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by ppog 8y ago
They di seem to have fixed this, at least as far as WSL is concerned. If I open a bash shell on Win10 and do `echo foo >/mnt/d/temp/like:this` then I can open the resulting file in Notepad and see the content `foo`.
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by ppog 9y ago
New Zealand's timezones are full hours, not 45 minutes. You might be thinking of Nepal? (Picky - your broader point is of course right.)
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by ppog 9y ago
Draft can watch for code changes via a `watch` setting in draft.toml. (Disclosure: I work on the containers team at Microsoft.)
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Why are there both sharps and flats?(music.stackexchange.com)
23 points by ppog 9y ago|13 comments
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by ppog 9y ago
It seems like this relies for some of its safety guarantees on checks in (their fork of) the C# compiler. For example, owner non-copy guarantees seem to be enforced at the C# front end level rather than in the CLR. That could cause proble
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by ppog 9y ago
Auckland has had a few for at least 10 years. They are used for some of the very busy intersections on Queen Street (a busy shopping street that also carries a lot of cars and buses), and seem to work well. Regarding Wellington, I can thi
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by ppog 9y ago
"Scanning a cond for me is almost instantaneous." This is a very subjective concern though. Consider the subtype example. For me, reading that 3x3 table, especially with the grouping of blocks, was a lot easier than mentally pa
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The fall of the USSR(ianwelsh.net)
4 points by ppog 9y ago|2 comments
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by ppog 9y ago
"They are able to do it so well, so quickly because Windows Visual Studio has much of that functionality already in it." I don't believe anything is shared between Visual Studio and VS Code except the branding (Microsoft play
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by ppog 10y ago
"Everything is contracted out to Datacom, Catalyst, Frondie, Solnet, etc. etc." It's true that there's a big services sector, especially around government work. But there's also a lively startup/R&D scene.
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by ppog 10y ago
That's fine for US citizens entering the US, but any 'travel mode' needs to work for the outbound trip too. If the country you're visiting has adopted a US-style border stance, then you're in no better a position th
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by ppog 10y ago
Yes, this is possible. The Azure A8-A11 VMs have Infiniband, as do the 'r' (RDMA) variants of the new H series. Azure Batch includes support for MPI-like runtimes although you need to get the MPI runtime and application onto the v
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by ppog 10y ago
I think MichaelGG is thinking of the Rotor "shared source" implementation for BSD, which was released around the same time as .NET for Windows as a proof of concept for implementing the .NET standards on other platforms. (These s
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by ppog 11y ago
There is a cross-platform CLI (based on Node.js), which runs on OS X and Linux as well as Windows - I don't specifically know if it has commands for opening ports though. There's information and links at https://azure.
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by ppog 11y ago
They've said that the first version isn't targeted as a consumer device. They initially see it as a professional piece of kit for use by, for example, product designers. (At least that's how it was presented at the New Zeal
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by ppog 12y ago
It's resolved at compile time. It's exactly equivalent to the literal "x", but enables refactoring tools to pick up renames, compilers to error if the name is typoed, etc.
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by ppog 12y ago
Driving up the Whanganui River Road in 2001: Local: "Now, that's a good possum." Me, having missed it completely: "Uh, I didn't know there were any good possums." Local: "That one was dead."
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by ppog 12y ago
Your comment about changing a field to a property being a breaking change in C# is correct, but in practice, C# programmers tend to use auto properties (e.g. public int Left { get; private set; }) rather than public fields. These are fully
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by ppog 12y ago
"IIRC ... Microsoft required computer manufacturers to purchase an Office license for every Windows license. As a result, every new computer came with Office installed." I think you recall incorrectly. I bought a couple of comput
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by ppog 12y ago
Windows has allowed extensions longer than 3 characters for about 20 years now. I'm not sure what you mean by "natively create" but it also definitely doesn't require anything before the "." -- e.g. I have fil
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by ppog 12y ago
I passed the "The Counting Kingdom" and "Mathbreakers" links on to a friend for her children (aged 7 and 9). Not only were they enthusiastic about what they saw, but they decided then and there to create their own &quot
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by ppog 12y ago
...and, indeed, these XML namespaces (MS Office and data types) and the CustomDocumentProperties tag are already known to be added by SharePoint, and apparently for well-established reasons (though not ones I understand not being a SP user)
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How not to evaluate hard disk reliability: Backblaze vs world+dog(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by ppog 13y ago|0 comments
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by ppog 13y ago
It's not that anyone believes "shelf space is running out." It's signal to noise -- or, to be less judgmental, "findability." Sure, SO or Wikipedia have the storage capacity for people to post anything they w
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Google's quantum computer flunks landmark speed test(newscientist.com)
1 points by ppog 13y ago|0 comments
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by ppog 13y ago
Observable, Scan and FirstAsync are from Rx. (FirstAsync is roughly equivalent to LINQ First(), except that it doesn't block.) This particular Subscribe method is also part of Rx, but it's basically a helper method around the BC
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by ppog 13y ago
I'm amused by the contention that running a business isn't like developing software because in business "There’s rarely a perfect decision. You’re always making trade offs. Balancing risk." That sounds like exactly what
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by ppog 13y ago
Paul Hudak's "The Haskell School of Expression" ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Haskell-School-Expression-Programm... ), while it doesn't lead to a finished desktop application, does go deeply into its motivat
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by ppog 13y ago
A friend's children (aged 6 and 8) use my Surface occasionally, mainly for the Fresh Paint drawing application. They love it, and have very few problems using it -- sometimes they misjudge the swipe gestures but they have learned how
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by ppog 13y ago
That's probably not down to a censorship 'lens' though. A more apt US analogy might be how many people were aware of the scale of protests against the Iraq war -- especially the vast opposition to it in Europe. My impression

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