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shaydocon Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions

I would like to see the stats for UK and Ireland, I imagine only about 3% are automatic... The majority of cars are manual transmission here! And we drive on the left hand side of the road.

shaydocon Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen

Swift is very similar to C#. I am just thinking the tooling and the huge .net community who are already building ios with c# in visual studio. If it became core it would be hugely beneficial

shaydocon Clarity Design System for Angular 2

I think sharing your repo is excellent, plus, you have adopted angular 2 early and put it out there which is also good. Be interesting to hear your feelings about Angular 2. Did u use typescript for this also?

shaydocon Clarity Design System for Angular 2

motion seems to be missing, which is a core principle in Material Design! e.g. "ripple"

shaydocon Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen

.NET is great... C# is a fantastic language. Apple, make it a first class citizen for iOS also ;)

shaydocon Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen

just make C# a first class citizen on iOS also :)

shaydocon Show HN: Commits.io - Create a poster from your code and logo

sure.. i used this great repo called jQuery.terminal https://github.com/jcubic/jquery.terminal

shaydocon Show HN: Commits.io - Create a poster from your code and logo

this totally blows my half assed idea out of the water! http://coderte.es

shaydocon Coder Tees – Coderware for the discerning programmer

This was just for kicks. But defo would be fun to extend this to add some cool commandline web grepping and filtering piping and scheduling.. Powershell for the web!

shaydocon Azure, We're having issues

yip, I can't get logged in at all

shaydocon Using React in the real world

i love it.... i was skeptical about react at the beginning, but it definitely is a very SOLID tool for developing with and your blog illustrates this point succinctly.

shaydocon Show HN: Rudolph Runner

too addictive :-)

shaydocon Global TFS Outage

still down!

shaydocon Global TFS Outage

Feeling the pain with this issue this morning!

shaydocon Microsoft Azure Outage

Do you having monitoring setup on your cloud vm, because you should have alerts triggering emails to notify you when this is happening.

Secondly, you are using an IP address and expecting that to be static? The recommended approach is to use a CNAME so you don't hit that issue, alternatively, you can have up to 5 Reserved-IPs per subscription and attach that Reserved-IP to your VM : New-AzureReservedIP from powershell

Edit : see http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/05/14/reserved-ip-addre...

shaydocon Microsoft Azure Outage

If you want 99.999% uptime, use Azure TrafficManager and set up failover loadbalancing to different datacenters.

We have failover loadbalancing running between multiple datacenters, no issue here!

edit : 99.99%

shaydocon Facebook's software architecture

Excellent article. I like the architecture explanation. I also like the simplicity of the description, makes it really easy to understand the descision making process.

I think it is a very logical solution. Naturally when I think of facebook, its the freshness of the data that is important for me, as a user I like to know whats going on now, as opposed to older timeframes. I think it seems quite logical that it is much more optimal to manage their data this way.

shaydocon HelloJS – Client-side OAuth for JS

This is great, perfect for little consumer web apps. I am so happy about this, becuase we (my dev buddies) have just had an idea for a little social game that would be great if ported onto the web. I think I have just solved our simplistic user auth needs by reading this article.

Thanks for sharing.

shaydocon Show HN: Impulse – Dynamic JS Animations for the Mobile Web

Very impressive and smooth transitions. Will definitely give this more attention. Thanks for sharing.

shaydocon Tell HN: Take vacation

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” -Bob Dylan

shaydocon Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs

I am glad your conscience is clear on this. 18,000 people is a almost 15% of their overall workforce.

shaydocon Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs

you are caviling over the ninth part of a hair, but yes you are right, products that sell are the effect, not the cause.

you can't tell me there are not some seriously good staff among that 18,000. Microsoft are a huge company, and very few are more successful than them. Microsoft have the environment to allow things to flourish. IMHO Microsoft are still ahead of the curve and agile, especially with Azure. Microsoft are massive ultimately because what they have done to date has been hugely successful. So its really a case of consuming Nokia.

shaydocon Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs

How does laying off 18,000 people make you more "agile" ? Products that sell make you more "agile"... Its more a case of, we bought Nokia for their market, but we don't need their staff!

shaydocon Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs

This is a company with a net profit margin of 27.74% in Q1 2014.

shaydocon Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts directory

Agree completely!

shaydocon Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts directory

I appreciate the feedback/tip. I am no expert in typography by any means. and I will be interested to A/B the contrasting styles. I have seen it used in body before and I liked it, hence I used it 😀

shaydocon Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts directory

I think they are artistically wonderful! It all depends how you perceive things, isn't it

shaydocon Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts directory

love this.

I use Raleway, its is a beautiful typeface IMHO

http://anexiledderryman.com/cv

shaydocon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2014)

Location: Belfast, N. Ireland

Remote: Open to remote

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Fullstack, KnockoutJS, SPA, javascript, C#, Azure, SQL Server, asp.net webapi, REST, node, git, TFS

Resume: http://anexiledderryman.com/cv

Email: swampscottmusic at gmail

shaydocon Erik Meijer: Duality and the End of Reactive [video]

i thought it was a good presentation, however, I recently watched a Netflix one, published by Matt Marenghi, which to me was infinitely better.

I think the description of events as just another collection, albeit a time based collection flow was nicer ( Observable === Collection + Time ), and also that this collection must have the ability to tell you that it has terminated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRYN2xt11Ek