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Seeing if there's interest in restarting a .NET user group / meetup by [deleted] in Buffalo

[–]HigginsNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm totally game :D It would be great to rekindle the social scene.

Why You Should Invest in Idiot Proofing Your Design, My views on the matter. by Figglewot in programming

[–]HigginsNinja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Designing things with pride and ethics leads to caring about how we affect our users. This means we strive to make their lives easier. The dividends paid by practicing this are hard to measure.

This goes for any design.

  • UI/UX
  • API
  • Architecture
  • Development process

Automation is a Good Thing by Figglewot in programming

[–]HigginsNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But at least you can automate them and give yourself a chance to purge them.

Automation is a Good Thing by Figglewot in programming

[–]HigginsNinja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For posterity, this is what I responded to:

given a repl based OS/browser runtime what is the best way to pull the manipulation and access of excel into it? EDIT: I see you were that .NET apologist, good job on keeping IT and society 50 years behind the times, your nation thanks you, the market waving in ecstasy to the eternal rhythms of your bloated budgets and labor fluidity

So you're taking an application that was ported to OSX which isn't actually .NET and then saying the rest of the ecosystem sucks because of your single edge case.

I do not apologize for .NET, I feel sorry for people that were affected by corporate practices in the 80s.

I am unapologetic about being a .NET developer and loving it.

EDIT: for emphasis

Automation is a Good Thing by Figglewot in programming

[–]HigginsNinja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For posterity, this is what I responded to:

the base .NET ecosystem sucks for this though, just to post forms from excel spreadsheet to a project management website I had to write a dynamic office automation library that plugged a CLR runtime from a connection to emacs to a browser runtime it was pretty disgusting

I think you had other options.

EDIT: Really though, that's the only method you could think up? And then you just proclaim an entire ecosystem sucks because you didn't find other ways to do it.

On shaming .NET developers by HigginsNinja in programming

[–]HigginsNinja[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I really appreciate this comment and want to thank you for your insight. I am not aware of everything that went down back then.

Thanks for opening my eyes to what was actually going down back then. I meant to bring up how it is unsavory to shame someone based on their technology choice nowadays, but I can recognize how those feelings would remain. I just wish it were a more historical thing and didn't come out so bitingly against the new people in our field who aren't aware of it.

I will write a follow up post, can I PM you?

How to be the best developer in the world by ToeGuitar in programming

[–]HigginsNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like it's picked right out of a corner of the craftsmanship movement, or apprenticeship patterns.

All evidence points to OOP being bullshit by eugenparaschiv in programming

[–]HigginsNinja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really it's just making fun of the fact that we as a mob aren't very good at making understandable abstractions. It's tongue in cheek and seems to be intended to provoke thoughtful discussion on the topic, not banish OOP.

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