mousetraps

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by mousetraps 8y ago
Okay fair enough, maybe we’re just talking past each other :).
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by mousetraps 8y ago
Why so black and white? There are many incentives at play, and many ways to contribute to solving real world problems. I’ve spent time in both academic research and industry. Research is not supposed to be immediately applicable. The goal i
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by mousetraps 8y ago
> stigma coming from the academic side that dataset collection is a low-level problem not worthy of serious algorithmic investment Agreed it needs more attention, but - for academia - I think it's more of an incentive issue than a s
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Decentralized Digital Identities and Blockchain(cloudblogs.microsoft.com)
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On interviewing and building inclusive teams: When “consistency” backfires(medium.com)
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Video showing Amazon Prime Now app being used to help homeless people(geekwire.com)
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by mousetraps 10y ago
Good question. From an engineering perspective, the codebases are different, so (with the exception of some components like JS/TS language service) the two will continue to evolve separately until we invest further in consolidating eng
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by mousetraps 10y ago
Node.js Tools dev here - excited to see this on HN! Happy to answer any Qs
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Node.js: From Zero to Bobble with Visual Studio Code(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
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Node.js Tools 1.1 RC2 for Visual Studio: ES6 preview, npm v3 support...(github.com)
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by mousetraps 11y ago
The Node Tools extension is meant for developing apps built on Node, but VS has always had top notch support for C++ so there should be no reason why you can't use them together. Check out this tutorial for developing a node addon in V
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by mousetraps 11y ago
This is in Visual Studio (works in the free community edition), and we have some azure VM images ready for you to spin up if you want to give it a try without installing windows http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio&#x2F
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by mousetraps 11y ago
Whoa totally did not expect to see this hit HN! dev/person-in-video here, happy to answer any questions we couldn't get to in the video :) GitHub repo for those interested in playing around with the code. https://github
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by mousetraps 11y ago
I believe ams6110 meant that there is no need for Mozilla to build their own search engine from the ground up when they could simply partner with DuckDuckGo.
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Linkitz: Wearable, Code-Able Toys for Girls(kickstarter.com)
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by mousetraps 11y ago
:-) Let us know if you run into any issues!
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by mousetraps 11y ago
Yep. That's definitely high priority. First we'll fix the squiggles in the editor and then we'll add intellisense... Please comment so we can better prioritize the es6 feature work.
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by mousetraps 11y ago
Dev here, happy to answer any questions. GitHub link: https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejstools
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Node.js Tools 1.0 on GitHub and VMs Available(blogs.msdn.com)
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by mousetraps 11y ago
Hi bgarbiak, You can use the "From Existing Node.js Code" project template to create a project from a folder, but the project file itself is a requirement for visual studio and also allows us to include helpful metadata (whether o
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by mousetraps 11y ago
I posted this in the comments in the blog as well: With regards to the technicalities of max_path itself... the issue is with the .NET file I/O API, which doesn't allow you to use \\?\ paths to work around it, and is too big for o
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by mousetraps 11y ago
I can't speak for other teams, but re: NTVS... we definitely dont want to force abstractions upon you. For instance, with the npm integration, we provide UI where it makes sense (exploring/managing your packages, searching for pac
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by mousetraps 11y ago
Fwiw we have remote debugging to any OS, so you can remote debug your app regardless of whether or not it's running on azure. We are striving to streamline this experience as much as possible, so any feedback or ideas you have on how t
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by mousetraps 11y ago
Haha, fair enough. Then I suggest you follow @NT4VS on Twitter. We'll let you know when it happens. :-)
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by mousetraps 11y ago
Also re: io.js + Azure websites - looks like someone wrote a script to make it easier! http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-...
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by mousetraps 11y ago
Technically... - connect is for filing bugs - uservoice is for "ideas and suggestions" How people use it, of course, is a completely different story... And then some teams (like us) have public issue trackers, which are the best a
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by mousetraps 11y ago
Awesome! Please, please, please let us know if you have any feedback!
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by mousetraps 11y ago
See comments on this thread re: max_path problems, workarounds, and how we help mitigate it in NTVS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9265694 Otherwise, yeah - we don't like it either... here's the not-closed
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by mousetraps 11y ago
Break on exception? Done! http://nodejstools.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Debugging#bre... We have SO MANY PLANS, so please upvote or request the ones you think are important :) https://nodejstools.codeplex.com&#x
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by mousetraps 11y ago
Let us know if you have any questions! There's some _really cool_ stuff going on there, but it can be tough to wade through depending on your experience.

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