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cheatdeath

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About cheatdeath

sean.oflynn |AT| me.com

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    Probably myTaxi ( https://de.mytaxi.com/en/index.html ).

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    Thanks for the comments! I'm all for improved readability. I definitely wasn't aiming for much performance wise, at least initially. These were two areas (of many) that I felt coul…

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    I guess I've just been assuming any Roman characters are English, some definitely might be Pinyin. I generally try not to stare at peoples screens for too long haha. I did an intro…

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    Thanks for the tips! I will look into making these modifications when I get a chance.

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    Thanks for the pointer!

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    In Hong Kong, I sometimes see peoples screens when I'm using public transport. WhatsApp audio recordings are very popular, sometimes I can see the entire conversation is just audio…

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    Honestly I'm just not that familiar with async/await. I'll look into modifying it when I get around to making some other changes.

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    Thanks for letting me know, looks like I'll have to find some time to implement some of these recommendations.

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    Oh cool, thanks! I wasn't aware of DateTimeOffset.

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    Comment #12036476

    World of Warcraft? Haha no, I've been using that handle probably since that game came out but I've never played it.

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    Sorry, I didn't update some of the links in the contents correctly when creating the mirror. They should be fixed now – everything is on one page.

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    Thanks. Actually organising the write up forced me to tidy up the code much more than I otherwise would have. I definitely find C# to be one of the more readable languages although…

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    I'm not that familiar with .NET Core. It doesn't look like MiscUtil is compatible with it. The executable project has some minor references to Mono.Posix just so it can catch kill …

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    Will do, thanks for posting.

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    Comment #12035744

    If anyone's having issues, I've mirrored it at https://cheatdeath.github.io/research-bittorrent-doc/ edit: I'm the author, let me know if you have any questions.

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    It's not completely down, the server does seems to be struggling though.

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    I recently went through the same thing – building my own simple BitTorrent client, mostly just due to curiosity about how the protocol works. There were some tricky parts, most of …