StrangeWill (u/StrangeWill)

StrangeWill commented on Zed is now available on Windows zed.dev/blog/zed-for-wind... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

tom_ · 5 months ago

Maybe it's misdetecting something? I used to use Remote Desktop for game development sometimes, as weather could make the journey to the office impossible, and the performance was always pretty ok, even with UE5 stuff making heavy use of Nanite running at 1440p.

And if it was actually software emulated, which I can't believe for a moment, though I admit I never checked (I just always assumed the window contents were transmitted via some kind of video encoder) - then I can't imagine that a text editor would be a problem.

The input latency might not be as good as you'd like.

StrangeWill · 5 months ago

> The input latency might not be as good as you'd like.

Yeah input latency is annoyingly rough, not super bad but _just_ laggy enough to make it annoying to use.

Debating how much I want to change things, I can directly punch into my Linux machine but all my dev IDEs are on a VM for a long list of reasons, and I doubt Zed is going to run on my old ThinkPad if it struggles on software rendering, but we'll see.

StrangeWill commented on Zed is now available on Windows zed.dev/blog/zed-for-wind... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

Maxatar · 5 months ago

If you're using it via RDP then you won't notice any rendering performance issues since RDP itself has terrible rendering performance.

StrangeWill · 5 months ago

I've literally programmed with VSCode for basically a decade this way without issues. Zed lags, it's disappointing and if I really like Zed I'll have to sort out another setup.

MSTSC is one of the rock-solid tools from Microsoft, and does better than almost everything else available on the market other than some PC over IP technologies specifically highly optimized for this use case. I've been programming with an ancient ThinkPad forever because I'm just remoting into a much more powerful machine.

StrangeWill commented on Moving off of TypeScript, 2.5M lines of code engineering.usemotion.com... · Posted by u/caliChander

pedroigor91 · 6 months ago

I still don’t understand why more startups don’t adopt .NET. It’s such a powerful technology. ASP.NET has some of the best performance benchmarks out there, C# is a rich and expressive language, and the ecosystem along with the standard libraries are stable and mature. You rarely run into the kind of headaches you often see with more “trendy” stacks.

In many cases, the bias comes down to perception — .NET is seen as “enterprise” or “legacy,” while in reality it’s open-source, cross-platform, and very well-supported by Microsoft and the community. For a startup that needs stability and performance without reinventing the wheel, .NET can be a huge win.

StrangeWill · 6 months ago

We build a Shopify-leading platform on C# at a startup -- they got so much flak from colleagues about it being built on C# instead of Node or Python.

Absolutely no reason other than "C# icky" -- they ended up with a platform that is crazy fast (and fast scales way easier, it handles a dumb amount of traffic without a lot of crazy design)

Startup culture is toxic AF at times, bad engineering decisions for cargo cult stuff.

StrangeWill commented on Moving off of TypeScript, 2.5M lines of code engineering.usemotion.com... · Posted by u/caliChander

lloydatkinson · 6 months ago

> I think one weakness is the library ecosystem, the competitors are stronger there.

People say this but is it really the case? Look how much NPM has been attacked by malware recently, and all because people are indirectly installing simple colour libraries that are 20 layers deep of dependencies of dependencies. Then you get the fucking stupid stuff like `is-odd`.

StrangeWill · 6 months ago

Long-time C# Dev here -- yeah I'm still jealous of being able to find more esoteric libraries in Node, Python or PHP -- or just having more options then someone's back-yard half-baked implementation sometimes.

On the other hand, I have nearly 20 languages under my belt and have been writing code professionally for 22 years -- I still use C# most of the time for a lot of other reasons, just this is one of the bigger pain points.

StrangeWill commented on Tell HN: GitHub no longer supporting unauthenticated `git://` · Posted by u/OJFord

stblack · 4 years ago

Incidentally I'm onboarding someone new to git and Github. I must say, Github is now exceedingly difficult to set up. Vocalizing every step of the process, hopefully not in a hand-wavy way, it strikes me how hard this must be for unguided noobs.

To some degree, this must be crushing the value of the service.

If ever there was a crying need for setup wizards, configuration audit helpers, and clear error messages, this would be it.

On one hand I can clearly see how git-like history and version control could help in so many areas beyond tech. On the other hand, I can see that's never gonna happen with the barriers to entry we see today.

The Github team should talk to the Rust team about error messages and helpful diagnostics.

StrangeWill · 4 years ago

We've been using SSH keys by default for all of our new users for years, removes a ton of confusion and starts them with one of the better authentication methods out of the gate.

(We also set most up with code signing because why not? They think it's cool because we have green checkboxes everywhere, and they get to learn a bit of cryptography too)

StrangeWill commented on Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emb... · Posted by u/doener

smichel17 · 6 years ago

In my opinion, the current mores of the company are pretty irrelevant; power dynamics are what matter.

Tides change. Whether or not Microsoft is benevolent today, they may not be in 5+ years.

Any company large enough to screw me over without feeling the loss of my (and people like me's) business in their pocketbook, is not a company I want in a position of power over me. Adapted to this conversation: we should not tolerate "extend" from any company that could successfully pull off "extinguish".

StrangeWill · 6 years ago

Yeah, but that would honestly be an argument for any large company with leverage getting too much leverage, and this would apply to things like Google, Amazon, Apple, etc. and them using their leverage to control markets in similarly unethical ways.

It feels tiring that any time Microsoft does something good, EEE comes up, but times where Amazon or Google are doing massive damage to our industry or standards for their own benefits it's crickets.

StrangeWill commented on Tired of Stack Overflow arp242.net/stackoverflow.... · Posted by u/mrzool

waisbrot · 7 years ago

Every year I see a post complaining about how unfriendly Stack Overflow is, how their pet question got downvoted so unfairly, and how Stack Overflow is dying. Everyone agrees: Stack Overflow is too mean and is dying.

But time and again when I search for a question online if there's an SO version of it it has the best answer. And when I can't find an answer anywhere and I ask on SO I usually get a good answer quickly. (And when I don't I'm probably completely out of luck.)

Stack Overflow provides clear guidance on how to ask a good question. (https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask) As someone who occasionally answers questions there, I do feel annoyed when someone clearly didn't take any time or effort.

The first example from the article sounds reasonable at first, but are they asking for a shell command or some Go code or what? If they just said what they tried ("I expected it in `go help list` but didn't find it"), I think it would have been fine.

The second question I don't see why anyone would want that on the site. There's 1001 Github pages of common interview questions and answers that are more interesting and better written. Who could this be useful for other than the rest of that particular CS class? Why do I want to help someone I've never met cheat at a class I don't know about for free?

StrangeWill · 7 years ago

Two different perspectives: on the search engine end being a consumer... that's a pretty easy-going experience, Google filters out the large amount of noise because it's a good search engine, you get your answer, you're on your way.

The other end of things, the users sitting on SO, weeding through the influx of questions, looking to grab bounties, etc. that is where working with SO is really rough. That is where we deal with a huge amount of garbage coming in.

Also as someone that has written answers for esoteric questions before, it can be hugely frustrating when the moderation-by-community ends up causing you grief because they don't understand the subject material enough to do anything other than to rule-lawyer your post to death (I started ripping my answers off the site and posting them to my own instead, which yay, I guess nice traffic boost?).

I stopped answering questions long ago unless it was referenced in a Github issue.

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On the more esoteric side of things, the duplicates can be really rough, if you have an error that is caused by something non-trivial but the same error can be caused by a trivial mistake you'll be fishing through hundreds of posts trying to find alternative answers and underlying causes, this is pretty much the only time that you find the trash heap bubbling up on the consumer side of things.

StrangeWill commented on Why you should never use Upwork medium.com/@AdShadlabs/wh... · Posted by u/shadlovesgrowth

almata · 9 years ago

From the Upwork FAQ: "You'll need to download and use the Upwork Team App—this tool includes the Work Diary, which ensures you are guaranteed payment. By taking work-in-progress screenshots every 10 minutes, it provides proof to your clients that you are hard at work."

Screenshots every 10 minutes? You mean... screenshots of MY SCREEN every 10 minutes? That was what made me close their website and totally forget it until I've seen this submission on HN today.

StrangeWill · 9 years ago

It's trying to protect people that want to hire bottom-dollar work, but not get bottom-dollar quality.

If you're not happy with the rate at which I'm getting things done, you don't need screenshots of my desktop, feel free to hire someone else and let me know how that goes.

StrangeWill commented on Why you should never use Upwork medium.com/@AdShadlabs/wh... · Posted by u/shadlovesgrowth

soreasan · 9 years ago

>I happen to be from a country with a lower cost of living than US/UK and Upwork allows me to do remote freelancing and charge more than I would be able to charge for work in person.

This is part of the problem for freelancers who do live in the US/UK. They're expected to work for less than they could charge in person because they're competing internationally with people who live in areas with much lower cost of living..

In addition, as the article mentions, a big problem is the amount of dishonesty. The fact that someone could have their livelihood shut down overnight by one abusive client is ridiculous.

StrangeWill · 9 years ago

You're selling the wrong product if you're just looking to sell on the bottom dollar.

I meet clients in-person and focus on quality and consistency. Yeah sure you can save a few thousand by having someone do it on a site like this, but you'll lose many more times that much the first time a deploy gets botched, the site goes down, they can't help you get what you need as opposed to what you asked for, etc.

I stopped trying to beat on price long ago, wasn't worth it, just meant I had to put out lower quality code and slap stuff together sloppily to compete and I didn't like doing that.