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by timrobinson 16y ago
Right - I'm skeptical that using a RAM disk like this has a benefit on any current OS. The idea of a RAM disk being quicker than a real disk -- when memory is backed by the file system, and the file system has a cache in front of it -- soun
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by timrobinson 16y ago
"The costs of switching from established languages will continue to be high" - this is why the recent set of new JVM and CLR languages are so wonderful. If I'm experienced with one CLR-based language, I can experiment with another one witho
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by timrobinson 16y ago
On a lot of these the Google result shows as "Sometext - Untitled Document" even though the <title> tag is plain "Untitled Document". For instance, the result for http://www.pinholephotography.org/Solargraph%20instructions.... get
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Like a comment on the article says, this is Java checked exceptions for C++. Checked exceptions don't give you exception safety for free: they give you boilerplate code, and exception safety is still up to the developer. (I never bought the
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I'm pretty sure they're SEO spam: the flattering comment is to make sure it gets approved by the blog admin, but the aim is to increase the number of links to http://Yourwebsite . I get stacks of these daily, so I make sure I only approve
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by timrobinson 16y ago
dict.TryGetValue is an odd example here -- idiomatic F# for a map lookup would be: let value = defaultArg (Map.tryFind "foo" dict) "default" or match Map.tryFind "foo" dict with | Some v -> v | None -> "defaul
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by timrobinson 16y ago
You find this out by right-clicking the x^2 button and clicking What's This. The popup explains the Inv^2 trick -- to my recollection it's been like that since Windows 95.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
File.Open - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b9skfh7s.aspx There's a subtlety to API design -- and naming in particular -- that's separate from writing the code and getting it to work. You can get by in .NET development with classe