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New comment by oaiey in "OpenJDK: Panama"

oaiey — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:45:47 +0000

C# / .NET. It was a big differentiator in one of our analysis.

New comment by oaiey in "Scott Hanselman says he's working on Windows local accounts"

oaiey — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:01:37 +0000

Yeah, correct. There is no reason to believe he can change that for Windows. But he will know where to address it really. But it will not change. Too much money at risk

New comment by oaiey in "Scott Hanselman says he's working on Windows local accounts"

oaiey — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:00:26 +0000

The .NET evangelist of that generation have been more than fine. No bullshit, no false promises, no lies, etc. Focused on communicating the change towards Linux, the performance work and so much more.

Scott is well connected in the dev and azure divisions. He has headlined dev conferences etc. But as an evangelist he only carries information. This change will not happen because of him but maybe with him. But I do not believe so. To much money at risk.

New comment by oaiey in "Scott Hanselman says he's working on Windows local accounts"

oaiey — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:09:04 +0000

He is a evangelist for cloud and .NET. he was one of the 5 public faces who moved .NET to open source in 2011 and beyond.

New comment by oaiey in "Scott Hanselman says he's working on Windows local accounts"

oaiey — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:07:33 +0000

Scott Hanselman is awesome, has a good connections in the dev and cloud folks (Scott Guthrie corner). He has some influence but he cannot shape Windows like that. I think what he says is that he advocates for it but I have zero hope.

New comment by oaiey in "XML is a cheap DSL"

oaiey — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:54:32 +0000

XML, Json, plain text, whatever, all does not matter. What matters is that you speak domain language. Speak the language of your domain, model your config or data in the language of the domain and users.

That is so powerful and the reason domain driven design is still a powerful concept.

New comment by oaiey in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

oaiey — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:07:34 +0000

While I agree with the last sentence, I would suggest you buy what is needed not what is latest.

New comment by oaiey in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

oaiey — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:33:23 +0000

And since euthanasia is not favoured by the religious right in the US (I assume here for sake of argument) it would be filtered by VPN / DNS anyway in the VPN

New comment by oaiey in "The Day the Telnet Died"

oaiey — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:49:54 +0000

I do not know what is more critical: the risk of censorship or stand by while hospitals, banking, nuclear power plants and other systems become compromised and go down with people dying because of it. These decision makers not only have powers but also have a responsibility

New comment by oaiey in "Art of Roads in Games"

oaiey — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:00:14 +0000

At a certain point these simulators would be so intense that your joy for the game could be your joy for real employment in a city :)

The statement reversed, you might loose your joy because working in the game is no longer fun.

I get you but just want to say: careful what you wish for :)

New comment by oaiey in "Art of Roads in Games"

oaiey — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:55:50 +0000

In my area, streets are often church tower to church tower. From the middle ages. You can nowadays drive these streets and the middle line indicators align perfectly with the church tower showing up. I think the church /church based government share that property right understanding of the Romans :)

New comment by oaiey in "Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees"

oaiey — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:37:13 +0000

Sounds like the person doing the performance review just relies on metrics. Sounds like a shitty leader.

New comment by oaiey in "The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]"

oaiey — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:31:12 +0000

Hmmm. I have a different take there: when you are young and wild, you achieve stuff because you think later and instantly produce code. When you turn older, you do it the other way leading to your example.

In the early 2000s I have been in a startup and we delivered rapidly in C# as we did in PHP. We just coded the shit.

New comment by oaiey in "The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]"

oaiey — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:16:26 +0000

I think he confuses longhorn with Singularity research project.

New comment by oaiey in "The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]"

oaiey — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:15:13 +0000

The article is presenting some stuff mixed up. Had nothing to do with the language or the framework. WinFS was a database product. Over engineered and abstract.

.NET and C# were researched a lot for operating system usage (Midori, Singularity) but that was after Longhorn.

The operating system group UI toolkits was a further problem and they pivoted there dozen of times in the years. Particular for a C++ based os group.

But the death of longhorn was ultimately about the security restart of Bill Gates

New comment by oaiey in "The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]"

oaiey — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:54:09 +0000

Spot on.

New comment by oaiey in "The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]"

oaiey — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:51:59 +0000

As a long term observer: definitely not a goal. But you have to be clear here: JavaScript and C# both are OO languages, both are having origins stories in Java/C++, both are facing the same niche (system development), same challenges (processor counts, ...) and so on. And then, you put teams on it which look left and right when they face a problem and then you wonder that they reuse what they like?

C# language team is also really good. They did not do a lot of mistakes in the 25+ years. They are a very valid source of OO and OO-hybrid concepts. It is not only TS/JS but also Java and C++ who often look to C#.

The story was not to transform C# code to JS but to use C# to write the code in the first place and transpile it. Not for the sake of having .NET usage but for the sake of having a good IDE.

New comment by oaiey in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

oaiey — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:14:08 +0000

Sweet. Alternatives are always something good.

New comment by oaiey in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"

oaiey — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:32:17 +0000

It will not survive. No point in maintaining both. Just costs money. Device management for mobile phones is also a huge point.

My educated guess: tablet/laptop hybrids with Android OS. Not that Apple has huge success with the same move

New comment by oaiey in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

oaiey — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 06:18:30 +0000

As someone who has benefiter ones from this, I have to say: good.

In my humble opinion: the current state is better than no encryption at all. For example: Laptop theft, scavengers trying to find pictures, etc. And if you think you are target of either Microsoft or the law enforcement manage your keys yourself or go straight to Linux.