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by nlawalker 16y ago
I still haven't seen a good reason for hiding it in the first place.
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by nlawalker 16y ago
I consider myself to be something of an input device dork (you can pry my MX518 from my cold, dead hands), but after trying a couple of the MS ergo keyboards and a few other things, I've found that the Comfort Curve 2000 (MS' cheapest keybo
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by nlawalker 16y ago
Regardless of how lame or false it is, Facebook still has to present some semblance of privacy to keep their business going. As soon as they ditch all privacy settings, the mainstream media will cover it, and the average user will start to
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by nlawalker 16y ago
Google is not like the current wave of VC web apps: it was built on an idea that couldn't exist without the proper technology. For most VCs, that technology is merely "the internet," and their ideas simply leverage web connectivity to get u
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by nlawalker 16y ago
What do you mean by incremental syncing? The thing I like about Mesh is that I feel like I have control over my files and where they go. The files "live" on my hard drives and are synchronized as a service, and can be synchronized to the cl
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by nlawalker 16y ago
Who is "somebody," and where do they come from? .Net has tons of community support. The MSDN boards and the blogosphere are thriving and StackOverflow is extremely .NET friendly. Microsoft sponsors MVPs and provides tons of free training co
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by nlawalker 16y ago
American students on busy work, shitty teachers, the tied hands of the non-shitty teachers, teaching to tests, promoting attention to apathetic and failing students at the expense of the ones who excel and care, inability to get any kind of
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by nlawalker 16y ago
The shame is, I can't think of anyone who wouldn't want it to work. I don't know about you, but I like the fact that I can listen to recorded music and not have to go to a live performance.
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by nlawalker 16y ago
Bingo. I worry about the state of gaming when the primary question on a developer's mind during design is "how can I make online servics a part of this game so I can actually make some money off of it?"
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by nlawalker 16y ago
"I can offer online-only services that actually add to the game experience." It doesn't matter what they are, what they do, or whether or not the network aspect of these services/features is integral to them - pirates and consumers who insi
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by nlawalker 16y ago
I agree that it's dishonest to call piracy theft in the truest sense of the word, but I feel like the primary reason that most people rail against the terms being conflated is because theft is a more familiar criminal concept to most people
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by nlawalker 16y ago
>> more evil Why/how is theft more evil than piracy?
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by nlawalker 16y ago
The guy's argument was that he only dropped it because it got so hot, and the fact that it got so hot is a fault in the design of the device, therefore he should get another one under warranty. The bulk of my post was mostly a rant about pe
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by nlawalker 16y ago
"Apple refuses to replace dropped iPad with voided warranty." Apple fans: you know that user experience you value so dearly? The slick interfaces and integration between applications and devices? The way you can take an Apple product out of
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by nlawalker 16y ago
>> The birth of ORM lies in the fact that SQL is ugly and intimidating I disagree. In my opinion, the birth of ORM lies in the fact that a lot of people want to work on problems that have almost nothing to do with SQL but need persi
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by nlawalker 16y ago
From the article: "literally anybody and everybody could do this and improve their resume in a matter of minutes." ...and then it would no longer be a technique to make your resume stand out.
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by nlawalker 16y ago
My 3G became dog slow as a dog when I installed the software that was released alongside the 3GS. It has been ever since, through every following upgrade.
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by nlawalker 16y ago
Spot on about reuse - I think it's really the core of a lot of problems people have. Models get complicated because people naturally want to design them for reuse, when in almost every case it's just not feasible. You can't point to somethi
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by nlawalker 16y ago
If you have OneNote Win+S instantly transitions to a rectangular-select screen capture mode without stealing focus.
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by nlawalker 16y ago
"Microsoft" represents hundreds of different places to work, and I'm pretty sure Google does too. Different teams at large employers can be worlds apart. The corporate culture that they all have in common is a thinner stripe than most peopl
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by nlawalker 16y ago
Only 730 MB, 11309 messages here, and I can confirm that the service has been steadily slowing over the past three or four weeks. Loading my inbox from scratch can take well over 10 seconds, and I have reproduced this on multiple machines i
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by nlawalker 16y ago
Amen to that. Insecurity destroys whole worlds full of ideas every day. "The Myth of the Genius Programmer" is one of my favorite presentations: http://code.google.com/events/io/2009/sessions/MythGeniusPro... From a "corporate" perspectiv
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by nlawalker 16y ago
This is pretty much what I came here to say. >I will rule out C#. C# never really took off "I don't use C# so it's not the best language ever."
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by nlawalker 16y ago
> When you write a LINQ query it's turned into an expression tree. I believe that this is not the case if you are using LINQ to Objects unless you stick an explicit cast in there somewhere, but I could be wrong. I think that if you si
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by nlawalker 16y ago
I really like the LINQ extension methods and the functionality they provide, but I don't really like the query syntax. Method calls and lambdas seem so expressive and concise to me that I don't know why I'd start pretending like I was using
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by nlawalker 16y ago
Yep, one thing to realize is that LINQ does not simply refer to the query syntax - it refers to a set of technologies, including expression trees and the ability to compile them to alternate languages like TSQL, the query syntax, and the ex
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by nlawalker 17y ago
The author's idea essentially equates to taking the proprietary-ness of plugins and expanding them to the entire browser application. Instead of having a Silverlight plugin and a Flash plugin, we'd have an Adobe browser and Microsoft browse
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by nlawalker 17y ago
I'm in the same boat. I really tried to make use of it to learn Python, but it just spends a lot of time going into detail that an interested reader should be able to infer by doing exercises. I'm actually a big fan of that kind of writing,