achtung82 (u/achtung82)

achtung82 commented on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control stackdiary.com/eu-council... · Posted by u/skilled

petre · a year ago

Unless it's from the Greens/EFA or The Left there's little hope. And considering that the EPP and S&D still hold the majority of seats in the EP, less so.

https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/167712

achtung82 · a year ago

When voting about the law in the swedish parlament, both the left and green parties voted for chat control despite having campaigned against the law in the EU election.

Both claim it was a misstake, but ironically leaked chat messages seems to indicate that the green party MP Rasmus Ling did vote for it intentionally.

https://www.dn.se/sverige/interna-chattar-motbevisar-mps-utt... (swedish news article about it).

achtung82 commented on Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days finance.yahoo.com/news/le... · Posted by u/he0001

hospitalJail · 2 years ago

The marketing was insane as usual. Nintendo performed excellent.

Multiple front page reddit posts, multiple 10/10 reviews from big name outlets. Nintendo rivals Apple as the best company in marketing.

Nintendo has done some sort of mass psychology that allows them to have sub 30fps with no complaints, I was born too early to see this reviewed in business schools, but we are starting to see a bit of the innerworkings of how Nintendo has created IP that is worshiped.

achtung82 · 2 years ago

Turns out, fps is not as important for making good games as people thought.

achtung82 commented on Thoughts on Svelte tyhopp.com/notes/thoughts... · Posted by u/naansequitur

seanwilson · 2 years ago

What's a good frontend setup right now if you want strong static typing? I know Vue 3 supports TypeScript for example but it doesn't look like that's their core audience?

I don't get the appeal of frameworks introducing template tags like `{#if showFoo}` vs JSX personally. You have the learn new syntax for things you already know how to do in JavaScript but with less expressibility, and JSX can at least be type checked so you don't have runtime problems like an `<input>` sneaking a string in a number field.

achtung82 · 2 years ago

For Vue 3(at least for the composition api) ts support is very good and handles typing in templates and between components in a way that was a bit lacking in Vue 2.

As for the other ones React seems to be pretty good with TS and obviously Angular is TS only.

As for using templating logic over JSX, that is of course a matter of taste, but i find code becomes much cleaner when there is a clear separation of templates and logic, and with jsx its a bit too easy to blur that line.

achtung82 commented on .NET Myths Dispelled blog.devgenius.io/6-net-m... · Posted by u/geekydev

alexklark · 3 years ago

It will, go net, and your grow ms consulting/azure/sql server and at the point of having windows net containers you already paying ms thousands for visual studio premium / azure dev/test subscription/reservations/devoos services and office 365 just because ms told you so.

achtung82 · 3 years ago

None of the things you mention are required or in some cases even connected to .net or c#.

Azure - is not required to run .net, and .net is not required to use azure.

Sql server - has no advantage on .net than any other wellknown database.

windows net containers - Not sure what you are talking about here but if you use containers, docker linux containers are the default choice.

visual studio premium - As the article mentions there are many alternatives here. For example Jetbrains Rider or VS Code.

dev/test subscription/reservations/devoos - Maybe you are talking about Azure devops. But this is in no way required by .net.

office 365 - Has no whatsoever connection to .net other than being developed by MS.

achtung82 commented on .NET Myths Dispelled blog.devgenius.io/6-net-m... · Posted by u/geekydev

cglan · 3 years ago

Gonna be honest, .NET seems to have a weird cult following on here and Reddit but I find the naming to be absolutely atrocious and I hate developing with it. Everything is .Net including .net classic but not everything is compatible making documentation a huge pain to find. It’s also ridiculously over complicated and enterprisy with a lot of heavy weight boilerplate that reminds me of Java. It also copies a lot of the mistakes of the spring framework where you’ll have side effects or code paths that occur that aren’t really able to be found with a debugger. The language itself is fine but the framework around it is just repeating all the same mistakes of everything else

One of the reasons I love go is that everything seems to be explicit. Notice something occurring? Well chances are you can set a breakpoint and trace what’s happening

achtung82 · 3 years ago

The thing i see a lot of people bringing up as the large problem with .Net is naming and branding. I could agree with those sentiments but dont really how those are serious criticisms. Thats like saying i hate Java cause i prefer tea.

Anyway if you hate developing in .Net dont do it but I personally find it a lot more enjoyable than other languages ive worked with.

achtung82 commented on .NET Myths Dispelled blog.devgenius.io/6-net-m... · Posted by u/geekydev

alexklark · 3 years ago

Author should submit it to ms propaganda/evangelist department to get a MVP medal for best bs of the month. Of course MS bs regarding .NOT is nothing new. It was windows only for 21 years and marketed as portable/high speed/modern/backward compartible all that time. All that time it was a cherry picked lie. For the last 6 years they not even mange to offer GUI library. Try to use Winforms. You can’t? Too bad, linux is just for servers anyway, right? Go get Xamarin trash and suffer. “We are on journey, busy with our foundations/pr so fk off.” The right answer was not changed for 10 years: - never use ms tech for web, or you be vendor locked and ripped off - ms technologies in core not changed since 00s, it is same old st in a layers of chocolate. As soon as you get inside, you puke. - never trust ms or you be vendor locked and end up with inferior legacy technologies, without reach to support and with huge tech debt and eventually need to just throw away everything you build - remember, facebook and google not using ms, your grandma do

achtung82 · 3 years ago

If the language and framework has been changing isnt it a good idea to inform about these things that used to be true but no longer is.

"never use ms tech for web, or you be vendor locked and ripped off"

How exactly do you mean this, .Net can be run on most platforms. Or could it be that you didnt read the article since you assumed it was propaganda?

achtung82 commented on Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results? · Posted by u/sanketpatrikar

littlecranky67 · 4 years ago

I wonder why Apple is not starting it's own search engine. I mean yes, they get >$1Bn per year making Google the default on iOS+macOS, but they have plenty of cash so they wouldn't need it. They would get immediately ~10% market share when it is launched, just because it would be made the default on their devices. From their they just need to present better search results than Google (which shouldn't be that hard right now) and can only grow further.

As another commenter here said "Google does not make money by helping you find what you are searching, it makes money by keeping you searching". That only works when there is no competition. But once Apple would be in the game, people would use what presents them with the better results. Right now, I don't feel there is real competition.

achtung82 · 4 years ago

But what would be their incentive to do so? Normally they launch products and make it exclusive to their devices so more people will buy iPhones, but that is difficult to do with a search engine. Otherwise they would have to get into the ad business like Google.

achtung82 commented on Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6 hanselman.com/blog/minima... · Posted by u/ingve

magicalhippo · 4 years ago

> At least when the controllers are all classes I can unit test them.

So I've literally just jumped into this world, having never touched asp.net or similar before.

I looked into how to test the controller side of things, and came across this[1] post arguing that unit testing controllers weren't as useful as integration testing them.

Integration testing would definitely be useful, and something I will do, but I assume also a lot more time-consuming so perhaps not something we could do on a per-commit basis.

Would highly appreciate views on this topic.

[1]: https://andrewlock.net/should-you-unit-test-controllers-in-a...

achtung82 · 4 years ago

Integration testing as im used to it takes less time to write than unittests since you need to spend less time mocking things (mainly just mock external requests). Of course the initial setup requires more time but there are many readymade examples you can copy from. For example the official documentation.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/integratio...

achtung82 commented on Green vs. Brown Programming Languages earthly.dev/blog/brown-gr... · Posted by u/muglug

agbell · 4 years ago

Author here. I wanted to dig a little into data from the Stack Overflow survey on what made programming languages loved or hated and I think what I found is pretty interesting: it seems like people don't like the languages where they have to do maintenance work.

Python and C# seems like outliers here though. People really love them.

achtung82 · 4 years ago

Also with C# and .Net there has been a lot of changes since .Net Core released 2016. Doesn't change that there is a lot of older legacy code so im not entirely sure.

achtung82 commented on Chromecast with Google TV store.google.com/product/... · Posted by u/plessthanpt05

Spare_account · 5 years ago

Is product success a useful metric for whether or not Google cancel services?

achtung82 · 5 years ago

Usually yes.