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1. Have you asked any women who aren't in these specialist areas why they aren't or have you read the arguments by the politicians and (I hate using the word) extremists? I have li…

You probably want FORTH then :)

Tl;dr version: Everyone offended with everything and everyone reading about what they should be offended about in a media outlet using one liners suggesting that they should be rem…

Well it depends how you do it. There's certainly some mileage in doing it like that properly: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lukeh/archive/2007/10/01/taking-linq...

Yeah my 5 year old is sitting there eating a sock.

Excellent. Thanks for the tip.

I wonder if DHCP works on Hyper-V again now (it didn't for the 10.0 cycle which was a PITA)

Well considering most of these binaries are tied to app stores and talk to the web they're about as much use if the vendor pulls the plug.

Source? AFAIK only .net will which is not visual studio.

One thing has for me: people are spending lots of money on them. Top slicing that is pretty easy. Oh and most problems are solved or canned so all we're doing is gluing things toge…

As someone who is old enough to have written "programs" and sees the instant relationship to "apps", I vigorously disagree. Lets consider these points: 1. Firstly there are competi…

That's not going to happen any time soon. Not because they don't want to but because the whole process would be monumentally complicated and expensive. I suspect we'll see a new 10…

Within the last couple of months literally. I think to be honest that some of the stuff Microsoft have been working on behind the scenes is probably scaring the crap out of Apple a…

Yes. It's now Microsoft circa 2001.

Yes there is. It's the world wide web. An interoperable universal interaction standard. Or it was until Google started pulling an IE6 game. I use Firefox for everything because the…

That's basically it but the amount of light reaching that sensor is improved by a somewhat larger lens than you usually get on a smartphone.

This. to quote my father (who is actually a professional photographer): Pissy lens; pissy photo. You need chunks of glass at the moment regardless of sensor size. I carry a basic D…

Definitely. I've got a centos 6.5 VM that is a master svn server for a multinational with a 22Gb repo and 190 users and does front end http and ssl for 45 requests/second (average …

That's of absolutely no use when the box is under heavy load. Perf counters just stop working. We had a system wide thrashing problem with ReaderWriterLockSlim which doesn't work p…

I'll add something here. The CLR is a PITA when it goes wrong. Its a total bastard to debug. JVM on the other hand has wonderful instrumentation capabilities at runtime. At best yo…

Virtually none of SQL server is. Most of SharePoint is. Exchange is all c++ still. So we might see SharePoint for Linux yet. The other two I suspect are very tied to win32.

My sister is a psychiatrist and has the same opinion on the subject. There's nothing wrong with postulating and analysing it, even if the views are perhaps unpopular. Nothing shoul…

I get what you mean but a tab is purposely meaningless and unqualified. It means 1 indent, not 8 spaces, 3 bananas or one tree. It is a unit. How the user displays that is up to th…

The dictionary in front of me disagrees: "A key on a computer keyboard that, when pressed, inserts a special ASCII character used for formatting text, as in indenting a line or blo…

Go uses tabs. That's the law. It's in the documentation. Groups of spaces and tabs are semantically different. Tabs mean indentation. Spaces mean spaces.