Sam Harwell

.NET Developer Experience working on C# and Visual Basic at Microsoft. All opinions/speculation/suggestions mine.

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StyleCop Analyzers 1.0.0 was declared stable today! https://t.co/FDFVl0mM1R

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@davkean @KooKiz @voroninp @fiseni I'm not sure. Did it use to work for older versions? These are reference assemblies, so there's nothing immediately available for decompilation. The feature needs to be able to find the implementation assembly from the reference assembly in order to decompile it.

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@CFDevelop @Evangel1nk I certainly think there is room for simplification in this example. I'll make some notes as comments on the linked Gist.

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@libovness @anothercohen They are donating 2500/month according to this. The 18000 is listed as post-tax dollars.

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@kzu @roslyn The feature is called "SignatureHelp" in the Roslyn code base. It's spread through a few different assemblies.

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It's mainly frustrating when resources are not equally provided, followed by the use of employee efficiency in reviews. Employees who aren't covering the gap with their own money are going to end up docked in productivity reviews.

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Don't assume your employer will provide all the hardware and/or service resources needed to complete your job effectively. I've realized over time that 2-5% of my salary will always need to go towards covering the gap.

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@awakecoding @jaredpar Can you expand the node in the log viewer so I can see which diagnostic IDs are taking the time?

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@awakecoding @jaredpar Looks like an old version of StyleCop Analyzers. Updating to a new version should bring significant performance improvements if the problem lies on one of the analyzers we updated to new APIs.

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@altonbrown Not sure I'd call it a replacement for the original, but it sure holds its own against any Southern style pancake. Excellent work 😁

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Perhaps a solution here would be allowing two of the wired switches to be linked. The secondary unit (which is connected to always-on power) has no load attached, and instead is linked to the primary switch wirelessly and shows the same LED indicators.

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I really want @Legrand with @netatmo to be the answer for our connected switches, but I can't get past the fact that they don't have a wired three-way (or four-way) switch. The wireless ones don't count because they have noticeable latency and lack power-on indicators.

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@hhariri Every abstraction comes with a cost (global complexity). They only need to be used when the gains (reduced local complexity) outweigh the cost. Most interfaces are not even close to beneficial on this evaluation.

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@migueldeicaza Like any decision making group, failure to include people with different experiences inevitably leads to suboptimal outcomes.

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@migueldeicaza The discussions and decisions leading to strict policies (in any direction) seem like consensus bias. Many more people today than a few years ago understand that people have different optimal working conditions, but others just haven't caught up.

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@GergelyOrosz Most companies I've worked for don't have this restriction, but one did. I felt like the work environment did not allow me to achieve my productivity potential, so I left. This does not seem like a majority case, and developers generally have the choice to stay or not.

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@laurentkempe @VisualStudio I didn't work on it, but they included me in an early short interview asking how I would use it 😁

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@Pilchie I love an empty office. And now I've worked from home so long I have zero ability to ignore my surroundings in a team room with other people. I both get distracted and distract everyone else. 😁

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@sgorozco @nickchapsas Check out ReferenceCountedDisposable in dotnet/roslyn. It's the closest you can reasonably get to shared_ptr with the current language rules.

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@vkornov @nickchapsas Null is an efficient representation of uninitiated data. If you remove null, you still have uninitiated data but you no longer have the performance or consistency in how to represent it.

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@simonw Under this definition of unit test, unit tests are generally a code smell. In rare occasions they are valuable, but each one incurs a maintainability debt that is unlikely to be covered by it's incremental value.