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If you work in emerging economy, you will get to do a lot of greenfield projects.

He lives in Dubai. What's the point of having money if you cannot escape that giant mall?

Dubai can offer an INSANELY AMAZING lifestyle for billionaires. Like, anything your debaucherous heart desires, forever. No consequences.

But you are still in Dubai. A cool skyscraper filled with water for diving, but also bus stops with AC.

You can get an insanely amazing lifestyle in many countries as a billionaire.

Podcasts run on RSS

This was the mainstream killer app for RSS. And it was great. But then some podcasting services (looking at you, Spotify and others...) decided to force us to use our browser or some app instead of giving us the freedom to download files for offline use.

> then some podcasting services (looking at you, Spotify and others...) decided to force us to use our browser or some app instead of giving us the freedom to download files for offline use

Podcasts are pretty simple, and those services you're talking about aren't podcasts—nor is anything else that keeps you from downloading files like that (say, for transcoding and then dumping into/onto your player to listen to it how you want). It's not even as if insisting that people not say "podcast" when talking about something that clearly isn't one leaves us without a way to talk about them.

In the first place, "podcast" is not a genre label. There are tons of (actual) podcasts that don't follow the unscripted-banter-plus-question-and-answer/interview format.

And in the second place, all those things that do stop you from downloading them? Yeah, we have a word you can use already: they're just "shows".

But the gatekeepers kinda failed. Spotify all but admitted that their podcast move failed, effectively writing off their investments in Rogan etc.

I was asking about Orleans integration. They are working on it (https://twitter.com/reubenbond/status/1724463381686686075).

I think it's a matter of time for Dapr stuff to be integrated. It is after all the first preview.

edit: here's more info about Dapr and Aspire

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/aspire/reference/as...

Orleans seems to have stagnated greatly past year or two. Someone raised this issue over a year ago(that only like one person was working on it and seemingly part time) and they swore it was still going to be getting resources and continuing R&D.

Fast forward to now and it's only bug and compatibility fixes. A shame cause reminders v2 would have been an amazing addition.

There were a bunch of new features added to Orleans in the past year, including Live Grain Migration, IAsyncEnumerable support, Cosmos DB & Redis providers.

I think workflows (durable async/await) are more useful than Reminders v2 alone (in some sense, workflows are Reminders v2), but an enhanced reminders system is likely part of that, as is the new log-structured storage system. The log structured storage issue discusses this: https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/issues/7691. We've been experimenting with a programming model for workflows and intend to share that more broadly soon. Currently, we are planning for .NET 9, so feedback is welcome (best provided via GitHub rather than here). Aspire will make it easier to build and deploy Orleans apps, which is one of the harder points for people getting started with Orleans currently.

For anyone following along; Reuben is that "one person" lol.

I was being a bit hyperbolic with "only bug fixes" but.. A bit.

Haven't seen anything around workflows but will check it out and the structured storage stuff. Interested in running my own workflow engine on Orleans and reminders v2 looked like the perfect Quartz.Net replacement for my needs.

Thanks for replying; hoping you would. Someone asked about the future of Orleans 8 on GH a couple weeks back but nobody from the project chimed in last I looked. Know how it is with PMs and BAs and other work though.

That is how XNA went away, its champions eventually left XBox business unit, and as expected it was back to plain C++ and DirectX, instead of having someone else pick it up.

- It is a mature platform with yearly updates.

- New stuffs integrate nicely with existing features.

- C# and F# gets yearly updates.

- Somehow they manage to get the platform faster every year.

- Microsoft Orleans.

Microsoft seems weird tho. They dont really support any recommended way to do .NET on Mac and you have to rely on Rider or half ass VS Code experience.

Rider is so much better than Visual Studio or Code in my opinion, but I understand how the price could be a deal breaker.

Is it "wierd tho" that Microsoft would have better support for development tools on their own OS than on a competitor OS?

It's absolutely weird because that ship has sailed. The paradigm is to hook you into the platform which you can't do if you are hostile.

You're right. They did until recently, but it was bad. Now they seem to have moved attention to creating a great experience in VSCode but some of it may require a MSDN sub (they seem to be making the core experience free, with paid extensions to give more Visual Studio-like features in VSCode).

What's wrong with Rider?

It's not a Microsoft tool. For a supposedly fully cross-platform language it seems pretty bad to only support first-class developer experience on Windows.

I believe that vs code is the way they want you to do .net on windows as well.

The tooling is all CLI based anyway so do what feels best. :)

They support ‘dotnet’ cli, just not an IDE. But we’ve got Rider

I hope the tooling in .NET library gets more investment.

There is a work-in-progress query builder support for .NET: https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb-net/tree/feat/querybuilder-...

Oh neat. I didn't realize a query builder is being worked on.

How different is this from Temporal?

Besides the obvious difference in execution engine which is explained in the link, I noticed the same thing and after doing some research, I found out that Temporal cofounder Samar Abbas was the creator of Amazon Flow Framework in 2009 and then the creator of the Azure Durable Task Framework in 2014, then moved on to Uber and co-created Candence with Maxim Fateev before they both eventually founded Temporal in 2019. https://www.temporal.io/about

Here's a little more context: https://temporal.io/blog/samars-journey

On the 2nd week at the beginning of the Khartoum war, the bus companies started to refuse electronic payments and only take cash because they didn't trust the banking system will remain working.

I will be sure to remember to hit the ATM during week one of a horrible war.

Good luck with the long lines and I hope by the time you finally get to the ATM it will still have notes.

What I like about Vue is less churn. Vue stayed in 2.6 for a long long time. It's fine.