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by metachor 17y ago
"as it is, Mono is a patent minefield" Can you provide the patent numbers of the specific patents you had in mind, or otherwise provide a source for why you think this is the case?
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by metachor 17y ago
I think what edw519 is saying is that reading certain stories on HN induces a paradigm-shift in his/her thinking. This leads not to a slight gain in productivity or slight reduction in procrastination, but instead to a whole new way of wor
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by metachor 17y ago
My own anecdotal evidence agrees with this. LOL cats, FAIL, Rick Roll, Xzibit's catch phrase; this list goes on. It seems most of these memes originate or are popularized on relatively geeky web forums (4Chan, Reddit, eBaum's, SA, etc), wh
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by metachor 18y ago
Try the ADO.NET Entity Framework, Microsoft's new LINQ-based ORM tool, released with Visual Studio 2008 SP1. It's very easy to use, and plays well with ASP.NET MVC.
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by metachor 18y ago
I've dabbled with Rails and Django, but not extensively so I'm not in a position to give a detailed comparison. The features of ASP.NET MVC as listed "on the box", as it were, sound similar to those in frameworks like Rails and Django. Sin
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by metachor 18y ago
Also the fact that the ASP.NET MVC framework is itself open sourced (the code is available on Codeplex). I've been using this framework for a recent project at my day job and it's definitely a step in the right direction (i.e. toward design
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by metachor 18y ago
Digicert is a legitimate provider of SSL certificates (my company uses them pretty much exclusively; I don't think they are any better or worse than other SSL providers that I've used professionally). One exceptional thing Digicert provides
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by metachor 18y ago
Before his death, Robert Anton Wilson taught several online courses at the Maybe Logic Academy ( http://www.maybelogic.org ), which he founded. A large component of these courses took place in online discussion forums, where RAW encouraged
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by metachor 18y ago
I too used to program in the Swarm platform with Objective-C. Off-topic, but if you are interested in frameworks like this, also check out the MASON Multiagent Simulation Toolkit (which is based in Java): http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/proje
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by metachor 18y ago
Objective-C has weak and dynamic typing, and optionally static typing information can also be added to variables.
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by metachor 18y ago
From my understanding, if you want to do anything "nano-tech", you may want to look into materials engineering.
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by metachor 18y ago
protip: It takes one to be led by one.
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by metachor 18y ago
Indeed. Many data-centers have a multi-tiered approach to fire-suppression. This usually includes a chemical suppressant as first line (often a de-oxygenate that suppresses fires by removing oxygen from the room and does not damage server
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by metachor 18y ago
I think a minimal necessity for a DR plan is to have at least three geographically seperated hosting locations with some sort of automatic replication or fail-over. Again, this costs a lot of money. I don't know whether the ec2/cloud-comp
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by metachor 18y ago
Having the power knocked out for several days IS that bad. Without power the servers are offline and no long running whatever services they were meant to be providing. This means lost money for whoever those services belonged to (and lost
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by metachor 18y ago
This is an interesting lesson in disaster recovery planning for businesses using third-party datacenters for hosting. One common scenario is for a business with its own datacenter to use a private third-party datacenter (like the one in th
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by metachor 18y ago
Both and neither. On a case-by-case basis, I will do some light google research on the experience of the mac-unix community for that particular package. Sometimes either the fink or ports release is recommended over the other, sometimes a
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by metachor 18y ago
Thanks! m.reddit.com is indeed much better for mobiles. Wish I had seen that earlier. No complains about the new layout after all then -- it looks great on desktop browsers.
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by metachor 18y ago
The new design feels cumbersome on mobile devices, to the point of being unreadable. This is entirely due to the right-hand sidebar (with the Customize your reddit, Submit a link and Create your own reddit call-out boxes), which appears ab
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by metachor 19y ago
I apologize for the misunderstanding --- no offense meant. And I see above that you did lay out your idea in general. That sounds like a pretty interesting idea. I hope someone can make it work as well. I've seen a similar idea already in
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by metachor 19y ago
I might be off base, but I read this thread as saying: "I have an idea that I think is worth a lot of money, but I don't have the [time|skills] to complete it myself. I want to find as few other people as possible to make the idea a realit
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by metachor 19y ago
Just as computer science studies algorithmic theory as well as implementation.