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by sker 8y ago
1. They already have such offering (VS Team Services). 2. Their competitors (GitLab, Bitbucket) already have that offering. 3. I don't think they're interested in GitHub for its revenue, but for its strategic value. GitHub has to
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by sker 8y ago
Plus I'm sure under Microsoft they will have some sort of free private repos like GitLab, Bitbucket and Visual Studio Team Services already do. Lack of free private repos is the main (only) reason why I don't use GitHub.
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by sker 9y ago
Isn't bike sharing huge in China? Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/22/bike-wars-doc... > the world’s 15 biggest public bike shares are ranked. Thirteen of them are in China.
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by sker 10y ago
The closing curly braces without opening ones make me go full OCD.
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by sker 10y ago
Plus Lineage seems like a much better brand name than CyanogenMod for mass adoption. Though I would've called it Cyborg or something more analogous to Android.
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by sker 10y ago
SQL (4.03%) Lines changed on GitHub: 1,347 Tagged on StackOverflow: 363,595 It doesn't have that many lines on GH when you label it as SQL, but compare that to PL/SQL: PLSQL (0.16%) Lines changed on Git
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by sker 10y ago
Yeah, it took forever to load here too. It looks like this, for those who are curious: http://i.imgur.com/O576J4N.png
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by sker 10y ago
I wonder what will MS come up with to counteract this: Microsoft Windows Ultimate Surface Things.
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by sker 10y ago
They're better. If I bookmark something with any service, chances of me ever checking that out again drop to nearly zero. Tabs, by virtue of being there bugging you, are bookmarks, to-do lists, and task reminders all in one.
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by sker 10y ago
False equivalence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence I see it all the time on the Internet: - Atheists are "just as bad as" [insert religious group with millennia-old history of atrocities.] -
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by sker 10y ago
That's how you act when you have nothing to prove. I like that they treat 'web' like an acronym.
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by sker 10y ago
Search and Replace in multiple files. That's among the top 10 features that should've been available since release 0.0.1 in any code editor. They're at 1.2 now and still no cigar. Who's the project manager who keeps sayi
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by sker 10y ago
Considering the state of American right-wing politics, I don't blame them.
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by sker 10y ago
Dude should have made a small fortune selling optimization services to those big corps.
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by sker 10y ago
I vowed to never "upgrade" to Windows 10, but this really makes it tempting. Damn you, Microsoft.
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by sker 11y ago
Interesting that it rose about the same amount as Microsoft's cloud revenue which was around 90%. Anyone has numbers for Google?
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by sker 11y ago
Meanwhile New Zealand will put you in jail for offending someone on the Internet: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...
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by sker 11y ago
I never understood why HN likes slideshows so much. Am I the only one who finds them completely, 100% useless without the audio of the presentation?
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by sker 11y ago
Man these guys don't stop. They haven't even released C# 6 and now we're discussing 7. With the "strong interest" features and type providers, is there any reason left to use F#? Also, I don't see why array sli
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by sker 11y ago
I'd like to see some ASP.NET running on Owin. Perhaps I'll find the time to add it myself before round 11.
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by sker 11y ago
What happens when we have computers implanted in our brains? Do I no longer own my brain?
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by sker 11y ago
You mean WordPress? I want a WordPress with this. It must be responsive and SEO optimized.
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by sker 12y ago
I second this. I worked on an ASP.NET MVC product that ran just fine on Mono. This was in the old 2.x days. While I didn't test FastCGI, the founder did, several times. He always told me mod_mono performed better. I wonder what the Tec
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by sker 13y ago
> their support docs are comprehensive and easy to use Yes, I've even used them several times on non-DO servers because they're quite good and rank high on Google.
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by sker 13y ago
I was always bothered by the overuse of the word "pretty" on the Internet in place of "very." As a non-native English speaker, I grew up thinking of pretty as synonym of beautiful. Now that I see everyone using it as t
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by sker 13y ago
Have you (or anyone else) read Code Complete? If so, how do you feel about it? I started reading it because everyone recommended it, but I stopped at page 100 or so, because I felt it was getting no where.
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by sker 13y ago
HHVM and Dart seem to be the two new fast performers in town showing impressive performance in some tests. JS has been falling off the charts compared to some of the first rounds, but still a good option performance-wise. C# keeps sucking b
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by sker 13y ago
You can't maximize it, but you can set its width and height. Right click in taskbar -> Properties -> Layout. There are settings for size, position and buffer size. I have mine the size of the whole window and with the biggest pos
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by sker 13y ago
VS 2013 has IntelliSense support for TypeScript and AngularJS, although it does ask you to install the latest TypeScript plug-in. I'm using it full time and I prefer it over SublimeText, probably because I used to do a lot of C# and I&
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by sker 13y ago
If you could spin up an instance for an hour, this would be useful to those who want to buy from US stores that block by IP ( cough Nexus 5 cough ), but don't want to go the VPN route.

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