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In the first example you deliberately create an ambiguous type, when you already know that it's not. You told the compiler you know more than it does. The second is a delegate, tha…

There is plenty of precedence for this, and I am about to fudge a bunch of details. The basic point is that the United Kingdom can make any law it sees fit to any place or person. …

Excuse me, incoming contrarian! learn.microsoft, is for learning about the concepts as well as the practical applications. Also for user facing security, wouldn't you want all the …

Visual InterDev was the first IDE I ever used outside of notepad. It was bundled in with one Microsofts early webediting tools with office (97/200)....but not FrontPage. I thought …

Recently I came to the conclusion that I needed to change jobs, but I held off because I didn't want to deal with the psychotic ramblings of LinkedIn posters. I'm sure in real life…

If money was short and you weren't worried about the incendiary hangover that would surely come, then a trip to the Wortley Arms (Aka The Dirty Squirtly) in Peterborough was on the…

'Remember his big publicity stunt of declining his name to appear on the Watchmen movie credits? Yet he had no issue taking the payday from DC that started it all' Because back the…

...and 5000 years! That's 2.5 Jesus's of time and distance.

A +1 for this recommenation. I particularly enjoyed this for how the sailor explains his situation, using the mental tools avilable to him at that period of time. I always enjoy th…

I think it's we've only found writing from 5000-6000 because the storage medium is not as durable.

Not having MPs doesn't lead to a dictorship, dial it back. Not having MPs means that we don't have MPs,(hooray) and the opportunity to replace them with something alittle more equi…

That had better be "when I write a third book" Bob, not "if". It's not just the technical content (Which is excellent), but your ability to convey and entertain that helped create …

Because Visual Studio is windows only.

That would have been the easiest/best solution here. However...haven't they uncovered a limitation in the filesystem here? The superblock data WAS fine, only the checksum was at fa…

I've been working with three flutter apps for the past two years (Android and ios), and the improvements in the platform performance have been consistently trending up. One of our …

....or does it reflect how we consume our information about technology these days? How quickly are tech-books out of date?

As long as we don't have to do the dipose dance (isDisposed/isDispoing booleans).

Well we have had over 40 years of practice...

Bring back Slashdot, OMG Ponies!

This is a fantastic article, that just keeps going and going, digging into all these ideas and dragging you along for the ride. I'm gonna need a bigger coffee to get through it all…

Still reading it, but to the first point about the starting hour. Yo-Yo ma sets up the flashbacks, and the structure of the movie as a fugue. A melody thats played upon and expande…

To take your argument to the extreme, why have for loops, when then are syntatic sugar over while loops? I'm generally a fan of syntatic sugar in a language if it's purpose is to s…

A nice follow up on a very dry topic. And a well done, for a very definite improvement in communicating the results of their investigation (Red/black border issues not withstanding…

In a minor dev related way, projects where clients keep piliing on requirements during dev, that's a Columbo. Just one more thing...

Rant or not, I have to agree entirely. They literally tried to do a Die hard in Space episode... If you think of it as `Star Trek: Burnham and the continuing voyages of Discovery`,…