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Because it is already supported in VS Code.

I don't think this is a hot take, but I'm predicting Microsoft will gradually phase out Visual Studio in favor of VS Code.

My eye sight got MUCH worse after a covid infection. I was 20/20 or better before covid, now everything is blurry outside of a very narrow distance range, and white anything can hurt. Granted I'm over 50, so I was expecting my eyes to go bad at some point.

So I was part of a company that did this. They used XML as a programming language, then built apps to manage the "code". This was all done to create mobile apps for old Windows Phone devices back in the Windows Phone 5 and 6 days (before iPhone).

Because of the tooling, you weren't actually writing the XML either, you used a custom built editor (a tree view with a property panel). It all sucked. I was looking at the thing trying to figure out if I could create an intermediate language with my own "compiler" to get around the xml editors they build.

Anyway, every developer hated it. All of them. Well, everyone but the guy that created the monstrosity anyway.

Long Covid and ME/CFS can make you fragile. At least it has for me. I never used to get emotionally overwhelmed, now I do. I don't have it as bad as she does, but I've been bedbound because of this. And being sick for months to years, already leaves you feeling on the brink of depression.

IPOs also kill a lot of companies. Now you have a new list of investors you are obligated to attend to, and what those investors what is not always to make your company more successful, if it can make more money now.

* How much stress? * How many hours?

Braden Health | Boise (ONSITE) | Full-time

We are writing and maintaining health software for rural hospitals in Tennessee and Virginia. Small team, products in active development.

We are looking for a full stack developer, comfortable in backend and frontend.

Tech we use: C#, ASP.NET, TypeScript, React, Sql Server. Nice to have: knowledge of HL7, general familiarity with how hospitals work

Email resume to chris.brandsma@bradenhealth.com

AI is somehow supposed to generate $1T a year by 2028? From where? Never mind the lack of electric grid capacity to keep all of this running.

She wasn't even reading it, I was telling her my name, all she had to do was repeat it and she couldn't do it.

And you will forever have your name mispronounced by English speakers that can’t wrap their tongues around the -sma or -stra ending.

Things like TerpSON, TerpSmith, Terp….

One time while voting the lady working there butchered my name 8 times, she literally could not get it right.

* Step 2: design is "tested" with the users, later we find out the users really had no idea what was going on because they weren't really paying attention. Then the real product is delivered and they are shocked that the changes were made behind their back and without their input.

That sucks, since I developed a neurological issue from Covid I could really use a refresh of my nervous system.

Doesn't look like they are paywalling existing feature, just some new AI back functionality. Considering how much is costs to run those sorts of features I can understand.

Plus, there are lots of alternative app that are free and easy to download and install.

The language that could have been. I did a bunch of Delphi around the Delphi 5 and 6 era. It was a nice middle ground between VB6 and C++.

Unfortunately it made my startup more difficult to sell. Eventually Microsoft bought it, but there were a lot of rounds.

You forgot: Engineering is requesting this. So no.

Same boat with having a chronic illness, not fatal, but no cure either. It gets tiring wading thru all the snake oil salesmen selling false hope. And it isn’t them directly, because my older family members will hear about it with “have you tried…”

I can easily tell the difference between the two, but I really don't care so long as the coffee is brewed well. I still like Maxwell House Black Silk, but at home I grind my own beans and brew in a French Press.

What I don't like is "Church Coffee", where it has brewed within an inch of its life and is the darkest, most bitter/burned flavor that ever existed.

it is highly regulated, but legal in some states. The inspection process for the dairies is pretty intense as well. I would not buy it to drink, but I have used it to make some really good yogurt (and I pasteurized the milk myself).

Containers is a good example of how things can go wrong as well, especially when you aren't familiar with them, and you are looking into related technologies, like kubernetes, and suddenly you fine out you have 10 layers of terminology to understand before you can even get started.

There is a joke about functional programming: in order to understand functional programming you must first understand functional programming, and once you understand functional programming you lose the ability to explain functional programming.

Penatrate and Patch: because if it doesn’t work the first time then throw everything away, fire the developers, hire new ones, and start over completely.

Thank you, I was scratching my head trying to figure that out.

Lets not forget how long it would take to spin up an enterprise database, even in memory, there are hundreds (or thousands) of tables. Also there can be multiple databases with their own schema, and each require a fair amount of data in some of those tables just to do anything..

Just like every other year.

My designer will do that, and is pretty good. The problem is my product team, who have very little technical background. They look at the designs are start messing with everything. I have to constantly remind them of AA compliance. They flat out don't get it.

They also don't understand that people will visit your web site with their phone, even tho we have a native app.

Oh gosh, I have all of this going on right now. My CTO read about microservices and now everything has to be in a microservice.

Nothing wrong with that, but for a small development team there is a lot to make that work (infrastructure as code is another requirement), especially when the project timeline is tight energy when building as a monolith.

Are you a woodworking software engineer or a musician software engineer?

Actually, that is probably the same group.

ah yes, the "irrational exuberance" period, as termed by Alan Greenspan, when investors were poring money into anything that was labeled a '.com'. Companies were renaming themselves to include the '.com' in their official name.

I also remember a satire article about a startup with the idea of turning everyone's monitor yellow. "Think Yellow".

Anyway, I was also a casualty. I spend about 6 months looking for full time work.

My background: i have been vaccinated 3 times, but still caught Covid on May24, 2023. I’ve spent the following 8 months recovering.

I’ve been dealing with extreme fatigue, brain fog, headaches, migraines, dizziness, shaking, and more. It feels like I’ve had a concussion for 8 months.

But at no point did I have any issues with my lungs, heart, or anything below my neck.

Medically the condition is called PASC. Post SARS-Covid 19 sequelae. Sequelae is the key term. It is a term for “injury after an infection”. “Long Covid” isn’t a diagnosis, it is just the common name people are using.

And Long Covid SUCKS.

at least out west they build near power generation already (usually next to hydro dams). At least that is what I remember them doing, I could be a few years out of date.

Back in college I had to read "Lament for a Son", written by a college professor that lost a son in a mountain climbing accident. The "Page left deliberately blank" hit me a bit hard, just empathizing with the emptiness.