m_fayer

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by m_fayer 9y ago
A "general purpose" computer that will execute any appropriately compiled binary no questions asked.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Less egregious but still awful: updates that then have ngen randomly consuming half your cpu for hours because ms is too cheap to make native .net binaries remotely.
633.
by m_fayer 9y ago
Ugh. This looks like MS trying to one-up Material Design (itself already on the rich side), and in so doing I think they've gone a step too far. It does look good, in a sci-fi movie UI kind of way. But it would be a nightmare if many o
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by m_fayer 9y ago
If you want to work on this the analog way, one thing that helped me is mantras. It's actually very simple - if you really want to hold on to something then boil it down to 5 words or so, and mentally repeat them until they feel like w
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by m_fayer 9y ago
I use NancyFX on the old .NET/Mono for that purpose and it works well. I keep hoping to switch to Core and it keeps not happening, but the old way seems to have a lot of life left in it.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
The product looks super useful, thanks for your efforts and congrats! Your site is sorely lacking a good FAQ though. I just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out what languages you support, looking for a roadmap, trying to figure out if I c
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by m_fayer 9y ago
As long as your app doesn't do anything too esoteric, it's easy. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/deskto...
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Anecdata: I'm all for social breakfast and dinner. But I prefer to eat lunch by myself, maybe with a good book. In this way lunch is a pause where I can slow down and recenter for the afternoon. And I don't think anything is wrong
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by m_fayer 9y ago
And the native app model for WP was a pleasure to code against, compared to Android or iOS.
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by m_fayer 9y ago
Azure offers a managed version of mssql, which I'm quite happy with.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Yep. I feel the same about both paper and EU shipping. I would currently have subscriptions to a good 5 English-language magazines that I currently don't have subscriptions to, because the shipping surcharge makes the price unreasonabl
642.
by m_fayer 10y ago
This is a common phenomenon that's not very well known outside of immigrant communities. My family emigrated to the US from Russia in the mid 80s and quickly went hard-right, as did most of their cohort. Same for many Chinese immigrant
643.
by m_fayer 10y ago
In addition to the functional stuff, C# has a lot of syntactic sugar that I wouldn't associate with a "boring" language. If you aggressively use all the syntactic sugar from the latest version of C# and compare that to simila
644.
by m_fayer 10y ago
That your solution to the problem is a truly hideous hack, speaks volumes.
645.
by m_fayer 10y ago
I'd add the MatDesign XAML toolkit, which is a powerhouse: https://github.com/ButchersBoy/MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit
646.
by m_fayer 10y ago
Why? Developers are a small minority of MS's users, and MS gains way more in terms of adoption and opinion-shaping from being on the good side of devs than they gain from the (unusual, unrepresentative) data that comes from spying on t
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I also came to appreciate MVVM through WPF and was sad to see it go. The thing is, MVVM has really flourished on the web - though under various other names. I'm working with VueJS right now, and it's my favorite iteration of MVVM
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by m_fayer 10y ago
I see a free or nearly free "developer edition" of Windows 10 incoming. It won't have some of the enterprise-y features (bloat) of existing enterprise editions, but it will be capable, feature-rich, free (maybe you'll ha
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by m_fayer 10y ago
In 2014 I laughed. No longer laughing. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by m_fayer 10y ago
You should look at the various official blogs around Azure, they're much more down-to-earth and buzzword free than the formal docs.
651.
by m_fayer 10y ago
I hear people say this and am always incredulous that this stack would be available (let alone viable) in the next 5 years.
652.
by m_fayer 10y ago
I beg to differ. The xamarin stack on Android without forms is much preferable to whatever confused iteration of java+toolchain Google is currently offering.
653.
by m_fayer 10y ago
Azure storage queues are basically "queues lite" while the service bus is more full featured, think rabbitmq. And the portal does indeed suck. The cli, on the other hand, is top notch.
654.
by m_fayer 10y ago
Any dog owner can tell you stories of the lengths to which animals will go for food that they find particularly tasty.
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Samsung's Android Replacement Is a Hacker's Dream(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by m_fayer 10y ago|0 comments
656.
by m_fayer 10y ago
It's hidden, looks like an afterthought ux-wise, and is inferior to the interactive bread-crumb style that the windows explorer uses. But better than nothing, thanks.
657.
by m_fayer 10y ago
The fact that finder doesn't let you retrieve or enter your current FS path just like a URL in a browser is criminal.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
Like I said, blunt, sloppy instrument with many unintended consequences, and the one you're pointing out is a big concern. That's why replacing quotas with many smaller gentler "nudges" may be preferable.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
That's a grim religion you got there.
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by m_fayer 10y ago
The quotas are not motivated by a desire to force a perfect split. Rather, they're attempting to correct a current imbalance create by past and present sexism. I agree that it's a blunt and sloppy instrument. Of course it would be

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