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by aikah 10y ago
tldr; competition is good. Google Cloud UI is vastly superior to AWS. It's clear to me AWS didn't put a lot of effort into their interface, Google console is nice too in order to quickly experiment with the platform. On the other
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by aikah 10y ago
Thanks, this is a great blog post about the matter.
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by aikah 10y ago
http://archive.is/Hoj9R
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by aikah 10y ago
So basically they are probably still using it but don't contribute back to the open source version?
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by aikah 10y ago
Then why isn't Walmart funding it ? doesn't sound like a Walmart project. Of course plenty of OS projects backed by corporations are abandoned. My point is a project backed by a corp has higher chances being maintained in the long
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by aikah 10y ago
It's a wider problem with open source in general. Starting a project to build your career is great, but a lot of projects end up with the creator "not having the time to maintain it anymore". Sure, in the open source world no
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by aikah 10y ago
> I think of dynamic typing in a language as a big pro and a big con at the same time, but it's one of the things that makes a language like JavaScript or closure what it is. Well JavaScript weak type system allows it to be shaped b
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by aikah 10y ago
That's the lot of early adopters. Too be fair any widely popular product will have its share of problems, and since we in the west basically stopped caring about the conditions in which these products are built...
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by aikah 10y ago
> So let's say we have someone who flees Syria and ends up in France, a safe country Between Syria and France there is a least 10 safe countries. it's perfectly reasonable to call that person an illegal alien at that point,whic
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by aikah 10y ago
No need to point out that Haxe is written in Ocaml ;)
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by aikah 10y ago
> However actual bias is extremely difficult to prove. Actually it is extremely easy. It is easy to tell if an article has an angle or as not, by the choices of word and expressions. For instance, let's take the immigration crisis
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by aikah 10y ago
To be fair Russia was doing pretty well around 2005/2010 , so much that people from Europe were actually moving for work and investing heavily in Russia. The confrontation against US an Europe and oil prices tanking made the situation
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by aikah 10y ago
> As a Russian, who was born in USSR, I regret that CIA has failed to assassinate him 50 years ago. Your problem is thinking that covered operations make the world better. It obviously didn't work in Iran, Vietnam, Cambodia, Congo,
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by aikah 10y ago
Yes you are absolutely right. C++ compiler ecosystem is far from being monolithic.
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by aikah 10y ago
.NET core, no question. NodeJS ecosystem is brittle. Yes there are a lot of libraries ... mostly unmaintained and low quality. Quantity isn't quality. .NET core is moving extremely fast and is backed by Microsoft. There is no debate he
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by aikah 10y ago
> They did investigate: they're telling us that this guy makes significant money from his activities. Draw your own conclusions. They failed to debunk what he said. > They don't have to engage in finger-wagging in order to b
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by aikah 10y ago
> I don't think the NPR passed judgement as to whether it should be bought or not. They are letting us decide. How about they actually investigate and find out whether he is telling the truth or lying ? This isn't passing judge
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by aikah 10y ago
> publish blatantly or fictional stories and then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction Denounce those stories by making $30k a month as a spammer ? that's how this guy "denoun
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by aikah 10y ago
People have different requirements, there is not a single framework that would make everybody happy. The issue isn't the the number of frameworks by the way but the complexity of the build tools in the context of Nodejs. Grunt,Gulp,Bab
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by aikah 10y ago
Nice, I love Vue.js it is light weight yet fulfill 90% of the needs of a large SPA without a third party language, some bureaucratic dependency injection and without getting in the developer's way by mandating this or that build tool.
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by aikah 10y ago
> We've hired several devs out of bootcamp, and they're all taught how to code, but not how to solve problems using code... Frankly any Algorithms & Data structures book should do the trick. Choosing the right data structur
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by aikah 10y ago
Java stack traces are verbose because Java devs write verbose code. Java stack traces are nice and readable. Just look at a Go stack trace, it'll make you want to vomit.
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by aikah 10y ago
IT's just like anything in IT. "serverless", "nosql","cloud", "Agile","REST" . These become buzzwords because everybody sees what he wants to in these words. But I'd also argue tha
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by aikah 10y ago
C++ is hard. If one sticks to a strict subset it is a nice language. The problem is the code one didn't write. Even the STL is ugly to use. They are trying to fix the language by adding features but it's like Javascript, the old u
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by aikah 10y ago
> I wonder what this means for animation studios, or edit houses. It means nothing > A library for converting Adobe AE shape based animations to a data format and play it back on Android and iOS devices. You still need to be able to p
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by aikah 10y ago
AppleScript certainly doesn't feel like a language for "pro". It feels like a language for people that can't learn regular computer languages. The irony is a language with a small syntax is easier to learn than something
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by aikah 10y ago
audiotool is made with Flash. And a good demonstration of the actual usefulness of Flash to develop complex applications that could be deployed online. Too bad Adobe was incapable of taking good care of that product and didn't listen t
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by aikah 10y ago
You can thank Elop and his pals who ruined to company, the same way he ruined Macromedia before that.
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by aikah 10y ago
> Wasn't most of that money repaid with interest? But how much did it cost to borrow the bailout money at first place ? I'm pretty sure the US government didn't have trillions in cash at that time.
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by aikah 10y ago
As soon as you "shout" something in public, it's not personal anymore. It's true online like in real life. The problem is now you have an audience of potentially millions of people online, which makes things even worse.

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