upthedale

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by upthedale 12y ago
This was one of my key take-aways from Dale Carnegie's classic, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'. I've seen it mentioned on various reading lists for those wanting to go into the business world too. Funny thing
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by upthedale 12y ago
Not sure why this has been posted. It looks to be an old list - far from 'ultimate' for 2014. The .Net FOSS community has been gaining momentum in the past few years, with most new developments having moved to GitHub, which is whe
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by upthedale 13y ago
Thanks for the super quick reply! I'm glad to hear I'm not completely crazy with this idea. Multiple 20GB images make my diddy little SSD cry, so this feature would be fantastic.
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by upthedale 13y ago
One problem with using Windows guests on Vagrant is how big they are. You can be looking at 20GB for a stripped down disk with just the OS. This can easily become prohibitive if you want to use more than a few VMs in Vagrant (not to mention
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by upthedale 13y ago
Try Linqpad for a scratchpad too. Don't let the linq name fool you - its great for general purpose fiddling about. It has been truly indispensable when developing on .Net. http://www.linqpad.net
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by upthedale 13y ago
Great! I was going to say F# should be supported, but then I remembered there's this: http://www.tryfsharp.org/Create Still, I can definitely see myself using this to share little pieces of code where currently I write
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by upthedale 13y ago
Came to say the same thing. Bring back mouse chording damnit! (Not to mention all of the little things that made Opera, Opera).
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by upthedale 13y ago
Emphasis on was . Now tab management and the side panel are non-existent.
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by upthedale 13y ago
Check out the MSR project Pex (for .Net, not PHP however) http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/ It is designed to generate input for your code (the public surface by default) to determine whether
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by upthedale 13y ago
See my other reply for the perils of an express mode, which the lifts in my building do have (of a sort), and everyone knows about. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6326890
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by upthedale 13y ago
We have our lift buttons on the outside. You choose your floor, and are directed to one of the 6 lifts available. This seems to confuse every visitor to the building, who will walk into the first open lift (that will have opened for someone
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by upthedale 13y ago
Yep, I've been advocating running a headless nix VM on Windows for a while now, where you can easily 'shoosh' in (as Hanselman likes to call it - never heard this before myself). The problem comes when you want the *nix too
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by upthedale 13y ago
I recently returned back to the UK from a 2 week long US road trip, covering 2000 miles. We downloaded the Nokia Drive data for the states we were visiting in advance onto my girlfriend's cheap Lumia 710, as we wouldn't have any d
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by upthedale 13y ago
This has so many missing features that I would expect from an Opera browser. Lots of seemingly little things that add up (where's the mouse chording!) Where is this bleeding edge Opera Developer version that they mention in the post av
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by upthedale 13y ago
Given the way the City works, do you really want us to not include bonus?
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by upthedale 13y ago
> Anyway, I'm done with this thread I'm glad you've decided to follow your own advice and stop digging. Ignoring your original reply to arianvanp, you'll see that interesting discussion has arisen in response to their original bold stat
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by upthedale 13y ago
But he isn't 'the' authority in FP, simply 'an' authority. And this particular thread seems to be more grounded in discussing FP concepts than Erlang. I had a similar thought when reading the article, unaware to who wrote it... I wondered h
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by upthedale 13y ago
Having spent 2 mins with it, aside from what has already been mentioned... No mouse chording (distinct from gestures). Wikipedia even highlights Opera as a key implementation of mouse chording, and now its gone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by upthedale 13y ago
Does this use the same process-per-tab sandboxing that Chrome uses? I'm one of those crazy users with far too many tabs, and I was always sceptical that Chrome would be able to handle them all. Opera always ran happily with 100+ tabs. Perha
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by upthedale 13y ago
The former of course. Because Linus is a git :) Though my French boss goes for the latter, but with a very soft J. In fact, he pronounces it like 'Gîte' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gîte for the pronunciation guide.
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by upthedale 13y ago
Doesn't the G stand for Graphics? That has a hard G, so I pronounce GIF with one too.
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by upthedale 13y ago
I think its well known that Microsoft are working on the former, a non-gaming Xbox (save for casual games perhaps), primarily designed for films, TV and music. Unfortunately I can't go digging for sources now, and a cursory search is swampe
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by upthedale 13y ago
But you haven't yet answered Akamel's question of why this exists, with comparisons to the existing standards (OData in this case). Everything I've seen just says that this is simply a subset of OData's functionality. And the features that
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by upthedale 13y ago
I strongly suggest you have a look at OData. The latest developments define a similarly lightweight JSON data format. It does everything this proposal does, and more (methinks the things this doesn't do will likely be added as time goes, si
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by upthedale 13y ago
I wouldn't just say 'quite common'. I'd say it's the norm. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BritishBrevity ...usual warning about a tvtropes link, and your subsequent drop in productivity
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by upthedale 13y ago
Fair point. Do we have any other numbers that might make it a more apples-to-apples comparison?
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by upthedale 13y ago
Wow, Windows Azure seems to be beating it by a long way. Genuine surprise... I assumed it would be much closer. 9 months ago, they announced they stored twice this amount - 4 trillion objects. A year before that, 1 Trillion. Given that prev
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by upthedale 13y ago
The mention of net2 and net4 sounds like the .Net runtime could be involved - the numbers referring to the version of the runtime. Quite the coincidence if not. Perhaps a .Net decompiler could help. Reflector used to be the only good tool a
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by upthedale 13y ago
Rendering KittenAuth obsolete http://thepcspy.com/kittenauth/ http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/04/6554-2/
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by upthedale 13y ago
Any idea why it was changed. Now it is just misleading (as demonstrated by the grandparent). I appreciate there's some HN submission guideline about keeping the same title as the pages you are linking to, but surely a slight bending of the

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