There was a cool comment in my last blog post (one of many, as always, the comments > the content). Btw, "until I realized that the Solution Explorer tree nodes are searchable." This one is a saver!
Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?Unlike many others, you might stop yourself before typing “ls” and notice?—?that’s no shell, it’s a chat room! While the little details sink in, it dawns on you that there is something extra-special going on in here.
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When I tell Windows to compress a file, the compression is far worse than I get if I ask WinZip to compress the file; why is that? – The Old New ThingA customer noted that when they took a very large (multiple gigabyte) file and went to the file's Properties and set "Compress contents to save disk space", the file shrunk by 25%.
The ChurnDid you year about the guy who said goodbye to OO? Oh no. Not another one. What did he say?
The C# difference between ‘true’ and ‘not false’This is the story of a C# language specification change. The specification changed because the 1.0 version of the C# spec disagreed with itself, and one of those locations was incorrect and broke a feature.
The hardest problem in computer science / fuzzy notepadNot just naming variables or new technologies. Oh no. We can’t even agree on names for basic concepts.
How Netflix gives all its engineers SSH accessSeif is an open source project, started at PayPal, with the goal of transitioning the Web into an application delivery system that will be safer and easier for developers and users.
I wanna go fast: HTTPS' massive speed advantageHTTPS is slow. No - wait - is it HTTP that's slow?! https://t.co/T49GG7oCaK pic.twitter.com/cfnYOpXMWc In fact, a bunch of the internet was pretty upset. "It's not fair!", they cried. "You're comparing apples and oranges!", they raged.
Microsoft Ships Python Code... in 1996My thanks go to Guido for allowing me to share my own history of Python! I'll save my introduction to Python for another post, but the end result was its introduction into a startup that I co-founded in 1991 with several people.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.