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JayEnnon The 120-Hour Workweek - Epic Coding Time-Lapse

Oh dear. This is going to be used as a stick to beat developers who work their contracted hours.

JayEnnon Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate?

xamarin studio is great to work with. Mono has a c# repl. OTOH if you said c# is practically unusable without resharper, I'd have some sympathy.

JayEnnon Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate?

you can run mvc on mono with nginx.

JayEnnon Perception is Reality - .Net OSS is DOA

This is why people leave .NET. Why build tools when people will only use other inferior tools.

JayEnnon A Case Against Cucumber

Twist last time I used it appeared to be much more inflexible to cukes. You still had to delve into Java to make it do anything useful so it still has the problems that cukes has.

JayEnnon Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched

I've got over 15k rep on SO and I've found more and more difficult to make an impact on there. Questions have either been asked or are answered instantly. All the time I'm getting answers and questions closed down and deleted as mods are gardening. I don't know what the answer is but its grown to the point where I find it too much effort too much.

Having said all that I'm just glad that its there. I remember coding without the internet (and I don't just mean a router failure) and that had its own challenges but SO has got me answers typically with in minutes and now instantly as the Q. base has grown. It's an amazing resource. If they can work out how people can contribute easily again it will be here for years to come.

JayEnnon Dependency Injection Considered Harmful

My bad I missed the ? off. However the original SO question and the relevant comment (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18547909/what-would-be-th...) states that "DI is essentially a bad idea". So I feel the title is a suitable fit either way.

JayEnnon Cheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm

What was his game though? To make the overall class grade better. To prove that a "lone wolf" is worse than the "mob"? The outcome from an educational view seems to be that everyone won. The loner could be a statistical outlier.

JayEnnon Why I cancelled my TechEd talks

What does payment have to do with it? A little common sense & a little respect for people is not nullified just because money has paid hands.

JayEnnon Politicians call for UK security services to be given greater monitoring powers

Get involved with the Open Rights Group http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ or write to your MP.

JayEnnon Show HN: Simple "new comments" highlighter for Hacker News

Yet again another case of completely ignoring the IE market. You hipster hackers are all the same.

JayEnnon Brazil is one of the biggest sources of malware on the planet

I don't get your point Delphi is used by less smart people?