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sequence7··on Krita Foundation in Trouble
The link's not working for me, google text only cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:g-C8yv4...

sequence7··on Show HN: ShakyDraw – Hand-drawn block diagrams from plain text
In Edge I'm getting the following error which means no diagram gets rendered:

    SCRIPT5007: Unable to get property 'ready' of undefined or null reference
    bundle.min.js (1,5413)
sequence7··on Vivaldi browser v1.8 released, with calendar-style browsing history
No it doesn't, they proposed a 3rd party ad replacement back in 2016 it wasn't popular so it never happened. Please stop repeating this.

Brave blocks ads by default it does not replace them.

sequence7··on Global availability of Microsoft Teams
Teams is built on top of Skype for Business/Lync, Groups and OneDrive for Business. Under the hood they're the same platform I'd expect that as Teams matures the ability to interoperate will improve
sequence7··on Spammers expose their entire operation through bad backups
From the bottom of the article it looks like MacKeeper hired that security researcher:

Attention - Portions of this article may be used for publication if properly referenced and credit is given to MacKeeper Security Researcher, Chris Vickery.

sequence7··on Show HN: OneView Calendar – My zoomable calendar app just got a big facelift
This looks great, does it only work with Google calendar or can I use it with other calendar services?
sequence7··on Leap Motion Goes Mobile
Seems like this story should really be linking to the Leap Motion blog with the announcement.

http://blog.leapmotion.com/mobile-platform/

sequence7··on CoreCLR ARM 32-bit progress
You can build Tizen apps in .Net now I imagine they're working to improve compatibility across all Tizen devices. Samsung is also now a member of the .Net foundation

https://www.tizen.org/blogs/dh0922/2016/tizen-.net-developer...

sequence7··on How to get people who installed a leaked build to stop using that build?
This seems to be an urban myth that gets often repeated but I've never actually seen a concrete example. Could someone point me to an example of someone suing a property owner because of an injury received in the commission of a crime?
sequence7··on How a small streaming site became the Netflix for indie film
First off this looks amazing, congratulations on building something I'd love to use and good luck. I have two questions.

1) Is MUBI available in the UK?

2) Do you support or are you planning support Plex?

sequence7··on Things will not change
Although I see your point (Windows Phone is not that popular) couldn't you say the same for any mainstream device? i.e. If the site works well on every device but Linux/iOS/Android it's not the site that's the problem.
sequence7··on Show HN: Ainomma is a touch friendly open source Hacker News client
I made this to scratch an itch,the source is available at https://github.com/adam7/Ainomma any feedback would be great and pull requests would be awesome :)
sequence7··on I wanted a touch friendly hn client so I made one
There's a demo of the latest build at http://ainomma.azurewebsites.net/

Feedback would be welcome, pull requests would be awesome :)

sequence7··on Recursion with SQL
This seems to be taking advantage of a specific Oracle feature whose performance I have no idea about, there are suggestions that Common Table Expressions could do the same sort of thing but since CTE performance is generally horrible I'd be concerned that you get nice syntax and horrible performance. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how you could do something similar across different DBs without basically killing performance or am I missing something here?
sequence7··on Github Student Developer Pack includes Visual Studio and Dreamspark
Yes it is, Community[0] is actually the same as Professional just with a different license, the offer does also include DreamSpark[1] so you can get a bunch of other tools, which you could always get free as a student.

Looks like GitHub/Microsoft are doing some cross marketing as DreamSpark now includes the GitHub Student Developer Pack[2].

[0] http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community...

[1] https://www.dreamspark.com/Student/Software-Catalog.aspx

[2] https://www.dreamspark.com/Product/Product.aspx?productid=92

sequence7··on Get Visual Studio Community 2013 for Free
£35 a month will get you four A0 Windows/Linux instances or a single Linux A1 and a single Windows/Linux A0 running full time for the month.

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/details/virtual-mac...

sequence7··on Get Visual Studio Community 2013 for Free
The main value of an MSDN subscription is all the subscriber downloads and the Azure credits you get.

Want to try out or develop against any piece of MS software, just download it from the MSDN portal and off you go. Want to test out provisioning with Azure or fire up a server to test or dev against, just use your Azure credits. You can happily run a couple of small servers with the Azure credits.

If you just want Visual Studio you could always buy it on its own for much less than a subscription.

sequence7··on Why I love databases
Although I understand your frustration if SQL queries were blowing up tempdb would you blame SQL or would you blame the developers writing those stupid queries?

ORMs are not a magic bullet and developers can do stupid things with any tool.

sequence7··on Deploy multiple ASP.NET web apps to a single AWS instance
I assume you could just deploy to an Azure/Rackspace/Other VM or to a physical server rather than an AWS VM if you decided to, there's nothing PAAS specific here. Is that correct?
sequence7··on Deploy multiple ASP.NET web apps to a single AWS instance
Is there much benefit to using Octopus as opposed to an extra MsBuild step that does a publish?

I've had TeamCity set up to do continuous integration/deployment without much pain so I was wondering if I'm missing out on something or it's just a different way to the deployment/publish step?

sequence7··on Guacamole – HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop
From the github readme:

  > guacamole-client is used to build the subprojects that  make up Guacamole, and
  > to provide a common central repository. Each project contained here is
  > completely independent of guacamole-client and can be built separately, though
  > the others may have to be built first. If all projects are built using
  > guacamole-client, Maven will take care of the proper build order.
My reading of this is that the client repo also contains the server, which is written in java
sequence7··on How to Make the Best Pourover Coffee
I'm really intrigued as to how much of the coffee connoisseur's appreciation of a coffee is down to the flavour and how much is actually down to a placebo style effect and the enjoyment of the ritual.

I love an espresso and make myself one every day but I can't shake the idea that if there were some blind taste tests 95% of the people who say they can really taste the difference between different pourings/grindings etc. (including myself) couldn't tell an aeropress from an old school drip filter machine.

sequence7··on Unapologetically build your startup technology in C#
What kind of refactoring tools do you get free in eclipse that aren't included in VS 2013 or 2014?
sequence7··on Surfing the Modern Web with Ancient Browsers
> Sometimes I think back and ask myself if all of this progress in web standards has really got us anywhere. > What can we do now that couldn't be done 20 years ago (putting aside connection speed) and is all of this progress really worth the trouble.

Well let's see if we can make a short list:

1) Can I look up almost anything? Yes [0]

2) Can I learn a foreign language for free? Yes [1]

3) Can I fund something interesting? Yes [2]

4) Can I communicate with my family and friends for free? Yes [3]

5) Can I learn stuff for free? Yes [4]

Seriously I didn't even try, yes progress has got us somewhere. Admittedly we do now have n+1 standards

[0] http://wikipedia.org

[1] http://duolingo.com

[2] http://kickstarter.com

[3] Honestly there are so many - email, skype, facebook, whatsapp, etc ...

[4] http://khanacademy.com

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sequence7··on Microsoft Says: Come Back with a Warrant, Unless You’re Microsoft
Could you provide a list of "good" online service providers who respect my privacy and have it in their privacy statement so that I know who to trust?
sequence7··on IE10 falls below IE9 in market share
> IE is hardly evergreen. IE11 is curiously not available on Windows 8.0, although it is available on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1

Windows 8.0 will automatically update to Windows 8.1 so IE10 on Windows 8 will get automatically updated to IE11.

> They also publish update blockers [1]

You say this like it's a bad thing, some users don't want an evergreen browser. The point of the update blocker is to help those users.

sequence7··on TypeScript included with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
There's a brackets[1] plugin[2] that looks like it might have potential.

[1] http://brackets.io [2] https://github.com/fdecampredon/brackets-typescript

sequence7··on Why is Atom Closed Source?
It seems that the answer to this question is quite simply that github want to make money selling the product which seems reasonable. Why is there so much outrage, if you only use open source (in the free software definition) software then simply don't use atom?
sequence7··on Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
> Err, no - MSBuild, is basically a clone of Ant, except that it is meant to be generated by Visual Studio. This is completely backwards from what happens in say Java/Scala with Maven, SBT or Gradle.

MSBuild does not require Visual Studio

> The advantage of having the build process external, as happens with Maven and Maven-like environments, is that you can easily automate things by writing plugins, plus you're not tied to the IDE at all. You need to push your artifacts into a repository? There's a plugin for that. You need to sign your artifacts with a PGP key? There's a plugin for that. You need to automatically increment the version number on releases? There's a plugin for that. Etc, etc... and all of these can be used in continuos integration processes.

The equivalent of plugins for MSBuild is Tasks

> Plus, MSBuild doesn't handle dependency management, which is completely retarded. You've got NuGet now, but again, Microsoft had to over-engineer it, to make it IDE friendly and thus the ease of setting up your own Maven repository is gone.

Yes it does via NuGet, and again NuGet has no dependency on the IDE

> And have you tried building MSBuild projects on top of Mono? Try it. It's fun ;-)

Yes I have, what's your point?

> Basically only a .NET developer that never experienced other environments could claim that MSBuild/VS.NET is satisfactory, but for the rest of us, it's like trying to do software development with early-2000 tools and IMHO, that's where the entire .NET ecosystem is.

Thanks for the personal and professional attack at the end there, nice touch

sequence7··on Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
It sounds like you just don't know Windows/VS/IIS as well as you know the other stacks which is entirely understandable since I'm guessing you don't work with them very often.

For future reference you can compile VS projects from the command line if you want using MSBuild, that's all building in VS does. As far as IIS is concerned you can maintain all it's configuration via config files so an experienced Windows admin could have 1000's Windows servers up by lunch too. They'd probably take all day to get a Linux server up though.

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