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#22Looks like the mastodon instance got the HN hug of death, anybody archived it?
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#23Take this as a lesson. If you've been a dev long enough, you've worked on a project knowing that how the project is being done isn't the best method with every intention of going back to make it better later, but not at the expense of getting the MVP up and running. You'll also have seen that never actually happening and all of those bad decisions from the beginning still living all the way to the bitter end. I'm gue…
When a developer says “this is a temporary solution” they mean “this is a temporary solution forever”.
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#24Where does Foone keep finding this stuff? Earlier, Foone finds a NUC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41294585
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41298430 had the comments
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#25Take this as a lesson. If you've been a dev long enough, you've worked on a project knowing that how the project is being done isn't the best method with every intention of going back to make it better later, but not at the expense of getting the MVP up and running. You'll also have seen that never actually happening and all of those bad decisions from the beginning still living all the way to the bitter end. I'm gue…
When a developer says “this is a temporary solution” they mean “this is a temporary solution forever”.
The beta version works fine, lets just keep it.
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#26Any C# devs wanna explain the XML thing? To me having a separate class to deserialize each kind of XML document to its respective object seems nice and the "right" way to use XML. The class just becomes the config file. Generic loaders but poking at the tree is super brittle. Does C# come with magic to do this better? Because if you have to invent the config file then isn't that creating a DSL and we're back to over…
I stopped reading when it got all shouty, and a quick scan doesn't show whether it's got actual sample code. It's also been a long while since I wrote any C# for real, and even longer since I had to deal with .NET's XmlSerializer. It used to be a pain in the backside to deal with XML in .NET if you wanted to just deserialise a file to an object. You'd need to mark up the class with attributes and stuff. I remember be…
> I'm not sure if XmlSerializer ever caught up in that regard.
Not really. The one thing that exists to make this easier is xsd.exe, which can generate the code for these classes from and XML Schema file.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serializat...
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#27I mean that’s scary, but at this point is there anybody to hold accountable?
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Judging by the movies I've seen on international flights in the past few years, I think this is really unfair to inflight video. (i.e., the available movies were all highly-rated theater movies, not direct-to-video garbage.) Perhaps a better description would be "even worse than Netflix originals"...
I question if this has ever been true outside of old timey planes of decades back where everyone had to watch the same movie. If you were on a decent international flight you could sometimes even see a movie still in theaters. The only real regression I've seen in my life time in in-flight entertainment is ANA removing their partnership with Nintendo to run SNES emulators to all the seats. A 14 hour flight to Narita…
I didn't bring 5 dollars cash the first time I took a plane to SF from the east coast. You end up watching a movie on a projector screen without sound. I end up reading through Microsoft foundation classes books. On the way back I had my 5 dollars ready.
The movie was about a brother who returns to a small town to visit his sister in a southern town. He ends up staying and helping her with the kids. But his irresponsible ways causes frustration with the sister and the kids he is watching. He leaves. End of movie.
Truly awful. I wonder what the first movie was like.
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#29Take this as a lesson. If you've been a dev long enough, you've worked on a project knowing that how the project is being done isn't the best method with every intention of going back to make it better later, but not at the expense of getting the MVP up and running. You'll also have seen that never actually happening and all of those bad decisions from the beginning still living all the way to the bitter end. I'm gue…
When a developer says “this is a temporary solution” they mean “this is a temporary solution forever”.
There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution, and nothing more temporary than a permanent solution.
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#30> JUST READ THE FUCKING JSON FILE YOU ENTERPRISE FUCKERS
On a codebase I worked on, accepting an expanded range of data in a field required modifying seven files in three repositories and two (or three) programming languages. Someone thought that's the right way of doing it.