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citizenparker | 17 years ago | on: Is there anything new in Visual Studio 2010?

It's a shame the author isn't really distinguishing between Visual Studio 2010 and v4 of the Common Language Runtime / Dynamic Language Runtime.

VS 2010 has some neat integration points but isn't really of interest to the HN community - an in-depth look at v4 (particularly the DLR) however is worth chatting about sometime.

citizenparker | 17 years ago | on: Is there anything new in Visual Studio 2010?

VS is required to develop software that will run on Windows

I'm sure the user base of the delightful open source #develop making Windows apps will be sad to hear this, as will everyone using VS to develop against Mono.

Which compilers are part of VS that aren't available elsewhere?

citizenparker | 17 years ago | on: Personal site (URL flux) Feedback appreciated

- As kyro said, it's a bit too wide.

- The logo could stand to be a bit crisper. Maybe take a look at some of the techniques from http://psd.tutsplus.com/designing-tutorials/elements-of-grea...

- I'm kinda stupid, but I didn't realize the scroll bars were scroll bars until I saw someone else's comment. Also frustrating that they seem to work with mousewheel only.

- As azrealus said, it looks strange while you're loading up. I'd hide everything until it's all loaded and show it at once.

Good start, keep it up.

citizenparker | 17 years ago | on: SmutOnRails

Several of the female commenters have pointed out that if it were just the title, this would be less of an issue.

View the slides though and then say the presenter thinks of it as genderless.

citizenparker | 17 years ago | on: Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities

If you sell Geocities, then you can't convert them to paying customers of Yahoo web hosting. You can't convert them to Yahoo anything at that point.

If you publicly mothball GC though, then you can maybe get a fraction (5-10% at most I'd guess) to become paying users at SOME level.

Even at that meager conversion rate, I see that being a better call then selling the remnants of GC off.

citizenparker | 17 years ago | on: Coding Horror: Exception-Driven Development

Unless I suck at reading (which is possible), I don't think he's advocating people get rid of TDD.

"While there are many other valid reasons to practice TDD, as a pure bug fixing mechanism it's always seemed far too much like premature optimization for my tastes."