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by fivea 5y ago
I'd add that turning a one-time install followed by running a build command n-times into running a build command n-times is practically irrelevant and saves no time at all. This reads like a solution desperately looking for a problem.
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by fivea 5y ago
> I used the vim extension for about a month (..) I thought I had comfortably got the movements inside a file down, but now that I’m trying to navigate medium/large projects, I see how much more I need to learn before I can “break e
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by fivea 5y ago
> If I build an image using the Dockerfile in the blog post 10 days later (...) To start off, if you intend to run the same container image for 10 days straight, you have far more pressing problems than reproducibility. Personally I know
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by fivea 5y ago
> Still in all these years, Java was never used to sell Netbeans commercial licenses (...) But that's completely irrelevant, isn't it? Cherry-picking aside, don't you understand how loss leaders work, and how companies use
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by fivea 5y ago
> (...) and the IDE of choice for many, if not most, professional Java engineers (...) The same baseless assertion can be made regarding Eclipse, and it would be less doubtful given Eclipse's FLOSS nature. Again, can we spend a minu
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by fivea 5y ago
> JetBrains wants to be like Borland, and like Borland is now getting beyond themselves and better not trip over. I don't understand what Borland's history has to do with JetBrains' decision to invest their resources on ad
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by fivea 5y ago
> I don't know (I know) why people aren't moving to platforms like lambda to avoid NIH-ing system security patching operations. Perhaps because people do their homework and just by reading the sales brochure they understand tha
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by fivea 5y ago
> Despite all the constant hate about electron apps, I've consistently found VS Code to be much snappier to use than any time I've tried using Jetbrains IDEs (whether on beefy desktop or slimmer laptop), and that's even af
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by fivea 5y ago
> I don't know a single person who used Eclipse after 2020. So your circle of acquaintances doesn't include anyone who used an IDE in the past year, and you extrapolate your personal anecdote how far? > Don't you think
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by fivea 5y ago
It sounds like you are trying to find differences where there are none. It also looks like you're forgetting that Java has been for years (decades) owned by Oracle, which is renowned for taking very public legal fights to milk Java to
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by fivea 5y ago
> Basically you recreate your personal base image (with the apt-get commands) every X days, so you have the latest security patches. How exactly does that a) assure reproducibility if you use a custom unreproducible base image, b) improv
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by fivea 5y ago
> They also talk about using software to look up dog names. Also known as going through an end-to-end user flow? The point of a "hello world" is also not to greet people. > At what point we stop pretending that the king is i
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by fivea 5y ago
> You can regenerate your base images every day or more often and have consistent containers created from an image. That solves nothing, as it just moves the unreproducibility to a base image at the cost of extra complexity. Arguably tha
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by fivea 5y ago
> That command itself means that a docker container is no longer reproducible. It's a tradeoff between making container images reproducible, and not shipping security vulnerabilities. People tend to prefer the latter. Furthermore, y
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by fivea 5y ago
> I noticed you start to find every operating system quirk ever when you start writing Dockerfiles. I've been using Dockerfiles extensively for years and I'm yet to find anything that fits the definition of a OS quirk. The quir
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by fivea 5y ago
> I’ve had to give up multi-stage builds but being able to ditch Dockerfiles and simply write a shell script without a thousand &&\’s is more than enough reason to keep me using it. I don't understand your point. If all you
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by fivea 5y ago
> Seems like you just discovered doing micromanagement of people's time, and that you love practicing it. This has zero to do micromanagement. Either your new hire onboards with dedicated staff in dedicated sessions, or that task fa
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by fivea 5y ago
> That's your opinion, but everything about this process screams useless busy work. It really isn't. It's a statement of fact. The whole point of getting everyone in the same room and showing them how to go through a SSO u
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by fivea 5y ago
> I find out what I need to do my job, and get the company to give it to me. Usually means making the same request again and again and again. Which is good practice for the actual work of coding in big orgs. Onboarding processes are done
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by fivea 5y ago
> It's a cynical, immature post. Genuinely surprised that it has obviously resonated so well. It's also highly unprofessional and demonstrates a high level of disdain for everyone around the author, which is particularly worryi
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by fivea 5y ago
> Hiring someone but forgetting to prepare a workplace for this person seems very unprofessional to me. The blog post mentions that the author decided to skip steps of the onboarding process and decided to occupy a desk in a moment in ti
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by fivea 5y ago
> How is the comparison to doublespeak absurd? Because the accusation has absolutely nothing to do with doublespeak, and given the fundamental difference between the meaning of doublespeak and the case discussed then it's so far-fet
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by fivea 5y ago
> Xmake has Clion/IDEA, vscode, vs, sublime and qtcreator plugin. Correct me if I'm wrong, but a quick search for Clion's support for xmake only returns a dead plugin from intellij which was last updated 4 years ago. http
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by fivea 5y ago
> One of my favorite features particular to C++ is that you can configure dependencies to use local libraries, vcpkg, or Conan specifically. This was the only substantiated claim you made in your whole post, but it refers to stuff that m
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by fivea 5y ago
> I will never touch CMake again for my own projects. Ever. Xmake is extremely easy to use (while still being powerful) and really just works. That's quite the odd statement. CMake is extremely easy to use, just works, and handles e
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by fivea 5y ago
> In XMake you can set up a build file that can compile the native library in one language, include it in the other language, and then compile that, in like ~10 lines. Keep in mind that in CMake, that is done by listing the language in p
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by fivea 5y ago
> CMake supports pkg-config, for what that's worth. And in CMake support for Conan is literally a single line of code: conan_basic_setup() https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/getting_started.html On top of all
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by fivea 5y ago
> It's like 1984's Doublespeak. These people say obviously contradictory statements without making any logical association between them. It really isn't, and trying to force absurd 1984 references makes absolutely no sense
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by fivea 5y ago
> If you take these statement literally, it can’t. However, this is just a legal fiction (...) ...or it really can't and it's quite clearly breaking the law?
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by fivea 5y ago
> Volunteers are exempted from minimum wage requirements. But there is nothing in this job posting indicating that this is for a volunteer position. The "without salary basis" looks pretty clear to me, and I'm sure someone

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