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Nice article but it seems obvious to me the .NET team should throw away AzureDevOps as the queue wait time is the major bottleneck. Run bare metal build servers. Maybe there are ju…

"old man yells at clouds." :)

4.8 is basically never going away. its built into Windows thanks to Longhorn developers, many of whom left mid project to work at Google.

async await works fine to build Excel formulas via RTD Servers. https://excel-dna.net/docs/release-notes-1-9/#asynchronous-a... Just because you think something is hard, doesn't me…

The Taylor Swift billboard 100 debut at 1 test.

Hmm. You find it hard to go back to languages without ADTs yet you use Java for your day job. Okay.

Windows supports eBPF. CrowdStrike was written before that supports existed, though.

I know quite a few developers who have a knack for following market trends and jumping on the rocket ship before it is about to launch. It's actually not that hard if you think abo…

> It's kind of like the "r/cscareerquestions" effect. I canceled my ACM subscription in my late 20s because I got tired of ACM basically doomposting about careers. Last night I was…

In my experience, the decision is driven by a VP who wants a bullet point on their year-end review, namely "notional cost savings achieved".

What do you do for a living?

This is not true. She does discuss how some countries and regions of the world use the Internet less, or not at all, and thus Transformer/BERT are training on the linguistic habits…

Why is Mozilla Firefox written in Rust, then? The last time I looked at browser benchmarks was in 2016 when Google released benchmarks to brag about its performance over Firefox an…

Alan Kay's criticisms are much more damning.

I can tell you that developer salaries are growing. I have tried telling my senior management that the average senior developer salary in Boston will go from 120k in 2014 to 140k b…

Too much drugs from Haight Ashbury...

Also, that this is another example of more specialized chip sets eating away at general purpose CPU/GPU market share.

My college roommate was the maintainer of Hercules, the z/OS emulator. See: http://www.hercules-390.eu/hercfaq.html 2.01 Can it run z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE? Yes. Hercules is a software i…

Just simple advice. 1. The problem of adding more input types, as well as expressing more functions over existing and additional (unbound) input types, is a classical computer scie…

Also, why does your ampersand-forms code return string objects for error messages? Seems very limiting, and a pain in the butt to extend. If you have a getErrorMessage() method, wh…

Dart, TypeScript, or any other similar strongly typed language that compiles down to JavaScript while still looking quite a bit like JavaScript.

You don't link to it clearly enough. I also had a "just show me the code" reaction, and all I saw was the example of how to create a restful collections module.

Of course. It is a general purpose programming language, which allows deploying JavaScript code as CommonJS or AMD modules. It provides fairly rich type definitions. I realize you …

Also... > 4. Strict semver all the things > 5. Tiny module all the things! > The smaller the feature set of the low-level modules, the easier it is to avoid breaking changes. > 6. …

>>>> Backbone models, by default, don’t enforce any structure. You don’t have to declare anywhere what properties you’re going to store. As a result, people inevitably start saving…