You are obviously free to dislike C#, but it seems silly to say they should stop adding features or should remove features.
> Did we really need all those features?
If you don't need them, don't use them. I've found the new features to be great. nameof, string interpolation, property initializers, exception filters, static imports, null propagator. And if you haven't used the language in awhile going back to 5.0 the async await features are fantastic. 7.1 introduced async Main which we've started using in console apps. I use all of these features every day.
> I would love it if I saw a new version of a language come out and it removes language features
1. Some people dislike languages with a large instruction set
2. I will propose that programming languages are like anything else created by humans - some parts great, some parts not that great. Furthermore some parts of a language are used more than other parts, it should be hoped that the parts least used in any particular language are parts of that language that are not that great. Given these things it might be reasonable that some time you saw a new version of a language in which they said Feature X really sort of didn't make sense and anyway hardly anyone ever used it so we are removing Feature X. Adjust code accordingly. (probably there should be deprecation stage of a year or so with warnings)
And that works in language -- its terrible when you are trying to make computers do very specific things in specific scenarios. It leads to hiring nightmares as well. "Oh I write language X in this style, not familiar with your style"
My simple go-to example is tuples. They are on the third attempt to introduce that feature. First was generic Tuple.Create. Did not support naming individual fields. Then came anonymous classes. Those could only be used where type is inferred. The latest are using braces... most powerful, but also syntactically quite different from what came before.
I like C# adding new features, and understand some try-and-see-what-sticks is unavoidable. But I don't understand them not deprecating the old versions. And still wonder if improving an earlier version would have been possible/better.
I'm also a user and I've noticed significant changes.
In that time I’ve noticed Real Estate, Ads, Marketplaces, Interest groups, completely redesigned apps, etc. and probably a bunch of stuff that I haven’t noticed as well.
As someone who cooks a lot, I was curious what /ck/ could have to offer. I hadn't been to 4chan in years. I'm not sure how this board has tremendous amounts of useful information.
/ck/ is actually one of the sanest places on 4chan, in my personal opinion. It's not the nicest place on earth- I mean, it is 4chan, so memes and rudeness aren't against the rules. Couple that with optional anonymity, and you're bound to encounter some rough edges here and there.
Having said that though- I've been there since 2007, and I used to get lots of compliments for posting original content (pictures of food being cooked). People love to talk about food there- plus you get to hear actual line cooks talking about things. You don't have to wait forever to get a reply on a thread, and good threads (like costco food threads) can go up to hundreds of replies before being pruned.
All in all, I don't hate the place. My usual bookmarks each day are: 1) HN 2) Reddit 3) /ck/ + /g/ + /fit/ 4) google news (only if important stuff is hapenning in the world, though I Have to admit that the fastest place to get instantaneous information nowadays is /b/)
Indeed! It's why many Jews choose to name children after deceased relatives to honor and remember them.
Also a similar quote by Irving Yalom:
"Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?"
The big difference is if you have a substantial income you can afford to play the long game and throw money into the market. If you're living paycheck to paycheck as very few people who contribute content to this site do, it's a much different story. They need the money to be liquid, and they can't afford to take a 10% loss and wait for a rebound.
Every month when the "Who is hiring" thread is posted I search for "WI" hoping to see more Wisconsin based companies posting here. Hope you can find someone soon!
