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[–] [email protected] 195 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Sorry, what's .Net again?

The runtime? You mean .Net, or .Net Core, or .Net Framework? Oh, you mean a web framework in .Net. Was that Asp.Net or AspNetcore?

Remind me why we let the "Can't call it Windows 9" company design our enterprise language?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (19 children)

Can't call it Windows 9

But that actually made sense! They care about backwards compatibility.

For those not in the know: some legacy software checked if the OS name began with "Windows 9" to differentiate between 95 and future versions.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It makes sense why they did it, but their messed up versioning was the cause to begin with. You should always assume Devs will cut corners in inappropriate ways.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They'll cut corners the more the shittier APIs and ABIs you provide

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

An often repeated urban legend that has no basis in reality. Software checking the version of Windows gets "6.1" for Windows 7 and "6.2" for Windows 8. The marketing name doesn't matter and is different.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

.net core is not a thing anymore in case somebody it's not aware, now is just .net. (unless you use really old version of course).

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Because they have dozens of years of experience! They didn't learn anything from it, but they have it!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have the same issue with Java. Oracle JDK, Open JDK or some other weird distribution? Enteprise Servers or a Framework like Springboot? It's always easier if you're familiar with the technology.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I really don't think it's that bad. The only weird thing is .NET Core becoming just .NET in version 5.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I scream silently everytime.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

May I introduce you to Usb 3.x renaming?

3.0, 3.1Gen1, 3.2Gen1, 3.2Gen1x1 are the 5Gbps version.

3.1Gen2, 3.2Gen2, 3.2Gen1x2, 3.2Gen2x1 are the 10Gbps version.

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[–] [email protected] 150 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Given that .net was a TLD long before the framework came out, it was a stupid thing to name it. Caused confusion and the inability to Google things right away.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Microsoft names many things stupidly.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fuck you forever SQLServer. Transact was perfectly googleable.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft Azure Blob

(Yes it's a real product they market)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, blob (and object storage in general) has been used as a term for a long time. It isn't particularly new, and MS didn't invent it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

That's sort of the problem. It's easy to Google S3 since it's a distinct (if obnoxiously short) term. Blob is already an overloaded term.

An example of a great name from Microsoft is Excel, it's relatively short but meaningless so if you Google "Excel Sum" you'll get wonderful results... "Blob Get" is going to get you a lot of random stuff.

Edit: the top result for blob get is accurate on Google but you'll also quickly see this result from that site we all hate:

Need help! How do I get the blob fish, basking shark and dwarf whale?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Visual Studio ~~Code~~

[–] masinko 9 points 9 months ago

To prevent confusion, I call them "VS Code" and "Visual Studio IDE", because if you say Visual Studio, people assume you mean Visual Studio Code.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And renames a random product every month, following a restructuring it's licensing

[–] kameecoding 9 points 9 months ago

At least they don't control the most popular code hosting site along with the most popular code editing software, right? Right?

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's like naming your company x

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

Like naming a new TLD .zip!

[–] pelya 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It was pretty smart marketing move. Business people hear 'dot net' and nod wisely. Tech people hear 'dot net' and scrunch their faces. Either way people keep talking about Microsoft Java.

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[–] jaybone 19 points 9 months ago

That aligns with their fucked up naming conventions anyway.

[–] [email protected] 128 points 9 months ago

No, you'll need to contact Kim Dotcom. I am merely Kim Dotnet.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Ok, but we all should admit: .net is a terrible name.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And then there's .net classic and .net core. Making up two entirely separate names shouldn't be difficult for marketing executives.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

.NET Core doesn't exist any more. It's just .NET now. I think that changed around the release of .NET 5?

The classic version is mostly legacy at this point too.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Still better than .dot

[–] nexguy 8 points 9 months ago

I totally agree.socialmedia

[–] Sanctus 71 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can, but due to the extra strains involved the price of this contract will increase.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

How many strains does it take to develop using .net? Are we talking high end or ditch weed?

[–] Daft_ish 62 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can't even remember what dumb shit Trump was showing this guy.

[–] nelly_man 67 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

It was an interview with Jonathan Swan about COVID-19 where Trump had a bunch of papers with graphs trying to show that the US was doing well with cases. The paper he handed over showed the rates of deaths per case (though Trump didn't seem to understand the graph), and Swan was asking him about the high rate of deaths in the US when looking at the total population of the country.

https://youtu.be/NmrEfQG6pIg

[–] Daft_ish 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Man, if the media was worth a damn it could absolutely bury Trump in negative campaign ads. It's one thing to run a single valid negative campaign ad. With Trump you could collect them like fucking pokemon.

[–] FilthyHookerSpit 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You'd need over 30x the amount of total pokemon to match the amount of lies he's told as president