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bkhl commented on Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place engineering.fyi/... · Posted by u/indiehackerman

bkhl · 4 months ago

> Current status: Core search is working. Adding new blogs weekly as I index them.

I guess this is a reason why it does not have recent blogs from some of the sites. Otherwise, it's definitely something I'd use

bkhl commented on Interview Heuristics jackg.org/interview-heuri... · Posted by u/ericwaller

singular · 14 years ago

I'm not a huge fan of this .net hate. It smacks of fashion. Yes, .net is used heavily in the enterprise and probably 90% of the time .net projects are CRUDdy big balls of mud, but C# is actually a great language, visual studio is an amazing environment and (from what I hear) ASP.NET MVC is pretty great too. A good hacker who made the informed choice to use windows and .net would get unfairly penalised here. Just because it isn't cool doesn't mean you should throw the baby out with the bathwater.

(I speak as an OS X/emacs/go/prolog/javascript/... hacker, who was up until recently using .net/C# a lot)

bkhl · 14 years ago

This person (jackg) either does not know or realize that a great software engineer can use any platform, language, and tool to do whatever she needs to achieve. I'm also not a big fan of his own choices of "trendy" technologies. This post almost seems like trolling IMO.

bkhl commented on If you develop web apps, don't do this. sneak.datavibe.net/201106... · Posted by u/sneak

bkhl · 15 years ago

I'm not sure if I can totally agree with the author. I understand his pain, but email isn't the most secured place. If your email is being "watched" by someone else, then that someone else can access other web services that you own WITHOUT requiring to type passwords! I know that it is very rare to have your email being watched, but in security, even the most rare case should be taken into consideration. It's a trade off between user experience and security. This is something you find very often in software engineering.

bkhl commented on What the hell is happening to rails? blog.stevecoast.com/what-... · Posted by u/tswicegood

Retric · 15 years ago

IMO, ASP.NET is a mediocre to poor framework get's by because it uses an above average language (C#) and a vary good editor (Visual Studio). Still it all comes down to the types of applications your creating. If your building yet another internal CRUD app go with ASP.NET. If you want to build the next hipmunk then Rails is probably a better option.

bkhl · 15 years ago

Can you elaborate more on why Rails might be a better option than ASP.NET MVC for creating "the next hipmunk"?

bkhl commented on Facebook Acquires Sofa madebysofa.com/blog/faceb... · Posted by u/muratmutlu

cheez · 15 years ago

What the hell, why...

Edit: I'm sure it will have something to do with their design skills, which are pretty good!

bkhl · 15 years ago

probably talent acquisition?

bkhl commented on Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad daringfireball.net/2011/0... · Posted by u/threepointone

melvinram · 15 years ago

Attacking Gruber because he says Apple's approach is better than Microsoft's isn't addressing the arguments he raises so let's address them:

"Microsoft’s demo video shows Excel — the full version of Excel for Windows — running alongside new touch-based apps. They can make buttons more “touch friendly” all they want, but they’ll never make Excel for Windows feel right on a touchscreen UI."

No one said Excel for Win 8 would be just a touch friendly version. Gruber's argument assumes that Microsoft won't attempt to think through the use-case of touch on Office products. Given that Office is one of their top pilars of profitability, you can bet that they'll at least attempt to create Office 2012 (or whatever) to fit in naturally with how people will want to and need to use it.

"The iPad succeeds because it has eliminated complexity, not because it has covered up the complexity of the Mac with a touch-based “shell”. "

You definitely have a point with that but a particular quote comes to mind "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein. You can't do real work on the iPad version of iWorks. Making Excel simpler just for simplicities sake would be a mistake for Microsoft. Exposing the right amount of simplicity for the various tasks is what they should be aiming for.

"Apple’s radical notion is that touchscreen personal computers should make severely different tradeoffs than traditional computers — that you can’t design one system that does it all."

You can't until you can. iOS is built on the same technology of OSX. IF they wanted, they could make iOS able to run OSX apps and be able to do many of the things that OSX can do. They've simply elected not to.

Most of the tradeoffs that Apple has made has less to do with what is possible and more to do with training their developers. If I remember correctly, Apple elected not to allow a 2 button mouse for a long time earlier in their history because they wanted to force developers to build apps that worked just fine with 1 button... to force them to create a different type of experience for users.

Microsoft's goals are actually the opposite. They don't want to create a completely different experience. Their corporate clients will buy the next version of Windows because it is an evolution, not a revolution. Creating a revolutionary product may actually be counter to their interests.

bkhl · 15 years ago

It's too early to say anything about Office on Windows 8. What Microsoft showed today was Windows 8, not Office. I'm sure Microsoft will has something for Office on Windows 8 with touch interface in mind. So far, I haven't seen any good office productivity applications on touch interface. I hope Microsoft impresses me.

bkhl commented on This Guy Has My MacBook thisguyhasmymacbook.tumbl... · Posted by u/bkaid

bkhl · 15 years ago

Good to know that OPD has arrested the bastard. :)

bkhl commented on Microsoft Unveils Mango, the Latest Version of Windows Phone mashable.com/2011/05/24/w... · Posted by u/Garbage

glhaynes · 15 years ago

I agree, "8" would be better for their new mobile platform which desperately needs hype. And it'd be appropriate, too!

Guess they've got the idea that users associate Windows for PCs 7 with Windows Phone 7 which seems to me ought to only be a minor consideration.

bkhl · 15 years ago

They probably want to align versions for Windows and Windows Phone. It looks much nicer when you say Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.