pkphilip

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by pkphilip 3y ago
Have you looked at tools such as Delphi, Lazarus etc and the approach used to build GUI components which can be added at build time or at runtime? If you are interested in talking about this, do let me know.
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by pkphilip 3y ago
Absolutely. I actually prefer a combination of declarative + imperative code similar to how it is in Delphi/Lazarus. The overall layout of the GUI is designed using a GUI designer and this gets saved as a "form" in a resource
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by pkphilip 3y ago
My recommendation: try Delphi/Lazarus. It is trivial to develop new GUI components in Delphi/Lazarus and there are already very good GUI component libraries for Lazarus available as packs.
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by pkphilip 3y ago
Not just that. If you don't have farming going on - and it often requires subsidies to keep it going - even Netherlands have subsidised agriculture, your food security will just disappear. I am not sure why people don't seem to un
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by pkphilip 3y ago
Across the world agriculture is subsidised.. even in poorer countries, because the cost of doing agriculture is very high. Farmers are moving to other jobs, selling their farmlands etc.. this will put huge pressure on food supplies and so t
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by pkphilip 3y ago
What do you think is going to happen if farmers start selling their land for building residences and offices? where do you think your food is going to come from? Corporate farms? do you seriously think corporate farms are going to be carryi
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by pkphilip 3y ago
Absolutely. Java development is ridiculously easy compared to many of the alternatives.. in some senses, it is actually even easier to develop in than PHP especially since Java is statically compiled.
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by pkphilip 3y ago
I know both Javascript as well as Java. Java trumps JS by a mile
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by pkphilip 3y ago
For the past several years, the Java enterprise development is very, very easy compared to the mess that is node.js nonsense. And if you are not happy with the JEE environment, you can continue to use frameworks like micronaut, quarkus etc.
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by pkphilip 3y ago
100x is nothing these days. Now the ratio is 399:1 or thereabouts.. and often even higher. Of course, there is no perfect ratio - but there is a point at which it becomes obscene. It varies from organization to organization.
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by pkphilip 3y ago
> How is that? The board sets the CEO salary, not the other employees. If you pay someone disproportionately higher than others in the same team, what message are you sending to others in the team? When a CEO goes with that decision, the
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by pkphilip 3y ago
Very interesting. I think this explains a lot of the magic that happens under the surface in the frontend frameworks. I quite like the approach you are using to avoid a build step and also zero dependencies.
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by pkphilip 3y ago
Interesting! It is not often that we get to hear about the achievements of the engineering arm of the armed forces in India.
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by pkphilip 3y ago
I think this is a larger discussion and not limited to just a conversation about the pay a CEO gets. Well, of course, a CEO's pay is indicative of what board considers as the CEO's contribution towards the bottomline/topline
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by pkphilip 3y ago
Actually, it turns out that it is even worse than 399:1. It is as much as 604:1 in the US. https://www.newswise.com/politics/widening-wage-gap-between-... It is indicative that the boards and the CEOs are extremely sel
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by pkphilip 3y ago
I do see the value in paying high performing individuals but there has to be some moderation even in that. The CEO pay gap is now obscene. The CEO pay gap in the US was 399x that of the average worker! that is ludicrous! What that means is
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by pkphilip 3y ago
True
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by pkphilip 3y ago
Things started going downhill when the "establishment" took over - when computers became a surveillance tool with stuff like Intel Management Engine, AMS "Secure" Technology, Intel AMT etc started getting pushed down our
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by pkphilip 3y ago
I can't imagine property being so cheap - that too in the US. Here in India where I reside, you wouldn't be able to get even a 100sq.ft of open land for that price.
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by pkphilip 3y ago
I have handled far more complex cases than this using desktop based GUI apps in a client-server model before the word AJAX etc was even invented. Example: dependent dropdowns or even tables with row-selection leading to more detailed views.
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by pkphilip 3y ago
It is ridiculously easy to setup a full CRUD environment in frameworks such as Yii. It is as simple and selecting some options on a screen and then clicking on a button. The example below is from 7 years ago! https://www.youtube.
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by pkphilip 3y ago
Delphi is still being used. And by the way, there is really no reason to use the complicated state management functions even in a declarative UI pattern
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by pkphilip 3y ago
The primary challenge with Pharo is the complexity of using this in a multi-user type of environment where the image is shared between people. How does one do that?
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by pkphilip 3y ago
How often do you show multiple screens open to a user at the same time? Even in desktop ERP type software you rarely ever show more than 3 to 4 screens open at a time and how often do these screens all show the EXACT SAME data fields? How o
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by pkphilip 3y ago
This is how flet.dev handles state and UI. Note how simple this is vs the crap that is the standard way of managing state in flutter: By the way, flet.dev is actually using Flutter for rendering!! def main(page: ft.Page): page.title = &
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by pkphilip 3y ago
Agreed
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by pkphilip 3y ago
There are ways of handling state - which have been in use for decades! and in applications with a lot of UI state with dozens of forms (screens) etc. How many of them had these convoluted ideas of state vs stateless widgets, watch, notifier
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by pkphilip 3y ago
Looks like Flutter has been updated as well. I only wish the state management wasn't so convoluted in Flutter
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by pkphilip 3y ago
PHP 8 is a vast improvement over PHP 5. Also, the frameworks have become much better - I especially love the Yii framework as well as the Codeigniter framework if you are looking at a Rails replacement.
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by pkphilip 3y ago
I would use the PHP Yii framework - it has generation of CRUD, controllers, models etc.. and excellent customisability.

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