holydude

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by holydude 9y ago
It is a "LOT" compared to "free" products. Defining a "LOT" in software is really tricky but I really agree with the part about a tool you use quiet a lot :-)
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by holydude 9y ago
The funniest thing is no editor had delivered the whole package. 1) emacs is crazily extensible but hard to use. Uses hacks to get the performance 2) vi(m) is extensible, fast but also hard to use 3) ST is easy to use, fast but not that ext
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by holydude 9y ago
You are underestimating emacs a lot (even if we talk about 30y ago)
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by holydude 9y ago
But maybe the "problem" is the global economy itself. Is it really worth it to transport cheap chicken meat across the globe ?
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by holydude 9y ago
It is an interesting problem for some nations / companies. With the USA and their companies China is one of the only viable markets out there to actually show any real growth (I am now excluding the domestic US market and EU). With tha
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by holydude 9y ago
The problem is not finding a thing to sell. The problem is a sustainable growth model and revenue. You need to actually earn money to be able to re-invest.
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by holydude 9y ago
I agree and I disagree at the same time. The problem is we did not find a solution yet to cope with the challenges of the next industrial revolution and the global competition. The way the economy is interconnected is so fragile that it rea
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by holydude 9y ago
Our industry is hugely based on illusions and misconceptions. There are only few places on earth where people regularly rebuild the skyscrapers to build taller ones. The IT industry simply forces you to re-learn the same old paradigms in a
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by holydude 9y ago
I would go with react just because it is more popular. Unless you are someone with free hand picking a technology that is more widespread (hence more in demand) is in this era the wise choice to make.
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by holydude 9y ago
Well you need people to give that money any real value in the first place.
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by holydude 9y ago
Not really. Yeah even if we would assume responsible governments and effective governance what makes you think that the money collected from taxes would not go to where it should not ?
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by holydude 9y ago
Yea it is a bullshit situation. Western companies cant acquire chinese ones and chinese ones cant or wont acquire the western ones.
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by holydude 9y ago
Sigh. Again an artificially created problem. I dunno maybe we all should work from home and interact with other entities using just handles.
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by holydude 9y ago
Honestly I do not know. There was an article not long time ago mentioning that Ruby is not popular in Japan because of Rails but because it is used in a lot of places like embedded stuff etc. http://engineering.appfolio.com/
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by holydude 9y ago
Well we have discussed this in other threads already :-). That's the problem with Ruby in general that you can only solve certain problems with it. Beyond Rails,devops and some obscure embedded stuff they do in Japan there is not much
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by holydude 9y ago
Yeah for me JS is the new Java :-). How is react experience couple with Go for you ?
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by holydude 9y ago
I think this is more or less accurate. Sad to see RoR to be declining.
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by holydude 9y ago
I am not very proficient in javascript so excuse my idiotic questions but how does this work ? Does this need to talk to some low level api or nodejs supports this or ?
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by holydude 9y ago
I am a big fan of internet platforms and everything but I just do not see a value in online shopping for physical goods. Sure it might be a good thing for shopping "disposable/every day use stuff" but why would I be buying so
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by holydude 9y ago
Well that's the thing they do not really have deep pockets or technical abilities. Building a platform, an electric future generation car is way different than building a car with classic engine.
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by holydude 9y ago
Yup exactly this. Many people fail to understand that what Tesla built already the Germans did not even start to think about. Sure they have a lot of expertise about building classical cars and engines no doubt about that. But TESLA is an e
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by holydude 9y ago
Seriously people developers are NOT paid for piling up features. I do not even know where to start but this article and I guess the guy representing the company totally failed to understand few concepts here and there.
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by holydude 9y ago
Does anyone know about Netflix's publishing of its own content outside of US ? The trick for me is that at least this could be available to everyone..but for some reason it was not so when I was looking at netflix few months ago.
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Ask HN: What is the stack you are phasing out in your company / team?
1 points by holydude 9y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: What tech your team uses? What is obsolete and what is the replacement
1 points by holydude 9y ago|0 comments
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by holydude 9y ago
This is why I am really scared about companies owning too much market share. I mean literally who is not running or using anything that runs on AWS ?
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by holydude 9y ago
RoR is special that it does one thing exceptionally well. And that is monolithic web applications. I do not know how you measure productivity no other stack comes close to RoR.
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by holydude 9y ago
"..building things that the industry needs less and less.." What do you mean by that ? Or what does industry need ? Microservices are cool but a nightmare to manage,maintain and keep everyone in sync. It's a buzzword in my bo
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by holydude 9y ago
I partially agree...but... I would say that Ruby/RoR usage is really regional and that is visible in the US,UK,Japan and bunch of other places. Remember that Java/C# were really popular even before Android and mobile platforms. Ja
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by holydude 9y ago
This is a huge bullshit article. RoR is not out it just is not sexy anymore and there are way more Java jobs than Ruby jobs. Bootcamps are businesses like any others and they only care about making money. Of course they ditch Ruby/RoR

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