MS loves to reinvent shit, make it proprietary and then an industry standard.

@SoldierOfCode I love the smell of new devrant stuff in the morning! 😤

Lol. You HAVE to do this? Is someone holding a gun to your head and forcing you to spam ads?

@HarryPotterr you were looking for liquid glass, @donkulator's arse?

@D-4got10-01 I don’t think so. He wouldn’t be able to resist.

How about using a document based db instead?

I think this time I don’t need to preach how great Swift is :)

Oh, a new piece of shit slipped though the spam filter.
Let’s correct this…

@amandahaynes109 nobody asked for your spam. Fuck off, human scum!

@Hazarth yes and no.
Clean Code is also this popular book and a lot of people understand clean code to be an application of those specific rules from that book.
And unfortunately this book gives quite a lot of bad advice.

@D-4got10-01 there definitely are important things that determine the performance of an employee. But those are impossible to measure.

Part of that is how big companies work, unfortunately. But yours seems to be more extreme.
Regarding your question, I don’t, because overall I like the company that I work for.
But if I’d hate it, I’d try to find something else.

@jestdotty it‘s like your mind is constantly in another dimension or alternate reality where all of the devrant posts and comments are slightly different.
Your answer appears to be addressing something that another version of me has said in your reality.
In my reality, it barely makes any sense.

@jestdotty spaghetti isn’t the single thing that makes code bad. And there is not a single thing that makes code clean or good.
There are a lot of different categories and factors to good and bad code.
And nobody just decides to write good or bad code. It‘s always a mix.
Everybody is aware of that.
It’s not a false dichotomy.

@whimsical writing supposedly clean code is not contrary to get shit done.

That‘s just something that sloppy coders tell to themselves to have an excuse to proceed to write shit code.

Not only that but the "Clean Code" principles are mostly bullshit.
They don’t result in good code.

Experienced devs all agree on that.

Then Xamarin… that one sucked a lot already but my company invested into it and forced me to use it.

Now whatever new crap that MS makes (MAUI?), I don't care anymore.
It will die. No doubt about that.

I went on to a different platform.

@D-4got10-01 yup, I had a Windows Phone and I also invested quite a bit into UWP. I bought all the bullshit promises about the unification of mobile and desktop.

@cafecortado tbf semantic versioning only makes sense for APIs and SDKs, not for end user software or programming languages.

@D-4got10-01 yes, that was me!
I was a total sucker for XNA!
I invested so much time into it until MS decided to fuck the devs again.
Still mad at them for killing it.
And I know that a lot of people loved Silverlight (I tried it, it was quite nice) and are also mad at MS because they killed it.

In the meantime MS has killed almost every nice SDK and framework and you can bet your ass they will kill again.
So never invest in something that MS made.

@CaptainRant yup, I remember being hyped for the next release of C# and .NET :)

@jestdotty speak for yourself

@kamen yeah, it’s pretty good.

@jestdotty

"I have no mouth and I must scream" scenario:

The AI hates humans and is obsessed with doing as much harm as possible to them.
That means, not allowing humans to die and instead making them immortal and torturing them forever.

"One of the Outer Limits episodes" scenario:

The AI is given the task to make humans happy.
The way of how the AI determines happiness is by how much humans smile.
The AI makes sure that everyone who doesn’t smile all the time gets punished.

There are countless variations of those which one could imagine.

The main point is that once we have an Intelligence that has practically unlimited power, it can do with us whatever it "likes" (or finds necessary). And when that happens, I‘d much rather be dead.

@jestdotty

> it is strange to me air traffic control isn't done by a machine though

Same reason why we haven‘t switched to full automatous driving yet.

We need a human to blame when something bad happens. Even if bad things happen less without humans.

Btw. being wiped out from the face of the earth is far from the worst of the likely outcomes.

This is one of the most disturbing things for me to think about.

@donkulator embrace the dirty feeling :)

What will humans do?

Well, be dead, most likely.

If we are lucky and don’t fuck it up, then what we'll do is enjoy life without the need for doing shit work to earn money.

@afaik1 you mean the glass design in Windows Vista or Windows 7? It was great!

From there it went straight to vomit inducing ugly with Windows 8 and then to slightly less ugly in Windows 10 and 11

Doesn’t it burn like hell?