Aleman360

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by Aleman360 11y ago
The OS and built-in apps have tighter performance requirements than third party apps. I'm guessing Swift needs to catch up to Objective-C in heap and CPU usage before it's considered.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
I don't have kids, but I find it curious when parents have that mentality. If you're kids feel the same about their kids, and so on, then we're not much different than apples, existing only to spread our seed.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
> Why are they against militarizing robots? I get that their duty is to their shareholders, but you have to draw a line at some point. I wouldn't want to work on tools of violence.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
Ever worked on globalized software before? Try entering "undo" on Google Translate and see what it looks like in Dutch.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
That's how a lot of actual medical devices work. I worked on an anesthesia machine where the control systems were implemented with micro controllers and RTOS. The UI was Windows Embedded running on a separate x86 board and the whole th
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by Aleman360 11y ago
Passing strongly typed objects between processes seems better than text and streams, if only for auto complete.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
Powershell. Yea it looks different than bash but it's great. But RDP solves different problems. I do UI development and use RDP to connect to my work box from home. It's also used on Windows Server for Citrix-type scenarios.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
I'm talking from a dev perspective, not a business perspective.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
Why would you want different UI framework for each screen size/input device type? Seems silly to have one set of API's for small touch devices and a completely different one for large mouse-driven devices. Shuts the door to large
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by Aleman360 11y ago
Seems risky to go for this when it's very likely something Apple is working on.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
> I couldn't care less about the brave Win8/10 world. Still supports C++ ;)
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by Aleman360 11y ago
await is coming, maybe even in C++ 17. Visual Studio already implements it. Way more efficient than the C# implementation too (coroutines) Promises are already there.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
Modern C++ is indeed pretty productive. It's the tooling and compile times that hold it back.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
A modern OS is nothing but a bunch of apps and the kernel. Most of the apps run in sandboxes.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
> A much better approach is to install significant instrumentation and actually talk to users about what's wrong with your sign up form. But but but telemetry is evil!
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by Aleman360 11y ago
Agreed that there should be a way to opt out, and I think there is on the install screen. Whether or not it's a complete kill switch probably depends on a particular definition of "telemetry," and in today's cloud connec
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by Aleman360 11y ago
Because telemetry is a key tool used to improve quality. What software dev doesn't think logs and crash dumps are useful?
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by Aleman360 11y ago
Valve knows how many times you launch a game, how much time you spend in a game, who your friends are, your spending habits...
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by Aleman360 11y ago
In this thread: mostly web devs whose sites and apps definitely don't use analytics.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
The problem is that a max data rate usually doesn't some with an SLA. ISP's obviously don't have enough bandwidth for all customers to fully utilize 10 gbps 24/7, for example. Paying based on usage solves that tragedy of
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by Aleman360 11y ago
> They built something that people wanted. What about people that produce heroine? Run casinos? Magic weight loss pills? Free-to-play games?
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by Aleman360 11y ago
AAA games, embedded, operating systems (err, Windows shell at least), web servers, core libraries, etc. Still big in medical devices too, embedded or not.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
Haven't seen any benchmarks but I'm guessing the baseline working set of a .Net Native UWP app is still megabytes bigger than a C++ UWP app. *edit: ~16 MB for .Net Native, ~10 MB for C++ using latest VS2015 targeting x86. Not goin
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by Aleman360 11y ago
Embracing Modern C++ (RAII, STL, range-based for loops) helps you avoid a big chunk of memory safety problems. Contracts and some of the stuff in the new Core guidelines take it further. Everyone's needs are different obviously. The st
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by Aleman360 11y ago
I work on UI for universal Windows apps where the choice is C#, C++, or JavaScript. Modern C++ is pretty nice if your team is ready to embrace it and leave old styles behind. I still use C# for utilities and prototypes but for production st
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by Aleman360 11y ago
True, C# tooling is an order of magnitude better. Still hate IDisposable and events using strong references.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
Can't wait for modules. Header files are the worst. Also really excited for co-routines. I never liked using promises. Wow, had no idea ranges and contracts are on the table too. With all this stuff, C# is really losing its appeal.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
https://github.com/Microsoft/CodeContracts Takes this to another degree for .Net. Enables deeper static analysis to catch more programming errors before runtime.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
Undoubtedly because no one used it.
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by Aleman360 11y ago
OS shells and browsers need to unify first. Something like what Chrome OS does seems like the way forward. Users shouldn't have to care if their pixels are being painted by HTML or native frameworks.

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