upthedale

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by upthedale 14y ago
How about over one's own DNA? An honest question... no snark intended.
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by upthedale 14y ago
You've got the correct offset, but it appears you have some extraneous data at the end. The offset is 0x20b94, with length 82244. Pull that out of the jpeg, and you can play the song.
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by upthedale 14y ago
The facebook announcement was already on the front page, but then magically vanished, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416021
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by upthedale 14y ago
How can I pull the backgrounds out into simple image files. I'd love to use the top 3 images in the blog post as desktop wallpaper (but they're too small - avoiding copyright issue perhaps?). Or are they just in-game screenshots - small vie
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by upthedale 14y ago
The REST API looks like its halfway to being an OData one. Why reinvent the wheel and not go the whole hog?
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by upthedale 14y ago
I've bought it in Tesco's ethnic food aisle in the past. And my local Asian food shop.
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by upthedale 14y ago
I agree with your latter point. MVC isn't the last word in architectural patterns. However... > Because then it's not really MVC anymore. It's something else, perhaps inspired by MVC, but not MVC. I fail to see why the example I gave
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by upthedale 14y ago
Why can't MVC be compositional? The model of the client can come from the server's view. For example, a server could follow MVC, where the view is responsible for forming the data (such as in JSON or XML). In turn, that could form the model
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by upthedale 14y ago
Samsung Smart PC Pro (include ATIV in the name for North America I think). Ticks all the spec boxes you mention, but is a bit above the price range. I like it because it can be a full laptop, with real hinge (unlike the Surface Pro), but c
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by upthedale 14y ago
The announcement 2 weeks ago was just for public availability. Its been public knowledge for much longer. See this from last April: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2012/04/16/announcing...
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by upthedale 14y ago
Seems related to the big Xbox roadmap leak from earlier this year. 'Fortaleza' was the codename I think if anyone wants to do some digging.
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by upthedale 14y ago
My favourite article for laying out some scientific reasoning behind skipping breakfast is the following: http://articles.elitefts.com/nutrition/logic-does-not-apply-...
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by upthedale 14y ago
Nice little experience as an Opera user when enabling the 3D view. It recognised my browser and explained quite simply how to enable WebGL. (Go to opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableWebGL and set the value to 1). I think other websites could lear
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by upthedale 14y ago
Doesn't Windows 8/RT do this too?
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by upthedale 14y ago
OK, conversely, you're saying that you should do the wrong thing (as in this case), if there is no financial incentive? Given you aren't going to get a reward either way, why not do the right thing? Frankly, I can't believe I need to discus
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by upthedale 14y ago
So you're saying you should only do the right thing if there's something in it for you?
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by upthedale 14y ago
Looks good. However, my big criticism of these sorts of visualisations is they seem to be entirely geared towards imperative programming. Has anyone seen similar visualisations for more functionally structured code? Oh, I see you can write
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by upthedale 14y ago
Don't forget Rx [1] It enhances support for the IObservable/IObserver interfaces, the duals of IEnumerable/IEnumerator, allowing Linq manipulation of asynchronous events. As others have discussed or at least alluded to, C# certainly started
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by upthedale 14y ago
Its too late for me to read through in full now, I'm afraid I'll have to defer that to tomorrow. However, when coming across anything to do with writing async code in .Net, my immediate question is how does it compare/cooperate with TPL, Rx
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by upthedale 14y ago
I agree, and I also take issue with the term 'churn'. Churn would imply that features are being removed, replaced with these new ones. What we are instead seeing is growth of the framework, and community. To offer an alternative viewpoint t
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by upthedale 14y ago
Definitely. Should have left that first line out, as it wasn't what I was trying to argue. The rest of my point still stands. Edit: I see you've appended to your comment. The problem is you could always have lazily-evaluated IEnumerables by
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by upthedale 14y ago
But if you're ToListing it, your return type might as well just be List, not IEnumerable (or IQueryable). I feel that by declaring your return type as IEnumerable, you're implicitly saying to any caller that the return object is something t
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by upthedale 14y ago
Oh yes, I did actually realise that. Thank you though. I worded it badly. I should have been clearer in that I was following on from solutionyogi's argument about readability. The compiler example is a bit on the ugly side, wouldn't you say
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by upthedale 14y ago
Absolutely. You saved me writing the same thing. Regarding point 1, I would add there are also things that can be done using the query syntax that simply can't with the extension methods. For instance, I'm not sure how you would scope thing
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by upthedale 14y ago
> On a side note, isn't the term "freetard" extremely pejorative? This is The Register we're talking about. I see it as no coincidence that it has a red banner, it is a "Red Top" of tech journalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tops
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by upthedale 14y ago
Not only that, but the user accounts can optionally live "in the cloud", such that a user - who would otherwise be a guest - can use another's device and keep their preferences by having them synced up automatically.
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by upthedale 14y ago
The link I gave was just my lazy attempt at citing something . Wikipedia is hardly reliable source No. 1. In reality, it is my understanding the Windows RT (the OS), can only run applications designed for Metro/WinRT (the runtime). That is
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by upthedale 14y ago
This isn't correct. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRT "Programs can be written using Windows Runtime that will run on both the X86 and ARM editions of Windows 8 without modification." The entire point of WinRT (read: Metro-style app
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by upthedale 15y ago
This doesn't really address any practical issues you faced in holding down a full-time job whilst also building the startup. Based on the title, I was expecting more. Something like how you managed your time? That said, congrats on launchin
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Tablet computers added to UK inflation basket(bbc.co.uk)
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