Software. Startups. Outer Space.
Picking up where I left off in the previous Helios 2.0 diary entry… After clearing the decks of all of any code I wasn’t 100% certain we’d be keeping, I began writing new code.
I immediately began by porting Netty’s Channel...
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This is an archive of a blog post I wrote for the MarkedUp Analytics blog on February 19th, 2013. It’s been a popular post and I’m posting it here in order to preserve it.
When we first made MarkedUp Analytics available...
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Last weekend I found voat.co on the /r/dotnet subreddit, one of the places I frequent for news and happenings related to...
I’ve done a bit of a “press tour” for Akka.NET since we released Akka.NET v1.0 at the beginning of April and I wanted to share a couple of the interviews I’ve done in the .NET community since.
The Petabridge team (all two of us) just wrapped up a big two weeks. We launched Akka.NET V1.0 and then traveled to Portland to talk about .NET open source software at .NET Fringe.
This weekend I went through the Landmark Forum and had to confront a big secret that I’ve been keeping hidden for virtually my entire life: the true aim of my ambitions.
Ever since I was a middle schooler, I’ve wanted to help build the first human colony on Mars....
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Recently Petabridge announced its professional services offerings around Akka.NET.
I’ve been...
One of the pitfalls of doing development in C#, Java, C++, or really any predominantly Object Oriented language (OOP) is how “equality” is defined.
In C#, for instance, you have the following methods that are built into every object:
object.Equals== operatorReferenceEquals, for explicitly checking reference equalityMy personal opinion: in any managed language, checking for referential equality is a pretty bad default - and if you’re working with immutable objects then equality by reference doesn’t really work.
In C/C++, where pointer arithmetic and knowing the precise location of something in memory matters it’s a different story. Equality by reference is the correct default in that case.
What’s the right thing to do?