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Yeah they do, but I still can't figure out why they replaced Win Forms/Managed DirectX with WPF: fail, .NET Remoting/Web ref with WCF: fail. The linq stuff is cute, but marginally useful.
Most improvements in .Net 3.5/4.0 have been in the C# language itself, I do like lambdas that shortens a lot of constructs. But the framework has been bloated with a lot of crap, while they could have improved the existing framework, improving performance for numerically and graphics intensive applications and maintain managed DirextX. The last few years they've been hurling frameworks into dev space, and then discontinuing them a few years laters because they didn't catch on (because they were crap).
Wout
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our raw socket works just fine - it's high volume intRAnet application (ticking prices and calculated figures in realtime getting dished out to clients on multiple machine)
I have existing code library do everything from serializing object graphs/compression/encryption/load distribution took me no time to implement - and I don't need remember WCF config, and I can debug every line of code (no need guess at what svclog throws at you)
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Sampling theory deals with the process of taking some continuous signal that varies with one or parameters, and sampling the signal at discrete values of those parameters. If you’re not familiar with signals and signal processing, you can think of a signal as some continuous function of any dimension that varies along its domain. To sample it, we then calculate that function’s value at certain points along the curve. Working with discrete samples has a lot of advantages. Read this to find out why.
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After yet another round of futile Twittering on the subject of research software, I thought I'd share a deeply personal story -- a story that explains some of my rather adamant stance that most research scientists need to think more critically about their code, and should adopt at least some of the basic coding hygiene used by virtually every modern practicing programmer. The scientific method applied to software in science.
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Bitcoin is a digital currency, shared among its peer network that helps people to buy and sell things online with no connection to their local currency. Sounds enticing, but this young concept is not for the faint-hearted. Its growing success has attracted incessant attacks against both individuals and Bitcoin merchants. This post explores the risks associated with adopting the fledgling currency and looks at some of the major security breaches that have hit the headlines in the last year. I'd buy that for a Bitcoin!
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This should've been tagged as pro-bitcoin propaganda.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Despite being one of its inventors, I can see a time when ClearType becomes obsolete. It solved a real problem of too-low display resolutions when we invented it about nine years ago, and I estimate it still has a long useful life in front of it. But it definitely has a limited lifespan. How long that will be depends on how quickly displays move towards higher resolution. That might take longer than anyone realizes. In fact, maybe a combination of ClearType and hardware resolution will get us where we need to be - in which case it could be around forever. Bill Hill explains where fonts, resolution and ClearType collide.
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Apart from the fact that this article is over four years old, it contains a glaring factual error - it was the late, great Bill Shankley who made the quip about footbool being more important that life or death, not Tommy Docherty!
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Transvestites - Roberts in Disguise!
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Bill Hill wrote: The human visual system has a vernier acuity of about 1/600th of an inch. We can't see anything smaller than that.
I take exception to this statement and all statements regarding the limits of our perception. Anything that is wave-base, frequency-based, has harmonics. The higher frequency waves mix with the lower frequency waves and alters them. Some people are very sensitive to these changes and some are not.
Tom Scholtz, of the band Boston, said in an interview that he had a hard time listening to music from CDs so he hooked up a spectrum analyzer and compared a song from a CD and the same song from vinyl and found that the music on the CD, digitzed, had introduced harmonics and phase shifts that the record did not have. If you have an understanding of Fourier series, you can see why this would be the case (you should also take a look at the article below on signal processing[^]).
Now, you might not be able to distinguish elements below 1/600th of an inch, but that does not mean you cannot see them. I have a form of blue/yellow color blindness where I can see blue and I can see yellow, but I have a hard time distinguishing the two of them side by side. I can do it, but it is harder than red/green.
What I am saying is that people will blythely throw away data that they believe isn't useful data because it cannot be immediately appreciated when, in fact, that data colors other data, makes it richer and more vibrant and should not be tossed out so quickly.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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Well, I absolutely cannot stand colour fringing, or grayscale antialiasing blur. But I don't mind the slightly pixellated look of monochrome font rendering. Why is that a problem again?
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The most important operating system developers write software for is not Windows or OSX or Linux or Android. It's Homo sapiens 1.0. We make software for people first. Very wise words from a very wise soul, Bill Hill. Rest in peace Bill Hill, father of True Type and Clear Type.
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Personal computers have been around long enough to become a part of our history and shared social consciousness. As time marches on and older hardware dies, emulation is often the only way to experience these orphaned systems again. Amiga has been mourned more than most. Emulators are tricky business, however. Mastering and maintaining them can sap enough enthusiasm that you're left wondering why you bothered. Cloanto carefully sized up this common problem when putting together its Amiga Forever package, and the results are impressive. Too fancy and new? There's C64 Forever, too.
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Microsoft has exhausted its initial supply of the lowest-priced Surface RT tablet, which now is backordered by three weeks. You can still order the keyboard, though. Or buy an actual laptop...
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A few years ago I blogged about FizzBuzz. At the time I thought I would give the problem a go in F# and sure enough the solution was fairly simple – I then also did a basic solution in C# but never posted it. Since then I have learned that being able to solve a problem and how you solve the problem are two totally different things. Today I decided to give the problem a retry and see if I had learnt anything new in the last year or so. An elegant attempt at defeating the goal of a simple solution.
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Useless wanker who has too much time on his hands (when it is not his you-know-what).
This is what happens when you start putting in functionalities such as dictionaries, templates, delegates, etc., into a programming language.
An idiot would want to use all of them in the simplest programs.
Hasn't anyone heard of KISS? Or Occam's Razor?
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As readers of this blog know, I am a proud user of the third most baffling editor in existence. (Why third? well, I feel confident placing Vim as the 2nd, because while inscrutable, hand-twisting keybindings are difficult, in my observation modal editing is a slightly bigger mental leap for the programming newbie. The most serenely baffling editor of all is, of course, ed.) I also spend quite a lot of time tutoring newbie programmers. One thing I do not advise them to do is to learn Emacs. Not right away, anyway. I have been guilty doing of that in the past; consider this my statement of repentance. Gnu's Not for Newbie Users.
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An inherent problem with Javascript is that it has no macro support, unlike other Lisp like languages. That's because macros manipulate the syntax tree while compiling. And this is next to impossible in a language like Javascript. In LispyScript we write Javascript in a tree structure. If you know Javascript and a Lisp like language, then using LispyScript will be a breeze. Even if you don't know a Lispy Language, all you need to learn is to write code in a tree structure. Just what we always wanted: JavaScript with more parentheses.
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Recently, we have created a console application that parses an entire solution and shows summary information about declared types and the number of members in each type. Let’s tweak it a bit, so it provides more meaningful and useful information, such as a report of Maintenance Complexity (MC) code metric for a solution source code. How does your code measure up?
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This page is in response to Robert Scoble's declaration that the death spiral of MySpace can be attributed to their bet on the Microsoft technology stack, specifically .NET. As a developer with an interest in developing high-performance scalable systems using C# I've learned a few things in my research on what makes systems perform and scale well which is what I'd like to share to the wider .NET world. In order to keep this document palatable and provide the most value I will try to stick to point form and link to various topics and articles with the intention for this to serve as a jump page into your own research. How do you make .NET scale? Contributions welcome!
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Almost half of IT managers in a survey last month said that they plan to standardize their company's mobile platform on devices running Microsoft operating systems, including smartphone OSes Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 8 and tablet OS Windows RT. We've secretly replaced their iPhones with Windows Phone 8...
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Eugene Kaspersky had something of a Larry Ellison moment this week, making the bold claim that he and his company are doing what no one else has ever even attempted: Developing a secure operating system. Not only is the assertion wholly inaccurate (of course companies have attempted to develop secure OSes in the past), but the pledge of delivering a completely secure OS -- even for something as specifically niche-y as SCADA systems and ICSes -- borders on irresponsible in that it's all but impossible to keep. Login denied: letting you in would make it less secure.
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Facebook knows who your friends are. Google knows what you’re interested in finding on the internet. Amazon knows what you’ve bought, and has a pretty good idea of what you might want to buy next. If you were an advertiser, which company’s data sounds most valuable to you? If you had a product you wanted to sell, which of those things would you most want to know? I purchase, therefore I am.
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Surface has a lot riding on its magnesium chassis. This tablet is clearly Microsoft’s flagship, a hero device designed to showcase the best of Microsoft’s Windows 8-based Windows RT operating system. It also represents a gamble for Microsoft as a company: This is the first time Microsoft has made a foray into manufacturing Windows hardware. So how does Surface compare? Let’s see where it stands. If you want it to succeed, start writing those apps!
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Even if you’re not part of the Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview program, you can still start validating your site for Internet Explorer 10 on Windows Phone 8. Windows Phone 8 shares the same Internet Explorer 10 engine with Windows 8, so a PC running Windows 8 is great for initial testing. ...and the rumor mill says IE10 is coming to Windows 7 soon, too.
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