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Still! What does the container for a nuclear explosion look like on the inside? Is it smooth and glassy? Does molten material drip down and form stalactites and stalagmites? Does the surface crack as it cools? What color is everything?
Being at peace with something is not the same thing as being happy about it.
That and Topshelf https://github.com/Topshelf/Topshelf have made deploying Windows services very easy. Topshelf is slowly adding some Linux/mono support, and OctopusDeploy supports SSH as a deployment option, but unsurprisingly things aren't as nice if Windows isn't your target.
By the way, a lot of the missing content in KotOR 2 has been restored by a mod called "The Sith Lords Restored Content Modification." There's a standalone version if you still have the original discs rattling around, but the easiest way to get it now is to use the Steam Workshop [2]; the game was recently updated (after 10 years!) to add easier mod support, controller support, etc.
[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/disney-closes-lucasarts-video-game-ar...
[2] http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=485537...
There's been a big push around composting lately, to the point where there will be fines for having too many compostables in the trash. People were up in arms over this, as it meant that the waste collection people would be rooting around in your trash to determine if it was complaint, though apparently they can't open opaque bags to check so it's pretty much a non-issue.
Could you describe or at least point to some of them?
I think the reason that I picked up Rx is that it was a natural extension of LINQ, both literally and figuratively. What made Rx really click for me was thinking of it in terms of IEnumerable that explicitly acknowledged of the time domain. Since then I've come to understand some of the concepts that underlay both of them (monads, mostly), but I wouldn't have made the leap to Rx if it wasn't so easy to get there from existing knowledge. I haven't encountered anything where the next step would be "learn Erlang." You can make the argument that we should all learn about things that are unfamiliar, but there are lot of things that are unfamiliar and I haven't seen a lot of reasons why Erlang should rise to the top.
Would it be possible to determine ahead of time what order would maximize performance, or would that require profiling?
In fact, every app in the Apple app store is statically compiled. App store guidelines prohibit dynamic code generation, preventing the use of a JIT compiler: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21689993/xamarin-ahead-of...
It might be an unfair comparison as MvX is a much older project but it felt more like something cobbled together over time than something really thought out. I also really like the reactive approach - your view model describes the relationships between its properties as they change rather than have a morass of interlinked event handlers.
Paul Betts is pretty active within the portable-C# community, with multiple active projects: https://github.com/paulcbetts and has a pretty good blog, where at the moment he's going back through the RxUI docs: http://log.paulbetts.org/
That's one of the primary reasons to use GOG - even the ancient games they sell (in my experience) Just Work. They would be far, far less successful if every customer had to become an expert in DOSBOX in order to play an impulse buy of a game from their youth.
While some sources call into question the health effects of EM radiation, radios aren't causing vomiting and hair loss unless they're also made of radium.
So I guess I'm not too harsh on them.
Don't expose services to the internet that you're not willing to make public. Duh? What I got from this article is that some devices that people connect to the internet are configured poorly, probably came out of the box like that, and that maybe I should go double check that my router isn't misbehaving. Note that they have lists of vulnerable devices at the end of the paper, which I'll link here.
libupnp: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApUaRDtAei07dFd...
miniupnp: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApUaRDtAei07dDh...
soapapi: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApUaRDtAei07dGx...
The discussion of libupnp is kind of terrifying on its own: "There are no less than seven unique buffer overflows in version 1.3.1 of this code." Which sounds pretty bad until you notice that by "this code" they're referring to a single function.
The paper itself is much better than the Ars article, by the way.
It doesn't specifically ask you to pick your subpixel layout, but rather shows you a bunch of different renderings and asks you to pick the one you think looks best.
I assume they use odds and ends from their furniture manufacturing.