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by aikah 11y ago
It was originally written in Ruby , then they rewrote the API in Go. I guess they can't opensource the Go code for legal reasons. Maybe the parse-server written in Node JS was an experiment they did before when they were still choosing
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by aikah 11y ago
In France we had something called the Minitel, it was basically internet but the wrong way and centralized, you had to pay more or less depending on which website you would visit (you'd dial 36 14 for free content , 36 15 for paid one
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by aikah 11y ago
> The amount of brainpower that is wasted on quirky legacy browser behaviour and the lack of consistency between them makes me long for the days where I could position and measure and control with ease and speed as in Flash. Big AS3 fan
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by aikah 11y ago
The link should point to the interactive graph IMHO (great graphics by the way): http://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/foreignborn/#decade=2010&co... As a European, migrating to US is tough, so it's no surpris
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by aikah 11y ago
It also work on Windows, it's what MSYS uses for package management, convenient to avoid having to install CYGIN or using virtualisation.
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by aikah 11y ago
> Allegedly many of the migrants are economic refugees in addition to or instead of political ones. Whether one can be defined as "economic refugee" is questionable. One is not going to get asylum anywhere in Europe because one
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by aikah 11y ago
It has more to do with the current cultural war in USA than anything else. Like all wars it's about power, it's a power grab. "Reverse-racism" is now an acceptable ideology in the media and in the tech community, and all
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by aikah 11y ago
> am extremely happy with Photoshop CC CC got a lot of heat when it was introduced, a lot customers complained, but one just has to look at the numbers to see why it was the right move for Adobe, the profits literally exploded! It's
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by aikah 11y ago
> But a benefit might be cross-platform compatibility seeing as some OSes don't come with, say, grep out of the box If you have git installed on your machine you have grep ( windows users) and most of linux command tools.
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by aikah 11y ago
Nim doesn't have interfaces. The amount of plumbing required to implement them is ridiculous. It has generics though. My point is how can recent OO languages miss this kind of stuff when designing their type system ? Crystal looks like
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by aikah 11y ago
> Not necessarily open-source but would be nice if it is. I don't see any product like this succeeding if it doesn't allow customers to install the app on their own servers, frankly it's the end of wall gardened BaaS solut
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by aikah 11y ago
Push notifications, ACL management done in a nice way, ... nothing that cannot be built quickly but you know how it works, one start with a prototype on Parse, because it's RAD, and the product ends up being the prototype because ... R
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by aikah 11y ago
> Go as a completely unnecessary move-along-now-nothing-to-see-here project I don't like Go type system, but it handles concurrency quite nicely. It's fairly easy to learn and to use so I can see why managers chose it. And it&#
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by aikah 11y ago
> These are the wonders of globalization. USA consumer protection laws don't apply to foreign manufacturers using noname brands. That's false if you buy stuff on Amazon. That's true if you buy goods on a chinese website. U
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by aikah 11y ago
> and the immense amount of setup required to do even simple web apps. This complexity is sold by people who are selling complex tools. I don't use Babel or Webpack because it is not necessary. I usually try to remain framework free
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by aikah 11y ago
People use github because it's free hosting first and foremost. 99% of projects on github are never fetched or forked by third parties, let alone maintained, so i'm not sure about what you're complaining about. Are you compl
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by aikah 11y ago
i wouldn't use Ember precisely because it strongly suggests using a command line tool specifically for the framework. I personally ended up with Typescript as a language + Bower for package management. When it comes to frameworks it is
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by aikah 11y ago
> Why do these JS framework comparison articles never include http://vanilla-js.com/ ? It's all the new rage, and has these other contenders beat every time when both post- and pre- compression. A JS framework is va
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by aikah 11y ago
> Japan needs to bite the bullet and accept immigration. Immigration isn't going to solve anything, immigration from where ? Japan isn't the US, they aren't talking English nor their society is build in a way it can accept
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by aikah 11y ago
> Having spent time in both the tech world and the politics world, in my experience it is the conspiracy theorists who are naive Businesses in an oligopoly tend to (actively) collude and fix prices all the time. Don't you think thos
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by aikah 11y ago
> If you only consider crazy babblings about martians, sure, but... Can someone explain me how is "babblings about martians" or lizard men crazier than believing in Shiva, Jehova or any other religion ? Very few dare consider p
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by aikah 11y ago
> intern dev Alice codes the in private mode yes, blame the intern... let's blame all the telemetry snooping in Windows 10 on a bunch of interns too ? it's like Microsoft can't hire professionals to develop its two main pr
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by aikah 11y ago
some use PROLOG at work. If anybody know a serious modern replacement here, i'm listening. Yeah we could go with 50 different DSLs written in Java, but why reinvent the wheel ? That stuff works and it's powerful.
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by aikah 11y ago
SourceForge could have been a wonderfull thing, especially when it comes to serving binaries from OSS. They destroyed their reputation with them bundling software will malware or hijacking projects... They could have opened their infrastruc
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by aikah 11y ago
This is not a feature complete replacement AFAIK. No push , no cloud code , no webhooks , no admin panel , no analytics though I'm sure people will contribute to the project and add some of these features. EDIT: Hi folks, I was obvious
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by aikah 11y ago
the pins on the magsafe plug side.
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by aikah 11y ago
lol, Dont get me started on the magsafe and its easily breakable pins. it can also destroy the plug on the macbook itself. And there is the heat ... It ruined 2 computers I had and Apple refused to fix them for free ...
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by aikah 11y ago
Kudos for opensourcing ! but : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9693743 I guess the time spent ( a year ? ) on the Go version didn't help feature wise. The product didn't evolve that much in the meantime. I ho
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by aikah 11y ago
Now that's an interesting idea, i'll check that out thanks.
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by aikah 11y ago
"We're not going anywhere." I'd like another answer like. "We are thinking about providing a community version that one can deploy on its own servers, then we provide the IaaS when the customer might want to scale&q

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