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by nbevans 6y ago
He used what he is productive in though and there is nothing wrong with that. Obj-C and (to a lesser extent) Swift are pretty alien to a long-time .NET developer. The author of this app is very active in the Xamarin space and recently contr
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by nbevans 6y ago
They were hiring for a low-rank employee that would take training and instructions from London.
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by nbevans 6y ago
My wife's department (at an unnamed major investment bank in London) just gave up on trying to hire for a position in Frankfurt. They'd been trying to fill it all year. They're now going to hire for it in their UK branch offi
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by nbevans 6y ago
We've been running F# in production since 2014 - almost 7 years. It is quite shocking to hear anyone imply that F# is not ready for production use - that it is just "cool" tech. (when has F# ever been cool in the minds of the
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by nbevans 6y ago
There is nothing concerning Windows 10X that undermines anything I have said. UWP is the future of Windows - correct. I'm not sure any significant part of UWP has ever been in the kernel per se. It sounds like you're a consultant
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by nbevans 6y ago
WinUI / Project Reunion is just a continuation of the UAP (Universal App Platform) libraries. The support for C# works for F# - just like basically any other C# library can be used from F#. I figure the reason they don't mention F
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by nbevans 6y ago
As per those links - the workarounds found in 2018 allow you to submit to Windows Store. But even still - my app is sideloaded and never needed to care about .NET Native at all.
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by nbevans 6y ago
Yes - F# provides its own async model via an `async` computation expression. But you can also use the TPL in .NET BCL. F# 6 will have native support for TPL via a `task` computation expression. But honestly, its own async model is great - a
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by nbevans 6y ago
Odd. I've been using F# for a UWP app since 2018.
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by nbevans 6y ago
But Google CAPTCHA has been asking the same questions now pretty much since its inception. Are we really still training it? Or is it just running on auto-pilot at this point? I'm guessing it's likely the latter.
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by nbevans 6y ago
I'd argue that it is more accessible to everyone including developed nations. It only requires a standard technology freezer - like that you have in a residential home. COVID-19 has already cost the UK hundreds of billions, so being ab
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by nbevans 6y ago
Haha! You're awesome man!
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by nbevans 6y ago
That's cool. Now make it render the effects of a blackhole on a stargate wormhole ala SG-1 episode: "A Matter of Time".
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by nbevans 6y ago
I was going to say - that does sound very much like my MacBook Pro.
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by nbevans 6y ago
If we're doing analogies, let's do them right :) Therefore I'd argue it is more like supercharger overheating on a car. As a supercharger gets hotter from prolonged load it gets hot and warms the air entering the engine which
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by nbevans 6y ago
Xamarin is huge in the .NET world and Microsoft is investing heavily into it. I know plenty of LOB apps, huge apps, built in Xamarin. I don't even know of a single app built in Flutter.
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by nbevans 6y ago
We've been working on our Xamarin Forms based product since the first beta in 2014. We released to Android first. Then in 2018 we built a UWP variant of our app. This process barely took a week if I don't include the technical deb
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by nbevans 6y ago
We've been using Xamarin Forms on the (UWP) desktop for a few years now. It's pretty great. There are bugs yes, but so do all these magic cross-platform UI frameworks. They're investing heavily into MAUI to fix a lot of these
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by nbevans 6y ago
We just finished integrating Vega-Lite into our Xamarin mobile app - with support for UWP, Android and iOS. It's great. The charts are self-contained in a blob of JSON, so you can ship them around easily. It supports both Canvas and SV
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by nbevans 6y ago
One interesting point that I read about the Oxford vaccine is that it only needs chilling to -5c. Whereas many of the other vaccines (I don't know if all others or just some) need chilling to -60c. It strikes me that the Oxford vaccine
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by nbevans 6y ago
I just read this and your comment history. You need to cut back on that Kool-aid.
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by nbevans 6y ago
Indeed but now the problem is this Version 7 will likely be in beta for many more years to come...
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by nbevans 6y ago
What happened here was... he was copy pasting the text to grow its size exponentially. After about 20 or so copy pasting cycles, the UI of the chat app became unresponsive on the UI thread (because of the copy paste operation it was handlin
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by nbevans 6y ago
There are rumours of a Flutter back-end coming for Xamarin.Forms/MAUI. Or possibly a something lower level in Windows itself (which a MAUI back-end could tap into).
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by nbevans 6y ago
And me. (UK)
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by nbevans 6y ago
Did you mean to say "denylist"? :upside_down_smiley:
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by nbevans 6y ago
It's more typically known as the "5-year route" and it means that after 5-years of living/working/residing in the UK they become eligible for permanent residence (which is known as "indefinite leave to remain&q
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by nbevans 6y ago
I totally agree about "Finder" - a better name might have been "Loser" - since it's only good at making you lose things. I switched from Windows to Mac about 6 years ago - because I needed an all-in-one system that
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by nbevans 6y ago
Except none of that is actually true - they're just made up smears and conspiracies. Be careful what news sources you consume. The NHS "centralised" app would have worked and worked fine IF they could have made the Bluetoot
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by nbevans 6y ago
But they aren't offering citizenship. They're simply considering offering a route to citizenship - which would typically take 10 years. High quality sources of immigrants are hard to come by - the UK is right to extend a hand

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