whowouldathunk
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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
They do, they’re called scribes.
Comment · 8 years ago
XAML components ("controls" in MS terminology) contain both declarative markup and code. And it's flexible because the visual presentation can be completely overriden by the component's consumer without altering behavior, and your code can be either C# or C++.
What does dependency injection have to do with anything? There's nothing stopping you from using global variables or an event bus or something like Redux in a XAML app.
Comment · 8 years ago
> and now we're making traditional UI dev like web
It's been like that on Windows since 2006 with XAML. In fact, if you squint at typical JSX, it looks like XAML.
Disclosure: I work at Microsoft.
Comment · 8 years ago
Not really, that's how Windows works too since Vista.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa9...
And it's what enables effects like this in Windows 10:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/style/re...
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft
Comment · 8 years ago
About the same here in Seattle. It makes saving for a down payment even more depressing.
I don't understand who is able to buy these houses when my partner and I can't as software engineer + physician assistant. Maybe it's just because we're not willing to decrease or dip into our retirement savings and we have no help from parents.
I just don't feel comfortable taking out a jumbo mortgage. Even though we could make the numbers work, I'm not confident either of us won't burn out from our stressful careers.
Comment · 8 years ago
We're on a small rock flying through an infinite universe. Our lives exist in a small blink of time. Computers run billions of operations per second using software with countless defects at every level of the stack.
We're lucky anything works at all. In that context, we succeeded just by being born and living as long as we have, and we'd be pretty narrow-minded to assume that the material success we enjoy is significantly more than a series of happy accidents.
Comment · 8 years ago
A small example is my girlfriend getting charged for a pregnancy test in the emergency room even after she told them she doesn't have a uterus.
Comment · 8 years ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. XAML definitely supports complex widget composition in markup. Since the XML is basically just describing an object graph, it's a more concise way of writing the equivalent imperative code:
<Button>
<StackPanel>
<Image/>
<TextBlock/>
...
<Button>
<Canvas>
<Ellipse/>
Full disclosure: I work at Microsoft.
Comment · 8 years ago
One cost of all the guns is all the extra security. Schools resembling prisons, TSA, metal detectors and surveillance everywhere... doesn’t that also infringe on my freedom in a way?
Comment · 8 years ago
Missed opportunity for "reticulating splines"
Comment · 8 years ago
RIP Ursula. I just finished The Left Hand of Darkness and am in the middle of the Earthsea series and it's absolutely fantastic. Love her writing.
Comment · 8 years ago
The estate tax is justified as a means of reducing the concentration of wealth. However, the truly wealthy and their estate planners avoid the tax. The low yield of the tax is a testament to the ineffectiveness of the tax as a force for reshaping the distribution of wealth.
Of course, those recommending the repeal of the estate tax are also probably of the opinion that wealth concentration is not a problem.
Comment · 8 years ago
The cost of electricity is artificially low because it doesn't include the cost of the associated pollution.
Comment · 8 years ago
The market is ignoring externalities.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342
:)