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relevate | 9 years ago | on: Windows Is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform

This is partially the motivation behind MSR's Drawbridge project (which is the predecessor for Windows Subsystem for Linux), the idea being that the personality of the OS runs in user space and each application runs in a sandboxed picoprocess. All ~14,000 functions exposed by Windows DLLs could be implemented by a narrow ~45 ABI calls provided by the host.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/

relevate | 10 years ago | on: How to stop functional programming

This is where I think LINQ does a good job.

  var coworkers = departments.selectMany(department => department.employees);

Nearly equivalent to the Scala code, but uses more approachable keywords like `select`, `selectMany`, and `where` instead of `map`, `flatMap`, and `filter`.

relevate | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you find most beneficial about blogging?

I often struggle to have a strong inner voice and remain apathetic about events and things going on around me. I think blogging and writing in general to a public audience helps me define my own values and thoughts.

relevate | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Plans for side projects in 2014?

All my past side projects have dabbled at the surface of a new or interesting technology. I hope to do at least one project which can take me deep into a specific language/framework so I can get a good feel for all the features in a specific technology.

relevate | 12 years ago | on: Why some people respond to stress by falling asleep

When this happens to me the sleep is always instant and deep-a huge difference from when I spend about an hour trying to fall asleep at a regular time. I sometimes wonder if being in a perpetual state of stress would improve my regular sleep.

relevate | 12 years ago | on: Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge Rules

I think it's all about branding and preventing copycats from riding off of someone else's coattails. It's the creator who did the hard work of making a particular character well-known, and it wouldn't be fair to let an unknown third party use this popularity for his/herself.

relevate | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone Making Money on Windows Phone 8 Apps?

Just press 'page up' and the Windows Phone emulator will let you type with your keyboard. It does get annoying when you have to do this every time, but I think the Windows Phone emulator beats Android's significantly in terms of speed and stability.