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Re:What lies beneath async/await in C#? on Friday January 13, 2017 @06:07AM (#13389934)
I'd certainly recommend the Pluralsight course, it goes into greater detail and shows a lot more examples. Thanks for mentioning it!
Re:What lies beneath async/await in C#? on Thursday January 12, 2017 @09:56AM (#13382642)
I did a talk a while back on async/await in C# for anyone interested: https://vimeo.com/191077931
I just upgraded my XPS 15 to 32GB, 2400MHz RAM. Unfortunately with the XPS 13, it seems the RAM is soldered to the motherboard. Personally I wouldn't get the XPS 13 for work, but go for the more powerful XPS 15.
Due to "InfinityEdge Display", there's no room to put it anywhere else. It does make the built in webcam rather useless, I've got an external (Logitech 920) webcam.

Look at the InfinityEdge Display here: http://www.weboo.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/New-Dell-XP-1...

Depends on the audience and the application. As Photoshop and AutoCad are both mentioned, I think that's the benchmark and not something like Facebook that wouldn't benefit as much from running as a desktop client.

On a side-note, didn't Facebook just release a new UWP app and didn't they regret going the HTML5 route to start with (not focusing on native apps)?

Re:DAWG data structure on Monday September 21, 2015 @02:35AM (#10250711)
I saw a lecture from Stanford years back (2008) that talked through this, really interesting lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ8SkcUSdbU

Also, if anyone wonders, DAWG means: Directed Acyclic Word Graph

Re:CIL (.NET bytecode) to WebAssembly compiler on Thursday September 03, 2015 @09:18PM (#10168374)
Thanks! I thought re-posting was frowned upon, no matter if the content is considered good or not. I'll check the links!
Re:CIL (.NET bytecode) to WebAssembly compiler on Thursday September 03, 2015 @12:13AM (#10163313)
Re:Biggest image in the smallest space on Thursday September 03, 2015 @12:11AM (#10163307)
Ah yes, of course. Thanks, I'll keep that in mind for the future!
Re:Biggest image in the smallest space on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @07:50PM (#10162654)
Yeah, I agree. The original title was a lot more descriptive.

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