Channel 9 - Discussions by Tensor

Tech Off - Hooking up runtime compiled generic delegates

Tensor — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:51:26 GMT

I figured it out. The signiture of the predicate i was compiling was wrong. I was doing;

public function DynamicPredicate(of t as TheType)(item as TheType) as boolean

Whereas what I wanted was;

public function DynamicPredicate(item as TheType) as boolean

And now it works.

Tech Off - Hooking up runtime compiled generic delegates

Tensor — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:05:59 GMT

OK so i've been bashing my head on this one all day and its doing my nut in...

I need to compile a predicate(of t) at runtime, then use it.

I can compile the code at runtime easily enough, the problem I have is then extracting the delegate.

If I use a non-generic delegate, it works. If I try to use a predicate(of t) it doesnt, complaining that it can not load the assembly - however the assembly it complains it can not load is not the runtime compiled one, its the assembly i am trying to use to call it with.

Anyone have a cluse if this is possible?

Coffeehouse - Post your twitter name?

Tensor — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:56:09 GMT

timensor

Coffeehouse - How many broken bones have you had?

Tensor — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:42:56 GMT

3.

Nose, falling in to concrete step.

Arm, while at school. Some guy fell in to me when I was leaning on the way waiting to go in to a class. By a freak chance my arm was stuck out, elbow on the wall, and took his full weight. It hurt like hell but then in the class I could hardly hold my pen, and was in a cold sweat (which was a new one). Went to hospital that night and sure enough it had broken.

Little finger. Stupid one because i was at a university party and very drunk and a little down and someone bet me I wouldnt punch a wall. He lost the bet, I broke my little finger near the knuckle and never got it seen to. It now sticks out at a slightly exagerated angle. I would not recommend this course of action.

Coffeehouse - Do you remember?

Tensor — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:38:36 GMT

Cybermagellan wrote:

Does anyone here remember the "Choose your adventure" books? I was watching Family Guy the other night and seen the episode where Peter was reading one and it reminded me of it...I was wondering if anyone knows of an online version....

I do. I discovered them aged about 10, then moved on to the fighting fantasy books and there various siblings. From there its a slippery slope to table top roleplaying, wargaming, and if you arent careful, LARP.

Luckily I avoided WOW.

Coffeehouse - Do you pray?

Tensor — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:35:47 GMT

jsampsonPC wrote:

Hawkings would make a better Darth though.

Nah Hawkings doesnt piss people off nearly as much as Dawkins!

Coffeehouse - Do you pray?

Tensor — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:35:11 GMT

Minh wrote:

If yes, what do you pray for?

Negatory.

I'm one of Dawkins Stormtroopers.

Now that would make a cool film.

However what I mean is, I have in my life had several people dedicate a reasonable amount of time to trying to convert me to there own particular branch of christianity. I have allways tried to counter this with discussion and reasoned argument. In all but one case we agreed too disagree in the end and all was well. The other guy seemed to take it as a personal insult that I wouldnt convert. Hey ho.

Coffeehouse - Come Work on Our Team

Tensor — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:06:15 GMT

Rory, I have a lot of respect for you, so please dotn take this the wrong way, but part of your CV was "allready works for microsoft" and also "reasonabley famous blogger".

Just like BethG. Did we forget that bit? It seems no-one ever talks about it....

The last two people who joined C9 have done so to be the front people and have had as high profile parts of there cv (1) work for MS (2) well known in the blogosphere. Any real confidence that third wont be the same. Mini for c9?

Coffeehouse - Cardspace crashes

Tensor — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:17:35 GMT

Months ago, I installed .NET 3.0. I read a bit about cardspace and thought oh that sounds cool. I opened it up, started creating a fake card to have a look, then hit cancel.

It killed my machine. I didnt bother going any further.

Coffeehouse - Channel7

Tensor — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:32:01 GMT

CompGuy101 wrote:

blowdart wrote:
channel -1, where every Raymond post goes and no-one can actually browse to it.

Channel -1 has my vote.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

Coffeehouse - Cool It

Tensor — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:26:27 GMT

OMG he discovered the left wing conspiracy! dispatch the comrade-assasins to take him down.

Coffeehouse - W3bbo's off to Cali?

Tensor — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:06:57 GMT

Sabot wrote:

Is there a cooler city than Brighton?

Actually my memories of brighton from about 4 years ago are;

The sea front smells of wee.
The aquarium is stupidly expensive and a bit rubbish.

W3bbo - enjoy your trip!

Coffeehouse - Chapter 7

Tensor — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:50:36 GMT

Your book, Borders front and centre, Seriously.

Coffeehouse - Sorry iPhone! I want a HTC Touch!

Tensor — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:55:04 GMT

JohnAskew wrote:

No kidding, the Kaiser looks as toasty as hot buns fresh out of the oven.

I bet it sells for > $600 when it becomes available...

My wish is that cellular providers would give us reliable and unlimited internet connectivity. We already pay enough to them and they are very simply withholding service from us. Screw them. I won't invest heavily in a pda phone until free unlimited internet access comes with my phone plan. Firm.

As we have some serious threadcromancy going on...

I got my Kaiser - in the guise of a T-Moblie MDA Vario III.

It is, to borrow a phrase, fandabbydozie.

Coffeehouse - What would you do if everything fails (what's your plan B)?

Tensor — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:49:55 GMT

HumanCompiler wrote:

But if all mine failed I'd want to race cars.

You write software, and Plan B is to become a racing driver?

Dont you have that the wrong way around?

I dont have a plan B. Perhaps I should get one.

Coffeehouse - HumanCompiler.Reproduce();

Tensor — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:51:55 GMT

Bah thats not little! I became a dad again just a week before you - and she was only 4 lb 10 :O

Congratulations all the same, of course

Coffeehouse - Booking for UK DDD6 (Saturday Nov 24th) is now open.

Tensor — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:51:22 GMT

Something like that

Coffeehouse - Booking for UK DDD6 (Saturday Nov 24th) is now open.

Tensor — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:06:36 GMT

Having to miss this one due to recent arrival of small addition to family.

Coffeehouse - MS caves in ... withdraws EU appeal

Tensor — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:51:58 GMT

Ray6 wrote:

PaoloM wrote:
I *think* that the original fine has already been paid at the time of the first sentence... Microsoft was appealing to get that money back

Yes, it said it was held in escrow ... the EU has it now.

That's gonna pay for a lot of fact-finding trips to the Bahamas ....

I've said it before I'll say it again. The amount that MS has been fined is as nothing in the grand scheme of the EU's annual budget. The notion that the whole thing was some revenue grabbing exercise is ridiculous. I think its only supported by people in the US who think that Europe is roughly the size of Belgium.

Coffeehouse - Stossel To Gore--"Give Me A Break"

Tensor — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:37:08 GMT

C9 Readers To Raymond-- "Give Us A Break"

Or maybe

C9 Readers To Admins-- "Why Do You Keep Giving This Guy A Break?"

Coffeehouse - The Perfect Pair of Noble Peace Prize Winners and Presidential Candidates

Tensor — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:05:35 GMT

Raymond, every response you get basicly says, take your political diatribe and go and spout it somewhere else.

Its beyond old. Give it up.

Coffeehouse - If you could ask only 1 question

Tensor — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:17:53 GMT

Who am I?

Probably followed by

And who are you? What am I doing here? Why do I have this terrible headache? Can you please put down the gun?

Coffeehouse - Given a free Macbook ..

Tensor — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:42:26 GMT

Meanwhile, deep within the Apple Command bunker;

Minion: "Oh great one! We have managed to get a Mac to the design conscious one from the website of those-who-shalt-not-be-named!"

Jobs: "Excellent..."

Tech Off - Database Design Suggestions...

Tensor — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:58:45 GMT

Personally I would stick to the IsDeleted flag on the table. As long as you flip the bit there and add the record to your audit table in the same transaction, that should be fine.

But strongly agree with the never ever delete anything ever sentiment!

Coffeehouse - C# or VB.NET

Tensor — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:47:34 GMT

Both are good languages with unique features. If widely used is an important reason for learning one then C# seems more popular.