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  1. Re:Why bother? on Ask Slashdot: Is an Open Source .NET Up To the Job? · · Score: 1

    The ".NET stack" only runs on "SQLServer"? You either have a funny definition of ".NET stack" or you're completely ignorant.

  2. Re:Quoted from TFA on NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower · · Score: 1

    No, he was merely giving that as an example of the power one senator has. In this case, it wasn't that a cancellation bill was placed on hold, it was that the amendment sponsored by Wicker was passed, directing NASA to finish it.

  3. Re:Minor revision? on Microsoft Introduces .NET Core · · Score: 1

    6 years since release, and the nicest thing that can be said for it is that it's growing steadily.

  4. Re:Death knoll for Java on Microsoft Introduces .NET Core · · Score: 1

    LINQ the DSL was the big news when it was released, but in the real world, it has gotten very little traction. The Enumerable extension methods that are the plumbing behind it, however (after all, the DSL simply gets translated into calls to this stuff by the compiler), are quite common.

  5. Re:Death knoll for Java on Microsoft Introduces .NET Core · · Score: 1

    LINQ, or the Enumerable extension methods? Results (can be) similar, language is very different.

    The enumerable extension methods plus lambdas is more similar to Java's stream API, but only an insane person would prefer Java's implementation. As for LINQ (the DSL for working with the same methods), it's FAR less common. I rarely see it in practice, and I don't generally prefer it.

  6. Re:Minor revision? on Microsoft Introduces .NET Core · · Score: 1

    Most likely a really old one. New Pythons have been coming out for a long time, but nobody uses them.

  7. Re:Minor revision? on Microsoft Introduces .NET Core · · Score: 1

    ... which isn't confusing at all, right?

  8. Re:why would I write to that? on Microsoft Introduces .NET Core · · Score: 1

    NETMF runs on microcontrollers, has for years. Has been Apache licensed for years.

  9. Re:Desparate Microsoft pulls a "Sun Microsystems" on Microsoft To Open Source .NET and Take It Cross-Platform · · Score: 1

    It's not using Linq. It's using a set of extension methods and lambda expressions. Linq is a whole other DSL ("from x in myVehicles...") that I rarely see used.

    Lambda expressions are simply syntactic sugar for anonymous methods.

    It's distressing to me that you claim to be a C# developer and can't "wrap your head around" lambdas, which you also confuse with Linq. Hopefully you have an MSDN subscription and can take advantage of some of the new free PluralSight training, because you clearly need it. I wouldn't hire you.

  10. Re: Yeah right on AT&T To "Pause" Gigabit Internet Rollout Until Net Neutrality Is Settled · · Score: 1

    AT&T doesn't work for its customers, it works for its shareholders.

  11. Re:We can do that thing you like on Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line · · Score: 1

    Only works for .NET applications. What about native applications?

  12. Re:Good luck with that. on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 1

    Of course they're not required to do so. That being said, some of us bank with institutions that don't hate their customers.

  13. Re:Good luck with that. on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 1

    The only purpose is spending money...

    Sounds like you can definitely lose one ("just offered it"), and also the second when you're not traveling internationally.

  14. Re:Why so high? on Passwords: Too Much and Not Enough · · Score: 1

    Why do you want to change your passwords regularly? Honestly, what security do you hope to gain from that?

  15. Re:Why so high? on Passwords: Too Much and Not Enough · · Score: 1

    You don't pick an account and guess passwords for it, you pick a password and guess accounts for it. That way, you don't risk locking out accounts. Because most people use one of the very common passwords, you have a shockingly high chance of finding an account that works with the (presumably common) password you've chosen.

  16. Re:Good luck with that. on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 1

    I carry one debit and one credit. I only ever pay with the debit if whatever retailer I'm at doesn't accept the credit.

    Why would you have more than one credit card? I've never understood that. Except if you're currently playing the introductory-bonus-card-swapping game, I guess. I never got into that.

  17. Re:Good luck with that. on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 1

    You need a better bank. I'm with a CU, and when $300 got withdrawn (via an ATM without a camera, ofc), the bank gave me the $300 back while they did the investigation.

  18. Re:Depends on the project on Ask Slashdot: Aging and Orphan Open Source Projects? · · Score: 1

    He said "then", but he meant "than".

  19. Re:Lots of cheap carbon stuff on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    Which is why communism has generally been successful.

  20. Re:gtfo on Intel Drops Gamasutra Sponsorship Over Controversial Editorials · · Score: 1

    If you make it known you are a woman on an entire host of mic'd online-play games, you will almost always be harassed. The girls I know who are into those type of games only play them with the mic muted and using an androgynous user-name. More often, they will just stay away from those games, and stick to games that have a less negative social aspect. Similarly, you can easily get called the entire gamut of racial slurs and have your sexual preferences questioned and insulted. It might be true that most of the worst verbal assaults come from dorky 14 year olds, but that doesn't make it alright and that does very little to soften the pain it causes to be treated that way.

    My wife plays mic'd games, makes it known she's female, and the worst "harassment" she's ever had is a World of Warcraft group wiping whenever she says anything over voice chat.

    My anecdotal story is worth as much as your unsubstantiated claim, i.e. nothing.

  21. Re:Buy a Mac on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    Hey, that's scientific, there. An opinion piece.

  22. Re:Skipping a version number on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    That article claims that Windows 9 will be announced on Sept 30. So much for that, then, right?

  23. Re:Catching up with Fedora on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 2

    C:\Program Files\7-Zip
    $ ./7z

    7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18

    What's so complicated about that? Feel free to use the .exe as well if it makes you feel better:

    C:\Program Files\7-Zip
    $ ./7z.exe

    7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18

    If 7z.exe is in your path, no need to give it a directory:

    D:\
    $ 7z

    7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18

    Also, if you're into terseness, you can use the "gci" alias for Get-ChildItem, or the "dir" alias, or the "ls" alias.

  24. Re:Its not the CFL/LED on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    LEDs don't have a ballast, they have a low-voltage current-regulated DC power supply.

  25. Re:The luxury of money on Blizzard Has Canceled Titan, Its Next-gen MMO · · Score: 1

    We never knew anything about it. What makes you think they "really had something"?

    Speculation by websites desperate to publish "news" for ad impressions does not count.