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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think we have distinguish between UWP as UI toolkit and UWP for as library for system functions. The latter will stay but I am really doubtful about the former. I don't know of any aspect where UWP UI ie better than WPF or Win32 so I
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
As a long time Windows desktop dev I am horrified to say that Electron looks really attractive as dev platform on Windows :-)
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Without a language that wraps the naked COM calls it's truly a nightmare. Using COM from C# is pretty OK and VB6 was great too. C++ is worse. To me COM is like an assembly language for interop that needs to be wrapped with higher langu
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
How do they expect desktop developers to bet on anything MS does? Since .NET came out they constantly keep changing direction without any cohesive strategy. The server development strategy looks pretty good with MVC and now Core. But deskt
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
This discussion is getting way out of hand and I really don't like your tone (“humbled” “sociopath” “clueless”) but do you really disagree that as consultant you should be doing what you are hired to do first? If you have been hired to
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I guess in my years as consultant I have not met a lot of people who could afford my rates and were clueless at the same time. Maybe I didn’t understand what they were after and what their business situation was but I almost always found ou
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
We are talking about consultants here. They get hired for a job and are supposed to do it well. I have hired guys to do stuff that would be needed in case another idea didn’t work out. They did a good job and were appreciated for it but th
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I agree if it’s very mathy but I have seen operator overloading for things like invoices and orders. That’s just horrible.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Who are you to judge that? Sure make suggestions but in the end we are all adults and are responsible for our actions.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I have no idea what you are talking about
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
If it's done in good taste overloading is fine. But if abused it makes code totally unreadable and unmaintainable.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
And it's also one of the easiest ways to write unmaintainable codes. I once inherited a code where the previous developer seemed to just have found out how cool operator overloading is. So there were a ton of overloads everywhere and y
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
The drivers want to make enough money so working for Lyft makes sense. It’s pretty simple.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Same here. I get really stressed when I see the same thing under 29 different names with different prices.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I find aliexpress very inconvenient and prices are not really much better than amazon or eBay.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Hopefully the branded item will have better quality control. You see that with camera batteries for example. The name brands seem to take the best batteries of a lot and third party sellers then take the ones that are less according to spec
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That’s a consideration. But if you phrase it correctly, your part actually succeeded. You are not responsible for the whole company, only for your own part.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
You are providing a service in exchange for money. As long as your service is good you have done your part. It’s not your business to decide whether your customers are doing the right thing. It’s up to them to decide what they want do. Mayb
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
The process you are describing may be very rewarding if you have the time for it.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think it’s ok if you get paid a lot of money. Just don’t get sucked into working for cheap building the castle in the clouds.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Sell, sell and sell. Hire people. It can be really hard to balance projects if you are alone. Either it’s too much work or too little. Don’t be just a coder. Go to meetings with business people and be part of finding the solution. Doing the
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Is anybody forcing them to sell in Europe? If it's not profitable I would assume they wouldn't sell there.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
i meant every 3 years there is a new, incompatible toolkit. Winforms, Html5/JS, WPF, Silverlight, WinRT, now UWP. Instead of refining what they have they create something new (possibly with less capability like WinRT), and put the pre
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That’s probably why Office 365 freezes a lot when you unplug screens and also sometimes renders a little blurry. They haven’t made it better.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Win32 is super stable. The .NET Ui toolkits churn every 3 years or so without much improvement. Very frustrating.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I would probably do qt or WPF. For CAD probably a large part in Directx or Win32. But in general the picture for windows desktop apps is very murky. There is no option that really stands out. If I had to do a windows app I would seriously c
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That would be crazy expensive.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
They get a ton of training so they can operate all systems. Tourists will have highly trained pilots with them and the only thing they will have to do is to not touch anything and do what they are told to do when something goes wrong.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That would be a really large structure get a noticeable delay :-)
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
It's hacking of the human psyche with "dark patterns".

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