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by svick 8y ago
> Why haven't more joined? My guess: 1. Most devs don't know about it. 2. Most devs don't need it, if they contribute to projects that are themselves members.
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by svick 8y ago
https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/joining-oin/ This specifically talks about "the Linux System".
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by svick 8y ago
I'm confused. Let's say I like C# and I also like Linux. Doesn't them making C# (and .Net) open source and cross-platform enhance my freedom to compute how I wish? Or is that somehow different from other open source languages
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by svick 8y ago
> We want people on Microsoft's payroll to stop making noise on Hacker News. In other words, you're saying it doesn't matter what they do, you've already made up your mind. And just to be sure, you don't want to
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by svick 8y ago
> Open source GitHub like GitLab has They can't do that yet, since the acquisition is still in progress.
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by svick 8y ago
> In order to truly help OSS, joining some initiative, group or foundation is the easy thing to do. Opening the patent portfolio, is the difficult thing to do. What's the difference between the two? In order to join OIN, MS had to a
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by svick 8y ago
Doesn't them joining OIN change that?
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by svick 8y ago
> Java has everything that .NET has C# certainly has many features that Java, the language, does not. It gets better if you consider Kotlin instead, but it's not clear to me if that language has a chance of becoming on par with Java
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by svick 8y ago
> Answering questions is a really really challenging thing to do because for all sorts of things you'd get kicked out. You're not going to get kicked out if you honestly try to answer questions.
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by svick 8y ago
Except the great thing about SO is that if I have a super-obscure question, there is a good chance somebody already asked and answered it, so I can easily find the answer using Google. With your system, I would not be able to find the answe
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by svick 8y ago
> To say that the author of the post — whose job includes knowing whether women and minorities feel particularly unwelcome or not, based on actual data and talking to them — must have invented this point is rather outlandish. Based on w
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by svick 8y ago
> What he said was these groups report at a higher than average rate the feeling of being unwelcome. That is a simple fact Is it a fact? I'd like to see the evidence behind that claim, so I asked for that: https://meta.st
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by svick 8y ago
One of the reasons SO was created was because programming forums didn't work well enough for Q&A. And I think SO did succeed at doing that. I don't think tacking on a forum is the right way to make it even better.
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by svick 9y ago
It is. You're informed about it and you can opt-out.
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by svick 9y ago
> if we're really lucky, some will have some obscure way of limiting it. In this case, it tells you how to completely turn it off the first time you use it.
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by svick 9y ago
> Finally, if you really care about privacy this much you should be building things from source. […] .NET Core is open source, so this is absolutely possible to do. It's not that simple. Until recently, you had to have .Net Core ins
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by svick 9y ago
A lot of telemetry gathering done by websites is also executed on your desktop. I don't think it makes a different that it's written in JavaScript and not C++.
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by svick 9y ago
> The application IL code is perhaps 50 bytes to for hello world. A Hello World assembly in .Net Core 2.0 is 4.5 kB. Out of that, the IL is 11 bytes, though that doesn't even include the "Hello world!" string.
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by svick 9y ago
This is (at least for now) only for .Net Core, which does not support COM interop, I believe.
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by svick 9y ago
> CoreRT (.NET Native) seems to have been put on the backburner It looks fairly active to me: https://github.com/dotnet/corert/graphs/contributors
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by svick 9y ago
> APIs that trade memory efficiency for ease-of-use This is currently being worked on. With the addition of Span<T>, many APIs will soon have a version that does not allocate and instead use a buffer you pass in (which can be manag
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by svick 9y ago
I think .Net Core will never include WPF. As far as I know, there are not plans for cross-platform GUI on .Net Core. And WPF is pretty much a dead technology.
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by svick 10y ago
Too bad the standard library didn't get the memo and shoved everything into a single namespace :-)
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by svick 10y ago
> Is it just cross-platform compatibility so that you can develop your C# application for Linux? C# runs just fine on Linux, using .Net Core.
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by svick 10y ago
How do you create a hash table where the value is an action that depends on the type of the value? The best you can do is something like Dictionary<Type, Action<object>> and use casting in the action, but that's much worse
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by svick 10y ago
I think .Net Core is getting quite close to that. It still needs a project file, but it has a nice command line interface, which means you don't need VS. But I'll probably still keep using LinqPad anyway.
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by svick 10y ago
Not sure LinqPad is the right way to go. What I would like to see is a dedicated REPL application (likely based on the scripting dialect of C#) with IntelliSense and support for NuGet packages (if you want to have those features in LinqPad,
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by svick 10y ago
> dotNet and it's VB.Net was a bad joke until 2003 Considering that VB.NET was released in 2001 (or 2002, Wikipedia disagrees with itself on this point), it was a "bad joke" for 2 out of the 16 years of its existence so fa
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by svick 10y ago
They did rewrite both compilers, it's called Roslyn. And in Roslyn, C# and VB share some code, but a lot of the code is still separate even in the rewritten compilers.
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by svick 10y ago
That's explicitly called out in the article: they will make sure libraries written in new versions of C# can be used easily in new versions of VB.

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