FlorianRappl

I thought its pretty hilarious. First I was worried I've been hacked (or SO has been hacked) then I realized they must start early with their April fool stuff. Liked the guestbook at the bottom!

Nostalgia FTW!

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For me Google Cache was helping out under similar circumstances (also tried the Archive first, but apparently Google Cache was [at least back then] more up-to-date).

You got my smile ;). Also in Germany its no problem since all we do is sausages.

Wonder why a burger so different that the person making it cannot be on parental leave for a year.

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smapiot (https://smapiot.com) is a young startup focusing on premium IT consulting and on engineering software services in the IoT and development tooling space. For smapiot the bread and butter business is the development of cloud native applications featuring reliability, scalability and security. Our consulting projects touch a broad functional spectrum including identity management systems and smart home platforms.

Our technology stack includes C#, TypeScript, Node.js, ReactJS, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, MongoDB and many more interesting and leading-edge technologies. Essential to us is a friendly and collaborative working environment which fosters a constructive and open discussion culture, while working in an agile and flexible way tailored to our needs. Within smapiot everyone has a tech background and we are proud of our experienced architecture team. Regularly we meet up in joint retreats, general tech discussion sessions, or other team activities.

We are looking for skilled full stack web and backend developers who are keen on building amazing tools and state-of-the-art solutions. If you are attracted by the vision of contributing to the growth of a young, innovative company, then don't hesitate to contact us by writing a mail to recruiting@smapiot.com.

What I always find interesting is that if a professional soccer player is caught only a (in absolute terms) substantial amount of money is fined, while "ordinary" people would certainly go behind bars in addition to paying the money. The 23 months seems to be quite a joke to insult the intellect of these ordinary citizens.

Warmup opponent:)

They did the same with AlphaGo back then. First get some "good" player in there to see if they are on the right track. Then get a better player in there. Finally, prepare for a real showdown. In this case it would be ShowTime, Neeb or even some Korean pro (e.g., Stats). Maybe its time to switch matchups and make it PvZ - get Serral and then let's see if the current SC2 champion is good enough to beat this AI.

Thought the same - especially since afaik no AI has yet beaten a Korean pro.

A few months (maybe 1 year ago) the best AIs tried vs some "retired" pro-gamers (like Stork) - it was not even close.

Would have loved to see DeepMind trying to show what's possible here.

I was always wondering why this is not so common in SC2... I mean in StarCraft that was / is well-known and having good worker(-building) control is an essential skill (for Zerg even more than for the other races due to the natural decision where to spent the larva to).

While this is super impressive we should not forget - it was just a single matchup (1/9, requires a lot of adaption; especially on the three races) on a single map (1/N, granted in SC2 the maps are not as diverse as in the original StarCraft) using a single (outdated) patch. Humans are still master in knowledge transfer playing an unknown map and lesser known matchup with greater precision. Once an AI reaches a level where knowledge is transferred more efficiently than what we are capable of I will start getting worried - not beforehand.

We use Azure DevOps for a fairly large project and so far its working good (i.e., not great, but better than okay-ish). The point with the lost communication is something we also experienced more often than I would wish for, however, on a standard day I do not see the issue appearing at all.

Yes, the mobile page could be optimized (but this is not a deal breaker) and yes some pages do not subscribe for notifications, but usually all these things are not in the hot path.

TL;DR: Lots of improvements in the recent year and many things to come - it may not be perfect but it certainly is usable and provides value to our team.

Noticed it, but I like(d) the ad / package / presentation.

Personally, I think this is "good" marketing.

I think having 2FA should be a feature of every page that provides a login possibility.

Had the same; scary thing is the unknown number of people who will just pay / take everything in that email seriously.

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Our technology stack includes C#, TypeScript, Node.js, ReactJS, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, MongoDB and many more interesting and leading-edge technologies. Essential to us is a friendly and collaborative working environment which fosters a constructive and open discussion culture, while working in an agile and flexible way tailored to our needs. Within smapiot everyone has a tech background and we are proud of our experienced architecture team. Regularly we meet up in joint retreats, general tech discussion sessions, or other team activities.

We are looking for skilled full stack web and backend developers who are keen on building amazing tools and state-of-the-art solutions. If you are attracted by the vision of contributing to the growth of a young, innovative company, then don't hesitate to contact us by writing a mail to recruiting@smapiot.com.

smapiot | SW Architects and SW Engineers | ONSITE | Full-time | Munich, Germany

smapiot (https://smapiot.com) is a young startup focusing on premium IT consulting and on engineering software services in the IoT and development tooling space. For smapiot the bread and butter business is the development of cloud native applications featuring reliability, scalability and security. Our consulting projects touch a broad functional spectrum including identity management systems and smart home platforms.

Our technology stack includes C#, TypeScript, Node.js, ReactJS, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, MongoDB and many more interesting and leading-edge technologies. Essential to us is a friendly and collaborative working environment which fosters a constructive and open discussion culture, while working in an agile and flexible way tailored to our needs. Within smapiot everyone has a tech background and we are proud of our experienced architecture team. Regularly we meet up in joint retreats, general tech discussion sessions, or other team activities.

We are looking for skilled full stack web and backend developers who are keen on building amazing tools and state-of-the-art solutions. If you are attracted by the vision of contributing to the growth of a young, innovative company, then don't hesitate to contact us by writing a mail to recruiting@smapiot.com.

I see why people like using something like MailChimp - but I would personally never do (nor advocate) doing so. Your mailing list(s) / subscribers are very valuable. Not controlling these entities and relying on MailChimp to handle them well is... well, quite a bet I would not want to take. Stories like the one referenced are quite common and even though these are outliers I would not like playing with these odds.

Is Google Chat really an Electron app? If it is, then I wonder why it cannot do OTA update or why it has to open a browser for login (instead of opening the page in the Electron shell).

Long story short: It's either a really badly written Electron app or no Electron app (well, still obviously not written for 2018).

I thought 100% the same. While it is known that GKE yields the best managed Kubernetes experience I thought the whole Azure bashing was not only pointless, but also flawed with many inaccurate and even false statements. So much to "honest".

When I first looked at WinRT app development I thought "how are they going to sell it with these limitations and incompatibilities?" and they did not. UWP was a slightly improved version on WinRT, but it still had some of the same core issues. Luckily, Microsoft has some kind of exit strategy already - I just wonder where that leads.

That all being said: Microsoft should still invest in their desktop stack (especially WPF / .NET for desktop applications in general). Bringing the positive parts from UWP to the established frameworks would be a big win for everyone.

Coming from .NET you should know Noda Time (https://nodatime.org) and the problem it solves. Consider moment the JS alternative, however, with JS native Date being more limited / broken than .NET's DateTime.

TL;DR: Goes way beyond standard formatting.

I would really love to see what happened since the article, since I, personally, stopped using Julia around the same time (unrelated to the article) and only followed the announcements (e.g., of hitting the 1.0 milestone). I would love to know if the outside view ("it improved / matured a lot") is the true story.

I can believe how popular TS is and it is super useful. I would not write a React application of any noticeable size without TS (and just FYI I would never willingly write an Angular app). The reason that I get far superior code completion and meaningful warnings / errors is sufficient to add a few annotations here and there.

Many people are doing TS wrong. They add types everywhere. Honestly, you should write as many types as necessary, but not more. Use type inference which works remarkably well.

> They did corner the market so clearly they must be doing something, but really I just can't see it. I'm completely stumped.

One of the reasons is the lack of competition, e.g., we use Microsoft Teams instead, but its also an electron app with the same problems (and takes ages to start).

They wrote it in TS. Don't know why you think it would take longer with TS. Personally, I prefer using TS as I'm faster with TS when the code is going beyond 1 file or O(10^2) LOC.

We have a larger migration project going on for months. So far not a single failure occurred and our TEST environment is already fully migrated (quite responsive and rock solid) since 2 weeks.

However, I do share that Azure indeed has released a lot of half-baked features and services lately (last 1.5 to 2 years). I hope this trend does not continue.

While I agree in total (e.g., how Microsoft approached the problem is great) I do not agree that the Stream API is that ugly. Yes, it is not nice and has a lot of pitfalls, but it is one of the "lower level" APIs in .NET and certainly did its job. Now its (finally) time to move on.

The future here looks bright!

Thought exactly the same, even though removing the "functional" cookies made the cookie appearance re-appear. If the banner requires a cookie I would have expected this cookie to be in the "essential" section.

Interesting... do you have more information on this? Haven't read about it yet and would like to know more.

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