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Comment on Time Chaos by xosfaere

xosfaere — Wed, 29 May 2013 20:02:01 +0000

Note: A more robust and general implementation would of course make use of the IScheduler interface. But this is for development purposes and that was not needed.

Comment on Asynchrony, Concurrency and Parallelism by Aasemoon

Aasemoon — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:47:48 +0000

Oh awesome… impeccable timing. =) I’ve recently been looking into Go also… this help!

Comment on Code-First Development (EF) w/ SQL CE 4.0 by Carl Cubillas (@carlcubillas)

Carl Cubillas (@carlcubillas) — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:32:58 +0000

Nice post! Also another way of providing the DefaultConnectionFactory is by adding this in the app.config.

Comment on Digital eXtreme Definition by DXD sacd format info - AudioAficionado.org

DXD sacd format info - AudioAficionado.org — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:09:37 +0000

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Comment on Shapely Monads by Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:48:48 +0000

Dude someone like you needs to follow Greg Meredith around and translate everything he says from Gregspeak into a human language.

Comment on Haxe Evolves by Jonathan Dunlap

Jonathan Dunlap — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:29:52 +0000

I agree with about everything said here… I can’t wait for haXe to introduce more language power as a meta layer to AS3!

Comment on Code-First Development (EF) w/ SQL CE 4.0 by Code-First Development (EF) w/ SQL CE 4.0 | exoteric - sql

Code-First Development (EF) w/ SQL CE 4.0 | exoteric - sql — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:44:46 +0000

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Comment on Application of Implication by xosfaere

xosfaere — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:48:37 +0000

True. It does have a potential run-time overhead. This is mitigated by the fact that it is targeted at Code Contracts first and foremost and for these it shouldn’t matter too much with a little extra overhead. They can be switched off in production builds.

Comment on Application of Implication by David Ellis

David Ellis — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:21:08 +0000

I found your post because I just ran into a place where the Code Contracts static checker is failing to deduce facts based on an implication in a Contract.Ensures().

Anyway, I like the way your Implies() extension method looks but it does seem to have one drawback in that it is strict in its “then” parameter. If I write an implication out literally in a Contract statement I’ll get short-circuiting, but with the extension method both clauses in the implication are always evaluated. This could introduce unexpected run-time overhead. I which C# had a way to do this cleanly!

Comment on Pixels en masse by xosfaere

xosfaere — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:56:32 +0000

Note, you’ll need LinqPad version 4.28.3 or higher to do image processing with inline output. See the beta page.

Comment on Tablet, The Ultimate by xosfaere

xosfaere — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:54:32 +0000

That’s funny, I was just playing with it! it’s cool allright.

Comment on Tablet, The Ultimate by Kurt

Kurt — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:21:49 +0000

Hey Bent, make sure you check out Reactable for the iPad, not as cool as the real thing but interesting nonetheless – though there is a learning curve (you figure it all out and explain it to me) other apps of note, flipboard (great twitter and fb consumption) twitter’s own app is good too, pulse is good for rss feeds

Comment on An anti-pattern: return w/ out by xosfaere

xosfaere — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:53:24 +0000

Thanks for the comment Eduard. I agree with you; I just wanted to “riff” on Eric’s post because it reminded me of a pattern I don’t like -which is subjective because it has to do with readability, among other things; there are probably situations where out/ref parameters are the most convenient way to do things, I just personally try to avoid them because often they’re not needed and are just obscure ways to do multiple return values.

Comment on An anti-pattern: return w/ out by Eduard Dumitru

Eduard Dumitru — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:28:02 +0000

Hi Bent,

Just wanted to say thanks for the interesting fact about not solving a particular problem in a particular way.

On the other hand, in Eric’s “factoid”, as I am sure you would agree, the problem you have underlined here was a mere excuse to show a fabulous mistake certain mathematician – programmers could make, involving essentially the deadly mixing of the cast operator when dealing with unboxing and the ternary operator bool ? Type1 : Type2 => Hypernym of Type1 and Type2, or the two types’ common super type.

So, just to make an example, he didn’t actually need to involve out parameters to make the problem “fabulous”.

Regards and thanks for being a geek

Comment on Illustration by xosfaere

xosfaere — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:03:01 +0000

ELO is playing in my home town soon. I just don’t remember if I like them or not, if there’s any tracks that are good enough for my taste.

Comment on Illustration by fishead

fishead — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:49:57 +0000

looks like an ELO album cover…

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9258/51fvi12aatlss400qg7.jpg

Comment on Illustration by Aasemoon

Aasemoon — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:14:53 +0000

Nice! =) Specially the Linq one.

Comment on Twine – A vision lost by xosfaere

xosfaere — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:17:47 +0000

Twine is now officially dead and all content inaccessible. I guess it was a good thing creating that download tool before Evri took over.

Comment on A survey of spam on Twine by xosfaere

xosfaere — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:34:06 +0000

Twine is now dead. Bought by Evri and shut down.

Comment on OS/W by Beyond Windows « xosfaere

Beyond Windows « xosfaere — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:18:14 +0000

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