michielvoo

Yeah, I prefer not to use the built in Visual Studio project templates. Best to always use bin deployed binaries explicitly installed from NuGet packages. In the future (later this year) we can also bin deploy the runtime (.NET Core) and base class library (Core FX).

"we removed the row of LEDs and the light guide panel that distributed light throughout the keyboard and instead placed an individual LED under each key."

I'm looking forward to seeing creative hacks based on this...

It supports both 16-bit and 8-bit mode. I find it quite annoying to have to keep track of which mode a register is in.

The STM to DMA registers (using a single CPU instruction to trigger DMA) seems like a valid optimization, unrelated to piracy prevention.

The arguments used for contrained type parameters can be checked by the compiler, so no casting is necessary at runtime

"... C# does strong type checking when you compile the generic type. For an unconstrained type parameter, like List<T>, the only methods available on values of type T are those that are found on type Object, because those are the only methods we can generally guarantee will exist. So in C# generics, we guarantee that any operation you do on a type parameter will succeed."

Edit (more explicit quote):

"When you say K must implement IComparable, a couple of things happen. On any value of type K, you can now directly access the interface methods without a cast, because semantically in the program it's guaranteed that it will implement that interface. Whenever you try and create an instantiation of that type, the compiler will check that any type you give as the K argument implements IComparable, or else you get a compile time error."

Furthermore (related to the CLR avoiding boxing costs):

"I'm just pointing out that we do fairly aggressive code sharing where it makes sense, but we are also very conscious about not sharing where you want the performance. Typically with value types, you really do care that List<int> is int. You don't want them to be boxed as Objects. Boxing value types is one way we could share, but boy it would be an expensive way."

> What is rendering that HTML if not a browser?

The rendering engine (Gecko). I guess for it to make sense you must separate the drawing engine from the browser, which adds things like tabs, bookmarks, themes and add-ons.

I compared the Win32_Products that are installed before and after. Even with all checkboxes unchecked, the installer adds 100+ packages. Unfortunately most of these are not listed in the add/remove programs control panel.

I was under the impression that Sphinx cannot return documents, only IDs. (The implication is that you need to query your data source if you want to show the results.) Is that correct?

Always track interactions (1) with the carousel and evaluate with the client later. You could make a case for a different solution if the statistics show that interaction with 2nd, 3rd etc. content items in the carousel is below acceptable levels (and you've done your best to make it work).

This type of experience (case) can then be carried forward to new projects, possibly convincing designers and clients. Although it might turn out they work just fine, it probably depends on the audience.

[1] Use Google Analytics events to track interactions (next, previous, pause, resume etc.), and add 'campaign' parameters to links inside carousels to compare traffic to product pages originating from carousel links vs. regular menu links (if any).

So powerful, it even supports scripted tweets

"In the Java space" meaning deployed in a Java servlet container. Both are stand-alone search servers, exposing their API for search and indexing through HTTP using XML and/or JSON.