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by cutler 3y ago
Agreed. The same goes for the 3rd party "data privacy" popups which simply hide a long list of opt-outs several layers deep in a Vendors list. I refuse to use such sites and I let them know by email.
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by cutler 3y ago
Why not take a screenshot of the CF error and send it to the website owner? It would freak me out if I thought a significant number of my website's users were being blocked by CF.
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by cutler 3y ago
If the Android and iOS simulators are lightweight compared with their native counterparts I'm all in. Android Studio's adb stopped working for me recently and the Android Studio emulator is just too heavy for my 2013 Macbook Pro w
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by cutler 3y ago
I'm so thankful my career as a developer and sysadmin preceded the cloud era. We now have a whole generation who manage cloud infrastructure but have never setup a Linux server from scratch.
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by cutler 3y ago
TIOBE inhabits a universe populated by Putin and Trump in which black is white and VB is more popular than PHP.
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by cutler 3y ago
I'll never forget "gem install hairball" during his talk "Simplicity Matters" at Ruby Conf 2012 where he basically told the Ruby community they were doing it wrong.
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by cutler 3y ago
What you've described is functional-style/dry Ruby.
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by cutler 3y ago
Re Elixir for scripting, what's the point? Procedural Ruby, Perl, Python or bash have been around for decades and are exactly what you need for short sysadmin scripts. Elixir/Erlang's niche is massive lightweight conucurrency
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by cutler 3y ago
Although it may work brilliant minds in the Perl community such as Lincoln Stein and Randall Schwartz spent a significant amount of their career in the late 90s hunting down all the edge cases you're probably unaware of and produced CG
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by cutler 3y ago
AI is a much more divisive factor than Javascript. AI polarises the end user and the massive corporate cloud entities with the technological capital to compute what an individual cannot. The corporate cloud is the real evil which has taken
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by cutler 3y ago
What's wrong with Github?
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by cutler 3y ago
The ultimate Awesome setup has to be that used by Daniel Berg and Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate. Plenty of Lua and Python scrolling frantically but I don't remember seeing any Emacs.
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by cutler 3y ago
But bash with CGI? Seriously, when there's Perl, Ruby, Python and PHP to choose from? 'Sounds like a security nightmare too.
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by cutler 3y ago
> submit incoming html form submissions to my CGI bash script which then in turn adds them to a sqlite database and emails me. 'Sounds like something out of the pre-Perl era. Not saying you can't get it to work but .... why whe
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by cutler 3y ago
> I would actually argue that Jamstack has won to the point of basically just being "Modern Web Development" by now. Don't you think there might be just a little bit of hubris creeping in here? JAMSTACK is such a niche&#x2
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by cutler 3y ago
Didn't Fly.io recently nosedive in similar fashion? If so, that just leaves Render.
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by cutler 3y ago
You know, every time I start-up VS Code something inside me bristles, having lived through web development in the late 90s when hole-ridden, M$-only IE ruled supreme and M$ deliberately flaunted web standards to enure all those company intr
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by cutler 3y ago
Maybe someone should dig out the EU browser bundling anti-trust case Microsoft lost in the early 2000s and enforce it.
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by cutler 3y ago
For Clojure there's nothing better than Emacs + CIDER/nREPL. I've tried Calva/VS Code, Conjure/NeoVim and Cursive/IntelliJ but none of them come close. Maybe it's the ELisp foundation facilitating code-as-
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by cutler 3y ago
When looking at stats for Python's growth we have to remember 2 things. The number of libraries on PyPi is inflated by the same spam phenomenon which has infected npm, producing ludicrous library upload stats. Second, a large section o
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by cutler 3y ago
For Spacemacs remember to use the devel branch, not stable which hasn't been updated in ages.
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by cutler 3y ago
If not 077 then what?
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by cutler 3y ago
Java isn't a scripting language. I don't get your point about junior devs either as FAANG companies such as Facebook can pick and choose from the highest caliber developers.
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by cutler 3y ago
I never really understood Meta/Facebook's practice of relying on scripting languages. Ok, replacing PHP might not have been an option given the accelerated growth of Facebook but Python was only used for tooling originally, as I u
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by cutler 3y ago
Green threads are coming to Java this September so all this will be moot.
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by cutler 3y ago
Hey, you're right. Down from 100ms to 30ms which is 10ms faster than Python. So it's game over for Python, not Ruby, after all ;-)
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by cutler 3y ago
It hasnt' stopped Python, by some metrics, from competing in popularity with JS. Some even put Python ahead.
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by cutler 3y ago
Other than a 60ms startup differential Ruby doesn't sacrifice ANY speed compared with Python. Those days are over.
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by cutler 3y ago
Try Clojure. It takes metaprogramming to a level higher than Ruby's.
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by cutler 3y ago
I urge anyone who values data privacy to refuse to use sites such as this which employ third party data services, ie. popups, which purport to allow you to "Manage" your consent but which hide a long list of opt-out "Legitima

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