flukus

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by flukus 9y ago
> This is a self inflicted problem across all companies. As long as companies are not willing to pay the market salary, people will move elsewhere. Back when I was on the short term merry-go-round it was because companies hiring were onl
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by flukus 9y ago
> 3. Have a big, long "technology used" for a project. For example, "technology used" in a project includes "Python, Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, SQL, C#, Django, Messaging, C, Bash.." How exactly is
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by flukus 9y ago
Form designers produce their own issues like compatibility between versions, poor interactions with source control and poor responsiveness. I don't see an issue with creating UI's in code, with a decent API like Qt and Gtk provide
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by flukus 9y ago
Nice to see this project is still alive, it shows a lot of promise but appeared abandoned for a while. Have they got the data grid API's working yet?
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by flukus 9y ago
Everyone is focusing on python, but where is this "can do" spirit from mozilla? Their are languages with better startup times, bash, perl, lua, awk to name a few, and could likely do whatever the python scripts are doing.
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by flukus 9y ago
If someone truly has such rare skills that they need to be imported then they should be getting top dollar anywhere in the country.
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by flukus 9y ago
I'm not familiar with iOS but is the crash reporting not part of the OS/store? If so that is there problem. > It has Google Analytics There's a real issue, you've been bundling spyware with your application for years.
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by flukus 9y ago
Are you storing any user data? Sounds like it could all be stored client side and the GDPR is irrelevant to you.
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by flukus 9y ago
> the introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment - http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pollution So Co2e is pollution, it's a harmful substance in currently produced quantities.
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by flukus 9y ago
> QT is good if you are willing to pay for the licensing costs for commercial use or you open source your app. Qt is LGPL, you can use it commercially for free. It sounds like this is for an internal app they don't plan to distribut
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by flukus 9y ago
> Nevertheless, it is physically possible to build enough roads Sure it's probably possible, but by the time we've built that many roads we'd need to cycle from the carpark to the building anyway.
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by flukus 9y ago
IME sacrificing quality almost always pushes out a deadline and costs, sometimes for decades. Low quality means constant firefighting will interrupt everything else.
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by flukus 9y ago
Qt, Gtk, Tk, wxWidgets, Delphi (whatever the open source one is). All have pros and cons depending on your needs but you should be able to throw something pretty serviceable together pretty quickly. The biggest catch for most is the relianc
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by flukus 9y ago
> When it comes to roads, why is increasing capacity to resolve the capacity problem always automatically dismissed? Because those people are going somewhere and increasing capacity of one road typically just moves the bottleneck. The on
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by flukus 9y ago
> It's not an accident that the higher the standard of living, the lower pollution is. Citation? The richest countries in the world pollute (CO2e) far more per-capita than than anyone else. Even that's with much of their pollut
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by flukus 9y ago
> The web never has. One of the best things to happen lately is reader view which does make a good chunk of the web match my theme. There's always been plugins, custom css, etc to work around this failing of the web.
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by flukus 9y ago
They don't use this data currently. It's a hedge against the day when firefox and safari start including something like uBlock by default.
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by flukus 9y ago
Emacs has a GUI version with gorgeous fonts, images and everything. Vim also has a gui version, though it's not as good. I think neo-vim has a few gui front ends as well.
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by flukus 9y ago
So a spyware producer had to shutdown a spyware based product because of the GDPR? That's working as intended. Hopefully it will bite the giants the same way.
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by flukus 9y ago
It certainly feels more native than web/electron, swing, XUL, GTK and just about every other cross platform technology. It's about as good as you'll get without a native client for each platform, which will always be the best
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by flukus 9y ago
> I have high sensitivity to visual motion, which is a useful thing in most other situations, but the web is becoming increasingly difficult to use. Designers seem to not realize that the human brain is fantastic at doing visuals diffs.
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by flukus 9y ago
It really depends, some work might necessitate 8GB+ but most really shouldn't and only do because the tools they use were built by developers with that much RAM. At work I need my 16GB but that's because Visual Studio and the app
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by flukus 9y ago
The average end-user has less than 4GB of RAM and would struggle to run electron apps at all. They would get frustrated with the computer being slow but would not know who to blame. Aside from that, electron apps do not look, act or feel na
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by flukus 9y ago
Other way around, is-even depends on is-odd. But wait, there's more. Is even depends on is-number, so in the node.js world '515' is odd. It doesn't matter how good javascript compilers get when you throw this level of sl
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by flukus 9y ago
> The financial arguments assume one only pays the minimum mortgage payment amount. They also tend to ignore that mortgage repayments remain static while rent goes up, that interest payments goes down if you pay in advance (offset accoun
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by flukus 9y ago
> but too much DRY in tests can make for hard-to-modify spaghetti This applies to all code, not just tests. Dry can turn some stupidly simple if somewhat repetitive code into a complicated mess. For unit tests though, as I general rule
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by flukus 9y ago
Google is sick of missing out on all that data mining it can do in the private messenger space. When the worlds largest spyware company supports something you have to look at why.
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by flukus 9y ago
Use a library when: 1. It would take a significant time (> a few days) to write yourself. 2. The library is widely used. 3. The library has a history of supporting major versions, you don't want breaking changes to come with securit
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by flukus 9y ago
It actually sounds incredibly sane to me right now, I just finished a task to extend some existing code to read an extra field from a CSV. I had to touch 9 files to do this. Strict typing (c#) helped, but it's only necessary because th
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by flukus 9y ago
> Send a well put together cover letter email selling your skills with concrete links to projects you can show. Step 3 is reinventing the resume.

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