juststeve

i read somewhere that some people may not like referring to britain as the default 'reference point' for timezones due to political/cultural reasons of their country. personally i dont have an issue with it, and i'm not saying that's the case here, maybe the author just likes iceland?

maybe we can have technology without it being connected to the internet?

a sale or merger of the company. maybe a company like MSFT or Google would buy it, along with all the data. just think of the integration opportunities!

Windows 200AD :)

$9599 is $12117.97 in AUD. Impressive

social media has peaked? which sites are still growing in westernized countries?

windows 200, ms access for the backend, ASP (VB) for the frontend.

we also do java applets

I don't know enough about rails to comment further, but aside from the fact it's from Microsoft, i'd think that maybe ASP.NET Web API would be a reasonable choice for simple REST Services? (downside is it only really deploys on Windows Server)

why do you think it's a magnet for technical debt?

yeah absolutely but the author doesn't discuss why there was such a decline.

I'd think that part of the reason is people realised that Ruby is slow, and sometimes it matters.

i don't think this fixes anything.

Yep, it really depends on what you're trying to do hey.. I mean, fancy powershell can't out perform good SQL either if the data is already sitting in a database... Thanks for the link though, those LINQ queries are super fast. i would like to incorporate this into some code at work, but dont quite have the need for it right at this moment.

ok, you've partially convinced me :)

i mean, if the code is 90% I/O bound i agree: micro-optimisations can be a waste of time. But tight, nested loops that are only memory bound i think is worth the effort.. so for me, if i need need to do a lot of field comparisons for 300k accounts or groups from AD, i will download the ad data into memory and use foreach(), hashtables and generic collections wherever possible.. i actually think were making the same point anyway. I now reach for C# before powershell for situations like above where performance matters, but powershell does have advantages for smashing out some quick work. But i honestly cringe when i hear people talk about powershell scripts that take minutes to execute for tasks that should be reasonably quick.

Is this based on experience..? I would disagree..

The pipeline is powerful, but it's slow. There's a meaningful performance gain I've seen with foreach(), and even more so when loops need to be nested. I believe the speed increase is because the runtime/clr/jit can infer the types contained within the collection before it actually starts executing the statement. yes, using generic collections with foreach helps as well, because (i think) powershell can completely avoid redetermining what every type of object is at execution time (as the collection is generic underneath).

The downside is readability and memory usage as you pointed out, but i could argue that piping to foreach-object can also be painful to read, and many times the loop could be refactored into a proper function and given a meaningful name....

get-content is very slow as well

> Agreed that having to drop to .NET is a fail.

So many times i run into performance walls with powershell, that calling the .net library directly is basically required.

piping to foreach-object is super slow as well, it's much faster to use foreach($x in $y) {}

they could possibly want all your development toolchain and apps tied to their ecosystem, intertwined with linux and azure, so that the everything depends on their services.

surprisingly, i also got the paywall

So nerdy but so awesome - my jaw dropped when i watched the video :)

i think this could open up possibilities with live stats if each player runs their own server and the results are combined on into a seperate website? otherwise it could be used to create new game modes or a scoring system?

what problem does this solve?

to the developer/creator： i know very little about game development but here is some quick feedback: 1. fix the controls. i'm not sure if i was getting lag, but the tank was moving all over the place and never in a straight line. 2. add sound 3. enhance the graphics. pay someone to make them look really good

Everyone wants to make developer tools for street cred, and the github 'social coding' culture is just a vehicle for self promotion. I agree that in the blogs and conferences there's not enough focus on solving business issues, but people should care about languages, because it also is a business issue as others have pointed out. An example: if I worked in a AAA game studio and I decided to write a critical feature in haskell and then quit, will my boss and coworkers care? Maintainability of code, documentation quality and testing are not prioritized enough in the community and conferences which is why i feel there is so much churn, and we get a new programming language every second friday. ie the new tools are the symptom, not the cause of the problem.

ok, then i assume it's one EULA for everything in the store, that customers now choose to install themselves and is not part of windows. ie. it is a new product. otherwise, what is the point of moving it?

i'm guessing there will be a new EULA to accept prior to downloading it from the store.

yeah nah, she'll be right mate, why don't ya have another stubbie and watch the footy.

always monitor your TCP connections.

did you work on trello, or is this speculation?

i think it's a locked down software system that provides near real time data on in various financial markets around the world. the reason why this is useful is alot of stock info you find online is 5 -15 minutes old.. which is kind of useless if you need to buy and sell in realtime.

did it ship?