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Max_Horstmann

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Developer at Microsoft. Formerly Stack Overflow.

http://maxhorstmann.net

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Max_Horstmann··on WWDC 2024 [video]
literally lol'ed too
Max_Horstmann··on The Stainless SDK Generator
Congrats!

Any C# support in the works? :)

Max_Horstmann··on After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘pull the plug’
> The Alaska captain said that, as for many things in aviation, pilots routinely use an acronym when they do the pre-takeoff “sanity check”: TLAR, which means “That Looks About Right.”

Aviation's LGTM

Max_Horstmann··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)
fyi some broken images on https://www.serverless.com/framework#monitoring
Max_Horstmann··on Regression with the C64
> But this is not development.

Gatekeeping at its finest.

Max_Horstmann··on Optimizing Your Wife
Before posting a silly article like this, please consider the effect it might have on women in tech.
Max_Horstmann··on Who will win in this riveting chess game of Math.random() vs. Math.random()?
Might be a bug, anything in the console?

(I'm not the author of chessboardjs, just stumbled over it)

Max_Horstmann··on Tell HN: PSA about getting hired via Stack Overflow
I believe what you're referring to are the required steps to create a public link to a developer story.

This isn't required in order to appear in search results by recruiters. As long as a user has their job search status set to either "Actively looking right now" or "Open, but not actively looking", they will be included in candidate search.

(source: I work for SO)

Max_Horstmann··on Redis Labs Raises a $60M Series E Round
Would it still be fair to say that Redis typically is used for things like caching, messaging etc (and it's amazing for that), but not as a primary data store? Or did I miss something?
Max_Horstmann··on Goldman Sachs relaxes dress code for techs in fight for talent
"Oh and remember, next Friday is Hawaiian shirt day! So, y'know, if you want to, go ahead and uh, wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans."
Max_Horstmann··on F# 4.1 and Visual F# Tools for Visual Studio 2017
Small typo in the post: pubish-directory
Max_Horstmann··on All NYC Subway Stations to Receive Wi-Fi by End of 2016
> The MTA will also accelerate delivering real-time arrival data for all 469 subway stations, which will be available on the MTA’s SubwayTime app and will be streamed as an open data feed for any developer to use.

Neat.

Max_Horstmann··on The Most Important Thing: Decline in poverty, illiteracy and disease
Since this is HN, here's a question: what role could technology play in eliminating extreme poverty by 2030?
Max_Horstmann··on Devs: blow the whistle
| Exactly what upside is there to an individual to do so?

It's the ethical thing to do.

| Much better to just start looking for a better job

Not mutually exclusive.

Max_Horstmann··on Devs: blow the whistle
Interesting, and depressing. Thanks for sharing!
Max_Horstmann··on The Hardest chess problem in the world?
Also cool: white to move and NOT mate

http://www.chess.com/blog/AaronGo/white-to-move-and-not-mate

Max_Horstmann··on The Toddler at Y Combinator
Awesome!
Max_Horstmann··on Windows 10, coming July 29, free to Win7 and 8.1 users
Hopefully, when they do, it'll support two external Thunderbolt displays on a MacBook Pro.

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/171650/boot-camp-on...

Max_Horstmann··on Show HN: A random startup generator
Upvote for every single startup.

"ChildhoodStrike is revolutionizing the way people think about childhoods." hahahahahaha...

Max_Horstmann··on Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015
They're all on http://quant.stackexchange.com. :-)
Max_Horstmann··on The Problem with Job Titles
Finally, a Rorschach test for developers!
Max_Horstmann··on Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
The zip code issue should now be fixed.

E.g. try "76131" on the German site and you'll see jobs/companies in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Do the same search on the U.S. and you'll see results from Fort Worth, TX.

Max_Horstmann··on Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
We're looking into the zip code issue, stay tuned.
Max_Horstmann··on Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
I knew your alias sounded familiar...
Max_Horstmann··on Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
I found my current job, which is working on SO Careers, on SO Careers.
Max_Horstmann··on But Where Do People Work in This Office?
JK. It's by far the best office I've ever had.
Max_Horstmann··on But Where Do People Work in This Office?
Yes.
Max_Horstmann··on But Where Do People Work in This Office?
You can move the desk around. My "window" is on my left.
Max_Horstmann··on [dead]
You can also manually change the URL to https, without logging in. A redirect would be good practice.
Max_Horstmann··on Microsoft Announces Windows 10
What's the internal version number going to be? 6.3, or are they jumping to 7.0?
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