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roller··on Introducing ASP.NET vNext
From my experience, the initial compile is fast, it's the app pool recycle and JIT on first page load that leave you in the hallway playing chair mounted sword fights.

I'm hoping that with ahead of time compile option at least will give you some actual feedback as to what's happening. That'd at least be better than watching the browser sit there loading a page for while.

roller··on Storing sensitive data in a git repository using git-crypt
Another similar project that aims to do the same thing: https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt

The readme contains an itemized comparison, though it sounds some of this actual comparison may be out of date or more specific to git-encrypt (yet another project) git-crypt does appear to use openssl libraries for example.

transcrypt is just a Bash script and does not require compilation

transcrypt uses OpenSSL's symmetric cipher routines rather then implementing its own crypto

transcrypt does not have to remain installed after the initial repository configuration

transcrypt generates a unique salt for each encrypted file

transcrypt uses safety checks to avoid clobbering or duplicating configuration data

transcrypt facilitates setting up additional clones as well as rekeying

transcrypt adds an alias git ls-crypt to list all encrypted files

roller··on PostgreSQL: Jsonb has committed
Isn't this the case for postgresql data in general? ie, on updates, new data rows are written containing all the field values, whether or not they have changed.
roller··on Physicians group labels obesity a disease
Joining alcoholism in the area of diseases you can get yelled at for having. Damn it Otto, you're obese!
roller··on I've got 10 btc for the best CoffeeScript/JavaScript Nodewar bot
It'd also be nice to be able to use the same gravity engine to project orbits and collisions within the AI code.
roller··on YouCompleteMe, a Fast, As-You-Type, Fuzzy-Search Code Completion Engine for Vim
Here's the FAQ straight from the docs:

Why does YCM demand such a recent version of Vim? ~

During YCM's development several show-stopper bugs where encountered in Vim. Those needed to be fixed upstream (and were). A few months after those bugs were fixed, Vim trunk landed the 'pyeval()' function which improved YCM performance even more since less time was spent serializing and deserializing data between Vim and the embedded Python interpreter. A few critical bugfixes for 'pyeval()' landed in Vim 7.3.584 (and a few commits before that).

roller··on Mozilla Mozaic: visualizing the future of bookmarks
For this purpose I prefer to use personal wiki such as tomboy (http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/) or notational velocity (http://notational.net/). They both let me quickly organize my bookmarks along with notes in a hypertext format (imagine that)!
roller··on HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans
A coworker recently pointed us to yet another one of these, Dev HTTP Client, which has worked really well for us.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aejoelaoggembcahag...

roller··on Nokia Cnxn 2011 livestreaming right now. They'll reveal N9, the new MeeGo phone.
I'm not sure, but they may have been pushing Qt more than actually pushing the Windows 7. Good to see the trolls are alive and well.
roller··on The Megabus Effect
I took a round trip on the Chicago to Des Moines route last summer, it wasn't a good experience. The wifi was spotty, apparently provided by the same 3G cell service that wasn't working on my phone. Not that it mattered, I didn't have enough room to have a laptop open in front of me. A shorter person may have had a better time. I now feel lucky every time I'm on an airplane in the spacious standard economy seats. I would have gladly payed a bit extra for "Economy Plus" on the megabus.
roller··on Using GNU Screen to perform a command line demo
I love this hack for hitting C-c C-c in vim and having your current paragraph telegraphed to whatever screen window you want. I imagine it'd work for demos just as well as developing bash scripts.

http://technotales.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/like-slime-for-v...

roller··on Comparison of Cobra to Python.
Having built in contracts and unit tests seems like a progressive feature.

Is there a similar comparison to boo?

http://boo.codehaus.org/

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