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@Ian Boyd: I'm not saying that managed code is slow (it isn't), but that's just the theory... the reality is that the JIT compiler can exploit machine-specific tricks, but won't do "expensive"...
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@David Ching: I suppose that it would be quite a pain; you'd make .NET add-ins first-class citizens, but I strongly suspect that it would break a lot of native shell extensions (heck, they break even...
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@Ian Boyd: You just quoted the theoretical reasons why managed code is faster. In practice, very few if any of those JIT optimizations are realistically possible and, also in practice, many of the...
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@Joshua: I see no reason (either in principle or in practice!) why Cygwin couldn't solve its problems by running the Unixy processes inside a VM, other than the fact that to do so at this point would...
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@Harry: if anyone cared enough to build a more reliable solution from scratch I don't see why there would be a need to add the overhead of a VM and a virtualized kernel - as said above, the NT kernel...
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One valid example that music players use (or at least mine) is that they show the album art of the currently playing music, often including some extra buttons to control the playback with.[That's a...
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re: Dreaming up strange inventions: The combination urinal/bidet/washing machine
To be honest, I don't think that it would be a huge commercial success. :-)(incidentally, are bidets actually widespread in North America? I thought they were mostly a southern-european thing...)
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TIL what a bidet is and am now wondering why they aren't more common.However, the first thing that sprung to mind when I read the title was the OpenLaundry API. http://openlaundryapi.org/ I still can't...
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Just a quick correction post:"When a tab becomes in active" should read "inactive"And for my serious question:"One of the quirks of the WM_DWMSENDICONICTHUMBNAIL message is that it passes the x-...
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re: Dreaming up strange inventions: The combination urinal/bidet/washing machine
Just think what a nightmare this must have been for Stephanie!
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@Entegy: I don't know if that site is real, but I was watching an episode of "Ask This Old House" on PBS (here in USA) and the plumbing/heating/appliance expert Rich was telling about smart appliances...
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As you are probably aware, Raymond does not discuss products that aren't released in any way in which they can be identified.
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"The people who added that message wasn't aware of the existing conventions.- Raymond."O brother... So the person who implemented these window messages did not know basic Win32 stuff? How did you guys...
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I think you can considered yourself ignored buddy :)
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@Entegy - that's neat. I can't wait until the day when my white goods can join some giant distributed 'seti@home' thing in their spare cycles.Anyways, sounds like Stephanie has a sh*t job... the only...
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re: What does -1.#IND mean?: A survey of how the Visual C runtime library...
Puzzler: what kind of infinity is "1.#J"? double z = 0; printf("%.2f", 1/z);
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"Little Programs" Monday is awesome. But can you give examples of programs which you know already use these features so we can see them in action? Or that is against some policy/rule on the blog?[I...
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Since Cygwin originally supported Win9x/ME, it couldn't have relied on the NT kernel subsystems. Any by the time 9x/ME support was dropped, it was way too late to change that.
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@Entegy: I'd expect controlling washing/drying machine would be about the same difficulty as controlling a coffee machine.
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