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by m_fayer 10y ago
For me, this was easily the most subtle, thoughtful, and powerful episode of the entire series. The plot device has obviously been done before, but never like this.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
If I recall correctly, this callback has some undocumented deadline. Go over that and it's unceremoniously killed, great way to corrupt whatever you're desperately trying to write to disk.
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An Open Letter from Technology Sector Leaders on Donald Trump’s Candidacy(huffingtonpost.com)
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by m_fayer 10y ago
This list omits purely research institutions such as the Max Planck institutes, which as a whole are a behemoth: Also https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/the-titans-institu...
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by m_fayer 10y ago
That's a big list of hyperbolic and controversial positions. I normally don't demand citations, but in this case...
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Just one example, the type system just does more, IMO very useful, stuff. Richer generics. Dynamic typing is there if you want it. Type inference is great, and then coupled with anonymous types allows for some nifty tool-supported functiona
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Netflix has by far the best technical characteristics of all subscription services available in Germany (I've tried them all.) Unfortunately its library is laughable.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
There are many application-specific scenarios that are enabled by RX that would still take quite a bit of hand-rolling a deep knowledge of RX to get right. A favorite of mine right now is https://github.com/RolandPheasant&#x
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I've been working with .NET, Xamarin, and Azure for a while. Those Microsoft products really are a pleasure, I have very little to complain about. Shame that it's only these 3 MS products that justify that statement.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Better than 8? Possibly, except that Windows update in Win10 is out of control - nagging, forcing reboots, quietly resetting itself to more liberal settings if you ever try to restrict it, and pegging your CPU the second you go idle for mor
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Same happened to my mom just yesterday. My mom happens to be an anxious 75 year old woman who takes a long time to acclimate to anything new on her computer, and also relies on said computer for several critical areas of her life. She calle
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I get that you're not a native speaker so you're probably not doing this intentionally, but casually throwing around the word "retarded" can sound offensive and juvenile, and will certainly discourage people from engagin
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by m_fayer 10y ago
We're not talking about possible genocide or expansionism, I was simply responding to: > The "moving to the right" analysis is wrong both in Europa and in the US. As for Japan, Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party a
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Just as one example, the FPö, which just very narrowly lost the Austrian elections, was literally founded by nazis. They explicitly promote an ethnic-nationalist Austrian identity at the expense of any notion of cosmopolitanism or post-nati
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I spend a lot of time in Xamarin so I'm biased in that direction, here's why I think it might bring more of an advantage than you think. C# is IMO a significant step up from whatever Java is running in Android. It's a much ri
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by m_fayer 10y ago
That's because at a conceptual level, a "general purpose computer" is far from an ideal device for rent extraction. If your user is stupid, they won't be able to manage a general purpose computer but will instead require
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by m_fayer 11y ago
Don't underestimate the productivity boost provided by the little squiggly red line. The fact that your tooling will stop you from ever passing T when the expected parameter is Collection<T>, and that this "rescue" invo
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by m_fayer 11y ago
>The pendulum is quickly swinging towards dynamic typing. Programmers are leaving the statically typed languages like C++, Java, and C# in favor of the dynamically typed languages like Ruby and Python. Even though this article is recent,
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by m_fayer 11y ago
Actively working with it now, seems fine to me, maybe you're using an old version of the design support lib?
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by m_fayer 11y ago
+2 - I feel like this is a (potentially intentional) blind spot for Dropbox and its ilk. I'm paying for 1 TB because I need that capacity, for my photo library, music, etc. - and I want to pay dropbox to make this work well with small
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by m_fayer 11y ago
You can have all the self esteem and confidence in the world, but without verbal communication or body language these traits are hard to perceive. It takes extra effort to not be vapid on Tinder and co, and to recognise that a person's
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by m_fayer 11y ago
As a contractor working in Germany, I have encountered many small and medium businesses that are leery of American cloud providers for data security reasons, sometimes unreasonably so. They would like to use the clouds but can't bring
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by m_fayer 11y ago
That's a beautiful lawn you got there.
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by m_fayer 11y ago
What about community-driven languages that are rapidly evolving? In that case, would you say that the community expects developers to always gobble up whatever is thrown over the wall? (See: web frontend development) > "as if it&#x2
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by m_fayer 11y ago
For the record, I use Xamarin "classic" and not forms, and my comment was in reference to that. Given the age of X.Forms, what you say sounds par for the course.
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by m_fayer 11y ago
With this tool I don't see why you wouldn't want to be on the Windows Store, if you can deal with the sandbox. UWP is another story. With UWP, you have to deal with the mobile-like app lifecycle of getting randomly suspended and&#
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by m_fayer 11y ago
If you can distribute through the Windows store only, hopefully it will be the end of the hideously unpleasant task of creating Windows installers.
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I use Xamarin regularly, and it's true the primary downside is frequent bugs and regressions along the entire toolchain, and in the Xamarin wrappers of native APIs. That said, it's improved by leaps and bounds in since last Summer
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by m_fayer 11y ago
A tour de force in not-racist-racism, arrogant humility, plain-spoken obscurantism, and selfless egocentrism.
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by m_fayer 11y ago
Just the frequency of certain memes... "interfaces", "design this Design that DESIGN", "composition", "too coupled", "too decoupled", all points me in the direction of excessive use of DI, i

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