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by reddiric 14y ago
Another difference on Windows - Mutex objects can only be released by the thread which acquired them, whereas a semaphore object with a count of one could be acquired on one thread and then released on another. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en
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by reddiric 14y ago
As thrilled as I am that we're doing this, overdue and hopefully done right in the public interest, being about three blocks outside one of the initial service areas stings just a smidge.
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by reddiric 14y ago
HTTPClient was released as a nuget component: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/henrikn/archive/2012/02/16/httpclien...
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by reddiric 14y ago
"kudos to the other French start-ups for finally realizing that the world doesn’t speak French" Pardon, but I don't believe there is a language the world speaks. "three companies out of the sixteen had their webpage in their local language"
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by reddiric 14y ago
Ya, and in my humble opinion / coding style (everyone's got one...) it's not too hard to just add the foo(const foo &); foo & operator = (const foo &); to every class definition that needs it. Small amount of basic, simple C++
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by reddiric 14y ago
Will client Hyper-V on Windows 8 for the phone emulator work if Windows 8 is itself a guest OS?
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by reddiric 14y ago
Windows Phone 8 is based on the Windows 8 kernel and shares plenty of technology with it. The SDK emulator and debugger use client Hyper-V on Windows 8 to run the phone as a guest operating system, which isn't available on Windows 7.
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by reddiric 14y ago
It's both. WinRT is an ABI as well as a set of tools. The WinRT API can be implemented as wrappers around Win32 APIs (as would make sense for functionality in the WinRT surface area that mirrored applicable functionality in the Win32 surf
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by reddiric 14y ago
> "Do I need to call a supervisor?" "Call someone, because as is my right I would like to request a private screening room, please."
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by reddiric 14y ago
And some people use IE, keep it up to date, and don't like snarky websites talking down to them.
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by reddiric 14y ago
About to post the exact same thing http://i.imgur.com/DO5Kb.png And what's with the condescending list? Excuse my vulgarity but the page managed to be insulting, clueless, and factually inaccurate all at the same time. Here's how it rea
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by reddiric 14y ago
Do you believe that was a misleading statistic to use to give a general idea of the scale of the inaccuracy of the original comment? Sorry I'm being short in all these replies, I'm tired of and choosing to call people out on unconstructive
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by reddiric 14y ago
Usually people attach preemptive snark to otherwise constructive contributions. Otherwise it's just snark.
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by reddiric 14y ago
Correct... and?
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by reddiric 14y ago
Response to snark (which I don't know why you think was obligatory): PC World reports 5.4 million Windows Phone 7s sold this quarter alone ( http://www.pcworld.com/article/262287/windows_phone_fails_to... ). With 94,000 employees, this wou
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by reddiric 14y ago
Windows Phone 8 has a native 3rd party API and DirectX, in addition to the C#/SL/XNA stack on WP7, which will make porting applications from and sharing code with iOS and Android easier.
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by reddiric 14y ago
Is it a poor web presence? You haven't made a case for that, the only thing that's been stated is that the visual style is inconsistent between major areas. Is that a bad thing?
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by reddiric 14y ago
Shift-insert has worked on Windows as far as I go back (3.1).
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by reddiric 14y ago
The article didn't talk about Seattle specifically, but we have five major pinball/arcade destinations. Shorty's in Belltown - a bar with 16 pinball machines and 13 arcade machines Narwhal in Capital Hill - a bar with 8 pinball machines and
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by reddiric 14y ago
Can someone smarter than me please explain why a system where trades got matched / executed at a granularity of once per second or once per several seconds wouldn't work? What would be the problem with exchanges accumulating and keeping se
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by reddiric 14y ago
> The true innovator in the e-mail space has been GMail, which has brought things like autosave, Small nit, Outlook 2003 had AutoSave. GMail was publicly introduced in 2004. > embracing the fact that it is not truly productive to f
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by reddiric 14y ago
This isn't the website Microsoft uses to tell you about its products, it's a preview. The only reason this site is visible is for that feedback button, which will be read and acted on before it turns in to Microsoft.com
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by reddiric 14y ago
How is that different than adding a nullable column shoe_size to the user table in your relational DB, and an if(user.shoe_size != null) in your application?
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by reddiric 15y ago
If there is only one implementation of an Interface, "anything implementing this Interface" and "anything of this class" are the same thing. Coding to an interface is a good thing - but it's the concept "interface", not necessarily the lang