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sofuture··on Phil Haack quit Microsoft for GitHub
Linq != Linq To Sql
sofuture··on Phil Haack quit Microsoft for GitHub
For the record, there are a lot of big .NET projects on Github already:

https://github.com/mono https://github.com/nhibernate https://github.com/ravendb

Good to see more momentum in that direction, though of course!

sofuture··on Phil Haack quit Microsoft for GitHub
I've been a staunch .Net defender for a long time, but have almost entirely thrown in the towel at this point. MVC is awesome, C# is awesome, F# is awesome...

but, unfortunately Mono just doesn't cut it (Boehm GC? Really? s-gen is a nightmare too, before you counter with that) and Windows isn't a realistic option for a lot of people.

sofuture··on NYC Man Earns $55,000 A Year Peddling Candy On Subway
Chances are that on any rush hour train there are at least one or two people busking, selling candy or begging. It's a near daily sight for me.
sofuture··on NYC Man Earns $55,000 A Year Peddling Candy On Subway
I'm sorry, but what the everloving fuck?

I see these guys every day on the subway. They have absolutely no impact on my life whatsoever, except the one time I chose to buy a bag of M+M's. I'm not sure how you ended up talking about robbing houses and kidnapping people.

sofuture··on Node.js is good for solving problems I don’t have
I use node for new cutting edge things which Django and Python can handle, but not as easily as node.

Like what?

sofuture··on LaunchRock Launches
They did.
sofuture··on Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams
I like irccloud.com quite a lot. A bit different of a product, but still very nice.
sofuture··on Programming Languages Suck at UX
>"Bad" typography isn't a big deal IMO. Yes, it's slightly embarrassing and ugly, in this Unicode-enabled era, that we use <= for "less than or equal to" and != for "not equal to", when Unicode has given us better glyphs. But honestly, I don't see how that costs us much time to get used to.

There's a reason we're not all using APL.

(Okay so there's a couple. But yeah.)

sofuture··on Profanity Doesn't Work
A lot of really awesome people... with ultimately incompatible value systems.
sofuture··on Ubuntu should zig to Apple’s zag
I think Ubuntu should zag where Apple zags. I think they're doing it right. They're in a unique position to take an Apple-like path.

I, for one, applaud what they're doing, as much as it terrifies all the half-power-users (I don't mean that as a slight, I do think it's a little silly to get upset about Ubuntu's default WM and claim to 'understand UNIX').

sofuture··on Unity is the end of Ubuntu
If you don't like the default window manager, use a different one! Arguably that's the point of running Linux.

Ubuntu is so much more than it's default window manager.

sofuture··on The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
What an abhorrent view. It's a psychopathic justification to shrug off the horrible lives of other people directly impacted by my lifestyle because 'hey, they already had a worse life'.

I'm happy to admit I'm as much a part of the problem as anyone else. I'd like to not forget or justify that away at the very least.

sofuture··on Arrington out at AOL (for real this time)
This is abhorrently unimportant drama. TC has been a trash rag from the start, and their flaming dramatic burnout is just as trash as everything else they've ever published. Go away already. This is publicity coup 101 shit. DIAF.
sofuture··on An XMPP server with Node.js
pub + sub
sofuture··on The curious case of DuckDuckGo
I switched and never looked back :) I did have to (re)map my search keyword 'g' to DDG in all my browsers though!
sofuture··on Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey
Ah-ha, but you can automate so much app management through the admin API. Oh wait, they deprecated and froze the only API that handled that!
sofuture··on Interesting C code
a.{~(/:a+c=:_29 14 _60 12 8 0 _2 5 3 2 11 6 14 _1 8 13){+/\a=:(#.1,5$0),1,(#.1,6$0),0,(2$2),(#:20),~(3*1 1r3,|.i.3)
sofuture··on MongoDB is the New MySQL
Two wrongs don't make a right.
sofuture··on I don't understand why anyone would use Node.js
I mean I wouldn't make technical decisions dogmatically.
sofuture··on I don't understand why anyone would use Node.js
I would choose to write it in however many languages fit the various pieces best. To choose otherwise would be ill-advised.
sofuture··on The Trouble with Erlang Concurrency
The problem with Erlang, is it doesn’t let you do that. Erlang is religious about concurrency. Erlang allows any concurrency model as long as it’s actors. Unlike Java/C++/Scala it doesn’t provide concurrency constructs that allow you to create other concurrency models. It works at a higher level of abstraction.

That's not even close to true. Getting different building blocks from a language/runtime is not the same as not getting any building blocks.

Erlang absolutely thrashes the JVM with it's concurrency features, and easily extends across cores and machines like not much else.

sofuture··on Duckduckgo.com easter egg: lorem ipsum
I don't think that's an easter egg, I think it's just pretty good zero-click info :)
sofuture··on Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8
Windows 7 widgets were also written in HTML and JS. This is the dumbest controversy ever.
sofuture··on The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop
Sure sounds like all the complaints are with Gnome or KDE. Who are all you people not running tiling window managers?!
sofuture··on The Most Important Code Isn't Code
I absolutely agree. I don't comment all that much, but comment where it's impossible to get clarity -- or comment at a higher level to explain the rationale for the code.

Commenting what code does -- is either 1) pointless or 2) indicative you should rewrite your explanation-requiring code in a more straightforward fashion.

sofuture··on June 2011 Web Server Survey
Recently tried to choose nginx -- Mono fastcgi is a trainwreck though, and mod_mono works well enough.

I'll switch to nginx as soon as that situation changes.

sofuture··on June 2011 Web Server Survey
Google has their own internal web server software.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_web_server#Software

sofuture··on HTML5-based Windows 8 enrages .Net devs, alienates Linux and Mono
My only criticism of your analysis is that HTML5 and JS already are a .NET presentation layer.

I agree, this is sensationalist, factless and pointless reporting.

What's next? Is CSS4 going to replace the JVM?!?

sofuture··on [dead]
Apple should send this kid one of all their new devices.

I think you're missing the horror here.

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