Hacker News: serve_yay

New comment by serve_yay in "MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core"

serve_yay — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:35:22 +0000

:) Who needs all those silly things, who can even keep track of them all? npm scripts + browserify does the trick nicely.

New comment by serve_yay in "MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core"

serve_yay — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:33:30 +0000

Ah, that is nice. .NET seems to have a wonderful property where even if they start out with something dumb, they eventually come to their senses and do the right thing. Sure can take a while to get there, though.

New comment by serve_yay in "MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core"

serve_yay — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:28:55 +0000

Shit, I would probably build out an entirely separate build system and then just call it with MSBuild if I had to.

New comment by serve_yay in "MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core"

serve_yay — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 18:22:45 +0000

Eh, I write JavaScript now.

New comment by serve_yay in "MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core"

serve_yay — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 17:41:56 +0000

I really hated the language you use to describe build tasks. It is a very frustrating mix of declarative and imperative syntax. And of course, who wouldn't want to write code in XML?! (XML, the markup language, the one we use for marking up information like documents and records.)

I was doing fairly complicated tasks with it years ago, and it's just one of those technologies that feels like it is fighting you at every turn. This was for continuous integration stuff and developer-productivity tools, not "open up Visual Studio and click the button". Thankfully much of that has been obviated over the years by things like NuGet and Octopus coming around.

New comment by serve_yay in "MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core"

serve_yay — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 17:04:36 +0000

Hoo boy, MSBuild was always by far my least-favorite part of being a .NET developer. I would like to flippantly say they should just throw it away and replace it, but probably much too late for that.

New comment by serve_yay in "Microsoft's Software is Malware"

serve_yay — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 02:17:34 +0000

No, no.

New comment by serve_yay in "Google OnHub Review"

serve_yay — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:48:14 +0000

If ease of setup and attractiveness of the device are the issues, Apple has been making AirPorts a long time (at a similar price point, I'll add).

New comment by serve_yay in "Minecraft creator Notch shares the darker side of life after a big exit"

serve_yay — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 16:58:05 +0000

Not giving equity strikes me as a tactical error, because the hurt feelings seem to be worth a lot more to him than the money he now has and apparently isn't interested in. I understand the justification for not doing it, but it seems like he's paying a different price for it now.

New comment by serve_yay in "Simplicity Matters – Rich Hickey (2012) [video]"

serve_yay — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 21:36:26 +0000

Right, and so what you get is people saying something is "simple" when what they really mean is that they like it. Which is of course not Hickey's fault, it just irks me for some reason.

New comment by serve_yay in "Simplicity Matters – Rich Hickey (2012) [video]"

serve_yay — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 21:06:22 +0000

I love Rich Hickey and I will watch any talk he ever gives. I believe I have seen them all at current.

Here's what drives me nuts about this one, though - it gets passed around a lot where I work, and people say how strongly they agree with him. There are real, concrete things he claims are not simple here! Things like for loops. And these people I'm talking about, they say they love this talk and then they say they love for loops. Really! I don't get it.

New comment by serve_yay in "“One billion people used Facebook in a single day”"

serve_yay — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:44:54 +0000

Do you guys think this is just somehow not possible, or something? It's Facebook.

New comment by serve_yay in "“One billion people used Facebook in a single day”"

serve_yay — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:44:21 +0000

I don't know but I'm not really inclined to be skeptical of this.

New comment by serve_yay in "A Short Lesson in Perspective (2012)"

serve_yay — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 18:04:58 +0000

Work reasonable hours, get paid what you're worth, and damn the rest.

New comment by serve_yay in "Amazon Underground"

serve_yay — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 00:46:58 +0000

Repeating my call for each HN post to have a new, separate comments section specifically for shitty comments about the page itself as opposed to the ideas contained therein

New comment by serve_yay in "Amazon Underground"

serve_yay — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 00:33:54 +0000

Interesting. Curious about the reaction to Google Play not allowing such an app. (I'm guessing restrictions on app stores are ok when Google does them)

New comment by serve_yay in "Who Hacked Ashley Madison?"

serve_yay — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:11:52 +0000

I would prefer for people to mind their own business. I don't think that is so "amorphous", do you?

New comment by serve_yay in "Who Hacked Ashley Madison?"

serve_yay — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:31:08 +0000

I hadn't considered that, but it's an interesting point. That said, all the standard moralizing accompanying this is so gross.

New comment by serve_yay in "Rovio to Cut 260 Jobs as the Angry Birds Franchise Becomes Irrelevant"

serve_yay — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:42:40 +0000

The only lesson Apple seems to have learned is that the App Store is great, and everything they're doing is working gangbusters.

New comment by serve_yay in "Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked"

serve_yay — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 22:52:11 +0000

So is it just socialist publications, then? No publications of other ideological bents deserving of similar scrutiny? Fantastic.