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edandersenon Paint.NET 4.3 is now available

MAUI won't make .NET 6 launch and has been delayed.

edandersenon It's tough being an Azure fan

Bafflingly there still isn't an Azure service to send email, like AWS SES.

edandersenon I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)

Mind Maze was a great excuse to play games at school!

edandersenon Sciter – Multiplatform HTML/CSS UI Engine for Desktop and Mobile Applications

Using screenshots of Norton Internet Security is not good marketing.

edandersenon Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay?

If employed under UK law then your London friend will also have massively improved employment rights. UK is not fire at will like the US. To contrast US-UK salaries you need to compare to the London contractor market where SV salaries are possible - but with zero employment rights like the US.

edandersenon OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation

How hard would it be to use this to spam iOS devices where AirDrop is set to "Everyone"?

edandersenon Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team

Whilst good for developers and probably bad for Microsoft (reduces app numbers), I haven't seen any automated, recompiled clones on the Windows App Store, likely due to the native compilation. Despite being .NET apps it's not just a case of running ILSpy or something to get the source.

edandersenon Sign In with Apple [video]

Will "Sign in with Apple" be available on non Apple devices? If not how will cross device syncing etc work?

edandersenon Sony to slash smartphone workforce

Not since the Pie updates.

edandersenon Social Media Needs a Travel Mode

Would basic geoblocking help? A setting that says this account cannot be accessed outside your home country? Has the plausible deniability of "security". VPNs can also be effectively blocked if the same lists Netflix etc subscribe to are used.

edandersenon Apple: #esc { margin-left: -30px }

It appears that is where the Touch Bar starts, so the Escape key/button probably cannot be moved further to the left.

edandersenon How to Adapt to Prison

Replace "prison" with "large corporation" and this advice works also applies.

edandersenon An ode to Surface 3

Fixed :-) thanks

edandersenon Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced

They finally did it. Thank you! Literally just got approval to buy Xamarin licenses at work which was a hard sell - now we get to go and deliver the good news that it will be free after all.

Words cannot express how big this is for the .NET community.

edandersenon That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people

The correct solution would be to provide an x86 build of iOS (which they must have) with mouse support to install on these aging desktops. They'll make a cut on selling apps.

edandersenon Netflix crackdown on border hoppers could kill some unblocking companies

I setup a VPN on a private AWS EC2 instance in Tokyo. Netflix still detected it. They are not messing around.

edandersenon Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

Net Writer for Windows 10 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/net-writer-previe...

I ported parts of the gnarly old Windows Live Writer / Open Live Writer codebase to the Windows 10 UWP platform. WLW now available on mobile essentially. Adding features almost every week.

edandersenon Which Occupations Are Priced Out of Homeownership?

London is very much overdue a correction.

edandersenon Britain to Foreign Workers: If You Don't Make $50,000 a Year, Please Leave

Because it discriminates based the nationality of who you marry. If you marry someone from the EU the rules do not apply.

edandersenon Britain to Foreign Workers: If You Don't Make $50,000 a Year, Please Leave

To elaborate on the spousal visa issue: this only applies to non-EU spouses. As a British citizen, if you decide to marry a non-EU person, be prepared for hell when you try to get them in. However, Germans living in Britain can get their non-EU spouse in under the German rules. These policies are a result of the governments impossible, damaging pledge to get immigration "in the tens of thousands". What happens is that they look at a categorized list of immigration categories, realize they cannot do anything at all about EU immigration so double down on non-EU migration.

Except the rules only apply to British citizens, because they are the only people they can apply these rules consistently to. Therefore we are left with the bizarre situation where it is easier for a French person in Britain to get their spouse in than a British person in Britain.

There are British people effectively exiled because they went abroad when young, got married and had a kid and cannot return with their family because they don't have a guaranteed job lined up in the UK paying 18k+. The spouses income is deemed irrelevant under the rules, so even if your non-EU spouse can earn well above that, it doesn't matter.

Ridiculous, borderline sick fiddling from the government that has severely damaged the family lives of tens of thousands of Britons.

edandersenon The Decay of Twitter

Why don't they add a "no ads, no 'curation', no 'suggestions'" just "pure" timeline subscription model?

edandersenon Mobile App Developers Are Suffering

Windows 10 Universal Apps and the Windows App Store have built in support for Trial modes: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/mt2196....

Much more honest than "Free!/Get" and an IAP.

edandersenon Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download

You can use Express at work (5+ devs) but not Community.

edandersenon Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10

Macs really are some of the best Windows laptops you can buy - and now with full UEFI support Windows boots as fast as OS X.

edandersenon Unfunny April Fool's Joke from the Magic Lantern Developers

Picture of the April Fool's prank: http://m.imgur.com/BeHi1H9

edandersenon “Today we moved into our new Facebook building”

Remember folks that if you are in open plan offices, most of the time they pump white noise through speakers in the ceiling to prevent sound travel. Think about that for a second.

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I think the full screen pop up (on mobile at least) asking for 3 USD a month to support "high quality independent journalism" rubs the salt in the wound a bit. I too had to stop reading it.

edandersenon MSBuild is now open source on GitHub

My GitHub handle is the same as my HN username. Go nuts. You'll notice I mainly write .NET software but I won't be contributing to MSBuild. MSBuild is becoming irrelevant with ASP.NET 5 and Roslyn.

edandersenon MSBuild is now open source on GitHub

I said "seriously".

edandersenon MSBuild is now open source on GitHub

https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/commits/master

3 commits. Because MSBuild just happened.

The whole point of open source is that you get to go back and see how the software evolved. Git blame. Everybody learns.