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I think you've hit the nail on the head. I don't think this is necessarily true for all writing, though. Political writing, press releases, thing of a nature where the point of the writing is to lead a person to a particular conclusion. Manipulation, in other words. I don't think I'd consider that process an empathetic one.

They also did this the first time I logged in from a foreign country.

She was one of the biggest proponents (maybe the originator?) of the 'eyeballs' valuations of internet companies.

I believe their success lies more in the social aspects of the app. Looking at pictures from people you follow has less friction than on Twitter or Facebook. Also, the domain-specific nature of the network has its own appeal.

There are already quite a few nails in that coffin, unfortunately.

That's still waaay too much for a 140 character message and a thumbnail of the author, plus possible custom css.

If you run the Visual Studio x64 tools command prompt from the start menu, it will set up the environment to have the 64-bit toolchain in your path.

Sorry, I didn't read your entire comment. The 64-bit linker can produce 32-bit code with /MACHINE:X86.

I've never had to deal with framework version problems, as our software is for internal use only, but I can imagine figuring out what to target would be painful.

You don't need to have a separate designer to take advantage of XAML, I've written several applications doing both XAML and C# myself. It does make it much easier to have a non-programmer work on the UI.

Metro and WinRT have .NET bindings, and most of the samples I've seen are written in C#. It prohibits use of System.Windows.Forms for the same reason that you can't use the Win32 UI libraries, but the rest of the framework is available. Also, the Metro UI authoring is done using XAML.

None of this is to say that I love everything Microsoft does. I'm sick of their sandbox, and the projects I do for fun are all Linux / HTML or Android-based.

The %VSROOT%\VC\bin\amd64 is indeed a native x64 binary.

It's an optional install package when you install Visual Studio.

I'm writing an AppEngine app in Go right now. It uses the same datastore as Python and Java, as well as OAuth and JavaScript Channels. Iterating with the development server is a pleasure, since it compiles everything in the background as you work.

While I think it's a shame that .NET is so Microsoft-centric, I see no evidence for it "tottering on the edge of oblivion." Can you elaborate?

There's a 64-bit version of the MSVC toolchain and MSBuild, so if you build outside of Visual Studio you won't be so constrained. This is how we do our builds here at work (a mix of C# and C++). We still edit code in VS, but local builds and continuous integration are done entirely using MSBuild. As of VS2010, C++ project files are MSBuild projects, and no longer need to use VCBuild.exe.

I was using the laptop of a friend recently. He had only Internet Explorer, and when I ran it about 1/3 of the browser window was taken up by toolbar on top of toolbar. Google, Yahoo, Bing, basically anybody that made a toolbar. I asked him if he wanted them, and said he wasn't sure, but didn't want the browser to stop working if he got rid of them.

I got rid of them for him, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before it happens again.

Is it still like 12MB? EDIT: Looks like it's much smaller now, about 7.5MB.

Philadelphia recently installed credit-card meters, and they're terrible. They almost always refuse to scan either of my two cards correctly, a problem I never have with any other card scanners. I don't know if it's because they're exposed to the elements or what, but they just don't perform as advertised. NFC would be great in this scenario, as you can fully protect the sensor from the weather.

I realize that. The problem is that they block things by URL in whatever web proxy they use, and if content for Google Reader is coming from a blocked url, it's not going to work for me anymore.

It works both ways; I can actually send mail from my Gmail account via Google Reader, even though they block Gmail. I can't read it, of course, but it's a bit of a hole in their security plan.

I'm mostly upset that Google Reader will now be blocked at work, because the IT dept blocks all social network sites.

Just to add: Windows x64 is LLP, int = 4, long = 4, long long = 8, void* = 8

The single biggest subsidy for homeownership in the US is the mortgage interest tax deduction, where you can deduct interest payments on the first $1,000,000 of debt on your first or second home.

I think there's a large difference between political and business surveillance. The Stasi were used to monitor and control political thought, whereas Facebook just wants to make money off of me. What scares me is that a malevolent government could use their privately collected information in service of political suppression; they already do it for law enforcement and military purposes.

I use mine occasionally while browsing, to select links that my fingers are too fat to resolve correctly.

Probably why it says "small software companies."

They were down in suburban Philadelphia, too.

It does show a glaring change in Boston's climate. If you read the page carefully, nowhere does the author say anything about global climate.

Given how poorly the USPTO has performed thus far, it seems impossible that this could be correctly implemented. Better to err on the side of openness, and abolish them altogether.

Try adding --disable-internal-flash to your chrome shortcut, it'll use regular flash instead of the sandboxed version.

I just ran a quick test on Win7, it's 1 ms.

Yes. But the equipment on the back is radiating heat (roughly speaking) in every direction, as I understand it, so absent a reflector, the equipment would have a net zero effect on thrust. But because some of the heat is being reflected, it's contributing a non-zero amount of thrust.