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by ripley12 4y ago
I've wondered about this a lot. My understanding is that VS is still on .NET Framework WPF too; it will take some effort to move it onto .NET Core WPF. My wild speculation: they'll put some effort into a .NET Core WPF migration an
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by ripley12 4y ago
Thanks for your feedback. I'll add more sparkles.
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There are no great options. I've written a bit about this: https://www.reillywood.com/blog/windows-ui-frameworks/ tl;dr: WinForms is well supported if you don't need it to be pretty. WPF is complex but m
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by ripley12 4y ago
> I’d argue WPF is a lot easier even for simple apps. I could not disagree more. That might be true for you , if you are a person who has already spent a long time learning WPF. It is not true in general; WPF is complex.
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by ripley12 4y ago
NuGet has always been a bit of a Wild West. Looks like curl was uploaded to NuGet by some rando and not maintained. In a past life where I had to deal with a lot of .NET libraries from awful enterprisey vendors, it was often easier to pull
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by ripley12 4y ago
I'm reading the Aubrey-Maturin books and found this sail diagram quite helpful: https://www.reddit.com/r/AubreyMaturinSeries/comments/j3vn05...
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by ripley12 4y ago
It doesn't take 30 years for new housing to have an impact. New homes immediately affect the price+availability of existing homes, because when someone moves into a shiny new home they free up the place where they were living before.
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.NET 8 Preview 1(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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by ripley12 4y ago
I feel the same way about Linux - big thanks to the Homebrew team.
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> Making cars more expensive to own and operate is an inflationary force that disproportionately afflicts the poor No it isn't. I think you know the answer to the question "are transit riders more or less affluent than drivers
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by ripley12 4y ago
100%. I would describe the subject matter as "dysfunctional office politics in Antarctica", which doesn't sound fascinating but it really is!
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by ripley12 4y ago
I mean... sorta. It's not easy to write a Office add-in just using the C API, and when I tried a year or two ago the only example code I could find was like 20 years old and all documentation was heavily pushing people toward the newer
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by ripley12 4y ago
Ahh, streaming. This is an area I've been working on; there are still lots of places where we collect data when we should stream it instead. In general, if you think "that should be able to stream" but it doesn't, that&#
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by ripley12 4y ago
I'm not sure when we'll be ready for 1.0 (at which point we will commit to stability in the language etc.), but I would guess 1-2 years based on the work we want to do and the pace of contributions. Not sure about Debian. We gener
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by ripley12 4y ago
I spent 3 years using Fish before switching back to zsh (and later Nushell, which I ended up working on). Fish is a wonderful, mature project, but for me it wasn't quite ambitious enough. It breaks from POSIX just often enough to cau
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by ripley12 4y ago
I would say interactive use is good. Not hard to configure prompts. Stability (in the sense of not crashing) is decent, it's been a long time since I've crashed Nushell. We do get the occasional crashing bug filed but most of thos
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by ripley12 4y ago
It has been for a very long time, and that's a reasonable approach IMO. I say this as someone without most of the usual prejudice against VB; I used to work in a large codebase that was half VB.NET and half C#, and didn't mind VB.
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by ripley12 4y ago
Terribly written headline. These are Office add-ins, Visual Studio just happens to be part of the name because <insert joke about Microsoft naming here>.
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by ripley12 4y ago
Okta gave me a verbal offer in November, and retracted it after 3 weeks of “we’ll get final approval any day now, promise!” Left a bad taste in my mouth, doubly so because I turned down another offer assuming that Okta would come through.
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by ripley12 4y ago
As I understand it (heard second-hand from someone in the know), the CockroachDB people regret that language choice and that’s why Materialize (which employs a bunch of ex-Cockroach people) uses Rust. I generally think a garbage collector m
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by ripley12 4y ago
> running on heavily modified Android What? No it doesn't, HoloLens 2 runs "Windows Holographic" which is based on Windows Core OS.
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by ripley12 4y ago
I was considering getting into HoloLens development a few years ago. It seemed like they were still pushing developers toward UWP even when UWP was obviously nearly dead, and that killed any interest I had. Did the developer story for HoloL
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by ripley12 4y ago
It's the Windows key and the period (".") key, not the Windows key and the plus key ("+").
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by ripley12 4y ago
Yeah, you can also pay to do system design interviewing practice. I did a few paid system design interviews last year (interviewing.io) and found it helpful before a few FAANG interviews.
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by ripley12 4y ago
Odd that you left off the rest of that quote ("...because then obscure targets that nobody uses won't be able to leech off of the rest of the ecosystem by holding back any chance to let us have a modicum of nice things") whic
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by ripley12 4y ago
This is a snarky low-effort comment. Do better.
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by ripley12 4y ago
MSIX is interesting but effectively unusable outside the Store (I spent a few months of my life trying to do that at $PREVIOUS_JOB). Installation will fail on a high percentage of machines, and you'll mostly be out of luck. There'
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by ripley12 4y ago
No, it's not a generational thing. WPF hasn't had significant feature updates in the last 10 years, because MS abandoned it in favour of UWP. I wrote a bit about this recently: https://www.reillywood.com/blog/
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by ripley12 4y ago
Super, super cool talk. It's so nice to see what Bret's been working on - biology seems like a great application for the Dynamicland technologies.
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by ripley12 4y ago
> the overall quality is really really low That has not been my experience with Pluralsight courses. I've done quite a few (10?) over the years for .NET, C, and C++. Most were authored by people who are experts in that specific nich

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