OK, I have just gotten my hands on the Beta of Visual Studio 2010. The IDE looks very, very pretty. Here is a screenshot:
A pleasant user experience means more fun and more productive coding. I like Microsoft very, very much! 
Archive for May, 2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta
Oh and look how stupid I am, world!
Quite a while ago I published a post where I asked if it is possible to declare an interface for a method that returns a generic type (see http://mariusmyburg.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/c-programming-question/). Now it is absolutely shocking, to myself, that I did not know how to do that. I have *finally* learnt how to do it. The answer is = simply generics =. No exotic stuff – none at all. Just the simplest understanding of simple generics principles.
So how do you do it? Like this:
And that is obviously how you do it. Now, to punish myself for this terrible slacking mind, I will go to hang upside down on a tree for 7 months…
Quote
This is a cool quote I read yesterday.
“Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives along side the twentieth century the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms. . . . Movie stars go to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man’s genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance and savagery!”
Relativity and Reference Coordinate Frames
As regular readers may know, I have been struggling to see the logic of relativity theory. In particular, I have never been able to justify its claim that the speed of light is constant, irrespective of the speed of the observer.
I think I have come a bit closer to how the mathematicians make this work. They let the observer and the light travel in different reference coordinate frames. Which makes it work, but is, uhh… a cop-out!
Well I am studying more. I am not clear on this at all yet. But I am studying – and Brian Dunning, I will continue to dispute the claims of relativity theory for as long as they are illogical to me.
So no – I still do not believe time travel is possible. Neither action at a distance. I find it illogical for you to just accept this because ‘the math works’. PS: I have a post about the relation (or actually non-relation) between mathemnatical model accuracy and truth – I will post it soon.
3DS MAX 2010
For relaxation, I sometimes do 3D modelling. My favourite package was 3DS MAX 2009. But I have installed a trial version of 3DS MAX 2010 and it is AWESOME!!!! 3DS MAX 2010 is great.
