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by generalk 6y ago
> The traditional start menu / taskbar is genuinely nicer > than what Gnome attempts to force on me. OS X is also > genuinely nicer than what Gnome attempts to force on me. This is definitely subjective, and if W
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by generalk 6y ago
I gotta put a big, giant X next to "Readable." I have HN at 170% zoom right now. I keep most of my font sizes around 14pt minimum. I have one useless eye and another that isn't so great even corrected with contact lenses. Giv
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by generalk 6y ago
The way I've always heard this is: If it's important, it needs to have a URL. Your issue tracker works, assuming you're not constantly changing your tracker. SharePoint may work but is super clunky for this purpose. Confluenc
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by generalk 6y ago
> Open protocols, or non profit open source projects will > never compete with true entrepreneurship and hardcore > entrepreneurs creating products. Nginx and Apache httpd are, in that order, the most used web servers
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by generalk 6y ago
The video you posted from June 2020 does not seem to contradict WaPo's August 2020 article that says there's no definitive link between this murder and the BLM protests. A comparison: armed vigilantes overran the capitol and bludg
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by generalk 6y ago
> He was murdered by armed "anti-fascist" protestors. It appears that that link has not been confirmed, as of an August 2020 WaPo article[0], which points out that many of the deaths at the protests can not be conclusiv
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by generalk 6y ago
I'd challenge the assertion you're making here -- again, it is reductive to reduce the entirety of the nationwide protests against police murders to a handful of cherry-picked instances of violence. You're doing that and then
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by generalk 6y ago
> I suggest we all stop comparing these things. Agreed, they are comparable only in superficial ways which remove context vital to the understanding of both events. One group of people were protesting/rioting because police
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by generalk 6y ago
I grew up in suburbs, I went to school in suburbs. I met my wife in the suburbs, I had my first kiss in the suburbs. I definitely had some formative events that occurred on the mid-90s Internet, and would not be the person I am today withou
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by generalk 6y ago
> You'd be surprised how many great FOSS (free & open source > software) are out there that you can deploy on your own VM > and have unlimited number of team members and OWN YOUR OWN > DATA!!! I'd
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by generalk 6y ago
> Tasks and issue management, wiki, kanban board, > discussions ci/actions to trigger other stuff [...], > storage of docs, revision control, tagging and > organization, notebooks (with code too!), static host
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by generalk 6y ago
> I continue to be disappointed with Apple's desktop > experience. Agree! I switched to MacOS during Tiger, and the experience has gotten steadily worse since then, double if you're not into the iOS-ification of
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by generalk 6y ago
Oh definitely, but for me I was never gonna be able to learn Ruby in a vacuum. If I had needed a general-purpose scripting language in 2007 I'd have reached for PHP or Perl, both of which I knew from web dev. But with Rails I had a r
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by generalk 6y ago
For most of the professional work I've done, I'm doing a CRUD web app. So if Rails or Phoenix lets me get to market faster with a tested solution, I'm sold. I've even got a talk I used to give about getting Rails to work
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by generalk 6y ago
AFAIK Phoenix doesn't tie in with npm packages whatsoever. You have an `assets/` dir that contains your javascript stuff, and out of the box Webpack is set up there, but besides that it's all your choice, with the exception o
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by generalk 6y ago
JAMstack is...not my jam. I'm a big fan of rendering majority on a server and then shipping it, especially with Phoenix's LiveView which allows you to write reactive UI without writing Javascript. But I said it in another comment:
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by generalk 6y ago
I've used Django, and while there's a base similarity the philosophical differences between it and Rails are definitely there. Not gonna take a side on the Rails vs Django deal though. Like you said, if a team can effectively ship
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by generalk 6y ago
The initial application that powered CoverMyMeds was PHP, as it grew out of the consultancy I mentioned in my original post and we were a PHP shop then. AFAIK it still exists and is actively maintained. Most other apps and services at CMM w
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by generalk 6y ago
Oh definitely. I picked up Rails without doing a single line of Ruby beforehand, and I think that's true for many of the Rails devs I know. Knowing Python is a plus, much of the language is gonna make basic sense. For me, the big hurdl
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by generalk 6y ago
I'm gonna go back a short bit and say, for me? Ruby on Rails. In 2007 I was plugging away at PHP with whatever frameworks were around at the time -- the vast majority of web dev that I saw then was pure procedural scripting down the pa
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by generalk 6y ago
I don't have a horse in the Flash race -- it had a ton of issues but also enabled many content creators to deliver over the web in a way straight HTML/JS was incapable of -- and yes, Flash had its time and that time is now over, b
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by generalk 6y ago
> My point is that deprecation is by its very nature going > to hurt something that isn’t prepared for its demise. TFA describes techniques for deprecating code paths that do their best to notify and prepare the folks worki
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by generalk 6y ago
Getting a job or building a career in software development isn't about the languages you know. Your list is pretty broad and COBOL probably won't help. It's what value you can provide with those that counts. One of my earlier
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by generalk 6y ago
I've begun doing recruitment in a professional capacity recently, after having been the type of dev that dismissed this kind of social media, LinkedIn hashtag feed nonsense for the same reasons you do. And I still don't love it, b
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by generalk 6y ago
That's one of the two links I posted, which I think Stallman did not link in the faith you give him (nor do I think was written in that same faith), but that's subjective. The other is where he's doubting that pedophilia is h
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by generalk 6y ago
But that's just it! You're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because you're a fan of his work and his ideologies in other spaces. Which makes sense, I dig it. For myself, I'd rather not expend the mental gymna
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by generalk 6y ago
I mean, his own website? https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#05%20June%20... > I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia > harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem
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by generalk 6y ago
> Well, when RMS wants to say things implying that maybe > pedophilia isn't always bad and perhaps it gets a bad > rap because some parents aren't OK with their kids > growing up, he needs to be exceeding
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by generalk 6y ago
For a long time I wanted to give Google more money! I tried multiple times to get together a Google Music Family Plan, because I'd bought music and uploaded music and the radio feature was so good. They refused to allow me to pay the
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by generalk 6y ago
I've been having issues for a while. Couldn't sign up for Youtube TV with my main account. I could sign up for Google Play Music (formerly Google Music, now RIP) but I couldn't sign up for a family account. Stuff like that. I

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