C#: why ability to lock on any object was a bad idea
Any programming language gives you plenty of opportunities to shoot yourself in the foot, and C# is probably not the worst, but I ran into an interesting example today. C# […]
Whatsapp: bad system design for the masses
I’ve been using Whatsapp for about 2 years now, and it was more or less OK, until I bought a new phone and tried to move my account there. This […]
C#: How to shoot yourself in the foot with a generic extension method
TL;DR: wrapping existing method DoSomething(MyData data), with an identically named generic extension method DoSomething<T>(T data) is a bad idea, since it erases compile-time type checking. DoSomething() may now be called […]
The Pólya Conjecture
I have finally memorized one simple mathematical statement that is true for pretty much any number you can think of, but is in fact verifiably false, with known counterexamples. The […]
VS 2017+ASP.NET Core+Docker: published dev image does not work
I created an ASP.NET core project with docker support. Good thing: it works. Bad thing: the “dev” image it creates does not really contain application code. The code is added […]
Unity Container and double singleton
It turns out that after re-registering type as a singleton in Unity calls to container.Resolve() return a new instance. This may lead and have led to ugly bugs if your code relies […]
Google killed my feedback page
Google had shut down Recaptcha v1 on March 31st, killing my feedback page in the process. I found out yesterday, fixed today. Pros: new captcha is much easier to use […]
Javascript: implicit semicolon is NOT your friend
Today I spent several hours trying to find out why this code does not work: function doit() { return someObject .method1() .method2(); } but this one does: function doit() { […]
Rant about Win32 API
Coming back from .NET Framework, it feels like Win32 API was invented by some rather cold people with total disregard for the well being of the application programmers. Every other […]
The definition of truth, Russian style
Warning: this post is politically charged. Russia has just enacted a law that forbids dessimination of “untruthful information” over the Internet. The actual legal definition is very lengthy, but it […]