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by pvorb 6y ago
Well, Daimler announced something similar just about two months ago: https://www.daimler.com/investors/reports-news/financial-new... It wants to separate its car business from truck business and plans to rename th
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by pvorb 6y ago
The latter being actually true, but whithout the cost of actually changing their name, right?
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by pvorb 6y ago
Corruption is a real problem in Germany and auto makers have a lot of influence on politicians, so the corporate and the political apparatus are interested in hiding these crimes, because a large part of our economy depends on them.
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by pvorb 6y ago
I can only recommend watching this 2015 talk at German Chaos Communication Congress about the technical details of the scandal. It's in English and really worth watching if you're technically interested. They reverse engineered th
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by pvorb 6y ago
A bakery is a business. Selling the bread to consumers in a shop is the business model.
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by pvorb 6y ago
This is an additional safety net. It's like doing backups. Of course you should replace your hard drive before the other drive breaks down, but you want to have a backup in case your server burns down.
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by pvorb 6y ago
Somebody will notify you. If the service is just for yourself, you don't need monitoring at all.
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by pvorb 6y ago
There's a point for the developers and to communicate features and bugfixes. And they still help in supporting installations. But you are correct, they become less important. They (patch versions at least) don't necessarily have
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by pvorb 6y ago
I understand your position, but the example here feels a bit off. If we were talking about an auto-upgrade from 2.x.y to 3.0.0 I'd probably agree with you. For a minor version upgrade maybe, too. But why would I want less bugfixes for
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by pvorb 6y ago
To me the question is, if it's still a bug once the original bug in 3.0.2 got fixed. I'd argue no, you might argue yes. I think auto-upgrades of Docker are totally fine if it makes the lives of Docker devs easier and they can conc
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by pvorb 6y ago
Google Chrome has been using auto upgrades for years and I haven't heard any complains about that. I'd argue it's also a really important tool in a dev's toolkit.
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by pvorb 6y ago
But still, if there was no bug in 3.0.2, people wouldn't have tried to downgrade to 3.0.1 again. So the bug was not in 3.0.0, nor in 3.0.1, but only in 3.0.2.
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by pvorb 6y ago
I didn't know about light mode. I'll definitely try it out.
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by pvorb 6y ago
And I think JetBrains' strategy is fine in that regard: either do it well or don't do it at all.
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by pvorb 6y ago
And still, it's really cheap if you consider the amount of work you have to put into configuring other products like VS Code where you end up with an inferior experience. I think it pays off.
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by pvorb 6y ago
Not having to ship your own client to every platform is the biggest selling point of web apps (or cloud apps). The border between app and client shifted to more low-level, but also more capable interfaces: HTTP, HTML, CSS, JS rather than si
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by pvorb 6y ago
Don't mess around with Markdown and LaTeX for documentation. AsciiDoc is what you want.
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by pvorb 6y ago
I think we are doing pretty well with increasing the number of SSGs even without a meta SSGG. But I guess there are still more blogs around than SSGs, so there's still potential for incrementing that counter.
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by pvorb 6y ago
But I'm not the author of those packages. How does the package manager allow me to rename existing packages?
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by pvorb 6y ago
I'm a software developer and a user of package managers. A package manager that allows me to only have one version of a software package installed will inevitably get in my way if I need two programs that need different, incompatible v
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by pvorb 6y ago
Exactly. When you want to install one of those fast-paced pieces of software on your system, you're often dissatisfied with the old version coming with your OS anyway.
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by pvorb 6y ago
Definitely, yes! And it's helping their brand. But I doubt this would've worked with Apple or Amazon, as those are not search engines and are used differently.
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by pvorb 6y ago
You can either accept that your words are not heard, or quit.
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by pvorb 6y ago
The same feature is available in IntelliJ IDEA and likely in the other JetBrains IDEs.
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by pvorb 6y ago
If you control the dependency and if you're the primary user, just move it into your repository by merging with unrelated histories. If you're not controlling the dependency, you can still merge the dependency with an unrelated hi
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by pvorb 6y ago
What makes you think that submodules will improve? I've used them for the last ten years or so (when I was forced to) and haven't seen any advances in UX.
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by pvorb 6y ago
I wonder why anyone would still use RSS over Atom. Atom was already supported by virtually all feed readers when Google Reader was shut down. And that was nearly 8 years ago. The only reason I can think of is that people often use RSS synon
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by pvorb 6y ago
So much this. I understand that it's easiest to reuse your react skills to build your desktop application, but why does it have to consume so much memory? Is this something that's wrong with electron or rather the UI frameworks th
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by pvorb 6y ago
Yes, this indeed looks like laziness of the developers to me. When the app was developed, JavaFX came pre-packaged with the JDK/JRE, so they still rely on it. Today, it should perhaps just be a regular dependency of your app and be par
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by pvorb 6y ago
You mention only good things about Haxe. Why would you expect it to be gone by now?

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