfami
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by lusr 15y ago
Some great observations here that I've learned the hard way myself. I have concluded differently, however, based on the following lesson I have learned repeatedly in all areas of life: until you do something, you often don't realize all
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by lusr 15y ago
This is what happens to me a lot, and I've done exactly what you've suggested with my most recent project. A few days ago I read about OMGPOP and Draw Something and realised it was a clone of a game I used to play 5/6 years ago, and starte
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by lusr 15y ago
Are you suggesting that the same people need to start and finish? Was Steve Jobs a starter and a finisher? If so do you really believe he could have built the hardware and finished the technical aspects of the project? Or is he a clever
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by lusr 15y ago
This is actually great. They had a bunch of problems to solve with limited interface options. They picked the simplest combination of options, found the solution worked and stuck with it. All too often I find myself looking at something
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by lusr 15y ago
How many of these countries have laws relating to financial intelligence that will make a completely anonymous form of currency illegal to implement? Large companies simply won't be allowed to accept a large quantities of money from anonym
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by lusr 15y ago
Seeing as how I've been developing for the last 15 years on Windows and haven't found the lack of a *nixy command line to be an issue I'd love to know what you're doing that I'm not :)
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by lusr 15y ago
We do and that was my original impression. Yet you listed a number of items even though they all boiled down to the same thing as far as I could tell. Nothing wrong with having different tastes, I just wanted to see if I was missing somet
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by lusr 15y ago
Binding between a request and a controller method is entirely customisable. The framework uses a completely customisable number of parameter sources (query string parameters, POST parameters, session variables, you can customise this to
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by lusr 15y ago
C# includes the static LINQ method "FirstOrDefault()" for any types implementing IEnumerable, e.g.: var firstNumber = numbers.FirstOrDefault(); (This isn't strictly the same as what you described if "None" is different from "null".
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by lusr 15y ago
Yet it did have that effect. Unless you're claiming the parent is lying? Or are you suggesting it's merely an unlikely event? The fact is people have all kinds of physical issues they might not even be aware of and you can't take that cha
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by lusr 15y ago
If I read your comment correctly, it sounds like you're comparing healthy young people who have undergone extensive physical training and testing to technicians of a highly variable age who have gone through no such selection and training?
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by lusr 15y ago
I'm guessing you're being downvoted because you're calling people retards because of what you perceive to be a poor design, when in reality they've done exactly what you've said, you just don't realise it. Which makes your "incompetent idi
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by lusr 15y ago
This is a good list. The lack of decent sugar for tuples makes them very annoying to work with and situations demanding two or more dependent return values are the one place where my code looks nasty and is difficult to follow (unless I cr
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by lusr 15y ago
As someone who's more than happy with C#, I'm wondering if there's a world out there I'm missing but I can't really connect with what you're saying. 1. "Strong and intelligent"? "Convenient"? 2. "Sense of design"? My current side proje
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by lusr 15y ago
Git Extensions + Git Source Control Provider for Visual Studio are great. Only annoying thing is that VS 2010 forces me to switch between SCC providers (Team System and Git) manually. (Anybody know if VS 11 resolves this? I stopped using
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by lusr 15y ago
Well said. I can't wait until my side project (oops... startup... uh, I mean Rockstarium-ninjai fusion device) goes live and I get to satirize this trend with the site design (up until a point, probably the end of beta; at the end of the d
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by lusr 15y ago
This is an excellent point. If his goal was to get attention, he got it. What he didn't count on was that some of that attention would come from people who strongly didn't agree with his style, and the consequences thereof.
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by lusr 15y ago
I note Curtis also posted about the OMGPOP sale, the value of which is based on a game that is at its core a clone of a game that existed on the web over 5 years ago (which is probably a clone of another game from earlier). I wonder if he'
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by lusr 15y ago
Hmm OK, could still be a draft, though :) I use Evernote for similar stuff, but then I don't blog.
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by lusr 15y ago
I don't get it. What's the difference between a "draft" and an "idea"?
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by lusr 15y ago
I've never played this (first time I've heard of it), but it sounds like a game I used to play about 5 years ago online with people on IRC/Kongregate chat. I used to love it and spend hours playing it. Boy do I feel dumb now not rememberi
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by lusr 15y ago
I'm surprised the potential here wasn't recognized; seems like a no brainer given the target market (one that's growing ridiculously fast with no signs of slowing down) and the obvious level of quality! Of course what doesn't look like a
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by lusr 15y ago
I always wondered this too. But I have a keyboard with these buttons (really just the Fn keys and an "alternative Fn" function lock key that sends the appropriate shortcuts to Windows) and I never use them. As a touch typist I find it too
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by lusr 15y ago
This is the right advice IMO but beware that finding an informed professional can be surprisingly difficult. It would be in your interest to spend some time researching depression and mood disorders so that you can at least ascertain the p

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