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Yes his anecdotal evidence is countering parents anecdotal evidence. It's a worthless chain of comments, really.

You're financially supporting the wrong people. So those are the people who can afford to implement the tools you want. Financially support the right people, and you'll find your tools follow the money.

Yeah. Advertising budget and that fallacy where people associate cost with value.

Go a step further and abandon their platform. Don't financially support their behavior. Convince your clients to do the same.

I'm shilling for anti-shilling.

Because Microsoft pays people to shill for them on media sources like Hackernews.

Agreed. Hacker News has jumped the shark.

Because it says 'Cross-Platform' and is anything but with that requirement.

Is Visual Studio truly a requirement? If so, no thanks.

So is Hacker News. And Slashdot. And reddit... The internet is dead.

I disagree that anything is better. They're incrementally keeping up with technology. In fact, from my perspective, it feels like they hold us all back by leveraging their hold on offices.

Be a hero and free your company from lock in, otherwise you'll be the next person referred to as "the predeccessor [who] fell for lock in".

I agree that it has a use: it helps identify gullible people. Extremely valuable in that regard.

Embrace!

I would take an 8% paycut to be free of the nonsensical 9-5 schedule.

I've only built front ends in QtCreator and Visual Studio WPF, but after getting over the initial QT way of doing things, I find it delightful. It's C++, though. So it's definitely weird in that uniquely weird C++ way.

I feel like ICQ 98 was the pinnacle of chat applications. Floating contacts and email style messages... brilliance.

They see all things that flourish outside their control as competition.

If it quacks like a duck.

And now they're just spyware for Microsoft.

And now it's just more spyware for Microsoft.

'wealthy white people'

Like.. the... French Canadians?

Still going to support Canadian cities? I noticed that Zumper doesn't.

I find it's quite the opposite for me. Women find me significantly less attractive now that I'm in my mid thirties.

I thought it was going to be an interesting perspective article about the Indians who supported and profited from British rule of India.

I'm not offended. It's just silly that today it's still used.

"Indians".. really?

I think it's a side effect of the eternal September. There was a time in my life when I had to convince people that email was important. Now, it's old news and even the slowest adopters have seen the light provided by the internet.

One day, someone will invent something cooler than the internet, and no one but the super technically minded will use it, and it will be a new spring. But September will still be a few months away.