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by sblom 10y ago
Project Centennial https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=516...
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by sblom 10y ago
Or a technical collective. This isn't necessarily sinister.
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by sblom 10y ago
Maybe I'm lacking in imagination--what are the killer scenarios for this?
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by sblom 10y ago
I'd be sad to see physical function keys go. Maybe there'll be a gizmo that I can put over the TouchBar that gives me physical keys that can simulate touches for me. :)
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by sblom 10y ago
They're not just pretending nobody ever uses function keys--they insinuated that no one has had a use for them since 1971.
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by sblom 10y ago
I saw that, too. Their support matrix is fascinating: Safari pretty much anywhere or... Microsoft Edge. Any guesses why that is? Is this an HTML5 <video> DRM thing?
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by sblom 10y ago
I've always found Tcl interesting-yet-strange, but any language that lands on the CLR gets bonus points, especially if the interop design for calling into the .NET base class libraries is clean.
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by sblom 10y ago
As much as I love C# & XAML, I have trouble imagining why I would use this stack instead of writing JS/HTML5 directly.
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by sblom 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
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by sblom 11y ago
And they have current benchmarks that indicate that it's still the right decision: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ricom/archive/2015/12/29/revisiting-...
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by sblom 11y ago
Part of their problem must be that they haven't done DropQuest in years. https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-Dropquest-2013-2014-a...
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by sblom 11y ago
I worked with a test engineer at Microsoft who started in 1999, which was after the get-rich-on-stock-options days at the company. He spent 15 years living below his means, and recently retired from the tech world forever. He didn't ne
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by sblom 11y ago
I especially love where the author likens resuming a crack attempt after giving up for months to a detective picking up a cold case.
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by sblom 11y ago
I think this made the HN front page the other week, but Seattle PD actually hosted a hackathon with the goal of getting good auto-redaction technology in place so that they could default-release body cam footage: https://www.tech
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by sblom 12y ago
I thought you were going to demonstrate x11-mode or something! Whew.
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by sblom 12y ago
I think I'm a stack in the short term, and a queue in the long term.
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by sblom 13y ago
http://status.modern.ie
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by sblom 13y ago
I seem to remember seeing this very same demo on Etherpad back when that was a thing.
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by sblom 13y ago
I especially love the "recruit a second person to help break into a big circle". It's hard/awkward to break into a big circle solo.
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by sblom 14y ago
I don't know that they _had_ to release an update, but as a Mathematica user who was seeing WordPad (yes, WordPad) bluescreen my computer, I was really happy that Wolfram fixed it for me so I didn't have to wait for Windows to.
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by sblom 14y ago
Hilarious: "I'm going on a date tonight, but he's totally ogooglebar! What are the odds he's an axe murderer?"
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by sblom 14y ago
And IE10. (!)
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by sblom 14y ago
It's possible (although unlikely) that this _is_ a suspension. "Tell the DDoS clowns that she's no longer employed there, they move on, after the Internet recovers from its non-linear response to this whole situation, reinstate her with a p
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by sblom 14y ago
What's HQoN?
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by sblom 14y ago
What does BSD vs GPL have to do with my stove or microwave?
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by sblom 14y ago
That's not precisely conservation of mass and energy. At least not in the conventional E=mc^2 sense.
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by sblom 14y ago
> This isn't moving away from JavaScript. Exactly, that's the point.
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Cut off wrong dependencies in your .NET code(infoq.com)
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Preview of .NET Immutable Collections Released on NuGet(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by sblom 14y ago|0 comments
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by sblom 14y ago
There's a Windows Phone 8 implementation of PhoneGap: https://github.com/apache/incubator-cordova-wp8

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