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Re: the Akka.Net stuff, there is indeed an implementation of an Actor model framework - Orleans. Now it was developed in house at Microsoft and hasn't gotten a lot of attention fro…

His publisher has stated that despite his public support for assisted suicide he didn't take his own life.

Interesting how we're happy to talk about companies in a Positive light that do good things, but don't want to name names when it comes to the shit-holes we've ejected ourselves fr…

This is the same thing people said about Microsoft products in the 90s. Some of them (Like office for example) still are in that position.

Not sure where you're getting your information from. SF became more expensive than NYC a couple of years ago. http://www.cbsnews.com/media/top-10-priciest-us-cities-to-re... http:/…

Speaking as a privileged cis straight white male under 40 here, can we at least as a community agree to roast assholes who sexually harass our female compatriots alive? If I ever c…

There was also a talk on this from Mike Action (Engine Director at Insomniac) at GDC this year. He echoed the same sentiment that cache misses are the main source of performance pr…

I for one do not want to live in a society governed by "Twitch plays constitutional law".

>I remember I mentioned this to an associate one time. He asked me if I had done this with him. I answered yes. He challenged me to prove it. I went down a list of his cognitive bi…

Do you know if counter-suing for some form of extortion over frivolous IP lawsuits (or threats thereof) has ever been attempted or tested?