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by __sr__ 8y ago
I think it’s iOS/Android only — which is a pity because a lot of people still prefer a laptop/desktop — although it works well enough for me. https://get.google.com/trips/ https://itunes.apple.com&
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Try Google Trips
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Wow! I haven’t used regular Gmail in years! It will be a pain to switch back. The whole bundling, scheduling, snoozing, pinning, reminders etc are really useful. But then it’s Google. The key people probably got bored and moved on and perha
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by __sr__ 8y ago
It was Alan Kay, actually.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
They probably don’t have a lot of users who install and use the Dropbox client on a server machine.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Err... I can’t imagine a scenario where one would want to use OneDrive/Dropbox to sync git repositories. It’s like having your local Dropbox folder inside your local OneDrive folder — only a lot worse.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> For any kind of app targeting westen world (meaning - it's not localised into Hindi, African and Chinese languages), the market share of Lollipop will be below 20%. Where exactly are you getting this data from? Please do not put r
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> In my experience, the fact that I can navigate a file without taking my hands off the home row far outweighs any disadvantages hjkl might have. In my experience, most (if not all) of the people who use Vim or Emacs are programmers — an
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Exactly — this. There is a major difference between what Microsoft was doing back in 90s and what Apple is doing today.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Or 1996.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
The horror! Fill gazillions of forms in triplicate and get them approved before we’d let you do anything useful.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
And my point is — how do you, as a startup founder, judge whether .NET — or any other platform, for that matter — increases your developers’ productivity by N percent? You certainly don’t have the time or resources to build the MVP on every
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Do not forget — Microsoft licence costs also increase with the number of CPU cores in your server. In addition to costs themselves, Microsoft licensing is a highly complex topic. One of my colleagues who deals with Microsoft jokes that some
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> If I can get my engineers 3% more efficient at the cost of making my hosting 30% more expensive I will do this in a heartbeat. How do you quantify engineers’ productivity? A Java or a Python developer (much easier to find than a .NET d
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> Is that...bad? For Microsoft and .NET community — yes.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
A lot of organisations prohibit sharing internal practices — or at least make the process really hard by requiring multiple approvals.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Happy to help! Disclaimer: I am not associated with Zulip in any way.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
There is also Zulip ( https://zulipchat.com )
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Setup an old faishoned IRC server?
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Wait, if Huawei Partner acquired the company, doesn’t it mean they got the rights to its IP? Isn’t that often the sole point of acquision? Or did I misread something?
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by __sr__ 8y ago
So how exactly were they doing their job? Didn’t their manager have anything to say about the non-delivery of the project?
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> You can't create additional instances of module-level state. For example, if your app server uses a module-level global for the server listening socket, you can't run two app server instances in the same process. So a global
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Agreed, and module globals shouldn’t be used for such cases. But for simpler cases, it may, in some cases, be better to use globals than create a singleton or some other convoluted solution. To be clear, I am not saying globals should be us
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> For most people H1B = cheap, which is grossly incorrect >> In any case, treating the two categories as one is probably not a great idea. That is exactly what I said.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> The H-1Bs however, in my experience, don't. Why might that be? That is strange. In my experience, H1Bs are let go as quickly as natives if they are not competent. Of course, it could simply be a matter of the type of companies we
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by __sr__ 8y ago
I am not saying that python globals are a great idea — just that they are not as horrible as they are in case of C and they they do have their uses — they just need to be used carefully. Of course, python makes it impossible to truly hide a
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> Mutable instance variables are much less bad because their scope is much more limited: you can much more easily scan all the code that mutates them and check that invariants are upheld etc. Same can be done with module level globals.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
That was meant as a joke. While I agree that there are many incompetent people who have abused H1B and other such systems, I prefer to judge people on their individual merits and avoid stereotyping. I have worked with both the extremes. See
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Well, there have been cases where I was asked to get rid of them by people reviewing my code — for no reason other than that global variables are “considered harmful”.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Are they really? I agree that global variables are horrible in a language like C where they are truly “global” because of the lack of namespaces. But in a language like Python, they are tolerable because they are not truly global — they are

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