arcticwombat

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by arcticwombat 8y ago
I'm the opposite of a morning-person. I know some people enjoy audio books and whatnot, but I'm just trying to wake up so I just play some music from my phone (Over the car audio system), what I play depends on my current mood. Ev
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
It's almost impossible to give you an accurate timeframe. How long it takes depends on * What they're learning * What their goals are * Where they are located/Where they want to work * Other marketable skills Bootcamps are a
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
"Something something blockchain" Got it. Good luck.
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
There are different ways to do it depending on if the client is online or if it has to be offline, and using a dongle or not (Uncommon today). If the client will be online you can just do an API call and check on start, if there's no k
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
For me it works well about 90% of the time, when it doesn't I hop over to Google for those specific queries.
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
All hail the duck! (Not tongue in cheek. I'm a fan of the duck)
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
Yup, and that's a problem. It makes perfect sense for the bootcamps to exist to fill that niche, it's just horribly unfortunate for both the companies hiring people with less skill than they think, and the new developers being led
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
Did you know that that the average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour?
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
I think a lot of it stems from bootcamps and whatnot, focusing on letting people check off a number of boxes by the end of the course/system/whatever. Node - Check React - Check Angular - Check NPM - Check "See how much you&#
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
This was a very interesting read, and I agree with Ragnars conclusions. I'm amazed sometimes of how complicated and heavy some people, especially new developers, make things. While I usually pull in JQuery for small applications, somet
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
UO is a fantastic game, going to be great fun picking it back up again on my Mac!
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
Glad it helped! Now go make stuff :)
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
Sure, I get that, but there are as many opinions as there are tools, and you'll get lots of people fighting each other over what's best. Assembler, maybe not, but C++ makes perfect sense, in some cases. And that's the problem
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
"Things I don't need or that are obsolete or that I won't use" That's a silly way of thinking. * Define the problem to solve * Look at potential solutions * Pick one that fits * Make stuff Before you pick a solution
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
I suggest looking into the curriculum of your upcoming studies and getting a headstart with whatever language(s) you'll be studying. The simple truth is that unless you truly specialize, your software developer career is going to be a
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
A license key is just a string you can easily track, and depending on delivery of the key you might want to make it easy to type. If it's all downloadable/copy-paste, just use any GUID generator. If you're relying on people t
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
Paywall. No thanks. Am I surprised that the Wallstreet Journal would have a complaint-piece about potential higher taxes though? Nope.
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
Since you want to do drawings and stuff we're definitely talking JavaScript and graphic frameworks, either raw canvas or something like the D3 library would be my guess. For the backend, although it pains me to say so, I suggest PHP si
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
I'd imagine that the browser is the resource-heavy part of the application, Nodejs doesn't use hundreds of mb's of RAM in my experience, at least not while doing very little background work. To me it would make sense to build
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
By the looks of it, only the console (Or equivalent) is used for output, so bundling an entire browser seems way overkill for the output. There's plenty of ide-libraries in other languages to replace the one used by runjs.
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
How did it get go this? Well that's what you get when the "solution" is to embed a webserver, a browser, a native executable to show that browser, and the server runs Node... The solution is simple, stop shoving square pegs i
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
It is odd.
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
It's not a MacOS app, it's an Electron app (So, just a web browser bundled to look like an app)
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
I've never read anything by Christie Tate before, and this one article told me everything I need to know about her.. What an ass of a parent.
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
It's arguably the most advanced gui builder available. As for snappy, fluid, single-window apps that is 100% doable and up to the gui developer. It's not hard to use groups and switch between views, and make things dynamically res
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
Online package manager can search, download, and install packages. I have libs/packages for everything I need, dunno about your needs. Not sure about the community size but it's plenty big and plenty helpful, lots of cool new stuf
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
You can't run an Electron app on the web without changing code either, seeing as it's a browser AND a webserver combo. You also don't take a webapp and separate server and just drop the two into a folder and run it as an El
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
"Moves on without you", I work in CFML, JavaScript (including various frameworks and engines), Java, Object Pascal just about every day, I've released code in many more languages professionally. I'm using Node.js right n
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
You CAN do mobile, but those platforms are not well supported (Work is ongoing and improving, but not good enough to rely on yet, imo)
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
We're not talking about web applications, we're talking about Electron. But sure, if you want to do Pascal on the web there are things like Smart Pascal.

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