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by zcrar70 13y ago
I would also be interested in this.
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by zcrar70 13y ago
Angular doesn't do this (batch DOM updates) - but because Angular's $digest cycle is a batch, it's fairly close (or at least, less bad than Backbone's default behaviour). Dirty checking and watch execution happens in bat
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by zcrar70 13y ago
One basis point = one hundredth of a percent
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by zcrar70 13y ago
One basis point = one hundredth of a percent
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by zcrar70 13y ago
the two best features of Typescript's type system IMHO are: - structural typing for interfaces (which means that classes implicitly implement an interface if the definitions match) - gradual typing (mainly the ability to convert betwee
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by zcrar70 13y ago
Typescript also uses 'gradual' typing. See http://siek.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/is-typescript-gradually-t... - Siek is referenced in the original post, too. Clojure's type system sounds more powerful
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by zcrar70 13y ago
Rx (for C#), RxJS (for Javascript), Bacon.js. Definitely not 'widely' but there are a few library implementations out there. I reckon that the reason for this is that it's most useful when the interactivity is high (i.e. ther
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by zcrar70 13y ago
we[1] are a fintech startup based in london... There are a couple of others too - Seedrs are based in Shoreditch, MarketInvoice is in W1, but a few of the others are slightly further out (e.g Nutmeg is in Vauxhall from memory, we're in
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by zcrar70 13y ago
Facebook's recent React framework is also worth mentioning ( http://facebook.github.io/react/ ). A nice JS library for reactive programming is Bacon.js - https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js
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by zcrar70 13y ago
Using it on some new functionality at http://rplan.co.uk , pretty pleased so far. The language is great, with some really neat features such as using interfaces for structural typing ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by zcrar70 13y ago
"whip up a vimscript"...
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by zcrar70 13y ago
J2EE was very verbose - both Ember and Angular make it a key priority to make it quick and easy to do very powerful things. However, I agree with some of your premise. Both Angular and Ember have very opinionated and restrictive world-views
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by zcrar70 14y ago
I get the feeling you're fighting a losing battle re. rudeness...
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by zcrar70 14y ago
Not all that is a part of the US is a reason for its success. Whilst the US does a lot of things well, there is always room for improvement, and some of the aspects of its legal framework is one of the areas that could benefit. The US spend
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by zcrar70 14y ago
Typescript allows you to do this also. It's extremely convenient.
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by zcrar70 14y ago
I have a Zenbook and love it. Would recommend the UX32VD over the UX31, as you can upgrade the SSD and the RAM. (Jeff Atwood actually uses the UX32VD - he gave the UX31 to his wife.)
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by zcrar70 14y ago
The Asus UX32VD has a 1920x1080 resolution. I have one and love it. You'll have to change the default HDD to an SSD, and upgrade the RAM to 10GB though. Jeff Atwood also has one - his review is here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/0
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by zcrar70 15y ago
> To anyone who had a computer in the past 5 years, recorded music is not worth anything. Sorry, but that's just the way it is. It wasn't always that way, and it doesn't need stay that way either. If no-one values the music, then maybe
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by zcrar70 15y ago
If you're in the US, Rhapsody pay artists better rates. An interesting graph illustrating how much an artist has to sell through various platforms (CD, spotify, itunes etc.): http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...
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by zcrar70 15y ago
> But that is expensive to market. Exactly - the estimate above just counts the time to make the album towards the cost, but there are many additional costs to add to that: from a financial perspective, the cost of pressing CDs, making
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by zcrar70 15y ago
I'm not sure how much giving content away for free is a viable model. It depends on the meaning of viable; it isn't viable financially, but it can be a worthwhile sacrifice if you think that more people reading your content is going to mean
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by zcrar70 15y ago
Just to add a little more detail: > Music publishers can take anywhere from 10% (for an admin deal) to 50% (for a co-publishing deal). Bigger percentages involve advances (recoupable payments against future royalties), but also much lon
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by zcrar70 15y ago
Definitely agree - it seems like the music business in the early days (Elvis / Sun Studios) where lots of smaller players are trying for the big hit and the market is still fairly fragmented. Also, the success ratio sounds similar to the ea
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by zcrar70 15y ago
I really struggle with PowerShell - so many things don't work like I expect them to (e.g. passing arguments to the command line, which is surprisingly hard given that's one of the problems it was meant to solve; anything involving operators
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by zcrar70 15y ago
I didn't mean to denigrate the effort - it's a fantastic idea. I just meant to say that anyone wanting to use this for a wider-public app will need to put the extra effort in to make it work with the older IEs.
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by zcrar70 15y ago
not quite - twitter.com works fine in IE8 and IE7 (and even in IE6 - using the mobile version), whereas this doesn't work in at all in any of those... Twitter itself isn't giving up on old browsers; which makes me wonder how interesting thi
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by zcrar70 16y ago
why would the fact that the countries are in turmoil cause MS to remove HTTPS for hotmail? Do you think that MS has links to the governments of those countries (and is somehow trying to make it easier for the local governments to crack down
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by zcrar70 16y ago
Mainly because of the benefits VS provides, e.g. intellisense, refactoring with Resharper, macros such as Go To Declaration/Implementation, compile within the IDE and navigate to any compilation errors, run unit tests etc. etc.
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by zcrar70 17y ago
There is no 'universal you' - but there is 'one', which exists for exactly that purpose...
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by zcrar70 17y ago
I find the title ambiguous/misleading - summary of the article as I understood it: * the Airbus A310 is popular with third-world country airlines * third-world country airports are less well equipped * the crash was likely due to pilot tire

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