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by maxxxxx 7y ago
The sad thing is that XAML could be great if they just had put a little more work into it.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
My plan is go web as much as possible and maybe Electron :-). Windows desktop is not much fun anymore.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
After trying WinRT and seeing that everything was async (WTF?) and a ton of APIs were missing I admit I stopped bothering to look any further. UWP (the UI part) is also not really a step up from WPF either.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
To some degree yes but it really doesn't work well for complex cases. During runtime they spit out data binding warnings too but these are hard to trap. at least I haven't been able to figure it out.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That's a big issue but it doesn't explain why instead of developing WPF they released WinRT and UWP.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
It's hard to trust their roadmaps. They always look good but get abandoned every few years.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Sort of. They were released some years from each other. WinRT was super weak and never took off and then suddenly UWP came up.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
WPF started XAML, then came Silverlight, WinRT and UWP. They are superficially similar but under the hood the code is quite different and each has its own set of weird limitations so you can't just reuse code. Also, in the case of WinR
489.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
The funny thing is that these things may still have been the best solution for the problem within the available time. I have created some things that in hindsight were horrific but at the time they were the best that could be done.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Debugging data binding is hard. There could be a tighter coupling and type safety between view model and view. MVVM could be better integrated. The syntax generally could be simplified (MVC did this when they introduced Razor). There is a l
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
They could easily have done this but instead chose to make several new frameworks that didn’t improve anything. Very sad. Now MS has several mediocre not well maintained frameworks instead of a really good one. The constant churn also kille
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Maybe things have changed but my company did a Xamarin test two years ago and the results were horrible. They quickly went back to native apps.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
It’s the same with loyalty. They still speak the language of commitment and “we are a family” but they don’t act accordingly.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I still don’t understand why instead of evolving WPF MS keeps cranking out similar but incompatible XAML frameworks like Silverlight, WinRT and UWP. If they had stuck to WPF and made the syntax less verbose and easier to understand and fixe
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Actually C/C++ is cross platform that means if windows is written in C/C++ Windows is cross platform.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I hope you are kidding. But yes let’s worry about injection for even the simplest things. Maybe we should start with language injection where you write code and later on you inject a different language. That would be the ultimate maintainab
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
“Did anyone actually ever do that or is this just a huge red herring?” Yes people did that and still do.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That's sort of in line with the "starve the beast" ideology. Take on a lot of debt now so the next generation has no choice but to shrink government.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
" if it means reducing their comfort and their economic power." This is not really clear. You could argue that using more solar and electric vehicles will increase comfort due to cleaner air.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I would agree that a well-made dress shirt that fits well is super comfortable. They are just very hard to come by.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Dogma is a real problem in this industry. When OO came up suddenly everything had to be objects. So instead of writing A=add(B,C) You had to write Adder AA; A=AA.Add(B,C) I remember endless discussions about this and people always argued th
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I don’t get it. Do terrorists watch airports with their big lenses? Is this a real risk?
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Isn't that brutally loud? I used to have relatives living in the flight path of Frankfurt airport and for a little while it was fun to watch the planes but the noise got old very quickly.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
What ton of people would this be a huge burden for? In other areas in the world this works perfectly fine. You can also make zones where cars have to go very slow if they absolutely have to go to some building. It's a psychological th
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Stuttgart has or at least used to have a viewing deck too. My favorite place as a kid.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
They could start now. For example they could create pedestrian zones but for some reason the American psyche doesn't allow it.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I want a finders fee for reporting anyone who makes an illegal proposal to me. It would be a huge moral hazard to pay banks for flagging illegal activity. This should be part of normal procedure.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think the scale of the effort would be way too big. Same probably for carbon sequestration. It’s just too much.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
By that thinking you could just cool down the air. No need to freeze the arctic.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Humanity should be fine. The problem is how to deal with millions of displaced people. We will probably need a few wars to figure that one out.

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