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I'll never forget that morning I started reflector and it deleted itself from my system.
After running windows update my machine went from responding with

HTTP Error 416. The requested range is not satisfiable.

to

HTTP Error 400. The request has an invalid header name.

Re:The .NET Native Tool-Chain on Saturday May 10, 2014 @06:06PM (#7726996)
In one of the panels at Build somebody mentioned that expression trees would be interpreted at run time rather than JIT compiled so at least you have that.
Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @10:37AM (#7184303)
Make Visual Studio Pro free or unify Express and allow extensions. Make ASP.NET & friends as easy to deploy on Linux as it is on Windows (or put some serious energy into mono).

Not sure if they are good suggestions or not for the business but they would certainly help me out!

Re:The error model of Microsoft's new language on Monday December 30, 2013 @12:03PM (#6985442)
It is possible to write your own contract abbreviators with Code Contracts so I would hope such functionality gets added to the new language. The post does mention however that object invariants are not supported so I do wonder how much Code Contracts are actually influencing it.
Re:Visual Studio 2013 on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @03:09PM (#6764049)
Re:Ask HN: Which Monitor should I buy for long hours coding? on Friday October 25, 2013 @01:30PM (#6613067)
I'm not sure you are asking the right question. If you goal is to reduce eye strain which can lead to terrible headaches simply getting a monitor is not the total solution. I went through a few doctors and even an MRI only to discover accidentally that my new vision prescription and new phone/computer habits fixed it right up. You are getting older every day. This is what works for me, try it and see if it helps:

1) keep ALL screens at arms length from your face 2) code at night with a lamp on 3) 2x 27 inch displays (new toys!) 4) Look off into space here and there

I tried f.lux but I don't think it did anything for my sleep or eyes.

Re:Fix 260 character file name length limitation: Declined on Monday October 07, 2013 @03:37PM (#6510646)
Am I the only one that had a response of "OK" to this? While I think this limitation is so sad it's funny I haven't had problems with it in years.
Re:Unfurlough.us – Freelance gigs for furloughed employees on Friday October 04, 2013 @01:20PM (#6496641)
Where I work(ed) at the USGS most of us doing the tech work are actually contractors who are now basically on unpaid leave. Is this site yet another thing us contractors are excluded from?

Also I can't confirm if this is true or not but more senior federal employees have told me that in the past they have received back pay but us contractors are at a loss.

Re:Microsoft brings 18-year-old game 'Hover' to browser on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @01:58PM (#6484086)
Worked fine for me in 30.0.1599.66 m .
Re:Java to Scala converter on Friday September 27, 2013 @11:37AM (#6457505)
I also noticed this in IntelliJ when I went to copy some Java into a Scala project. As I began converting the Java code to Scala after the copy I was extremely confused when I found that the pasted code was already converted for me.
Re:ComputerCraft, Logo-style computer programming for Minecraft on Monday September 16, 2013 @12:40PM (#6394147)
Just a thought after reading the news today, has the CC team tested against this exploit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6391122

Re:Prism Button on Monday June 24, 2013 @07:21PM (#5936396)
There is an alternate clause that can be placed in a FAR that when used may give copyright to the contractor.
Re:Prism Button on Monday June 24, 2013 @07:19PM (#5936386)
Perhaps you can help me figure out this government copyright: http://www.reddit.com/r/COPYRIGHT/comments/1gsxxu/why_can_na...
Re:Bing.com is down? on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @11:38PM (#5605597)
At first it was every computer in my house, now just a few. Maybe session related?

Bing.com is down?

When I go to Bing.com I get what google.com tells me is a bing screen of death. The page is simple text reading:Ref A: b48b18a249b14025a4edad3719d979b9 Ref B: 6060C8B95F62AEE561B06D46620D5CDD Ref C: Wed Apr 24 20:19:56 2013 PST

( Read More... | 3 comments | 3 points | on HN )
Re:.NET and Node.JS – Performance Comparison on Friday March 29, 2013 @11:29AM (#5461210)
I'm not sure it would be worth it. While I think it is neat to finally see .NET popping up more I really don't see what this benchmark proves even if the C# and js both sorted the same type of data (string/floating point).
Re:.NET and Node.JS – Performance Comparison on Friday March 29, 2013 @11:21AM (#5461163)
Try it on mono?
Re:Why Ruby? on Friday March 22, 2013 @11:40AM (#5423599)
Don't open your mind too far; having an opinion is not always a terrible thing. You already said you don't like a large chunk of the typical tooling, no comment will make you like it. I like using Visual Studio even if it is not the most pragmatic choice, especially for open source. I am not a robot and I doubt you are either.

> what am I missing out on? I'm not really sure what you know but the answer may be nothing. I have been playing around with code contracts and expression trees a lot recently, I think that stuff is neat. The thing is though that most other languages & frameworks have this stuff too.

Re:Django with Visual Studio on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:19PM (#5293486)
Real programmers use cat.
It reports Windows Phone 8 as Windows 8.
Re:Ten Thousand Cents on Friday February 08, 2013 @06:42PM (#5190820)
Under the '1' in "L12" is a tree complete with label. Gave me a good laugh.
Re:Visual Studio Tools for Git on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @01:37PM (#5140961)
I keep my privates in the .ssh folder within my user directory. TortoiseGit and Git look there. The only thing odd I have to do is use putty to convert the key to the format used by Tortoise.
Re:Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @12:53AM (#5065552)
justcheck says "Sorry about that vulnerability that was all over the news, here is an update for you... but first maybe you would like to install the Ask Toolbar??? Yeah?"
Re:Nokia sold 4.4 million Lumia smartphones in 'solid' Q4 2012 on Thursday January 10, 2013 @10:03AM (#5037167)
Out of left field for sure. I waited in line on launch day to buy my 920... all by myself for 5 whole minutes. Didn't even get a high five from the staff :(
Re:Microsoft Is Fast Turning Into A Sideshow on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @05:39PM (#4999774)
Odd, navigating to that URL simply returned the word false as the page content.
Re:C# is the language of the year, Python of the decade on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @03:23PM (#4993830)
Some portions of the framework are not covered by the promise but Miguel mentioned something about Xamarin still having some kind of protection the project had when it was at Novell. Does anybody have any information that can prove/disprove this?
Re:What was your most painful realisation of 2012? on Monday December 31, 2012 @02:35PM (#4990538)
One more un-closed tag and I quit!

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