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by GiorgioG 6y ago
More interesting is the app they built: https://indoor-covid-safety.herokuapp.com/
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
No it isn't. Low effort question, low effort answer.
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
> The newer targets break less often but we still can't ship net 5 thanks to Windows 7 extended support contracts from Microsoft You make it sound like it's Microsoft's fault your customers won't move off of Windows
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
I’m pretty sure you’d be wrong. I would never build a software product or service that uses a compiler written and maintained by a single person.
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
The bus-factor of one is too high a risk for me unless I'm creating a throw-away project.
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
I would be shocked if he drove at all. His time is worth more than that whatever it costs to hire a driver.
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
Because the passage of laws is bought and paid for by corporations.
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
Off the top of my head: - The JetBrains suite of tools (Rider, CLion, DataGrip, Webstorm) - Sublime Text - Prior to offering Visual Studio Community Edition, I used to pay for MSDN if my employer didn’t supply it. - Beyond Compare - Recentl
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
> Senior developers with 20 years of experience do not "believe" in debuggers, IDEs or writing tests. Speak for yourself. I've been paying for my own developer tooling for 25+ years.
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/492
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
What we're witnessing is simply normal human behavior. We take care of our tribe before helping anyone else. AZ is HQ'd in England IIRC and Pfizer, Moderna are US-based companies. Of course the governments are going to 'negot
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
Sample size of 2 children (my 9 year old and 14 year old): neither want to go back to in-person school. In-person school can create its own set of mental health issues. My 14 year old socializes on her phone. The 9 year old is a type 1
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
Politicians like everyone else are entitled to their own opinions, but they aren't entitled to their own facts. We should hold all of our politicians accountable to provide factual information. It's one thing to say "I believ
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
Or you could have a powerful desktop machine and SSH/RDP into it from a less powerful laptop.
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
I don't understand why most developers that work in a stationary location use underpowered/thermally-constrained laptops rather than a desktop machine.
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
The incompetence of the Texas ERCOT is mind blowing. A relative works in a semiconductor fab in the Austin area. Apparently the utility gave the fabs an entire hour of warning that their power was going to be shut off. These plants can&#x
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
Who said anything about this type of aircraft being unsafe? This particular airplane is nearly 29 years old and all in all has been incident-free until this point. https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/boeing-757-200-
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
It’s worse than that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand Beyond that, during the Cuban Missile Crisis the US warships harassed Russian subs that (unbeknownst to them) had nuclear torpedos. These subs thought th
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
> about 99% everywhere have the same instincts to survive and get along I just finished listening to The Doomsday Machine audiobook ( https://www.amazon.com/The-Doomsday-Machine-audiobook/dp/B07... ) and it'
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
Can I solve it? Yes. Is it a reflection of how well I can do my job? No. Will I be solving these kinds of problems at this job? Very unlikely. This is a massive waste of everyone's time and tells you nothing about the candidate's
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
> They're excellent on Windows They are 'OK', I wouldn't say they're excellent. I have an RTX 3080 (prior to that I had a 1080Ti) and games crash more often than I would like. Waking from sleep is hit or miss, r
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
If you know Docker, and use it daily - it’s a no brainer. For me it’s an easy choice - I dev on a Desktop PC but when I’m on the go I’m on a MacBook. No need to customize environment config with docker. What’s your disaster recovery plan
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
> Windows unless I needed the C#/.Net toolchain Unless you're working on a legacy .NET Framework application, .NET Core will happily work on Linux.
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
I bought a Sony mirrorless camera (A6000) for photography purposes and decided to buy a Camlink 4k to pipe my camera's live output to my computer for video calls - it works great.
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
npm / webpack: That's not Docker's fault - that's node/JS's fault. Having to touch thousands and thousands of files is expensive. This is why I've come to loath web frontend development.
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
> I often help engineering organizations that are in the midst of a transformation. This is typically both a technology transformation and a cultural transformation. For example, these organizations might be attempting to break a core mo
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
I wish them luck. I got a Versa 3 for Christmas because I hated charging my Apple Watch everyday. I tried it for the past 3 weeks and have finally gone back to my Apple Watch. The Versa 3 is fundamentally worse at everything...except bat
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
There's plenty of online resources to learn C#, starting with https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/dotnet/ If you'd rather have a book, and enjoy the Head First series, the 4th edition of Head Fir
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
For whatever it's worth, I've been a .NET developer since 2001 when I was finishing up college. I've also dabbled in Java, and some other languages here and there for one-off work and side-work projects. I haven't found
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by GiorgioG 6y ago
What killed F# was Microsoft never putting enough internal resources on it. It's been consistently an afterthought in various releases of VS, initial .NET Core support, etc. As a C#/.NET Dev for 20 years, I've tried several a

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