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It does, yes. MS sets the base for the core stuff more so than on other ecosystems though.

Firearms license yes, though transferable from overseas. Permit yes, but just apply online in a few mins. No tags required. Edit: Oops that was for NZ, not Aus.

The hope is to hold the pests back to a level at which the native species can survive.

Demon thing: http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=isi105o9vyt

Note we have some offshore islands etc where 100% kill has been achieved. We're not even close to being able to achieve that on the mainland though.

Basically accurate here but "hunters" does cover a pretty diverse group of people with many different motivations. They include many who care very deeply about conservation and unf…

I live in New Zealand and spend some time in our back country deer stalking, trout fishing and exploring. NZ uses about 80% of the worlds supply of 1080 poison[1] and our next trip…

SPOILER: You need a way to defeat the regex (see other comments here). Then think about what the "foo" actually does (and read the error console).

That's not cool. The last thing we need is more things for people to use as reasons for not using HTTPS at all.

Can you please clarify exactly what you mean by compression? Is this referring to typical gzip compression in HTTP results or something else?

async doesn't really give you anything new you couldn't do before, just nicer syntax for composing it all. As you say you've already found other ways to compose your asynchronous f…

"WCF, AppFabric and ASP.Net" happen to give you an awful lot of that sort of infrastructure for free, I rarely directly use anything async in my web apps either. I do wonder how yo…

.NETs Entity Framework lets you do this using the fantastic LINQ syntax. Commonly you will say which objects to select, then give a projection into a new anonymous type with only t…

I wonder what the chances of them getting this to us in NZ are...

This looks great and is close to something I've specifically looked for in the past. My only suggestion would be that the pricing is going to be awkward for my use case. Typically …

I have not looked at this framework in particular sorry, I was only really commenting on JS vs. C# here.

Being able to write C# instead of JS is a pretty big point IMHO.

Yes it's good for testing but if you want a host name and a background task it gets uncheap pretty quickly. Time for some creative engineering perhaps.

Nice to see such a simple and straightforward approach taken. I'm starting to feel better about AppHarbour now that things seem to be rolling out more regularly. Currently my only …

RailsCasts gets recommended to beginners a lot but every time I go there I'm kind of overwhelmed and have no idea where to start. The archives go back to 2007 so starting at the be…

I would love to see someone drag it kicking and screaming outside of the US. :(

AppHarbor is an alternative to Azure styled after Heroku. I use both and currently I would summarize the situation as: - Azure is big and stable and ready for production use but it…

Chrome 13, Windows 7 - display driver (Intel Integrated) crashed but Windows managed to recover it. Intel graphics related issue maybe?

This is how we use github among other things. AFAIK there isn't standard support for this sort of thing in the browsers though.