johntdaly

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by johntdaly 5y ago
Don’t get me wrong. I think there where places where JavaScript, SPAs and so on where the right decision but we used the same tech all over the place. I think that is the negative impact of working in a future oriented industry and one of t
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by johntdaly 5y ago
I think it is interesting where the web is heading and where react.js and next.js are heading. Back to server side rendering, static pages/resources. All things we did about 10 years ago with Rails. In my opinion we went the wrong way
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by johntdaly 5y ago
So you don’t get a licensing key you can reassign to another user for PowerBI? (that the way I read that)
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by johntdaly 5y ago
At my previous company we used Tableau for a while and I was rather happy with it. I’m not sure what they are using now but I also build an excel exporter for common data and we also produced an excel file by hand for analysis so I would gu
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Why does it use 149.2 MB ram? Is that a roseta2 thing?
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Well Desktop Environments have become what the Linux Desktop is to most people and it honestly made sense back when we had just KDE and Gnome and maybe XFCE. But now we have so many damn Desktops that thinking about the good old day of just
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Well he did have a point that we sort of fucked ourselves with KDE 4 and Gnome 3. There was even some instability in Enlightenment that let the Bodhi Linux people to fork. Now we have a lot of DE forks and I think we don’t need them. I stil
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Normally I would recommend learning how to program and then trying to get a job that is related to your field. Both of those don’t apply to you. You know how to program but your knowledge is not up to date and your field of study makes it h
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Batch files on DOS and Windows 9x (as well as BASIC) was my introduction to programming back in the 90s. The nostalgia is strong even though I’ve moved on to Unix long time ago.
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1. racism/xenophobia/sexism 2. societal externality costs for industry (like global warming) 3. social media
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I sort of see where you are coming from but as somebody that used PHP in the past and has left I can’t really get myself to look there. Now when it comes to Python and Django I’m not so sure. I’ve read a couple of articles where some of the
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Can any language make a comeback to its original popularity? I would argue they can’t because they where overhyped. I’m not interested in getting back to the overhyped level of popularity. That kept me away from Ruby on Rails for a while. B
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by johntdaly 5y ago
As somebody who jumped ship, I sort of regret it. I tough I could share more code between the backend and the frontend with JavaScript but that sort of died early on when frameworks like Meteor where declared “the wrong way” of doing things
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by johntdaly 5y ago
I’m a Ruby (and Rails) developer and currently write node.js code. A friend of mine that I worked with that is also a Ruby (and Rails) developer is currently working as a Python developer. I am more than willing to switch back and so is my
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by johntdaly 5y ago
It’s not spaming because at best you are the one writing the unsolicited messages, but I don’t belie what you are doing counts as spaming either. You have a reason to do what you are doing. I would still suggest that you stop writing them,
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by johntdaly 5y ago
I don’t think anybody is as ignorant about an EU exit as we where before BREXIT. I also don’t believe that anti EU and conservative voters are the same in Poland. Peoples politics are only simple in statistics or the media. In real life thi
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by johntdaly 5y ago
I’ve got my first customers over friends and family. Back then there weren't to many people doing websites, I wasn’t all that expensive either (mainly because I was young and didn’t know hat to charge). I later tried online forums wher
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by johntdaly 5y ago
I used batch and some BASIC on DOS when I was young, my main use case was for batch and I got good in that more so than BASIC. Then I started playing around with Java but never really had use case and didn’t get far. I then decided to learn
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Google “Programming ruined my life” or a variation thereof. There are 3 things to keep ahead of: 1) Programming is a sedentary job, if you don’t take care of yourself (some sport, weight lifting, something keeping you active) you will feel
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by johntdaly 5y ago
1) Would you argue that point with WordPress too? It still looks a lot like the old PHP and it is a big part of those nearly 80% market share. 2) Part of my point was PHP, regardless of what you may think of it, is not bad enough that any o
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Nextcloud won’t change to the new, go ownCloud codebase. There are two separate and competing companies behind each product now. Nextcloud also has client side encryption as a commercial add-on, that sort of is a big deal.
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I know it is not the same anymore. It doesn’t invalidate my experience from back then and the reason I left the community. And to get a response along the line that, I don’t get to have an opinion because the stuff I worked on was “OLD SHIT
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by johntdaly 5y ago
You can love and enjoy PHP as much as you want, that is ok. I don’t, I’m gone and I wont be back and that should be ok too. It is not meant as a personal attack. Hell, I have a lot of bad stuff to say about JavaScript too and right now I’m
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Dude I am old. When I was working with PHP I had to watch out for diffs between 4.x and 5.x servers. Hell, I think we hat some old 3.x code even. Frameworks where new, composer didn’t exist and I was getting annoyed of getting Paamayim Neku
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by johntdaly 5y ago
As an ex PHP developer, I don’t think it will ever go away. There is just way to much software that was written in PHP (e-commerce, blogs, CMS systems, Nextcloud/ownCloud, …) that isn’t going away. PHP isn’t something I ever want to to
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67% in 4:39 minutes I'm bad at french west africa (need to look into that)
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It is nice that the author is happy with Windows. But when it comes to windows, I am out. When it comes to the authors points: 1) Beautiful UI, for me thats MacOS or GNOME. The last Windows I liked was Windows 7. But I can accept that this
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by johntdaly 5y ago
This is nice! I grew up watching this as a kid. I’ll have to look into some of the videos on the weekend. To bad that a lot of the content that got created for television when I was a kid is bad quality, if it exists at all.
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The concepts where novel in all books by Denis E. Taylor so far, or at least I find the way he presents them in a new or unique way. The Singularity Trap sticks out to me as a rather unique way to tell the first contact story but I found th
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SciFi The Bobiverse Series by Dennis E. Taylor The Singularity Trap and Outland, also by Dennis E. Taylor The Interdependency Series by John Scalzi SciFi + Comedy Expeditionary Force Series by Craig Alanson Military SciFi The Lost Fleet Ser

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