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by smhinsey 7y ago
Microsoft's issue is a little different in that they rarely retire a concept but frequently cycle through implementations. My experience over the years has been less of a Google style "there's no more Reader, where do I go n
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by smhinsey 7y ago
The elephant in the room here is that the lifespan of a lot of recently built houses is not necessarily what we might expect. A lot of these houses will turn out to have problems that will effectively “total” them as they age. There are a l
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by smhinsey 7y ago
Even reflection is going to vary based on your IDE. If you use ReSharper or Rider, a safe rename refactoring will locate and optionally update string references as well. I don't know if VS itself has adopted this feature.
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by smhinsey 7y ago
Some of this really is pretty wild. I got junk mail within a few weeks of closing that was made to look like fake late/missed payment notices and foreclosure warnings and insurance mistakes and all sorts of horrible lies. I am curious
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by smhinsey 7y ago
The cherry on top is what they plan on calling the next major release. You guessed it! .NET 6.
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by smhinsey 7y ago
Their contribution to this problem doesn't necessarily have to be a negative thing. Saying they made a contribution isn't an accusation. No one is saying that they should stop doing business in California or that they should try a
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by smhinsey 7y ago
I think this really begs the question of what exactly is meant by a microservices architectures. In my mind this is one of those subjects that is almost infinitely variable, producing a range of responses from everyone you ask. Personally,
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by smhinsey 7y ago
For what it's worth, not all of these areas are totally unsafe. I am familiar with some of the central valley lakes that are highlighted and I grabbed the current consumption flyer for one: https://oehha.ca.gov/media&#x
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by smhinsey 7y ago
Roundabouts seem to bypass American NIH and get straight to our native anti-intellectualism. Probably the most common comment I hear from people encountering them for the first time is that they are too hard to figure out. To be fair, signa
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by smhinsey 7y ago
This is a real problem. It's one thing for apps under continual development because you can generally stay fairly current as a matter of course. Everything changes when you're working with the kind of app that hums along unchanged
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by smhinsey 7y ago
I have brought this up a few times in various organizations and most of the reaction has been along the lines of "ugh, XML bad!" but a few have pointed out that there are several things in the JSON ecosystem which have evolved to
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by smhinsey 7y ago
"The SHAKTI Electromagnetic Stabilizer (aka “the Stone”) has three internal trap circuits (Microwave, RF and Electric Field) to absorb the broadest spectrum of EMI. Placement on automotive CPUs has measurably increased engine horsepowe
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by smhinsey 8y ago
The F-35 isn't a dogfighter in the WW2 mold of the P-51 Mustang, etc. The F-35 was conceived of for a different kind of fight, more like a contest of swarms than a series of related but independent jousts. The F-35 is formidable becaus
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by smhinsey 8y ago
A year or two back we had a super bloom of Joshua Trees at the eponymous park and one of the rangers said that while yes, it's a beautiful sight, it's also a little scary, because they only do that when they're under extreme
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by smhinsey 8y ago
Tivo hosed me on a version of item 2 a while back. My Tivo account is ancient, and when I created it the old email+gibberish@gmail.com trick worked fine. A year or so ago they released a new version of their site that wouldn't accept t
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by smhinsey 8y ago
Yeah, I think there is a certain mindset for whom "going ballistic" seems like a smart power move that you can use to get results, but in day to day reality, I see it as the ultimate failure to maintain control over the situation.
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by smhinsey 9y ago
I don't know about this. One thing that has really struck me about the kind of behavior on display is that a lot of it seems to be under the assumption that getting away with it initially means getting away with it forever, but in real
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by smhinsey 9y ago
There is a really interesting episode of the UK show Grand Designs that follows someone in a flood prone area who built a house that essentially rests within its own drydock structure. Worth a watch if you find this sort of thing interestin
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by smhinsey 10y ago
The way that Twitter has become so pervasive despite not really solving the profitability problem makes me think of how a lot of the original constructors of skyscrapers end up building icons and then losing their shirts and being forced to
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by smhinsey 10y ago
This is what people continue to say and it was true in the early days 5+ years ago but I'm a skeptic on this point today. Unless you're talking about one of the ultra moderated places like AskHistory you can count on the toxic bul
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by smhinsey 10y ago
Not only have they hosed the reputation of the brands they've bought, but they're diminishing their own as well. I know it's nowhere as popular as the ThinkPad, but I have been a ThinkStation fan for years. I bought my first
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by smhinsey 11y ago
This is pretty cool! I switched from a similar extension purely because I prefer the location on the left of the comment rather than the right. I've tried a lot of these and one thing I haven't seen is a similar feature to RES tha
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by smhinsey 11y ago
Both the ratio of your amount of available credit vs. used credit and the total amount of credit that you have available feed into your FICO score. From the lender's perspective, someone with a lot of unused credit is a better candidat
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by smhinsey 11y ago
I used to have this issue and while I'm not totally cured, I improved things a lot by waiting until I was at or near the point where I could barely keep my eyes open before getting in bed and trying to read. You don't need to do i
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by smhinsey 11y ago
After years and years of trying anything that came my way and seemed credible, the only thing that ever worked to change me into a morning person was living in an apartment that was so bright in the morning that even drawn blinds and an eye
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by smhinsey 11y ago
This is what Jack Daniels does and it doesn't seem to hurt them any.
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by smhinsey 11y ago
There is actually a pretty interesting experiment going on in the Salton Sea area called the Vertical Tube Evaporation project. It uses geothermal rather than solar power, but given the region, if they were to scale up solar or wind would c
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by smhinsey 11y ago
I've found that LA is surprisingly tough to get a handle on as a newcomer or outsider. It helps to think of it as a conglomeration of many small towns which have grown together over time, resulting in a situation where there is a &quot
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by smhinsey 12y ago
So what happens if we find ourselves in a war of attrition again? Most/all of the potential opponents in such a war are nuclear powers so it's theoretically not a possibility but history is littered with theoretical impossibilitie
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by smhinsey 12y ago
What are people's production experiences with this? I've written half baked implementations of so many of these ideas that I'd love to not have to own any longer.

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