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by ripley12 6y ago
...and if you’re creating a new class library today, you also need to understand how UWP and .NET 5 fit into the picture! I’m not complaining too much, they are intentionally addressing this fragmentation, but it’s a real mess for newcomers
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by ripley12 6y ago
.NET Native is an absolute nightmare in practice. Glacial compile times (I’ve heard many people complain that their Azure DevOps CI times out after an hour), and so many bugs that you only discover at runtime. I gave up on .NET Native after
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by ripley12 6y ago
Seems like you can just call both UseWindowsService() and UseSystemd(), they will no-op if called on the wrong platform. Personally I think I'd rather split Linux+Windows into thin OS-specific projects, but I haven't tried that. A
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by ripley12 6y ago
> they have no project template in Visual Studio that would let you write a service that can run as a service on both Windows and Linux I have lots of complaints about the state of the .NET ecosystem, but thankfully this one is pretty ea
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by ripley12 6y ago
You can install Win32 apps from the store, UWP/WinRT is no longer a requirement: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/deskto...
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by ripley12 6y ago
I really don't understand Microsoft's pricing model for Visual Studio. In theory, it's just price discrimination; put features that are only valuable to enterprise customers in the $6k/year version, and profit. But then
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by ripley12 6y ago
It wasn't _just_ the sandboxing. It took an unreasonably long time for MS to loosen restrictions on "sideloading" (read: distributing sandboxed apps outside of the Microsoft Store), and the deployment story for line-of-busine
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by ripley12 6y ago
Yes, this is a terrible clickbait headline. I opened it expecting more than some guy's wish-list.
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> It’s the marriage of Wall Street, real estate capital, and urban planning, with politicians—self-described progressives and moderates alike—religiously supporting tax giveaways and favorable zoning policies for the for-profit developer
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by ripley12 6y ago
> MSIX can be sideloaded by default in every supported version of Windows Is that true? I thought MSIX sideloading was only enabled by default in the recent Win10 2004 release (better late than never!). https://www.windowslat
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by ripley12 6y ago
That makes a lot of sense - I think making signing easier should be the goal, not removing signing requirements entirely. Part of my frustration comes from this paradox: it's harder than it used to be to share a native application with
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by ripley12 6y ago
I asked the MSIX team about code signing at Build recently, they said they will be previewing "Azure Trust Service" this summer which makes code signing easier: https://twitter.com/jvintzel/status/1262794
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by ripley12 6y ago
I can't find it now, but I've heard the PowerToys developers talk about how the long-term goal is to move some of these features into Windows.
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by ripley12 6y ago
Yes, this is already a thing in .NET Core 3: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotne... It's not clear to me how the .NET 5 feature is different.
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by ripley12 6y ago
That's unfortunate, Petzold had a knack for summarizing the essentials succinctly and explaining necessary context. I've been trying to get up to speed with modern Windows application development recently, and the official Microso
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by ripley12 6y ago
Yep! I've been using the 6th edition recently, it's great for understanding the principles of UWP development. It's still remarkably useful for a book that was published in 2013, but we are probably overdue for a "versio
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by ripley12 6y ago
I strongly, strongly disagree. The trackpad on my SB2 is terrible compared to the one on my MBP. It’s much smaller, two-finger right-click is unreliable, and the motion feels worse. Along with the glossy screen it’s my main complaint about
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by ripley12 6y ago
Sure thing, my QMK keymap is here: https://github.com/rgwood/qmk_firmware/blob/master/keyboards... 1. Remapped capslock to ESC when pressed+released and HYPER when held 2. A 2nd layer for media+volume ke
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by ripley12 6y ago
It's alluded to in the article, but I wish keyboard programmability got more attention than switches. I spent a lot of time picking my switches, and I like them. But what I love about my mechanical keyboard (Massdrop CTRL) is the a
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by ripley12 6y ago
It’s disappointing that the SB3 seems to have the same screen and trackpad as the SB2. The screen has so much glare compared to the MBP and XPS, it makes dark mode unusable in most lighting situations. The trackpad is small and mediocre, it
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by ripley12 7y ago
This looks incredible and I can't wait to try it out. One thing that is confusing me as a newcomer: why does the project have 2 very different websites (visualprogramming.net and vvvv.org)?
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by ripley12 7y ago
I don't get a malware/scam vibe from the name, but I'm probably missing something. What makes you think that?
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by ripley12 7y ago
My first real job was on a .NET stack that was 1/2 VB.NET and 1/2 C# for legacy reasons. It was weird at first, but I mostly stopped noticing after a few months - the two were completely interoperable and they both compile down to
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by ripley12 7y ago
His footage from Duga is really amazing, he managed to shoot it with incredible lighting from the sunrise. I'd strongly recommend checking this out even if urbex isn't normally your thing.
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by ripley12 7y ago
I was just trying to get a release candidate of PowerShell 7 working on macOS and Windows yesterday. It was a frustrating experience, because many essential keybindings are broken out of the box on macOS (Terminal.app, iTerm2) and Windows (
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by ripley12 7y ago
I had a different experience – Tailwind made CSS a lot more approachable for me. A big part of Tailwind's value is that it provides a curated, well-documented subset of the most important CSS attributes. The utility classes are consist
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by ripley12 7y ago
I really love your Flowsheets prototype, I hope someone pursues that direction in the future. “Spreadsheets with more tools from traditional programming” seems like such a powerful idea.
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by ripley12 7y ago
Did you read the entire article? The author says that floating point math is both 1) fine 2) not the cause of the issue under discussion. Floating point is a tiny digression in a much larger piece. > Floating point arithmetic might be we
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by ripley12 7y ago
> I mean, there’s a lot of things JavaScript should get heat for, but this really shouldn’t be one of them. This is inherently an issue with any language that has floating point numbers. This is mentioned in the paragraph that is immedia
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by ripley12 7y ago
Ah. Amazon has had multiple offices downtown for a long time, and Microsoft has 2 large ones (the City Centre one and the Yaletown one near BC Place). But yes, they are still expanding.

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