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by sylens 4y ago
I think realizing this was the biggest disappointment of my adult life. As a kid, you think that there are people looking after the world, looking out for the best interests of society, etc. When you get enough and can see behind the curtai
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A roadmap update on the VS Code C# extension(github.com)
13 points by sylens 4y ago|2 comments
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by sylens 4y ago
Yup, this was my jumping off point as well
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by sylens 4y ago
I would hazard a guess that they do, but it is on games like Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite
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by sylens 4y ago
Is there a list of modern games that still support this?
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by sylens 4y ago
The biggest change from me is the shift away from dedicated, organic game communities to ones that are cultivated by "community managers" and fed a drip feed of live service seasons and battle passes. Counter-Strike and Battlefiel
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It's Good to Bet on .NET(medium.com)
41 points by sylens 4y ago|16 comments
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by sylens 4y ago
> There’s no hype leading up to them I was not even aware Google I/O was today
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by sylens 4y ago
This is an incredible story. It's crazy how they aren't better known for this feat.
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The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide – Part 2(chrlschn.medium.com)
1 points by sylens 4y ago|0 comments
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by sylens 4y ago
> In the office you walk to the coffee room in that time and there you meet people in the same phase. They are taking a break and you don't interrupt each others work when having a chat. Except those whose assigned desks happen to b
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by sylens 4y ago
It is incredible how empowering it was a tool to upload photos, tag friends in them, and distribute them when it launched. The introduction of the feed was the beginning of the end.
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by sylens 4y ago
Does this also play a role in many Apple employees wanting to continue remote work?
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by sylens 4y ago
Azure has definitely had a bunch (too many, IMO), but AWS had a similar disclosure around CloudFormation and Glue back in January. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/orca-security-aws-and-the... That blog post also hig
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by sylens 5y ago
I'll agree with you on things like the clock - never felt the need to move it, that's just how it is on macOS. But I would expect a mature desktop operating system to have improved window management capabilities in 2022
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by sylens 5y ago
I'm always amazed at how many little third party utilities or programs people recommend downloading or buying just to bring the desktop experience on macOS up to parity with Linux (or even Windows!). The lack of snapping/tiling at
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by sylens 5y ago
I have no idea if they will try it again someday, but I would love to see Microsoft give this another go. I think strong messaging about "quality over quantity" of apps would actually be a boon to them. I never go looking in the A
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by sylens 5y ago
I was a very vocal supporter of Android from about 2010 up until 2016. At a certain point, Google started chasing the iPhone with its Pixel line instead of trying to highlight the benefits that made Android unique. If I'm paying iPhone
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by sylens 5y ago
This was always my biggest area of concern with the Steam Deck - the fan noise and how annoying it would be to those around you if you wanted to use it in public settings. I feel myself paying a premium for quieter devices lately: Noctua fa
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by sylens 5y ago
What about taking your development experience and using it to your advantage in a role in security or even sales engineering? Having ten years of experience in development means you could slot very nicely into application security roles, an
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by sylens 5y ago
People always complain about Windows Update but those usually take a fraction of the time that it takes for me to update a minor version in macOS. I dread having to apply macOS updates.
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by sylens 5y ago
What else is running on the EC2 instance? What kind of access to the public Internet have you enabled for it?
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How Tech Companies Are Trying to Woo Employees Returning to Work(nytimes.com)
12 points by sylens 5y ago|8 comments
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by sylens 5y ago
Agreed but it was something that they gave away for free
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by sylens 5y ago
They briefly offered Windows Movie Maker and then Windows Live Movie Maker as a free download with Windows Live Essentials. Recently, they acquired Clipchamp and attempted to extract a subscription fee for it if you wanted to export in anyt
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by sylens 5y ago
Yeah and the author was talking about how inflexible their side-by-side approach was - moves them to a new desktop and puts them into full screen
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by sylens 5y ago
I feel like this problem really boils down to the fact that now that you are older, you know too much. Getting a wireless router for the first time was a religious experience for my household. Now I know exactly how it works and what will i
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by sylens 5y ago
Window management is still my number one complaint with macOS. Windows has only gotten better with it since Windows 7 introduced Aero Snap, and on Linux I can do whatever my heart desires, including using a proper tiling environment.
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by sylens 5y ago
Three Body Problem
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by sylens 5y ago
The points about non-composable software and paths is why I try to keep all of my development work when using Windows relegated to WSL2. I have no interest in dealing with Windows paths and figuring out syntax for PowerShell when I will nev

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