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by SiVal 11y ago
TL;DR: The relatively small group of people who learn how to code will have good jobs writing automation software that will cause the unemployment and misery of the larger group who don't know how to code. There won't be enough go
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by SiVal 11y ago
And now with the one you excluded (VS Code), we are seeing them making a serious move on your two big advantages of IDEA over VS. They have apparently built a lot of the "big" VS in C#, and they have apparently architected VS Code
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by SiVal 11y ago
Thanks for this. If this is similar to the C++ debugger I remember from my use of VS years ago, I'll be very pleased and switch my students learning C on Macs from XCode to VS Code. It seems to me that this should be announced on the V
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by SiVal 11y ago
Apple has to maintain a balance. High iPhone sales times high margins per phone are the future of Apple for years to come. Their other businesses, large as they are, are mere sideshows for now at Apple, because of the outsized success of iP
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by SiVal 11y ago
No, but Visual Studio Code is off to a very good start, and it runs well on Windows, Mac, and Linux, all free and open source. It's not a "rewrite" per se, but a new product with the same name but targeted at developers on al
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by SiVal 11y ago
Atom is a madhouse. It's what you might expect from Github, a company with no experience in deep, complex IDE tools but lots of experience bringing together a small army of amateurs to contribute to a stone soup, open source project. I
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Atom Reaches One Million Active Users(blog.atom.io)
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by SiVal 11y ago
Can this headless Swift be compiled to a simple, self-contained, statically-linked, no-runtime-required binary like Go? (A real question, not some sort of advocacy.)
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by SiVal 11y ago
So true, and it gets even better. If you have to be the one doing the setup and IT support for Grampa, and he needs maintenance for his Chromebook, you just show him how to reset it. Now HE can do his own maintenance. And if drops it or lea
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by SiVal 11y ago
Apple is just taking a page from Microsoft's old playbook, sabotaging the Web platform in order to prop up the competitiveness of its native platform. When MS owned the dominant platform, they made sure that the Web browser they shippe
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by SiVal 11y ago
There's no touch, no pen, no direct drawing or manipulation on any Mac laptop or desktop screen, and Apple says there never will be, because nobody wants it.
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by SiVal 11y ago
Power users are people who take multiple software tools and play them like the conductor of an orchestra, crafting from them a powerful metatool with the combined features of all, often with gap fillers and automators, such as shell scripts
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by SiVal 11y ago
I'm hoping that Typescript will be willing to break backward compatibility when necessary to maintain its core advantage of being an assisted version of the standard rather than just another non-standard language. If Typescript gets ou
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by SiVal 11y ago
if you make any sort of patent claim against Facebook My understanding (and I'm asking for correction, if I'm wrong) is that last year FB changed this provision to only cover patents on technologies within React itself, not &quo
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by SiVal 11y ago
games that would get them smacked in any reasonable court You're talking about a Chinese court, right? The guy you're planning to sue lives in China and is a long-time business "associate" of the judge who will decide
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by SiVal 11y ago
I was thinking the point would be that one reason for the low price is that the manufacturer wants your design so they can use it to build a competing product at their other factory down the road--a joint venture with the local Party boss.
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by SiVal 11y ago
So it isn't the users who are driving the "let's use the web as a VM for desktop apps!" trend. It's the developers. Really? I was in a public middle school this afternoon that, just a few years ago, was having to
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by SiVal 11y ago
The declaration right in the title that they, the enlightened ones, are condescending to offer "clues" to the clueless (us, their benighted readers), and proclamation that their opinion piece is a "manifesto" tells me th
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by SiVal 11y ago
Very nice feature. While you're in there tinkering under the hood, how about wiring it up for JavaScript & Python, too? (I'm mostly kidding, because this appears to be exactly the direction you're already heading.) But PL
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by SiVal 11y ago
What specifically about the licensing? This is an actual question, not advocacy. IIRC, Facebook had a provision that disallowed use of React for a ridiculously broad range of offenses with respect to any of FBs intellectual property but tha
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by SiVal 11y ago
For the record, I DO see plenty of liberal groups flagrantly violating the law, and your claim about attitude toward paying taxes is a clever red herring, because EVERY organization that claims tax-exempt status is claiming the same thing w
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by SiVal 11y ago
Thank you. ;-)
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by SiVal 11y ago
It's interesting to note the unprecedented success Apple has achieved at keeping millions of its users at the very leading edge of Apple OS technologies along with its "difficulties" keeping up with new Web technologies. And
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by SiVal 11y ago
Thank you. Abbreviations tend to physically shorten text at the cost of cognitively lengthening it. They're useful in cases where space is more constrained than usual, such as on an advertising placard, an axis label on a chart, or the
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by SiVal 11y ago
I'm part of that target audience, and you scored a bullseye with me. I always prefer to learn a new technology this way, by building very simple things from scratch and making minor modifications this way and that until I know what all
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by SiVal 11y ago
Where are these buried cache files? I need to check this out, and I'd like to either find them or be sure I don't have them.
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by SiVal 11y ago
If wanting to know up front if this is designed for the future or the past is an edge case, it's a pretty crowded edge. Python 3 was released eight years ago, and I will ALWAYS choose a competing technology (if it means a language othe
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by SiVal 11y ago
I see option autocompletion is provided as a service by the framework. What about tab-completion of paths?
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by SiVal 11y ago
Extrapolate that from school to life and you start to see why graduates of these elite schools on the whole tend to be more successful. And yet what this research and other studies like it are showing is that, for STEM majors, the kind of
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by SiVal 11y ago
Yes, in most cases. As always, the pro way to do it is to examine the browser statistics for your target market, decide which browsers you will/won't support, and build and test for those browsers. If you don't want to go to

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