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by moomin 15y ago
It's worth noting that SQL server has a separate network path for ODBC (I believe). The announcement doesn't really say anything one way or the other about native drivers like SqlConnection in ADO.NET. Tbh, hardly anyone uses ADO, ADO.NET
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by moomin 15y ago
Command line tools are also pretty vital if you're using a build server. Speaking as a Coffeescript loving developer at a Windows shop, this could be fabulous.
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by moomin 15y ago
Maybe they're targeting the kind of people who stayed awake when PG talked about LISP.
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A Beginner's Thoughts on ZeroMQ(colourcoding.net)
4 points by moomin 15y ago|0 comments
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by moomin 15y ago
Now tell me they're writing a SQL Server driver, and I'll be very interested...
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by moomin 15y ago
Producing a truly language-neutral VM would be an interesting goal, one that no-one's really got that close to achieving. (I think Microsoft's got closest.) Making it a compact wire format to boot would be... challenging. Ultimately, a VM
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by moomin 15y ago
Reading codebetter, you can watch one after another alpha geek move his attention to python, to ruby, and to node. Not that many seem interested in jumping to Java (although Mike Rettig clearly has). I suspect that's simply because Java j
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by moomin 15y ago
I think the problem is that a lot of .NET developers have felt for some time that the platform is running out of steam. PR disasters like this just provide a focal point for that, more general, anxiety. As for why it feels like that, I sus
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by moomin 15y ago
Personally, I don't have a problem with deep magic that I don't completely understand operating in my code, as long as its semantics are clear and obvious. If I didn't, I doubt I'd code in C, never mind Scala. I'm more interested in what t
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by moomin 15y ago
It's worth pointing out that clojure's protocols actually address the "multiple issues of the same method" problem. It looks like Yehuda's been, at the very least, reading the same books as Rich Hickey (this is a good thing)
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by moomin 15y ago
Inevitable: http://xkcd.com/710/
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by moomin 15y ago
Or use async.js, or step, which already have addressed this issue. They look nice in coffeescript too.
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by moomin 15y ago
I remember back in the early 90s, I often had the choice of using the local tools or the GNU tools. I went for the GNU versions every time: they were stable, predictable and worked the same everywhere I went. It felt like they'd built the
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by moomin 16y ago
The distinction between a scientist and an engineer is important here. In the dark days of modern China, mathematicians and scientists were regarded with as much suspicion as poets and philosophers. Engineering was one of the most intelle
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by moomin 16y ago
I'd start by learning ASP.NET MVC, then start to work outwards from there. You could do a lot worse than reading the examples on Scott Guthrie's blog.
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by moomin 16y ago
I'd be interested in the templating stuff as a jQuery plug-in. As it is, knockout.js is a lot less violent for someone working with an existing application.
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by moomin 16y ago
Is it just me, or was Scott Adams channelling Dogbert?
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by moomin 16y ago
Don't get me wrong, this could end up being the best thing since sliced bread, but the advantage of closures is that a higher-order approach can work wonders. Just take a look at async.js. For me, more interesting than a pure assault on ca
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by moomin 16y ago
I can't help feeling that all of the examples contain too much copy and pasting. This is dealt with by taking a higher order approach to the problem. Which is what async.js is for. doSomething = (c) -> async.waterfall [
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NPM: There is no spoon(colourcoding.net)
1 points by moomin 16y ago|0 comments
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by moomin 16y ago
The Social Network is probably the best movie of the year, but I've got a soft spot in my heart for Scott Pilgrim. Characters that behave like people, 1000 jokes per minute and phenomenally executed action sequences.
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by moomin 16y ago
I know this sounds completely crazy, but you could always run a Linux VM on your windows machine. I find this more convenient than trying to figure out how to make things work on Windows some days. Alternatively, if you're having trouble w