Christopher Painter

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Christopher Painter

@chrpai

WiX / InstallShield Consultant and author of IsWiX Staff Software Engineer - EUC Windows - The Home Depot

Cedar Park, Texas Katılım Nisan 2008

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·9 Oca

Problem is friction to get many teams involved. A simple invoice recieved from FireGiant by my team can easily be directly paid. We have to go through proxies to request a GitHub invoice and then again to ask them to apply donations. Middleman have no interest so nothing happens.

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Rob Mensching@robmen·9 Oca

@chrpai @MulbearA @Aaronontheweb You can essentially do that now but with GitHub Sponsors. Microsoft does similar but they do so in yearly increments.

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Aaron Stannard@Aaronontheweb·7 Oca

Not good

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·9 Oca

@robmen @MulbearA @Aaronontheweb What I need is a way of asking FireGiant to just send me an invoice for 36 months of donations and pay it one time then repeat in 3 years.

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Rob Mensching@robmen·9 Oca

@chrpai @MulbearA @Aaronontheweb GitHub Sponsors always supported pay by invoice. They recently removed the minimum to better support OSMF (one of the things I need to blog about). resources.github.com/open-source-ma…

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·9 Oca

@robmen @MulbearA @Aaronontheweb Do you offer pay by invoice yet?

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Rob Mensching@robmen·8 Oca

@MulbearA @Aaronontheweb They aren't donations. That's a very important point because you are right, companies don't (generally) do donations. It's a maintenance fee and my experience is companies just pay it because the EULA requires it. It's mostly easy and the cases that aren't are getting solved.

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·4 Kas

@yanabantai Naw dog, I've got kids older than Ubuntu.

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John Bantai Naftali@yanabantai·3 Kas

Did everyone start their Linux journey with Ubuntu?

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·25 Eki

@edandersen @JasonThorsness What's the catch? Is there some new language construct or something where your looking for more then foreach foo in []/IEnumable<T>{}? Are we supposed to suggest a something else that meets your expectations?

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Ed Andersen@edandersen·25 Eki

@JasonThorsness I’m specifically looking for recent C# usage. Too risky to make a bad hire, the problem can’t be fixed quickly like in the US

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Ed Andersen@edandersen·25 Eki

My first interview question is “write a foreach loop in C#”. Half the candidates for the c# job get it wrong.

Paul Snively@JustDeezGuy

I asked one interviewer about Fizzbuzz a decade and a half or so ago. He told me it was to weed out candidates who were lying about being able to program. At all. I thought he was exaggerating then. I was wrong.

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·21 Eki

@mkristensen Unless it's autogenerated code I don't generally put multiple classes in a single .cs file.

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Mads Kristensen@mkristensen·21 Eki

Do you ever expand .cs file nodes in Solution Explorer to peek at the types and members inside? The second picture shows the same solution but without the expanders visible for comparison. Which do you prefer?

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·10 Eki

@WithinRafael 18 years of lost productivity though.

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Rafael Rivera@WithinRafael·9 Eki

PSA: Starting with Build 27965, .NET Framework 3.5 is no longer a Windows Feature on Demand optional component. We encourage customers relying on the legacy framework to move to modern versions of .NET. F

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·20 Ağu

@037LAW @DOGE_for_WA @SmokyMountainsX @Starlink @elonmusk Sadly not in my parents case. Late 70s and in rural Washington State and the best they can get is 1.5mbps DSL or Hughesnet. I'd love to treat him to starlink for a year but the $1000 surcharge sucks.

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037@037LAW·17 Ağu

@DOGE_for_WA @SmokyMountainsX @Starlink @elonmusk Fortunately, anyone facing a huge demand surcharge likely has half a dozen terrestrial options for near-gigabit Internet service. Starlink is a godsend for people in rural areas.

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Starlink@Starlink·12 Ağu

Starlink provides reliable, high-speed internet for streaming, video calls, online gaming and more. Standard Kit is now 50% off in the United States. Easy to order online in under 2 minutes

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·7 May

@robmen Sometimes companies are trying to get a foothold in an industry and want to be able to install without elevation.

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Rob Mensching@robmen·6 May

Haven't seen this meme in a while. This was normalized by Windows a long time ago (there are limitations). I do wonder exactly what the push back is this time. :)

sysadafterdark@sysadafterdark

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·25 Nis

@icmanik1 @NoContextHumans The guy or the bear?

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icmanik@icmanik1·24 Nis

@NoContextHumans I would take a tetanus shot after that ugly scratch…

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Out of Context Human Race@NoContextHumans·24 Nis

Man tells a bear he’s not invited and has to leave…😳🐻

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·16 Nis

@Eldhed I suppose it'd technically still be ECMA-334 so it'd be Modern C#.

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Daniel Jonsson@DanOpcode·15 Nis

A new, non-backwards compatible version of C# where they delete all old syntax, what would you call it?

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·10 Nis

@robmen Better yet they provide an HSM infrastructure and automatically keep it up to date for you so that all you have to do is sign. BTW.... Azure Trusted Signing for $10/mo is meeting all my needs.

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Rob Mensching@robmen·9 Nis

In the end, it is more stable to depend on infrastructure that notifies *me* of expiring certs and where I can directly reach out to get any problem fixed.

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Rob Mensching@robmen·7 Nis

The .NET Foundation failed to renew the WiX Toolset's certificate. This broke our first attempt at the official release of WiX v6.0.0. We are now switching to FireGiant's certificate infrastructure to no longer depend on the .NET Foundation for this and future builds of WiX.

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·10 Nis

@robmen If only it was that easy. I assure you the average company will spend way more in labor just talking about if/how then the actual sponsorship itself.

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Rob Mensching@robmen·7 Nis

@chrpai Sure. Procurement does that. Since all companies pay their maintenance fees (because all projects require it), paying is a standard process that is part of onboarding a new project in the company. All standard so no dev ever fears losing his/her job due to going astray of rules.

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Rob Mensching@robmen·6 Nis

I have an idea. Let's ensure that developers are never put in such a precarious position by requiring procurement to pay for every library. That's what the Open Source Maintenance Fee does. Pay the maintainers and protect developers from their own procurement teams. Win-win. :)

Ed Andersen@edandersen

@hhariri The developers don't make purchasing decisions but they do make library selection decisions. So when a library selection decision suddenly becomes "deal with procurement" it's a serious problem, sometimes a career limiting one for the developer.

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·5 Nis

Being an elite technologist and knowing how to grow a business are two different skills. I wish more people understood this.

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·21 Mar

@mjovanovictech Frontend: Blazor Backend: .NET Auth: Entra ID Database: Azure SQL Deployment: GHA

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Milan Jovanović@mjovanovictech·21 Mar

Here's the tech stack I would use for my next side project: Frontend: React Backend: .NET Auth: Keycloak Database: PostgreSQL Deployment: Hetzner What's yours?

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·8 Mar

@McClellandRuss @DevLeaderCa I'm so glad I wanted until 2.0. I'm not sure a world without generics is worth living.

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Russ McClelland@McClellandRuss·7 Mar

@DevLeaderCa Yes, but even with its flaws, I've used C# since the first "alpha" version. So I do think its a great language and great platform. But having come from Smalltalk, I see its flaws...

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devleader@DevLeaderCa·7 Mar

What's the best programming language and why did you pick CSharp?

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·8 Mar

@DevLeaderCa Best? Who knows... I picked up C# because I came from a Win3.1/95/NT background and my enterprise arch told our team we should all learn C#. At my next job they sent us through a .NET Framework 2.0 bootcamp. It did what I needed to do so I stuck with it ever since.

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·1 Mar

@robmen Sadly a very real thing.

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Rob Mensching@robmen·28 Şub

Wait. Do companies actually hire people remotely but never meet with them in person? I mean, I know it's possible, but... how would you know if they are a real person? Oh... no.

Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz

Wild: Talked with a startup founder who is pretty sure an SWE applicant they almost hired could have been a NK state-sponsored actor. Aced the interviews, but (in hindsight) used an AI filter. Last round interview focused on non-tech was too weird and they got suspicious.

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Christopher Painter@chrpai·15 Şub

@robmen marcan.st/2025/02/resign…

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