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> Isn't plain JSON even worse? At least the design you're criticising has a dynamic schema definition separate from code. The point is that "dynamism" isn't needed in this case. It…

I've seen a set of SQL tables designed to mimic "flexible classes". There's a table for the "class", another table defining its "fields", and two other tables defining class instan…

I usually don't watch videos, but this one captured my attention.

Similar story here. C64 was amazing, even to load a game, you had to learn some commands. (Unless the game was in a cartridge.) Then I got a PC, and learned structured programming …

What'd I tell to Bjarne: - In the future, you'll carry in your pocket a computer more powerful than the sum of all computers currently present at the university - The unchecked fla…

Because with POST you have a RPC (remote procedure call) with arbitrary semantics and HTTPS is just a convenient transport. That's also why I only use a couple of status codes: Ok,…

It just works without any tweaks. Also, Visual Studio, One Drive, One Note, (office apps in general).

Oil and gas extraction is "invisible", platforms far, far away on the sea. Nothing to complain about. :)

By "nature" i mean e.g., mountains. Not necessarily managed park. IIRC, the people have also protested against high-voltage lines because... dunno, they "ruin the view" across the …

Nuclear has the highest energy density (kWh produced per km2). "Renewables" need much larger areas to produce equivalent power. This means that habitats for many species are negati…

> Allows me to move directories around, without having to depend on an IDE to keep namespaces in sync. So... without and IDE, you'd move code around, let the NS be changed due to b…

C# allows file-level namespaces so you can write namespace Math; static class Adder { public static int Add(...) { ... } } (one nesting level less). Next, elsewhere you can write n…

> Pushing these into an IDE is the Windows way of doing things. s/Windows/modern/ > To win in Unix land, C# needs to be editable in a plain text editor. I guess hard-core unix user…

> [...] how do you find the code that will run when they do fail? You would have to traverse [...] I work in a .NET world and there many developers have this bad habit of "interfac…

Check out work by Microsoft research. Examples: Z3 solver, project Orleans.

Recently I wished for "VB for Web". Something that'd make it easy for a tech-competent, but a non-programmer, person to prototype a functional web application.

Hi, I've been a co-founder of a Norwegian startup, Quine AS, that attempted to automate workflows in media productions (as in movies, series, commercials). Ultimately, we've failed…

Hi, I've been a co-founder of a Norwegian startup, Quine AS, that attempted to automate workflows in media productions (as in movies, series, commercials). Ultimately, we've failed…

Microsoft hired Dave Cutler to develop WinNT. Prior to that, he worked on VMS.

Depends on how you define "persistent data structure". In most definitions that I've encountered, a new version is made after each update. This code makes a new version only when y…

I implemented an academic paper (join tree) in C# here https://github.com/zvrba/Pfm It provides the opposite: a mutable CoW data structure that is extremely cheap to "fork" so that…

> Three properties completely describe a black hole: mass, spin, and charge. So it's like an elementary particle?