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by sirjaz 5y ago
Exactly, and even when there is an app it is mobile only.
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Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more?
264 points by sirjaz 5y ago|330 comments
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by sirjaz 5y ago
We need yo kill SaaS. It was a better world when you sold software and the license. Be it in physical form or digital. In the world we have now you lose access to your info the moment you don't pay. This has already caused countless bu
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by sirjaz 5y ago
We actually are setup with a major hardware vendor where they roll out that 10x capacity ahead of time, and we only pay for it when we flick on the switch. Otherwise, it is powered off/Standby just sitting there drawing minimal power r
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by sirjaz 5y ago
I currently work for a large fortune 50 company as a Senior SRE in charge of server build automation for both cloud and on-prem. We have found that on-prem is cheaper and has less hoops to jump through. We do use vRealize Automation and Orc
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by sirjaz 5y ago
Microsoft is starting to realize they need to re-invest in windows. The kernel is still considered more advanced than the Linux kernel, but it is all the other stuff that has issues. Windows is a complex beast that needs to be simplified. I
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by sirjaz 5y ago
Now this maybe why windows phone failed. It was gaining market share in other countries outside the US.
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by sirjaz 6y ago
Are there any plans to make this a desktop app. I despise graphical editors in a browser
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by sirjaz 6y ago
This needs to be released for Windows, and before everyone complains windows still owns 88% of the world wide desktop/laptop market
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by sirjaz 6y ago
This is why the browser isn't the best place for things like this. A Fat client is better. I still don't understand the push for webapps, when we have all this hp, storage is cheap, and we have modern installers that don't sp
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by sirjaz 6y ago
The larger problem is that the web was never meant to be used the way we use it. We should be making cross-platform apps that use simple data feeds from remote sources
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by sirjaz 6y ago
The problem is that we are trying to make websites do what they were never meant to. We should be making cross-platform apps that use simple data feeds.
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by sirjaz 8y ago
VSCode is highly optimized and has tons of engineers behind it. If it were me I would do .Net Core and Avalon UI: http://avaloniaui.net/
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by sirjaz 8y ago
I know I may be downvoted/flamed on this, but why doesn't everyone start looking at powershell as the default shell. All the default parameters you are looking for are already there. Plus, you can you use all the other standard sh
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by sirjaz 8y ago
The WASM group spec just added this in the official 1.0 spec. Non-web: https://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/ So this is how you get around cross-platform issues.
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by sirjaz 8y ago
When was the last time you tried Xamarin.Forms? Visual Studio 2017 doesn't have these issues, and Visual Studio for Mac rocks.
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by sirjaz 8y ago
Oddly enough, There are things like Xamarin forms, QT, etc … Look, Xamarin.Forms 3.0 fully supports all platforms. Build once and deploy everywhere: https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2018/05/07/bu
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by sirjaz 8y ago
The problem is the reliance on the browser. If we look at the mobile market for one, you could do the same thing, but people still want native apps since they are more responsive, lower memory and cpu usage etc …. With web assembly all you
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by sirjaz 8y ago
JavaScript is taking over because that is all they teach now a days at these code bootcamps. Once webassembly gets off the ground javascript will die, but we need to get back to native client software. The web was never meant to handle this
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by sirjaz 9y ago
What Microsoft needs to do is make UWP APIs on par with Win32 APIs. Also, the reason why so many companies wrote custom apps for windows was because of VB. They need to make it so that you can write code and compile it to a single executabl
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by sirjaz 9y ago
This awesome, I much prefer to code in C# as compared to js. It is a much cleaner language.
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by sirjaz 9y ago
Depends on how much you want to spend. If money is no object I would either go with a surface book2 or an HP ZBook x2 Detachable Workstation. If you have a budget I would recommend a Lenovo Flex 5. You can get one with 16GB of ram and a TB
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Why Isn't Microsoft Pushing This? Easily Convert Chrome Apps to UWP Apps(docs.microsoft.com)
2 points by sirjaz 9y ago|0 comments
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by sirjaz 9y ago
This is why the webbrowser was not built for every little thing. We as programmers need to get back to writing applications and use the web more as a data stream. Thus letting the app do all the rendering ahead of time and we are just refre
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Microsoft Announces Windows 10 China Government Edition(onmsft.com)
1 points by sirjaz 9y ago|1 comments
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by sirjaz 9y ago
Great read. We need more articles like this promoting cross-platform .net