AnthonyMastrean

// http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2004/04/26/yetmoretimedlocking

using System;
using System.Threading;

// Thanks to Eric Gunnerson for recommending this be a struct rather
// than a class - avoids a heap allocation.
// Thanks to Change Gillespie and Jocelyn Coulmance for pointing out
// the bugs that then crept in when I changed it to use struct...
// Thanks to John Sands for providing the necessary incentive to make

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namespace System
{
    public class Latch
    {
        public static explicit operator Latch(bool isSet)
        {
            return new Latch(isSet);
        }

        public static implicit operator bool(Latch latch)

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#requires -Version 3.0
function Connect-VM {
  [CmdletBinding(DefaultParameterSetName='name')]
  param(
    [Parameter(ParameterSetName='name')]
    [Alias('cn')]
    [System.String[]]$ComputerName=$env:COMPUTERNAME,
 
    [Parameter(Position=0,
      Mandatory,ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName,

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[Behaviors]
public class UnitMaskConverterBehaviors
{
    It should_convert_0_to_A = () => _converter.Convert(0).ShouldEqual('A');
    It should_convert_1_to_B = () => _converter.Convert(1).ShouldEqual('B');
    It should_convert_2_to_C = () => _converter.Convert(2).ShouldEqual('C');
    It should_convert_4_to_D = () => _converter.Convert(4).ShouldEqual('D');
    It should_convert_8_to_E = () => _converter.Convert(8).ShouldEqual('E');
    It should_convert_16_to_F = () => _converter.Convert(16).ShouldEqual('F');
    It should_convert_32_to_G = () => _converter.Convert(32).ShouldEqual('G');

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function Get-TfsCodeClosure {
    <#
        .SYNOPSIS
        Report the relative degree of closure of a codebase.
        
        .DESCRIPTION
        Are you concerned that your codebase is a festering one? Want 
        proof? Then run this function at the solution root and watch as 
        it reports the number of check-ins per C# code file. This 
        function only works against TFS source control (and the working 

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Human Genome

http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/hg19/bigZips/est.fa.gz

The human genome, in FASTA format, from UCSC. I first read about this data set on Jonathan Dursi's blog comparing [random vs. streaming I/O](Jonathan Dursi) performance.

Chess Tournaments

https://github.com/rozim/ChessData/archive/master.zip

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