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I prefer to imagine the world where windows version names mirror street fighter version names. "Super Windows X Turbo: World Warriors Edition" sounds pretty sweet to me.

Accurate and fast facial recognition (combined with cheap public cameras and abundant cheap storage) is one of the few technologies that makes me truly dread possibility. I don't w…

"For decades, Apple has stood out in the business world for three things: taste, trust and utility." Did we forget about a big chunk of apple history? :)

As a user of both windows phone and windows on the desktop; I'd be much happier if the desktop start screen experience were more like the phone one. Phone: Here is a surface, arran…

Let me clarify. None of that was an insult. He has talent. It takes a lot of experience to harness and balance it properly. As he matures he'll figure it out. He's 24. Building som…

I see talent. This is a nifty display of technical prowess. I don't see discipline or any concern for the experience of the user. Having spent some time in the explorer section, wh…

I concur. It wasn't until I started working with an OSS guy that I realized how different (sometimes frustratingly so) the OSS mindset is. I wont try to draw any conclusions here b…

I am totally behind the spirit of your article. I also believe it's a travesty that we have so much power that can be attained so cheaply, yet we aren't using it at home.

It's a big industry out there. There are those who make bespoke products, and those that take a number of pre-built more general purpose libraries and just stitch them together, an…

I think I see where you're coming from. Correct me if I am wrong. If I were solving the same problem: public void CreateBooking( int chosenBookingType,... ){ ... - and - public str…

Thanks :D

I'd much rather have a second image with a gray scale depth map. I took a look at the lytro, but it appears they have some weird proprietary image format.

Are there such things as consumer cameras that take photos with depth maps? If not, why not? I know the Kinect does something similar at a price point that consumers can afford. Be…

WPF (not a language, it's a desktop UI framework): Windows Media Center (you have to jump through hoops to get it on modern windows, but I feel it's worth it). Here's what it looks…

I expected this to be a joke of some sort.

Farmville 2: The ultimate farming experience.

How is debugging different in Visual Studio than in the tools usually used for debugging the Linux kernel? I work in Visual Studio on things that have nothing to do with Linux and …

Bart de Smet's book "C# 5 unleashed" is a good place to start. It's an excellent resource and takes you from beginning concepts far into advanced ones. It's really all I'd recommen…

Distant third to what?

They ARE a thing. Work for any large and successful software company and you'll find (or hear stories about) at least one. Look for the people that are consistently put on mission …

"The core of the software is ultimately pretty simple, however it really needs to be custom tailored to each organization. Some groups want to track whether artists are persons of …

There are also IObservable and IQservable if you want to go deeper. http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Bart-De-Smet-Obser...

http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/tags/LINQ... Although this blog is dead now, the information stored within is golden. I also highly suggest De Smet's C# 5.0 unle…