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Re:Visual Studio App Center Retirement on Monday March 18, 2024 @06:30AM (#39742195)
Ouch. Should I have seen this coming? AppCenter is heavily integrated in our business' lifecycle. Our budget for 2024 needs to be readjusted
I have a strong suspicion this isn't limited to Baltimore. Not sure what they expected when they show officers they can get away with just about anything with little more than a slap on the wrist.
Thanks. This was the kind of answer I feared
Did you see this comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14076318

I don't think the customers need or want to modify the software. Just open it up for hardware replacements

I'd like to see some concrete examples as well. What kind of repairs are you unable to do?
And what kind of repairs are that? As a software developer I don't understand what equipment is failure needs software change. Software don't wear and tear. Hardware does.
Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016? on Sunday December 11, 2016 @03:50AM (#13150217)
This is my portfolio :

http://www.nilsenlabs.com

None of them have made a lot of money, but one is still generating a small amount. Guess which. Hint: Income is not proportional with the shinyness of the technology stack

Re:Visual Studio for Mac on Monday November 14, 2016 @02:04PM (#12952346)
I guess what annoyed me was that after thebeardedone said he'd googled for 15 minutes trying to figure out the difference between VS Code and VS, 4 answers to his post gave absolutely no clarification as to what the differences were, including yours. If you look up the definition of an IDE on Wikipedia, VS Code falls into that category.
Re:Visual Studio for Mac on Monday November 14, 2016 @05:02AM (#12948689)
>Obviously VS Code is not an IDE (as VS is)

OBVIOUSLY? :D VS Code starts looking more and more like an IDE to me :-) Still looking forward to hear what people define as an IDE!

Thank you for your detailed response by the way, not picking on your post, just curious what everybody finds so "unIDEish" about VS Code.

Re:Visual Studio for Mac on Monday November 14, 2016 @03:51AM (#12948425)
Do YOU know the difference? Would it hurt to be more concrete? I'm going to venture a guess based on my assumptions, which are probably wrong, but then we can at least start a discussion:

-VS Code doesn't support solution-wide refactoring like renaming classes or moving a method from one class to another

-VS Code doesn't support runtime debugging (breakpoints)

-VS Code doesn't have a visual editor

-VS Code doesn't have memory or performance profiling tools

-VS Code doesn't have source control integration

-VS Code doesn't have an integrated build tool (MSBuild)

-VS Code doesn't have NPM or Nuget integration

Re:What typing ^D does on Unix (2009) on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @05:09PM (#12439306)
This comment thread is worth much more than the actual article
Re:I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @01:54AM (#12433875)
They do? Huh.. Think I still have a crossover cable lying in my drawer "just in case"
The concept of selling to the highest bidder isn't popular in NYC?
Re:What Great Listeners Actually Do on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @06:07AM (#12303493)
mhm
Re:Why do we have allergies? on Monday May 23, 2016 @10:03AM (#11753880)
Does he elaborate on what kind of noxious chemicals, and how that explains why allergy has been on the rise in the 20th century? (I skimmed the article but couldn't find it)
Just an anectdote: I've made several apps for Android and Windows phone, but the only place I've made money is on Windows Desktop (an outlook plugin of all things). People seems to be more accustomed to having to pay real money for software on desktop. Don't even think about the donation route
Re:Bitcoin's $137k Jackpot on Saturday April 30, 2016 @06:36AM (#11601185)
.. Or sending the action "deal 1000 damage" when the maximum damage any weapon can do is 5
Re:Why I Skip Stack Overflow on Saturday February 20, 2016 @07:53AM (#11139883)
>Computer systems are designed to be figured out from their manuals or APIs.

Lol. If only every API was designed and documented well.

Haha so true. And then the mix of chronology just to mix things up...

"But Jean-Denis didn't always live a comfortable life in the suburbs. The first seven years of his life he grew up with his grandparents in Transylvania. The potato crop wasn't always good, and the long winters taught him about patience. A trait he's been needing in the search for the MH370."

I have also upvoted in case you wanted to upvote yourself. How's the balance now?
Why doesn't vlc work?
Re:Court: Breaking Your Employer's Computer Policy Isn't a Crime on Saturday December 05, 2015 @07:01AM (#10681655)
I'm sorry that would break my employers computer policy on copyrights

(nah not really.403 here as well)

Re:Let Twitter Be Twitter on Thursday November 05, 2015 @06:30PM (#10516862)
...what do they do?
Interesting. How does this scale? Any idea on how the clients world perform with say, 10000 users logged in?
Re:The Kotlin Language: 1.0 Beta Is Here on Monday November 02, 2015 @01:15PM (#10493796)
How does it affect built time and the feedback cycle?
This. It's not like being on Facebook is a UN-sanctioned human right.
Re:Pixate (YC S12) and Google on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @02:59PM (#9924829)
Funny how everybody is "excited", "delighted" and "ecstatic" about being acquired by a mega corporate.
Re:Is Windows Phone Dead? on Saturday July 11, 2015 @09:03AM (#9869612)
Fucked, fucked, fucked, fucked, fucked, not quite fucked aaand not yet fucked
Re:Commit messages are not titles on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @09:02AM (#9764319)
>Honestly those commits should probably be split anyway. A commit should represent the smallest 'change' which is singificant.

Which again may result in that refactoring never getting done. Many times I've found myself saying to myself "I must refactor this class.. But I'll just finish implementing this feature first so that I can get a clean commit with only the refactoring afterwards". Suddenly it's 5 o'clock and tomorrow I've forgotten about the refactoring need.

Re:URLFind – URL mapping and links cross domains on Saturday June 20, 2015 @09:30AM (#9749916)
What powers it? Google? Or are they doing their own indexing?

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