Ryan Davis

(getting there, more slowly than anticipated)

Yeah, I have thought on this a few times in the past. I'd hope it might improve VS performance and obviously it would reduce the chance of any errors/mistakes when...

Hi Alessandro, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. It's hard to guess what could be the issue! Let's see: - does the code work on your iPhone,...

Interesting - I suggested the IP address approach because I thought that the need to perform a DNS lookup on `time.windows.com` might be a factor. It has a TTL of...

Ok, I had a quick look at your repro - I don't think it will make any difference in this case but I would change your `OnStart` and `OnResume` like...

I think you should try to do a 'control' experiment against a service that is not `time.windows.com`. I wonder if there is a rate limit that you are hitting? Is...

Maybe - I just wonder if `time.windows.com` is simply not responding sometimes. 50% is a very high timeout rate (I think).

Hi - Not that I've tried that particular code in F#, but I think there's no reason it shouldn't work. Just to check - can you confirm that your connection...

Hi; interesting -- that is a very long time for a simple method! I don't have a Win10 device right now, but I will check again on one of my...

I had a play around with trying to hack entrance animations onto the items - they are in a commit on my [entrance-animations](https://github.com/rdavisau/CollectionViewChallenge/commit/89fb097846567037b018efccd6f70b01558953f2) branch, toggled by clicking the 'save' button....