tim_cookie's comments

On: Some new BMWs won't have touchscreens thanks to chip shortage

[tim_cookie]

I got a relatively cheap Honda for daily commute and the car is perfect except that it has got touchscreen and it is needlessly difficult to use when driving. Never misses to piss me off daily

[romwell → tim_cookie]

I paid more for my old Honda Fit maintenance than the car is worth, and will continue doing so until this touchscreen nonsense becomes passè.

On: One painful meeting with Steve Jobs

[tim_cookie]

The guy was bullshitting and got caught. Period.

But the kind of mental gymnastics people in the comments section do to defend Steve is impressive.

I'll have you know I'm not that rude in meetings like Steve was :P

On: How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha

[tim_cookie]

Might be tangential but I have not seen a word addressing this fuckery from either Jon Galloway or Scott Hanselman or any of the "dev evangelist" type people. Weird

[robmen → tim_cookie]

As far as I can tell, Jon and Scott are Microsoft dev evangelists. It really isn't their place to step into .NET Foundation issues.

It might be even more weird if they did try weigh in.

[jerriep → robmen]

I think it is well established by now that this .NET Foundation is ultimately answerable to Microsoft. Also, Claire - who started the "kerfuffle" - is a Microsoft employee.

Given how especially Scott always has a big opinion about how great OSS is and how much Microsoft loves OSS, and given how it was ultimate MS employees that were responsible for creating this current distrust, I think it would be very appropriate for them to voice their opinion about this.

And, who knows, maybe they are doing something behind closed doors. But I very much doubt they'll embarrass their employer by speaking up in public. They know who pays their salary and are much to good at corporate politics to do that.

[jerriep → tim_cookie]

They’re long-time MS employees who know how to play the political game. Highly doubtful they do anything that put their cushy jobs at risk

On: Ask HN: Good reference books on Azure?

[tim_cookie]

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/blog/free-ebook-the-develo...

I used this when I started out a while back.