Muhammad Abdullah

.NET Developer | WPF, WinForms, Avalonia & Backend

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@stats_feed I survived, but now I'm stuck with the selfish 40%. All those caring 60% are gone. There’s always a price to pay, I guess.

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@natmiletic Been out of the loop. Are we back to punch cards now?

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@ridercz @madskristensen Same. I know about workspaces only in Eclipse IDE.

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@echelon I've been using LibreOffice since 2006 (well, it was called OpenOffice back then, and OpenOffice. org before that). It always had missing features, but it was never this unstable. Recently, it crashes on you very often.

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@Dr_sandeep01 Data is not lost when you delete, format, or factory reset your phone. Files are still there, just hidden and marked as free space. The only way to make the previous data truly inaccessible is to overwrite it with new data.

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@valigo Yeah Mp3 patent was active, but I could play MP3s on Mandriva/Mandrake back in 2004 using XMMS. I used to install everything on all 3 (4?) discs, so maybe I was installing non-free codecs without realizing it.

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@system_monarch Several differences between the two
- Indexing issues --> main reason
- Too many ignored folders & even drives in indexing
- Dealing with binary files vs text-based web
- Needing search 'inside files' on the spot

Use free app called 'Everything'. It is faster than google.

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@brockpierson Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun. I still play it regularly. And the only game I play nowadays, so for me it is better than any game released in the last 20+ years.

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@dillon_mulroy Honestly, we were not writing code by hand even before AI. We were all doing IDE-generated boilerplate, templates, auto-complete, copy/paste from stackoverflow.

I do mostly desktop software and still write most GUI code by hand because AIs are terrible at non-web GUIs.

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@TheThing89 @MuwaffaqBadawi I used to program in Visual C++ back then and skipped this exact version of Visual Studio, thinking it was for .NET development only. Years later, I learned it was regular Visual Studio 2003, but they were marketing everything .NET back then.

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@inspirdanalyst Because you've listed only salary, not their "total income" or perks.

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@usman2006929 I was only once scammed in 15+ years of freelancing, it was a Pakistani back in 2010.

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@mndawoodi اس بھائی کو معلومات نہ ہونے کی سزا ملی ہے۔ جو اونٹ منہ سے جھاگ نکال رہا ہو اس کے قریب نہیں جانا چاہیے۔ اس عرصے میں یہ بہت غصے میں ہوتے ہیں اور حملہ کرتے ہیں۔ سمجھدار لوگ تو اس کے منہ پر جالی دار بوری لگاتے ہیں۔

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@jfversluis .NET Framework 4.7.2.

Pre-installed on Server 2019+ so WinForms apps behave like the OS's native binary, no runtimes needed.

Not my decision, but I'm fine working with anything .NET Framework 4.0+.

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@fidexcode Clojure

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@EOEboh Verbosity
OOP++
Abstractions & over-engineering
Enterprise-ish way of doing everything
Maven
Slow JIT warmups
Bad memories from Applet, AWT/Swing, Java EE days.
Eclipse

But Java 25 is great. Criticisms are mostly based on outdated experience.

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@ShahabAhme85691 @geonews_urdu آن گرڈ ۔ دن سولر کی اضافی بجلی حکومت کو بیچے، رات کو واپڈا
ہائبرڈ ۔ دن کو سولر اپنے لیے، رات کو واپڈا والی بجلی
آف گرڈ ۔ دن کو سولر، رات کو بیٹری، یوپی ایس۔ بغیر واپڈا۔

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@KMarwatov Been in the game since 2010. Here is how many applications (bids/proposals) you would need to land a job since 2010. Personal estimate.

2010-2015 = ~5
2016-2022 = ~10-15
2023-2024 = ~20
2025 - 2026 = ~30 to 40
Per application cost nowadays is about $2-$3 (15-30 connects).

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@MarioNawfal True 100%.

To overcome, I put the following at the end of the prompts,

"Analyze all options, be realistic, and be brutally honest in your reply, don’t just try to validate me".

Even better if you tell it to be rude. Claude sometimes goes full 'Listen you loser' mode.

[Muhammad Abdullah @leghari_k]

@AdemoyeJohn Eclipse is good for Desktop GUIs. Intellij IDEA for Spring, Android and is best overall. Netbeans also works well with Java EE projects. I use all three + jEdit.