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Thought your comment on helicopter rides to the summit of Everest was interesting so I looked it up, only 1 person has ever achieved it (twice) and set the world record in doing so…

Sleep tracking would be one of my primary use cases, how accurate is it? is it useful?

Take a look at https://www.cloudimage.io

Also looks like more than a few completely unnecessary using statements.

At almost 1ghz slower, 2 less usb-c ports, no gpu, 1600mhz vs 2133mhz ram and only available in silver. They've gimped the non touchbar version on purpose so those of us that want …

They call this "health tourism" and its a fairly regular subject that comes up whenever NHS budgets are discussed, in reality though I believe latest figures put it at about £300m …

I've worked a 6 month contract before, 3 months would have been ideal I think as after that it was starting to drag on a bit but I don't see many contracts that short. Unfortunatel…

What do you do with the other 9 months of the year? side projects? travel? Id be interested to hear how your lifestyle is with all the free time. I've considered this approach myse…

$10k MRR in 3 months seems like a lofty goal to me. Is that from product launch? or from day 0? with or without investment?

Windows 10 has a bash shell now via WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux

Linode have a load balancer: https://www.linode.com/nodebalancers

When you say for clientside you would want to stick to the full Visual Studio IDE, do you mean web clientside or clientside as in traditional desktop apps? If you did mean web clie…

Not the person you asked but I also develop .NET Core on a mac. I like .NET because I can use C# which is my favourite language, and the new ASP.NET Core framework is very clean, m…

I'm considering this too, Windows 10 still has some annoying UI inconsistencies but its getting there, and with the Ubuntu subsystem its viable for Linux based dev's without settin…

Coming from macOS my main issues with win10 virtual desktops were 1) the inability to save and persist my desktop configuration through reboots, 2) the inability to assign specific…

I think you're confusing total rendering time, as being discussed here, with server response time. I'm getting 86ms response time from the mentioned blog (from London), and 900ms t…

I'm writing an asp.net core app, my host os is macOS. I initially setup my project with yeoman which created the footprint for me, but after that I've been manually creating files.…

What features are you missing? I've been using VS Code for 4 months now on a daily basis and can't say I'm missing anything outside of some Nuget package management tools, but I'm …

Have you tried Visual Studio Code? Or if you prefer a fuller IDE JetBrains Project Rider?

I find for the jobs market usually Java and C# dominate.

Also from the UK and I have the upmost respect for anyone that can speak a second language. I find it incredibly difficult to get beyond a base vocabulary to actually being able to…

Most languages have these type of functions, once you've read the file into an array its just array/list manipulation. I haven't compile checked this but here's the same as a C# on…

I don't really have any experience with the specifics of the deal you're trying to arrange so id only be guessing, but its essentially a licensing agreement? you're licensing the c…

I would recommend avoiding signing or agreeing to anything there and then, take any documentation home and think it over for a good long while before signing. If possible, have you…

I get 10-11 hours from my 2014 13" mbp, usually running safari, mail and atom.