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by stonemetal 15y ago
How is there not a stigma attached to non-reproducibility? If it is not reproducible, then the findings are incorrect, and an investigation should be made to determine if it is just incompetence or out right fraud. Otherwise fire up the n
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by stonemetal 15y ago
Monads are a lot like pointers in that the Dictionary definition is rather simple. It is the implications and proper use that takes dedication and practice.
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by stonemetal 15y ago
Not sure why you got down voted, last time this topic came up the author was using EC2 instances for test clients, it took them 17 or so to get the number of connections to their server that they wanted. When the server IP, server port par
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by stonemetal 15y ago
Mongrel2 has a Lua web framework called tir.
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by stonemetal 15y ago
In an unfamiliar situation a westerner is more likely to go it alone, follow the signs and work through the process. Where as an easterner is more likely to seek help and have a knowledgeable person walk them through it. So yeah a western
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by stonemetal 15y ago
I have done the pragprog code katas before. Did it make me a better programmer? I think so because I actually sat down and thought about what I was doing when I program(and how I could improve it) instead of focusing on the problem. On t
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by stonemetal 15y ago
There should be some legacy apps that will run. Especially if non-phone ARM devices get the full .net framework.
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by stonemetal 15y ago
Development, sure it could run natively like iOS does(they just reroute the system calls), but it means you have to do more on device testing since the translation layer isn't bug for bug compatible with the device os.
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by stonemetal 15y ago
It is a host it yourself website for Universities. It provides a way for teachers to provide lecture notes, give assignments, accept submissions, post grades, have a message board. All of the features are access controlled so only student
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by stonemetal 15y ago
why isn't it viable to sell your (polished) prototypes? From the electronics stackexchange: Certification with the FCC can cost around 10 to 20K. In the US, all products containing electronics that oscillate above 9 kHz must be certified
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by stonemetal 15y ago
There is the problem for me. ORMs (well maybe Entity Framework with LINQ) don't attempt to be an abstraction. They are more like sprintf. Knowing sprintf doesn't free you from knowing what numbers look like as strings. ORMs don't free you
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by stonemetal 15y ago
I wonder if they will go the other way though and emulate ARM on x86.
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by stonemetal 15y ago
As with any new tech especially tech by a company that has shown a willingness to kill off under performing products. If it looks useful try it out, but don't depend on it. The good thing about Metro being standards based is if they drop
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by stonemetal 15y ago
Knowing that each API is slightly different there are two paths you could take. An MVC like approach where everything platform specific is sectioned off in the view and just have totally different views for each platform. The second is use
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by stonemetal 15y ago
While I fully agree with the losing something in translation. I don't agree that people are trying to skip learning things. It is a do I want to do 100% of my software development 3 times because I need a java version for one platform, Ob
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by stonemetal 15y ago
.net was obsoleted in 2005? DirectX was obsoleted in 1997? Microsoft like any other company kills under performing products, fortunately they usually replace them with something better. When managed direct X got the ax it was replaced wi
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by stonemetal 15y ago
Sure it can, you have to hire someone to teach all those useless classes.
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by stonemetal 15y ago
I am going to have to disagree with you on the unit test part. Everything in a game that is not graphics has no inherent limitation that prevents automated unit testing. A large part of your graphics pipe line can be unit tested as well, m
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by stonemetal 15y ago
When you take out a loan say for a car, you put the car as collateral. This is called a secured loan. When you charge something to your credit card you don't put up any collateral. This is called an unsecured loan. Government bonds are
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by stonemetal 15y ago
There is this study http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=58 which basically says after you control for LOC most of the other complexity metrics become noise.
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by stonemetal 15y ago
Simple state machines don't really have a lot of math behind them. Just a diagram of states and state transitions. The only time math comes into it is if you need to prove something about them, then your general graph algorithms should be
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by stonemetal 15y ago
Saying look how it worked for netflix and blockbuster misses the key point that my library is free. Netflix won because it is much cheaper than blockbuster. Any book subscription service is going to have to put up with a competitor who is
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by stonemetal 15y ago
Not to put words in other people's mouth but I believe he is more concerned with 'version of Lisp' than the 'statically-typed' part. It is kind of like saying basic is an interpreted version of C. The two languages are more or less unrelat
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by stonemetal 15y ago
If you are calling every single button press a command then i(insert), m(mark), %(brace match), w(save), q(quit), /(search), s/(search and replace), y(copy), p(paste), d(cut). That covers 90% of what I do in vim. Add in R (overwrite mode),
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by stonemetal 15y ago
The teacher-student-parent relationship isn't adversarial. How is it not on some level? You get called to come down to the school. Little Billy has been fighting again. You get there the teacher claims your son was bullying Joe. Billy
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by stonemetal 15y ago
Supposedly they get $5 a handset out of HTC and between $10 and $15 a handset out of Samsung for Android. From what I have read MS gives WP7 to handset makers for free then makes money off the carriers for services provided like Live acces
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by stonemetal 15y ago
They also provide registration and SSL.
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by stonemetal 15y ago
Not as safe as walking in to a physical pharmacy.
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by stonemetal 15y ago
Kind of depends on what you mean by adoption. If you just eliminated better than 50% of developers for being "COTM" or less in ability, then the question becomes adoption by whom? You can have it adopted by everyone without taking COTMs t
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by stonemetal 15y ago
Ordering drugs online from a company that claims to be in Canada is perhaps not as safe.

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