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Richard Banks
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Richard Banks's personal blog at richard-banks.org covers programming and career. Since 2011, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “How to prevent Visual Studio 2012's all caps menus”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Richard Banks's blog for workarounds to Visual Studio 2012's ALL CAPS menus via a registry value, plus posts on TFS internals and on testing programmers in interviews.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Posts and Articles from Richard Banks
Most-linked posts?
- How to prevent Visual Studio 2012's all caps menus4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-06-01
- Some Developers Just Can't Develop2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-17
What Hacker News says?
Sometimes, the devs can sneak in a hidden fix. For example, remember back when VS 2012 made menus ALL CAPS? Officially, that was the brave new world everybody was supposed to live in ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/a-design-with-al... ). Users hated it with a passion. And then it turned out that there's an undocumented registry key to re-enable the old behavior, that was leaked without much fanfare ( h…
Comment linking /2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-studio-2012-all.html
on “Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible”Submitted Some Developers Just Can't Develop as a story · 57 points
HN discussionGit is pretty agnostic to storage. There are implementations that use RDBMS for storage quite successfully (TFS/VSTS). It wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of queries can be significantly faster to perform over git repos stored this way. https://www.richard-banks.org/2014/02/tfs-internals-how-does...
Comment linking /2014/02/tfs-internals-how-does-tfs-store-git.html
on “Version Control Before Git with CVS”Submitted How to prevent Visual Studio 2012's all caps menus as a story · 43 points
HN discussionYou can do the registry hack to turn off "ALL CAPS MENU" http://www.richard-banks.org/2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-s...
Comment linking /2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-studio-2012-all.html
on “Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released”Submitted git-TFS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTurn off the ALL CAPS menus with this registry value: http://www.richard-banks.org/2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-s...
Comment linking /2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-studio-2012-all.html
on “Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now ”Submitted ALT.NET - Past, Present and Future as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere's a registry value you can set to go back to normal (title case) menus: http://www.richard-banks.org/2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-s...
Comment linking /2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-studio-2012-all.html
on “Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now ”Submitted Working as designed, and yet still a massive failure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAs a member of the VS team (but not one who is in charge of making these decisions) I can't comment in any official capacity. I can say I am not a fan of the ALL CAPS menus, but, strangely enough, my personal opinion doesn't drive decisions in a multi-million dollar product unit :). I will however just leave this here: http://www.richard-banks.org/2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-s... . This is of course not officially…
Comment linking /2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-studio-2012-all.html
on “Express for Desktop allows for non-metro development in Visual Studio 2012”The System/3x family and RPG were designed for customers who were migrating off unit record equipment. Unit record equipment was "programmed" by wiring plug boards, and the unit record machine would filter, transform, collate (etc.) each card in a stack of input cards by applying the rules specified by the wiring of the plug board. With the fixed formatting and "program cycle", RPG was intended as a sort of skeumorp…
Comment linking /2014/01/a-little-nostalgia-with-wang-vs-and-rpg.html
on “Bernie Madoff’s unwitting accomplice: The AS/400 (2009)”Here is a relevant article about how when interviewing programmers you should actually test if they can program: http://www.richard-banks.org/2009/08/some-developers-just-ca...
Comment linking /2009/08/some-developers-just-cant-develop.html
on “The Ideal Interviewer”