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Re: Tip 3: Wrap events up in Task-returning APIs and await them

AceHack — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:11:53 GMT

@wkempf: I agree with you on your opinion of IObservable vs Task. Tasks are great in their place but if IObservable is the right decision because of a reoccurring event then you loose a lot of composition options if you return a Task instead. Too bad I can't give you a plus one

@ljw1004: I also think these async tips have been very informative and would love to see more on the subject in a more in depth fashion.

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Re: Programming the Cloud with Actors: Inside ActorFx

AceHack — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:26:12 GMT

@luzi:I admit that "magic" strings make me cringe a little but after dealing with distributed systems for a number of years and all the headaches around versioning and in place upgrades, etc... Even something as simple as an enum can be a real pain. I'm fine with the "magic" strings as long as their are nice abstractions on top of them. I would consider the "magic" strings almost like Assembly or IL, Wrap them nicely then you only rarely have to think about them.

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Re: Programming the Cloud with Actors: Inside ActorFx

AceHack — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:19:50 GMT

Is this looking to fill the same space in .NET that something like Akka fills in Java? Thanks.

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Re: Visual Studio Achievements For Windows Store Apps

AceHack — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:03:59 GMT

Hey got it. Thanks for all your help.

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Re: Visual Studio Achievements For Windows Store Apps

AceHack — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:58:34 GMT

Hey it's nice to have these new achievements but there is still a bug in one of the Azure Acheivements."Show Me The Cache"

DataCacheFactoryConfiguration config = new DataCacheFactoryConfiguration("default");
DataCacheFactory cacheFactory = new DataCacheFactory(config);
DataCache defaultCache = cacheFactory.GetDefaultCache();

defaultCache.Put("testkey", "testobject");
string strObject = (string)defaultCache.Get("testkey");
defaultCache.Remove("testkey");

With the above code It seems I should get the acheivement but it does not unlock. Please help. Thanks.

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Re: YOW! 2012: Jafar Husain - Rx and Netflix, A Match Made in Composable Asynchrony

AceHack — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:33:57 GMT

Loved the talk but I was curious why not use something similar to ODATA URI\URL Conventions instead of just paths? That should still allow for a easy resource based caching strategy but with some more query ability other than just paths. What do you gain with just paths?

Again loved the talk!!

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Re: Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing TypeScript

AceHack — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:46:36 GMT

I like it, especially all the inference. Even though I don't like java script very much, this seems pretty nice.

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Re: Retrieving remote data using xhr

AceHack — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:42:09 GMT

This seems to be the wrong video for the description text. This is about event handlers not WinJS.xhr()

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Re: C++ and Beyond 2012: Alexandrescu, Meyers, and Sutter - Ask Us Anything

AceHack — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:18:11 GMT

Thanks for this. Will there be more C++ and Beyond 2012 posted? Thanks.

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Re: Announcing Achievements For Visual Studio 2012 RC

AceHack — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 07:16:16 GMT

"Show Me The Cache" Achievement still BROKEN!!! I've been waiting to get this thing forever please fix ASAP!!! It's the only one I need. I have all the rest. I did this many times with the Azure 1.6 and it never worked and I was told it was a bug and would be fixed in the next achievement release. Now I'm using Azure 1.7 and the latest achievement release and I tried the "shared" cache which is the old way of doing it and I also tried the new cache preview and neither unlocked this achievement. What's the point of Achievements if some are really un achievable.

Here is the link where karstenj says it's a bug with the cache url. PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP!!

http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Cannot-get-Show-Me-The-Cache-Achievement-to-work

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Re: GoingNative 9: LINQ for C/C++, Native Rx, Meet Aaron Lahman

AceHack — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:34:23 GMT

This is great news!!!

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Re: Internet Explorer 10 Test Drive on Windows 8 Release Preview

AceHack — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:28:34 GMT

My IE10 crashes within a few minutes of opening two or more tabs. I have a NVIDIA Geforce 560 Ti 2Gb. I did this on Consumer Preview as well. I was hoping Release Preview would fix it but it did not. Also weird enough it did not do this on Developer Preview. Please fix this in time for the final release. Thanks.

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Re: What is a database, really?

AceHack — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:01:14 GMT

Erik and Brian together are the best!!!

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Re: DEV281 - Visual Studio 11, .NET 4.5, and Parallelism

AceHack — Wed, 23 May 2012 00:36:29 GMT

Why did you use Task.Factory.StartNew and call the query.Execute() instead of using Task.Factory.FromAsync and calling ExecuteAsync(). Wouldn't this perform better and look pretty much identical? Thanks.

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Re: Stephan T. Lavavej: Core C++, 1 of n

AceHack — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:04:10 GMT

I also would like to see forward declarations. I'm also curious about typedef and as much as possible about the Preprocessor if that's considered part of the core c++. Thanks.

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Re: Go In Three Easy Pieces

AceHack — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:10:47 GMT

I love ad-hoc\duck typing. I think this is one of the best features in Go. In C# it is very painful to get something close to duck typing\ad hoc interfaces without a lot of performance penalties.. I usually switch over to F# and static ^ types for my structural typing needs. One of the biggest problems with any large code base in almost any language in my opinion are these weird object hierarchies that only the original designer can understand. (or maybe no one can understand) The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in an early preview version had great duck typing support but in the recent versions it has been removed. I wish it was still there.

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Re: Language Support for Asynchronous Programming

AceHack — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 03:02:27 GMT

@milgner I think this would be a blocking wait and it think it will only work in Metro style apps. I was really hoping for a await language feature in C++ that would do the auto continuation (state machine) kind of thing like C# (Non Blocking). Herb mentioned having this language feature possibly in the future with his talk here http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/-Not-Your-Father-s-C-

It took a while for that video to go up so I was completely unaware that Herb was already thinking about await as a C++ language extension or I would not have mentioned it again. Thanks all language guys at Lang.Next, I've been very impressed.

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Re: Herb Sutter: (Not Your Father’s) C++

AceHack — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:53:13 GMT

@hsutter I'm so excited to hear you talking about a possible await language feature for C++. And now I just read your comments about a possible safe mode, I'm running out of reasons to choose C# over C++ on many types of projects now.

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Re: Alexandrescu, Bright, Meijer, Moran: Pure versus Native (and much more)

AceHack — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:49:26 GMT

Every time I hear Andrei Alexandrescu talk it makes me want to start programming in D. What a great technical salesman. I think this is a great comparison between two amazing languages on opposite sides of the spectrum. Too bad Lang.Next its only once a year, it's like Christmas for me!!

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Re: Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski: The Actor Model (everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask)

AceHack — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:52:49 GMT

Here is another great video with Carl Hewitt going over the actor model some more and some history.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/computer-systems-colloquium/id420052381

He is video #1 How to Program the Many Cores for Inconsistency Robustness

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Re: Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski: The Actor Model (everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask)

AceHack — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:39:19 GMT

More like this please. Carl Hewitt is brilliant!! Also thanks so much Clemens for the summation at the end, it was very helpful. And always Erik was great; I had many of the same thoughts like tail recursion and event loops basically being the same thing. I would love to see some specific examples of where these break down as compared to the actor model. I still don't 100% understand the distinction in my head. Thanks guys.

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Re: Using the Kinect to model your world with ReconstructMe

AceHack — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:17:47 GMT

Great Post!!!!! This will work great with robotics studio simulation environment!!

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Re: Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Native Languages

AceHack — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:26:10 GMT

@dot_tom with the recent release of iOS 5 and auto ref counting by the compiler, (I'm not talking about smart pointers) Apple has a really nice story around memory management in my opinion. Even before the auto ref counting having nicely named functions to denote ownership was really nice. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who really loves Microsoft but also has a fond place for Apple. I almost felt like a traitor.

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Re: Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Native Languages

AceHack — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:05:11 GMT

I would like to see someone from Apple on these native talks speaking about Objective-C or any one of the native languages on the Mac. Being a Mac and Windows developer I would love to hear about API design decisions and much of the thought process behind both Mac and Windows languages in one session. In many ways I see Mac as being ahead on a native front and Windows being ahead on a managed front but I am by no means an expert. I would love to see this explored further. Thanks.

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Re: Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Web and Cloud Programming (and more)

AceHack — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:11:12 GMT

So worth the wait. I vote best video of channel 9 all time. Wish there was a 10 star button.

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