dethswatch

This is likely the reason we don't have a 64bit Studio too- just too much of a pain. Their arguments re speed and memory usage have been going on for years while I've gone from 2gb to 256gb and similar speed increases.

Those arguments are becoming irrelevant and headed for laughable.

Yet. Little by little, rather than invest in windows-only vstudio, they'll enhance code until it's building all the same stuff as studio and then they'll announce how amazing code is and stop talking about studio alltogether.

When MS ghosts a product, you know what its future is.

Yup.

Kill it all- transition it to linux, put linux on azure, or build systems on azure profit / rent-seeking.

vsCode only exists because vstudio isn't multiplatform and never will be but they need multiplatform in order to make their slice of the cloud revenue larger.

Nor, for that matter, browsers, or perhaps word processors.

Too late. Developers have left the building.

.NET only exists any more because of legacy interests, there's little compelling developer story otherwise.

Which is a not so clever way of clearing vacation off the books also.

I will no longer work for companies that play similar games.

I urge others to consider doing the same.

I only predict the future when I want to be wrong.

In addition- do you feel it's reasonable for a "Sr or higher" candidate to lock up (ie- stammer, not be able to come to any sensible conclusion)if one was to be asked a question where they have to use the same tools to answer those questions above when asked a question not in their domain- for example, 'how many pianos tuners are likely to be in this area'?

I'm not arguing in favor of non-domain experience questions like mt fuji or piano tuners- but I can't see hiring a Sr who can't tell give me some Fermi question approximations about how many servers we need.

Maybe I don't know what a Sr is supposed to be capable of doing?

They're essentially essay questions- come up with reasonable-enoguh assumptions and get on with business.

We don't do a -ton- of stuff like that, but I've found that if you can't estimate with any rationale, you're probably just not very good at whatever domain you're asked to deal with.

For example, 'what sort of architecture are we going to use to make this system', 'how many simultaneous users are we expecting', 'how many requests per second can we handle given this hardware', 'how much memory do we really need- if we quadrupled it, what would that get us', etc.

Also- if a person locks up when they're thrown "How would you move mt fuji", there are going to be a lot questions that I'd be concerned about getting answers out of you for...

For a Sr or higher person, I'd hope to get some reasonable answers.

Am I off?

Hence, the total apparent lack of desire to do anything new and innovative ("Let's copy AWS! Genius!").

It was the first phone I'd bought since 2003 that didn't let you add your own ring tones- you couldn't even buy them.

It took them about a year to add copy and paste capabilities- as if cargo-cult-wise, this was the key to Apple's success with the iPhone.

When you're ready to spend big bucks on Azure, please let them know.

The last info I recall us getting about it was when the SPOT watch came out and they said we'd be able to write code for it and that didn't materialize, iirc.

you need to do a little more research on what goes into even assembling the movement, much less the manufacturing, etc.

Basically- taping your back so that you know when you're leaning fwd.

What I'm caring less and less about is MSFT. The feeling is mutual- they just really don't give a fuck about you if you're doing anything but using Azure though.

I'm finding that I need them less and less.

How about how it didn't have copy/paste functionality for about a year- I believe they stole this feature from the first iPhone.

Then their apps used advanced controls like the carousel/panorama but the plebes had to wait?

Then they wouldn't tell even the people who'd paid for beta access what apps would ship, so if you developed one that was similar by coincidence, boy were you screwed.

Remember how they didn't bother to encrypt anything so pirating was as easy as rolling off a log?

Then remember when their upgrade story was RSN for months because they couldn't get the carriers to allow them to upgrade it like they wanted?

Then ultimately, you can GFY if you want to upgrade because they didn't bother with backwards compatibility on the phones as they upgraded the OS' major versions.

OMG- I almost forgot the hw buttons that you couldn't disable so if, in the middle of a game, your thumb accidentally brushed up against it, you were dumped from that app. In theory you could have saved your game state for later, but come on.

Ah-- good times.