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If you were using a field, you can almost always just turn into a property with no further changes. In C# anyway. Which is why C# is cool.
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True, but in C# it is also very easy to just make a property in the first place (especially in VS, just type prop and hit tab twice, enter the type, hit tab, enter the name, done).
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Yes, and there's no performance cost either as far as I know (I've always seen trivial setters and getters seen get inlined).
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Yes, and for Interfaces as well. Auto-implemented properties make it even easier.
(Always assuming C#. Users of lesser languages are on their own. )
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Every developer, at some point in their career, will find themselves looking for some information on a Linux* box. I don't claim to be an expert, in fact, I claim to be very under-skilled when it comes to linux command line mastery. However, with the following 8 commands I can get pretty much anything I need, done. "Grep less" sed uniq cat.
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I have a DOS and OpenVMS background with very little Unix, but I had to help my brother-in-law (an Apple guy) with Unix one day -- he needed cp .
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So what exactly is a Stupid Network? George Gilder observed more than five years ago, "In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb." In a Stupid Network, control passes from the center to the edge, from the telco to users with an abundance of processing power at their fingertips. The center of the network is based on plentiful infrastructure – cheap bandwidth and switching – that is about as smart as a river. The water in a river, like a data object in a Stupid Network, gets to where it must go adaptively, with no intelligence and no features, using self-organizing engineering principles, at virtually no cost. Bits go in one end and come out the other. Data flows – like water – define the movements and channels within the system. A '90s lesson in open networks, walled gardens and innovation... that we still haven't learned.
modified 30-Aug-12 7:43am.
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But if we just let anybody send data over our pipe, then TERRORISTS could stream CHILD PORN over your internet connection! And then you'd go to JAIL! :P
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You're not thinking clearly. If WE stream CHILD PORN to the TERRORISTS, they'll all go to hell. Problem solved.
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Grigori Perelman is one of the greatest mathematicians of our time, a Russian genius who solved the Poincaré Conjecture, which plagued the brightest minds for a century. At the height of his fame, he refused a million-dollar award for his work. Then he disappeared. Our writer hunts him down on the streets of St. Petersburg. Does a glimpse of the sublime dull the allures of this world?
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Samsung revealed the world’s first Windows Phone 8 handset, dubbed the ATIV S. The company announced the ATIV S at the IFA conference in Berlin on Wednesday, showing off a 4.8-inch smartphone powered by a dual-core Qualcomm chip. The smartphone has a HD Super AMOLED display made from Corning Gorilla Glass 2 and features a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor. As for cameras, there’s an 8-megapizel rear camera and a 1.9-megapixel front-facing one. The phone comes in a 16GB or 32GB model, and both come with 1GB of RAM on board. So who did they copy this time?
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Still looks like an iPhone to me.
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Microsoft won’t compete with Apple by going head-to-head in the hardware business. But the software pioneer could still climb back into the fight by offering connected software services that work on every platform—including Apple’s. That’s the read from Charlie Kindel, a Seattle-area entrepreneur and angel investor who spent some 20 years at Microsoft. Is Office for iPad next?
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While “the cloud” may be the tech buzzword of the year, many Americans remain foggy about what the cloud really is and how it works. A new national survey by Wakefield Research, commissioned by Citrix, showed that most respondents believe the cloud is related to weather, while some referred to pillows, drugs and toilet paper. Those in the know claim working from home in their “birthday suit” is the cloud’s greatest advantage. The good news is that even those that don’t know exactly what the cloud is recognize its economic benefits and think the cloud is a catalyst for small business growth. 51 percent of respondents believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: 51 percent of respondents believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing.
So, 49% of people are uninformed?
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Now that Windows 8 Enterprise is available to the public as a 90-day evaluation and Windows 8 Pro is available for Microsoft TechNet subscribers, we decided to collect links to the Windows 8 articles we’ve published since the release of the Developer Preview. Not quite 80 Windows 8 how-to articles. "Start" here...
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"The smartest way to get the Old Control Panel is to simply reinstall Windows 7."
/ravi
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The Japanese government has hosted the first of a series of panels Wednesday on using social networks for emergency calls when phones go down [ITworld]
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Google India has come up with a new service called 'Let's Talk Mo', which aims to enable small and medium businesses to reach out to the 70 million mobile users in the country. With the Let's Talk Mo service, Google will help businesses create mobile sites for free.
“With Indian smartphone users spending over 157 mins daily on the mobile web (89 percent of them are searching for information), the user-experience is not optimized for the mobile screen as most Indian websites are still designed for the PC experience,” points out Google India in a blog post.
Google India is offering the businesses two options – create a mobile site for free, and test how user friendly your mobile website. For this purpose, Google has launched a dedicated website that gives users all the necessary tools and resources to create a mobile website.
Google's new Let's talk Mo service helps businesses reach out to the mobile users in the country
Explaining the benefits of Let's Talk Mo service, Google says the GoMoMeter tool allows businesses to check how their site looks on a smartphone. The tool also helps them get personalised recommendations to make their website more user-friendly.
Businesses also get a Do It Yourself tool to create a mobile site. Moreover, businesses will also get information on current mobile trends, best practices, case studies and various other resources. Check out Google's customised Guides for the Let's Talk Mo service here.
To know more about Google's new initiative, visit http://www.letstalkmo.com/in/d/[^]
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While this isn't exactly what this forum is for, I must admit that I did enjoy the read. Perhaps you could write up more of an article on it and we could all share. I, for one, would be interested in reading it.
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Pete,
Thanks for feedback. I'll admit I'm not familiar with the guidelines for this forum. I assumed it was for candidate stories that are aggregated in the insights daily newsletter and occasionally you'll find more technical microsoft related posts in it.
When you speak of writing up more of an article do you mean:
1) A more complete implementation you could potentially download
2) More details on Part of Speech tagging and other NLP topics
Or something else entirely!
Thanks again for reading.
Sean
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wladek5 wrote: I assumed it was for candidate stories that are aggregated in the insights daily
newsletter
This really isn't used for personal blog notifications, but I'm glad you did.
wladek5 wrote: 1) A more complete implementation you could potentially download
Oh yes, that would be good.
wladek5 wrote: 2) More details on Part of Speech tagging and other NLP topics
That would certainly help and I, for one, would be interested in reading this.
I will say one thing - if you produced an article that was up to the standard of the blog post, you'd be guaranteed my 5. If you need help with getting it to article standard, please get in touch with Sean Ewington here at Code Project and he will ask a mentor to help you (big hint here - I'm one of the mentors).
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Fascinating - the possibilities seem endless with regards all the social network type stuff. I second Pete here, this would make a really interesting article.
When I was a coder, we worked on algorithms. Today, we memorize APIs for countless libraries — those libraries have the algorithms - Eric Allman
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