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Six of a kind is 8x the value of three of a kind, so... 1s would be 8000, 2s would be 1600, 3s would be 2400, 4s would be 3200, 5s would be 4000, and 6s would be 4800.

Commented 2 days ago on Farkle at The Rules of the Game

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This is a tough one. Honestly, the way I view things like this, is that cheating happens when there are secret signals that happen during actual play. Sharing general strategy in-between hands is acceptable (especially since the whole table was party to the conversation, but even if not).

Commented May 7, 2013 on Traditional Euchre at The Rules of the Game

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Sorry about that. I put it on my TODO list. It got lost in my departure from Microsoft.

Commented Apr 13, 2013 on Task Parallel Library and Servers, Part 4: TaskHelpers at Brad Wilson

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Yes. The value for Knobs is independent of the value for a Flush.

Commented Apr 13, 2013 on Cribbage at The Rules of the Game

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I believe that the design of SignalR changed a lot before they shipped to 1.0, so I would expect that the original design of ApiControllerWithHub would probably need to change as well.

Commented Apr 9, 2013 on Webstack of Love at Brad Wilson

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What's the problem?

Commented Feb 6, 2013 on ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates, Part 4: Custom Object Templates at Brad Wilson

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I'm not on the team anymore, but I'm sure there will be others doing presentations on the new bits soon enough. :)

Commented Jan 28, 2013 on Webstack of Love at Brad Wilson

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No. Whenever you start a new count, you lose the ability to play anything like a run, pair, etc.

Commented Jan 5, 2013 on Cribbage at The Rules of the Game

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Yep! Two of the 5 songs I've added so far are from albums on this list: Katatonia and Swedish House Mafia. :) I think the new Garbage CD is a lot like their first CD. I like it a lot.

Commented Jan 1, 2013 on Best Music of 2012 at Brad Wilson

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Best Music of 2012

I bought a lot of music this year. My collection contains 65 albums from 2012 alone, and that doesn't count the many more than supplemented my collection from years gone by. Pretty much every album I bought this year had... Continue reading

Posted Dec 31, 2012 at Brad Wilson

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When doing the *clean* installation, you will have an option to repartition the drive (if you do a Custom installation). You won't have the option if you do an upgrade. That's the only time I know of that you can do it, for free. There may be for-pay third party tools that will let you delete the recovery partition and resize the existing one without losing your data.

Commented Nov 26, 2012 on Windows 8 Consumer Preview on Samsung Series 7 Slate at Brad Wilson

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Ive never played this way, but Id have to say that in general when games are played toward a winning point goal, then it is the team that achieved the most points overall who wins (just as similarly as if two teams both achieved exactly 21 points, the game would be a tie, and youd either end it as a tie or continue to play until the tie was broken). So my judgment would be that the team who hit 22 points was the winner.

Commented Nov 16, 2012 on Setback at The Rules of the Game

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What the power button does is controlled by the Power applet in control panel. You'll need to edit the advanced power settings, I think, to see the options.

Commented Nov 12, 2012 on Windows 8 Consumer Preview on Samsung Series 7 Slate at Brad Wilson

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In order to say "alone", you must be the person declaring trump. The first person to declare trump obviously stops the trump bidding process. Given the bidding order, the dealer's partner would've been the first person to declare trump (and then say "alone"), so they were the player who was obligated to play. The dealer cheated here, unfortunately.

Commented Nov 10, 2012 on Traditional Euchre at The Rules of the Game

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I have definitely ordered a partner with just the left, because you might have so strong a hand that you can do it (for example, all three off-suit aces).

Commented Nov 5, 2012 on Traditional Euchre at The Rules of the Game

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In most card games where the same player shuffles and deals, it is customary to offer a cut of the cards. In practice, my friends and I don't usually bother unless we're playing for money. :)

Commented Nov 3, 2012 on Traditional Euchre at The Rules of the Game

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JabbR does something like that. You should ask in the SignalR channel (or look at the JabbR source code). :) https://jabbr.net/#/rooms/signalr

Commented Nov 2, 2012 on Webstack of Love at Brad Wilson

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I worked on the previous edition of the book, the more cleverly titled "Professional ASP.NET MVC 3". :-D

Commented Oct 8, 2012 on Professional ASP.NET MVC 4 at Brad Wilson

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With 1.9 and later, you can use async Task-returning test methods, and xUnit.net will wait for the Task to complete automatically. For example: [Fact] public async Task MyTest() { var result = await SomeAsyncMethod(); Assert.Equal(42, result); } If you're still using .NET 4, you can also use ContinueWith, though much of the syntactic value is lost: [Fact] public Task MyTest() { return SomeAsyncMethod().ContinueWith(t => { var result = t.Result; Assert.Equal(42, result); } }

Commented Oct 6, 2012 on Task Parallel Library and Servers, Part 3: ContinueWith at Brad Wilson

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Honestly, with the 64GB drive, you're going to have a hard time coming up with a good split. The Windows folder on my x64 installation is ~15GB (not including the Program Files or User folders), which means that a comfortable Windows 8 installation will probably want at least 32GB.

Commented Sep 29, 2012 on Windows 8 Consumer Preview on Samsung Series 7 Slate at Brad Wilson

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1. I meant (c), but you're welcome to dual boot if you want access to Windows 7. 2. Yes, these instructions should work for RTM (that's what I'm running on my SS7S).

Commented Sep 27, 2012 on Windows 8 Consumer Preview on Samsung Series 7 Slate at Brad Wilson

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Professional ASP.NET MVC 4

They say that writing a book is a hard way to make an easy living. This is especially true for technical books, which tend to have a short shelf life. For me, the process was made easier by having three... Continue reading

Posted Sep 26, 2012 at Brad Wilson

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Thanks! I'll miss everybody at Microsoft, too. :) Rock Band parties should still happen from time to time; I'll just get less forehand knowledge about the schedules of the developer events in Redmond around which I plan them. ;)

Commented Sep 25, 2012 on Leaving Microsoft at Brad Wilson

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I think you're too early. That machine is a Windows 7-based design. Many of your complaints will likely disappear over the next 6 to 12 months with Intel SoC designs that will feature an always-on, instant-on behavior (via Connected Standby) that is identical to tablets. Also, lack of touch is... meh. Surface Pro FTW. :)

Commented Sep 23, 2012 on The Last PC Laptop at Coding Horror

Wow, now that URL goes waaaaaay back in history. :)

Commented Sep 20, 2012 on Leaving Microsoft at Brad Wilson

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