LordN00b

In the first example you deliberately create an ambiguous type, when you already know that it's not. You told the compiler you know more than it does. The second is a delegate, that will be triggered at any point during runtime. How can the compiler know what x will be?

There is plenty of precedence for this, and I am about to fudge a bunch of details. The basic point is that the United Kingdom can make any law it sees fit to any place or person. Even though it may only exercise punitive issues once they arrival inside the physical jurisdiction. So the example I was taught, the UK can pass a law banning smoking in Paris, but may not arrest/fine until such criminal trespassers get off the ferry in UK. This means that the Sovereign power is omni-whatevers, unless you explicitly say otherwise eg The UK Legislated their way out of South Africa and Canada expilictly. If 4Chans money ever passes through a UK bank, I'm sure Ofcom will grab what they can. It's a very British shakedown.

Excuse me, incoming contrarian! learn.microsoft, is for learning about the concepts as well as the practical applications. Also for user facing security, wouldn't you want all the knowledge available to you? Much easier to find the foot guns in these kinds of situations.

Visual InterDev was the first IDE I ever used outside of notepad. It was bundled in with one Microsofts early webediting tools with office (97/200)....but not FrontPage. I thought I was touching the future, it was so amazing! I really don't remember much about other than the impression that it left on me.

Recently I came to the conclusion that I needed to change jobs, but I held off because I didn't want to deal with the psychotic ramblings of LinkedIn posters. I'm sure in real life they are all perfectly normal indiviuals but something about LinkedIn insists that every poorly worded fable is gateway to wisdom, that methaphorical socratic dialog is to mechanism to describe human behaviour, and starting every second post with 'I'm sure this is a contraversional opinion but hear me out...'

In the end I got fired, so I'm actually forced back into the LinkedIn maelstrom of mediocrity but against my will, and without even the grace of my own grim resignation to spur me in to action.

If money was short and you weren't worried about the incendiary hangover that would surely come, then a trip to the Wortley Arms (Aka The Dirty Squirtly) in Peterborough was on the cards. Even the smell of their Ayingerbräu (Anger brow the next morning), causes my head to throb a little.

Later I was stunned to find the same absurdly cheap prices in Soho and a fairly decent Sunday Roast in their Notting Hill outpost.

'Remember his big publicity stunt of declining his name to appear on the Watchmen movie credits? Yet he had no issue taking the payday from DC that started it all'

Because back then Comics book industry was not the same, he sold his story and rights to DC and the contract specified that if DC stopped selling the book after a period of time, the rights would revert back to him. Alas, he wrote Watchmen, it's never been out of print he has not been allowed to reclaim his own work.

A lot of his complaining about Movie/Comic book companies comes from the perspectivie of a creator who has lost control of his creations, and is doing what he can to protest that.

...and 5000 years! That's 2.5 Jesus's of time and distance.

A +1 for this recommenation. I particularly enjoyed this for how the sailor explains his situation, using the mental tools avilable to him at that period of time. I always enjoy the how author goes to great lengths to explicate a period mind set (Name of the Rose/Baudolino/Island/Focualts) so it feeds the fabric of the narrative for the reader.

I think it's we've only found writing from 5000-6000 because the storage medium is not as durable.

Not having MPs doesn't lead to a dictorship, dial it back. Not having MPs means that we don't have MPs,(hooray) and the opportunity to replace them with something alittle more equitable to the society they exist in, free of the influences of lobbying, cronyism, greed, power and rampant, unchecked hypocrisy. Personally, I want a new class of people, styled after monks that spend 20 years being schooled in social structure, land husbandry, city welfare etc. These are then cloistered for the term that they serve and can only be approached by the permanent Civil Service when required. The local consituants are served by local councillers, (probably all of whom are lib dem as they are unconsionably successful at local issues). Anyway down with parlimentary democracy, and have a nice Sunday.

That had better be "when I write a third book" Bob, not "if". It's not just the technical content (Which is excellent), but your ability to convey and entertain that helped create such a classic book.

So if you do get a spare couple of thousand free hours, please ignore the pull of family, the economic safety of work and plunge head first into another oversized computer engineering project. You may now take my money.

Because Visual Studio is windows only.

That would have been the easiest/best solution here. However...haven't they uncovered a limitation in the filesystem here? The superblock data WAS fine, only the checksum was at fault. They found a away around the issue, wrote up their findings, suspicion about the flushing after a resize, and asked for more tooling support. This is classically a good blog post.

I've been working with three flutter apps for the past two years (Android and ios), and the improvements in the platform performance have been consistently trending up. One of our apps has 6 video players running at one point, and that doesn't seem to tank performance, there is an integrated Unity game and several other 'heavy' features. It's resliant and performant for the basic task of getting content on the screen. Then dropping down to the individual OS for certain features (video etc) is a breeze. My only gripe is it's not opinionated enough as framework, and tries to be all things to all devs which makes Architectural changes contentious against competing opinions. (See trying to implement a the latest Router from scratch) The downside is the mess of flutter web. As an engineering team everyone can be Flutter dev, but only a few have to be a Kotlin/Swift dev to implement features.

nb: RN, or Flutter are still more competitive than Maui however.

....or does it reflect how we consume our information about technology these days? How quickly are tech-books out of date?

As long as we don't have to do the dipose dance (isDisposed/isDispoing booleans).

Well we have had over 40 years of practice...

Bring back Slashdot, OMG Ponies!

This is a fantastic article, that just keeps going and going, digging into all these ideas and dragging you along for the ride. I'm gonna need a bigger coffee to get through it all. The visual stack machine is a great way to present the basic idea (My C is rubbish).

Still reading it, but to the first point about the starting hour.

Yo-Yo ma sets up the flashbacks, and the structure of the movie as a fugue. A melody thats played upon and expanded.

The first reveal that the writer says 'renders the movies first hour pointless..' is an example of that. Benoits seeming fawning of Miles, 'inadvertant' needling of his intelligence (childish puzzles) are shown to be part of Blancs own deceit.

And in fact all, the flashbacks extend information you already knew, Duke, Whisky and, Miles, for example. That's the smart thing about these dumb murders, its in the composition itself, and not the characters, or the plot driving it.

I had a whale of time watching it, and loved the mundanity of the crimes and the fact it was just dumb people in this rich persons playworld.

To take your argument to the extreme, why have for loops, when then are syntatic sugar over while loops? I'm generally a fan of syntatic sugar in a language if it's purpose is to simplify what's already there; but it is a balance between developer productivity and ease-of-use. I once saw javscript described as 'pithy', becuase of it's small syntatical footprint, that's probably not true so much now.

A nice follow up on a very dry topic. And a well done, for a very definite improvement in communicating the results of their investigation (Red/black border issues not withstanding ;) )

In a minor dev related way, projects where clients keep piliing on requirements during dev, that's a Columbo. Just one more thing...

Rant or not, I have to agree entirely. They literally tried to do a Die hard in Space episode...

If you think of it as `Star Trek: Burnham and the continuing voyages of Discovery`, then it sort of makes sense. Doesn't make it any good though

As a dev in a business environment, I don't care about your project. At all. It's going to be run-of-the-mill business app, storage, front-end, logic. There will be nothing exciting or interesting for me whatsoever. I don't care about your case management, insurance leads, or Teams Governance. Becuase I'm a human with human interests (writing code, and dreaming of a decent Transformers movie before I die), your projects are not interesting, and they will not invest me.

However for every project I take on, there will always be something I have never done before, or a maybe some new technique I want to try, could be a new language. That's where the engagement comes from.

I don't care about the project, I care about writing code (and exploring writing code) to the best of my ability (and to the best of the project constraints).

If I've done my job well, that means I learned something new/had fun and the project will never burn my screen pixels ever again.

I second this. It's a great resource, very well written. Opinionated enough to have character and humour, but not so dry as to make your eyes glaze over. I guess I'm saying that for a technical tome it's very, very readable (as was his Game Design Patterns book incidentally)

* plonk * Was a very nice touch.

It's a humurous statement about arrogance, in a nutshell : The Doctor is always correct, no matter the context.

The Moses 11th Commandment, is a comment on the biblical story of Moses. He was given 10 laws from God, and etched them onto a stone tablet. The Doctors of Germany are annoyed becuase the there should have beeen an 11th COmmandandment and it should have been, 'The Doctor is always correct'. The Doctors of Germany have forgiven God for this oversight.

I used to measure how annoying a REST book or post was going to be by how long it would take the author to use the phrase 'Fielding's dissertation' and followed by the HATEOAS acronym.