erikbye

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   by erikbye 9y ago

   Yes, my political views aligned with some 0.2% of this year's turnout (parliamentary election).
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   by erikbye 9y ago

   Lived here all my life. https://www.quora.com/How-are-Danes-Norwegians-Swedes-and-Fi...
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   by erikbye 9y ago

   Swedes are very different from, say, Norwegians. Swedes are forthcoming and ambitious; if you succeed in your ambition, you're celebrated by your countrymen (so long what you're doing is in the politically correct sphere). You&#x2
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   by erikbye 9y ago

   > Would you want to live next to the guy who did that while not in control of himself? Perhaps there is a combined higher probability that one of your other neighbors will one day snap and go crazy than the medicated/or rehabilitate
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   by erikbye 9y ago

   I've toyed with Go for a while, but it has not yet become my main language. Can you talk a bit about what you use it for, what your tooling is, and if you've discovered some great go-to libraries and supporting tools?
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   by erikbye 9y ago

   "Windows Desktop was the most commonly used platform by developers, followed by Linux Desktop."
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   by erikbye 9y ago

   You need to look at a bigger sample size. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-pl...
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   by erikbye 9y ago

   Not sure why this got downvoted. While I prefer my own customized Emacs or Vim, Spacemacs is pretty decent from the jump. You just need to activate the layer for your language.
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   by erikbye 9y ago

   Except for the reading part that's exactly like software engineering. Since when does a software engineer ever start from scratch? We all build on top of what was before. As for "the field does progress and removes bad ideas or c
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    https://www.networkworld.com/article/3037428/cloud-computing... And, > We rely on the cloud for all of our scalable computing and storage needs — our business logic, distributed databases and big data processin
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    Which, in the long run, and sometimes short term, causes problems.
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    Only if you enable it; if it's the third party, Arch-Anywhere-specific stuff you're thinking of.
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    I'm not even talking about end-user applications. You have different needs as a developer. I need libraries and compilation chains to be up to date.
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4uzev2/antergos_...
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    YMMV. Mint packages tend to be quite old, even older than Ubuntu. This is no good if you want to run close to, or, upstream versions, which Arch excels at. Of course, you can install software not using your package manager, but that defeats
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    Stop perpetuating this myth that you have to mess around and tinker to keep Arch in working condition. It's one update command, and it's not something you need to do daily. You can put it off for weeks, all that will happen is you
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    This "configure and set up everything yourself" bit is overstated. It's not like Ubuntu, or similar batteries-included distros, doesn't require configuration and tweaking to get it your personal liking, anyway. And it&#x
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    Why didn't you just use Arch-Anywhere? https://arch-anywhere.org/ Besides, the manual installation process of Arch does not consist of that many steps; it takes but a few minutes (perhaps not the first time). To short
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    I've been a Linux user since early Slackware. Arch is the only distro I will recommend, and, contrary to its image as a tinkerer's distro, it's the only Linux install I've had that "just works" and works. Insta
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    Arch Anywhere. https://arch-anywhere.org/
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    Beware, you cannot cancel your subscription to Wall Street Journal without calling them.
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    Washington Post shows ads even to subscribers.
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    Yep, still use AIX here.
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    For all of Microsoft's attacks on open source, although not altruistically, their embrace of open source is not that recent. People seem to forget they launched a successful open source hub (CodePlex) two years before GitHub, which enj
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    I don't have a legibility problem using TeamViewer, done a lot of pair programming this way.
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    As to price, if production costs can't be sufficiently reduced, subsidizing might be needed. Would iPhone have been as successful without carrier subsidies?
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    I subscribe to a lot of sites and newspapers and they still show me their ads.
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    https://www.jetbrains.com/go/features/
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    Who the hell uses Esc for Vi(m)? On modern keyboards Esc is too far from home row. Ctrl-[ is much better.
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    by erikbye 9y ago

    And instead of saying nothing those who harp on "C's pitfalls" could politely enumerate those relevant to the issue at hand, that way we actually have something discrete to discuss.