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by wyday 19y ago
I wasn't arguing about the term "memory leak", but the misleading title's implication that it's a design flaw in the C# specification (or, for that matter, Microsoft's or Mono's implementation). It's not. It's a memory leak due to the progr
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by wyday 19y ago
Oh please, we're all whores. This story would only be spam if it were contrived to sell more ANTS software.
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by wyday 19y ago
> Perhaps No, the title is misleading. It was misleading on reddit too. > ... because I can't manually destroy objects. I'm not sure about Java, but if it's similar to C# then you can manually destroy objects. When they get "offic
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by wyday 19y ago
If you're unfamiliar with linux, then it costs $0 only if your time is worthless. Plus, there isn't a good ASP.NET implementation for linux. Mono's attempt is imperfect.
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by wyday 19y ago
I think brett was suggesting rambling, angry, posts are better suited for a blog.
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by wyday 19y ago
One reason may be that it's in a series of articles in the NYTimes called "Age of Riches": http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/series/age_of_ri...
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by wyday 19y ago
> Beethoven: great pianist. Went on to become great composer. Started composing symphonies. Went deaf but still composed symphonies. Went from there to completely change music as we know it. You're rewriting history. Beethoven started b
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by wyday 19y ago
Has "spritz" taken on a new slang meaning? From what I remember (as does the dictionary) it means carbonated water. > once you do that 2 or 3 times very well, either you graduate into something tougher and better or you're just like a s
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After First Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again(nytimes.com)
42 points by wyday 19y ago|30 comments
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by wyday 19y ago
Peter piper picked a peck of alliteration, eh?
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Media Companies Regain Appetite for Taking Risks in Tech Start-Ups(nytimes.com)
6 points by wyday 19y ago|0 comments
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by wyday 19y ago
The title of the blog post makes a claim that this new technology is "50x Faster Than BitTorrent". Also, the site referenced ( http://www.blin.cn ) is in Chinese.
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by wyday 19y ago
Isn't this more about bandwidth in China, and not the technology of the p2p networks? I don't know, the title makes a statement but it isn't backed up (and I can't read Chinese).
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by wyday 19y ago
Don't install shady programs and, like I said, a defrag will suffice. If you do however install a bunch of junk then you'll need to reinstall Windows. The same would be true for any other OS that is filled with malicious programs; that is,
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by wyday 19y ago
I agree; the users that complain about Windows stability (the ones that aren't Mac using journalists) are the type that install sleazy toolbars and slipshod freeware. It's like having sex with everyone in the art department and wondering wh
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by wyday 19y ago
> Reinstalling the OS is actually a routine thing? No. Reinstalling Windows is recommended by kids on forums - everyone else knows that a defrag suffices.
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by wyday 19y ago
Exactly what was said of XP before SP1. "XP is just 2000 with eye-candy and more crashes." The same argument can be made for Os X upgrades as well. Is any one Mac Os X upgrade "significantly better" than the last? It's the subtleties that m
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by wyday 19y ago
Linearity: You need a friendly helpful teacher for this one. The class comes in use when you need to solve multiple iterations of a particular calculation. For instance, triangulation is a cinch now that I've taken Linearity. English litera
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by wyday 19y ago
The statement (or at least the fixed one) does follow from the given premise. Just because you disagree with the premise (that popularity might be evidence of quality) doesn't make it non sequitur. To save myself from repeating the same arg
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by wyday 19y ago
When I wrote: "OK. And because of this Rand isn't?" I meant to write: "OK. And because of this Rand isn't a good writer?". It's not a non sequitur, just a typo.
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by wyday 19y ago
If it's not general popularity, and it's only critical popularity after a few hundred years, then can a writer's talent even be judged in the short term? (This question sounds smarmy, but I ask it earnestly.)
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by wyday 19y ago
But isn't it popularity among the elite (that is, critical popularity) that traditionally decides a writer's talent?
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by wyday 19y ago
I see. In all your arguments it is talent as judged by you. Therefore you are the arbiter of talent? Can we just end this thread here before we get to the inevitable anticlimactic conclusion that people differ in opinion?
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by wyday 19y ago
OK. And because of this Rand isn't?
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by wyday 19y ago
> 800-page exposition by someone who demonstrates ..., a penchant for rape, ... The relationships between her characters are usually sadomasochistic, not sexual abuse. But even when it does appear it takes up barely ten pages in her nov
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by wyday 19y ago
> He doesn't sound angry at all. Mellow people can be crazy too. Though, whether he's crazy or not, there isn't a shred of evidence presented besides the picture of "tribal health" he paints.
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Who Needs Hackers?(nytimes.com)
5 points by wyday 19y ago|0 comments
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by wyday 19y ago
He does the same thing with C# and .NET. Where C# is a programming language that runs on the .NET framework.
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by wyday 19y ago
First of all, this picture is doctored; there should be a company name under "Mouse", or else it would show an "Unidentified Publisher" warning instead. Also notice how 'Mouse' text isn't rendered with cleartype, while all other text is. Pl
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by wyday 19y ago
Don't piss in our own pool, piss in our neighbor's?

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