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Should be awesome!


In my opinion a developer should always pursuit the better setup to be able to use all the features that a platform offers. Visual Studio Express lacks important things that the Ultimate Version has.

For example, plugins support.


You only need the pro version for plugins.. Although I haven't used express so I cannot speak on if it supports plugins too..


With the professional you lose test coverage =/ but yes, you have plugin support.


In Latin America, Windows Phone's sales are already bigger than iOS's sales. In Europe, WP is also advancing more than iOS.


Cross-Platform mobile development ?


MS still don't understand the meaning of the word "cross-platform".


They will support all and any platforms as long as they are windows.


They will support all and any platforms as long as they are windows.

Don't let reality stand in the way of your irrational bigotry.

But in case you'd like to learn something new - here is the pricing for hosting Linux servers on Microsoft's Azure system:

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-ma...

It works very well and is price competitive with Amazon EC2.


Except we were talking about cross platform applications - , which MS is just beginning to reluctantly pursue.

But hey, lets turn paraphrased Henry Ford one liner into bigotry accusations.


Microsoft is contributing patches to support Hyper-V virtualization to the FreeBSD kernel to allow FreeBSD VMs to run on Azure:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=38019


BizSpark is awesome but not all companies are startups, for those with more than 3 years, the cost is still a problem.


Maybe they can start generating some profit / attract investors?


And spending money that could be used to attract more developers or be invested in another way that not buying licenses.


Pretty much any software that you buy is going to be a rounding error in comparison to hiring a developer.

Do you skimp on hardware too?


I hate the fact but C# might actually be cheaper to hire than e.g. Java devs. Enough to pay for SQL :(.


Totally agree. Show some C# code to a Java dev and he will be fascinated.


And a Scala dev will find it strangely familiar :).


Agree. When I tried to learn Scala I found it very similar to C#, only changes the name map -> select, filter -> where and so on.


More one day in Hacker news first page. Congrats =D


Thanks!


I wrote a blog post with some material suggestions to learn Machine Learning. If you want, visit my blog post:

http://pauloortins.com/resources-to-become-a-ninja-machine-l...


It works only in python, I think. At time, where is the best practice when testing in python ? Doctests or unittest ?


With all the respect in the world, but documentation like that, don't provide any useful information. It only produces noise.


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