timrobinson

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by timrobinson 16y ago
Did you throw ideas off the wall with the non-smokers too?
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I don't understand the point about threading; I've been using threading ("conversations") since I started on Outlook 97. It does appear to use the References: header.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
The Windows console does support encodings: see the `chcp` command, which changes the code page. The cmd.exe builtins can support UTF-16 regardless of the code page. When I last looked at this, Python doesn't attempt to deal with the Window
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by timrobinson 16y ago
It's been archived to http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/02/25/498596/markets-li...
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by timrobinson 16y ago
"Continuous trading has now resumed in all order driven trading services."
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by timrobinson 16y ago
It's not F# or Java, it's C++. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2261896
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by timrobinson 16y ago
OK, I wouldn't expect an official press release like this from Microsoft head office. But the team in Microsoft Research are (a) keen to promote their language (people like Don and Brian often help early adopters personally) and (b) support
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by timrobinson 16y ago
If the LSE were using F# we'd have heard a lot more about it already. For instance, from Microsoft.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.10#Language...
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I've no idea where they got this from, although I mentioned it on Twitter as a joke: https://twitter.com/tim_g_robinson/status/41086872876892160
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by timrobinson 16y ago
If a configuration language is Turing-incomplete, configuration files written in it can be validated “offline”, ie. without executing the program it configures This is exactly what I've been advocating recently. Less power is good, if it
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Jsawk seems more intuitive, as you get to write JavaScript instead of combining command-line flags: https://github.com/micha/jsawk
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Is it reasonable for the author to expect at least one female applicant to any given job ad? It's not clear to me whether (a) the author expects the ratio of applications to be 50-50, and is surprised that it's not; or (b) the author is awa
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by timrobinson 16y ago
The predecessor to the Internet in the UK in the 1980s - JANET - worked like this: For example, the University of Cambridge had the NRS name UK.AC.CAM, whereas its DNS domain is cam.ac.uk. All NRS names had both a standard (long) and abbre
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by timrobinson 16y ago
It's closer to England than Paris
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by timrobinson 16y ago
"doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" - I'm beginning to wonder whether this applies to you more than the OP... :)
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by timrobinson 16y ago
The answer just states that "it has been hypothesized", so technically it's correct. It doesn't claim whether this is true; the answerer needs "a reliable cross-browser, multi-document benchmark" in order to do that. Besides, if I worried a
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by timrobinson 16y ago
And ClearCase and Visual Source Safe. File locking is typically popular in version control systems that have limited merge abilities. Perforce is a little better at resolving merge conflicts than the others mentioned here; locking tends to
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I hadn't seen Phoenix before reading your comment, but I like the look of it. Looks useful for general compiler tinkering. When I looked at this a while back, I was trying to do it in C# on Mono.Cecil. I got bogged down writing things like
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by timrobinson 16y ago
If I've understood correctly, JetBrains are building Reflector functionality into ReSharper. (I've been paying JetBrains money for ReSharper licences almost as long as I've been programming on .NET, and I don't intend to stop.)
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ReSharper: Reflections on recent news(blogs.jetbrains.com)
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Reflector's always been obfuscated; Lutz Roeder had a paid-for version as well alongside the free one. (You don't think the first thing we tried with Reflector was to reflect Reflector? :) )
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I did look into cloning Reflector when Red Gate originally acquired it. The work involved looks similar to that needed to build a .NET compiler, but in reverse. That is, you take a low-level machine representation; then build up a control f
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Inheritance isn't the only way to re-use code. Using inheritance won't solve your problems, and it tends to give you new ones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile_base_class
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by timrobinson 16y ago
"The free version will continue working until May 30, 2011." http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/reflecto...
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I agree $35 isn't a ripoff price, but not that 'everybody needs to be paid'. For instance, Red Gate recently added an F# mode, which essentially doesn't work. If Reflector had been open source and free, I'd have been willing to get this fea
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by timrobinson 16y ago
So the OSS community wouldn't do a better job of building a .NET decompiler?
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But Reflector was free for years until Red Gate took it on. And since then, Red Gate haven't done a lot with it to justify the cost: apart from the Visual Studio addin, the basic functionality is the same.
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'Violent crime'?
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by timrobinson 16y ago
After being down all day yesterday, the site's now working for me. Not much crime in my small part of south-east London, except for an ominous 'other crime' at the end of the street...

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