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by ripley12 4y ago
> Not a surprise that they didn’t use XAML for any other big application UWP/WinUI/Metro uses XAML and Microsoft was very committed to that for a while. UWP didn't really pan out, but that was for reasons other than XAML a
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by ripley12 4y ago
What WPF mess are you talking about? Aside from Visual Studio, I can't think of many first-party GUIs that are written in WPF.
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by ripley12 4y ago
Not sure, but I've been experiencing dramatically worse load times on Twitter in the last month or so.
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by ripley12 4y ago
crates.io is a little bare-bones sometimes. I usually use lib.rs instead: https://lib.rs/crates/rg That has a link to source: https://docs.rs/crate/rg/0.1.0/source/ And here's
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by ripley12 4y ago
Trying to give you a fairly complete answer: It's a .NET library, the prerequisites are the same as any .NET library. If you want to write code in .NET you will need to install the .NET SDK. If you just want to run an application writt
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by ripley12 4y ago
I've been using this for months and it's generally pretty good. The UX isn't completely polished yet (as mentioned in the docs), but it's great for simple use cases like "I want to send a photo from my phone to a co
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by ripley12 4y ago
Hmm, I don't think so. This book is about dependent types, The Little Schemer is more about introducing Lisp/Scheme fundamentals. FWIW I found The Little Schemer remarkably devoid of essential context; I found myself wondering &qu
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by ripley12 4y ago
I don't work at MS, but there's a few potential things going on: Voice Recorder is pretty old, it got a big revamp/renaming ("Sound Recorder") in Windows 11. Problems might be fixed now? The native development story
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by ripley12 4y ago
It's part of the UWP sandboxing system ("AppContainer"). UWP apps chat with the Runtime Broker for potentially insecure operations like opening the common file open dialog or printing. There's a bit more info about it on
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by ripley12 4y ago
> without the slightest bit of quality assurance or adherence to the basic practices of the art. You really don't do your argument any favours with exaggerations like this.
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by ripley12 4y ago
The way Casey handled this issue was... not good. He's been a jerk about it and generally dragged this whole dumb argument on way longer than needed (I can't believe we're still talking about it). He was right, but he does no
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by ripley12 4y ago
I feel the same way about Sysinternals tools. They give me a warm fuzzy feeling, I think acquiring+maintaining Sysinternals is one of the best things Microsoft's ever done. The way they expose OS internals in a powerful-but-user-friend
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by ripley12 4y ago
Are you for real? It takes 30s on KF to realize that the whole purpose is harassment. It has entire subforums targeting individuals. The quality of the moderation is not the issue here.
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by ripley12 4y ago
Yeah, those comments are either extremely ignorant or disingenuous. It takes about 30s of browsing KF to realize that it is coordinated harassment - there are entire subforums devoted to harassing one individual person with thousands and
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by ripley12 4y ago
Man, there are a lot of incorrect statements in this. MS keeps the evergreen bootstrapper URL stable specifically so you can download it programmatically, it’s not fragile. And if you choose to ship the evergreen bootstrapper yourself, yo
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by ripley12 4y ago
It’s trivial, check the README on Mold’a GitHub repo.
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by ripley12 4y ago
IIRC yes but you have to opt into it with a manifest (or an API call).
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by ripley12 4y ago
A small game is not even remotely comparable to an average programming language.
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by ripley12 4y ago
> it's a lot of additional work FWIW, I have been remarkably impressed with Rust for this. The stdlib and package ecosystem are unusually good at building abstractions that work across *nix and Windows, and so the average command li
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by ripley12 4y ago
Games, security, finance, and a mindboggling number of companies writing line-of-business software. "Dark matter developers" is a term I've heard used for some of the latter: https://www.hanselman.com/blog&#x2
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by ripley12 4y ago
> I'm not sure how Win devs actually work these days on non-Win applications in any productive capacity. WSL. It's trivial to drop into Linux for development these days. That said, I generally haven't had issues with Node
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by ripley12 4y ago
I was with you until "it takes like 2-3 hours at most to add Windows support to a programming language..." C'mon.
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by ripley12 4y ago
I’ve walked Tokyo a lot, and I think you’re drawing an odd conclusion from a sample size of 1.
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by ripley12 4y ago
True, I misspoke; I was clumsily trying to describe the time before the NT kernel was used in consumer versions of Windows.
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by ripley12 4y ago
> After that, 510 bytes are used for the SHARED lock. A byte range is used here to accommodate older Windows versions with mandatory locks. I was curious how old, and... wow, that code is for Windows versions that predate the NT kernel (
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by ripley12 4y ago
Absolutely none of those things affect the basic, true premise that more homes (i.e. supply) -> lower prices.
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by ripley12 4y ago
Ah, that's unfortunate. My (wild, speculative) guess is that he's left that part of his career behind, after he was burned by the Windows team dropping the ball on native development multiple times.
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by ripley12 4y ago
It's not especially related to Code, but Charles is one of the all-time greats in Windows programming. I'd love to hear his thoughts on the current state of Windows: what's going well, what should be done differently.
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by ripley12 4y ago
Density is just a side effect of building more homes (housing supply goes up in a given area -> density goes up). The effect of supply on price is, well, unambiguous.
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by ripley12 4y ago
A single spoonful won’t fill me, so why bother eating?

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