Comments by "Traveller" (@traveller23e) on "NDC Conferences" channel.

That's the same strategy Microsoft uses for the help sections in Windows Settings. It's annoying (not least because it always opens a Bing search in Edge, not just a hyperlink to the page in your default browser) but not a huge problem all the way up til the time the problem you're trying to solve has to do with internet connectivity. Ask me how I know.
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@squarerootof2 I suspect that when Microsoft got rid of IE they did so by copying and pasting the critical parts the whole operating system relies upon to Edge, so I doubt you can remove it. Especially given how much Microsoft hates letting users actually do any configuration these days. I don't remember trying, but I'm pretty sure my Windows machine has edge on it still and I would have removed it right away if it were possible.
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I have a similar annoyance, though for me it regards Microsoft Windows.
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Good legacy code is wonderful. It never breaks, it gives you insight into a whole different world, and sometimes a chuckle when you find a comment that just says "TODO: fix this mystery bug" from 1996. I do however take complaint with a completely different class of code, originally written with the primary objective of time to market, designed by an architect in a rush and an unclear idea of the end goal, and programmed by people who were being clocked by the minute in their implementations of vague requirements. Those sorts of codebases tend to be atrocious, even if they follow MVVM or some other modern pattern to a t.
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Same here, because I almost never use Javascript.
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It's a language where the first thing that happens is all the variables are loaded into the stack. It has the huge performance benefit that you know the stack size right at the beginning so the OS doesn't have to use any guesswork to figure it out or anything.
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@seancpp Especially since a lot of the requirements are arbitrary business needs rather then technical ones. It would be nice to have some easy marker in the code to say "nothing bad will happen if you change this"
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@squarerootof2 Well, long story short (largely because I can't remember the exact circumstances) despite popular opinion Windows doesn't always work "right out of the box" and I was having a good deal of trouble getting hooked up to wifi after it had all just broken randomly. Disconnected but "can't connect to this network" or whatever, you know the drill.
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Huh. Sounds like JavaScript.
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@1klap Though I'm not sure having a sans-serif header is creative in this day and age haha
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@petergerdes1094 For the purposes of the consumer though, it's effectively 120. Traditionally it's also called 110, much as 240V in Europe is also called 220 or 230. The margins of error are large enough that it doesn't really matter that much, and in fact you can see in the photo of the voltage set switch in his presentation it's labelled "115".
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@petergerdes1094 That requires a separate 240 v circuit run from the breaker to the kitchen. It's also common for washing machines over there, so I hear. But stick a multimeter in one of your standard electrical outlets and tell me what voltage you get. That's the voltage most appliances (electric toothbrush chargers, computers power supplies, sewing machines, electric mixers, light bulbs...) use and are configured for. Although now it's more common to have devices that can handle either 120 or 240 without a problem, until recently this was fairly rare; about ten years ago I distinctly recall causing all the magic smoke to leak out of an American electric toothbrush charger by plugging it into a european outlet with just an adapter (no transformer).
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I find C# much easier to work with than Java, but I will still refuse to write C# on anything other than a Windows computer targeting anything other than a Windows computer if there is not a very good reason to do so. Why? Mainly the principal of the thing. I don't want Linux users to have to bloat their machines with the .net runtime and .dlls just to run my program.
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@GeorgeTsiros Yeah, the issue is when the declaration sets it to the output of some method and you can't really tell what type it is (especially when reviewing).
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