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1. 751.▲
   by pestaa 14y ago

   I do not trust 99 servers out of 100 including not only those I intend to communicate with but others sitting in the middle of my connection, to deliver the same binary my browser would render in a few milliseconds. The web is a wild place,
2. 752.▲
   by pestaa 14y ago

   Yes, mandatory semicolons are good, looking forward to it. People are also discovering best practices in JavaScript, which is also good. In lots of regards, however, it will always be inferior to languages that are thought through from the
3. 753.▲
   by pestaa 14y ago

   This, so much. I can't believe companies are pushing to port everything to one of the worst language in existence. Okay, I get the benefits of easy deployment, but what about performance, debugging, ecosystem, typechecking, compile-time opt
4. 754.▲
   by pestaa 14y ago

   Bright colors are exactly what are needed when something needs attention. This just yells "look, your most important metric just went up by 0.007%!"
5. 755.▲
   by pestaa 14y ago

   Is it trolling, though? Why should I see the potential in this dashboarding utility when there are dozens out there understanding the benefits of good visualizations, using proper colors for different situations?
6. 756.▲
   by pestaa 14y ago

   There is a difference between open sourcing a product and releasing it through multiple channels as binaries. I do not think the latter is in the best interest of the developer.
7. 757.▲
   by pestaa 14y ago

   Not sure why you were downvoted, I tend to agree ORMs are not the best ways to communicate with databases. As to only the lack of ORM would make Go immature? Honestly I don't know. There are tons of software written in JavaScript; do they m
8. 758.▲
   by pestaa 14y ago

   And the most obvious title in the world is ...?
9. 759.▲
   by pestaa 14y ago

   Strong typing and dynamic typing are orthogonal. You can have the former and ignore the latter - see Python - and you can completely forget about both - see PHP.
10. 760.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    Yes this is a good joke until you realize there is no other way to get some level of type safety in PHP other than adding a bunch of unnecessary classes.
11. 761.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    Well, lately I've seen Haskell being pushed more and more in the industry and at startups and it makes me truly excited. We need stronger type systems and better static checks!
12. 762.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    Exactly. Ever tried running PHP, Ruby or Python code with an undefined variable somewhere? It works flawlessly... for a minute... an hour... or a month... and then it suddenly hits you out of the blue.
13. 763.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    You are correct. The nice thing is that this mistake would have been caught compile-time.
14. 764.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    There's plenty of excitement for me just tweaking a live production server, not sure my heart could cope with what you just described.
15. 765.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    Pack a light bag, get on a train and have a walk in the forest. Apps don't simplify your life.
16. 766.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    Apparently there are lots of followers of Bootstrap pushing it for extra exposure.
17. 767.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    Indeed, I was trying to say it is all relative.
18. 768.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    Interesting comment. When AWS went down in the US, devops rightly said "we told you to run your apps on something you have control over."
19. 769.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    I often listen to Grooveshark or Youtube on an invisible tab.
20. 770.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    "Ask PG", yet no question mark in the post? Did I miss something?
21. 771.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    Nice service, no love for Hungarians. Can you please add it?
22. 772.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    I wanted to do that at one point, with both a huge fantasy world and my city modeled and constructed from satellite pictures. Too bad I'm just a software engineer with no money.
23. 773.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    Well if it was obvious to you how did it also mislead you?
24. 774.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    This is my way to say several points: - If the majority of our industry can make the switch to JavaScript, they'll ruin it in terms of average code quality. - Even good, idiomatic JavaScript code sucks for reasons inherent in the language.
25. 775.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    I think all good developers have their connotations and anecdotes for words like 'poorly-understood', 'gigantic', 'no unit tests', 'tangled build infrastructure', let alone '25 years of technical debt'. What I was surprised to see is the wo
26. 776.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    If the web development industry moves from PHP to JavaScript as the main backend language... well, from quality perspective nothing will change. IMO.
27. 777.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5233445 Old server: two Xeon E5450 chips, 3.0 GHz, 8 cores total, 24 GB RAM. New server: one Xeon E5-2690 chip, 2.9 GHz, 8 cores total, 32 GB RAM.
28. 778.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    I really loved AcidState when I first learnt about it. Saves tons of headaches when converting Haskell's superb algebraic data types into dumb SQL types; but it also limits the points of entry into 1 (which means no outside queries/reports
29. 779.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    In the header the following line confused me very much: Content-Type: text/x-rst Took me a short while to figure out it actually marks the type of the PEP rather than the documented format.
30. 780.▲
    by pestaa 14y ago

    People invested too much time/money/energy into Heroku and get defensive when a problem needs discussion? Just guessing.