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by rpeden 10y ago
I don't hate the idea of a VM. :) Most of the work I do runs on the CLR or JVM. I just think that in some ways it would be helpful to be easily be able to write a library in Go, for example, and use it in Rust or Swift. Or FreePascal,
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by rpeden 10y ago
This looks like a very organized project with well defined goals, both of which are points that will help it succeed. It seems there's a bit of a trend back toward compiled languages (Go, Rust, Swift) that don't rely on the JVM or
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by rpeden 10y ago
I think Knuth makes some good points. I'm also a fan or science that is presented artfully. I'm not sure those are the best words to describe it, but 'artful' is the feeling I get when watching a Richard Feynman lecture
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by rpeden 10y ago
Jeff Atwood made similar points in The Magpie Developer : https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-magpie-developer/ and Why Ruby? : https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-ruby/ Not that chasing after the l
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by rpeden 10y ago
Perhaps it depends on how boring/conservative the corporation is. At a past job where we worked with big banks, they'd sometimes look at you suspiciously if your application didn't run on Windows Server. That's just an
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by rpeden 10y ago
I apoligize; I should have explained what I meant more clearly. Like the author of the original post, I'm writing from the perspective of running a relatively small SaaS app. I've had to use both Windows and Linux VMs on Azure, AW
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by rpeden 10y ago
Maybe the big consultants are the only ones with the resources (and patience) to shepherd a proposal through a government RFP process.
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by rpeden 10y ago
Because it performs well, and the cost of Windows licenses ends up being a rounding error if you have paying users. I've administered Linux boxes for years, and while I enjoy it I find Windows Server more enjoyable to work with in many
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by rpeden 10y ago
If you're running a small SaaS company, it doesn't matter all that much what 80% of the world is doing. I used to feel the same way you do. My apps were all Ruby or Java, usually with Postgres, deployed on Linux. My past couple of
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by rpeden 10y ago
One of the nice things is that you don't necessarily have to lose all your momentum. There's a bit of a learning curve, but you'd find that A2 components are similar to React components, and have similar lifecycle methods. So
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by rpeden 10y ago
I'm not sure about bans, but I wouldn't be surprised to see warning labels becoming required on foods that are tasty but terribly unhealthy. It might be a way to change behavior slowly over time. Activities with a high risk of phy
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by rpeden 10y ago
You're welcome. You're correct that there's no React Native equivalent for Preact. That might be a point in favor of Angular 2 where you need code that can be shared between mobile and web apps. Nativescript is similar to Rea
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by rpeden 10y ago
I haven't tried many of Azure's more advanced features, but I've found the admin interface to be a pain. The series of UWP/Metro style panels and flat design has been a bit clunky and non-intuitive when I've had to
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by rpeden 10y ago
If you're only using React with ES6/ES2015, you could also try Preact. I've found it to be a pretty decent drop-in replacement for React. There's also a preact-compat package that supports some additional React features.
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by rpeden 10y ago
There have been some high profile instances over the past few years of consultants (IBM, Accenture, etc.) delivering awful, broken solutions after being paid big dollars by governments. Can anyone who has worked at one of these consultancie
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by rpeden 10y ago
It depends. Does React's license cause problems for you personally, or for your employer or clients? If so, that would be a good reason to avoid using it. I'd suggest giving Angular 2 a try regardless. It's pretty well though
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by rpeden 10y ago
It helps to have a location in your home or elsewhere that is only for working. A separate room that serves as your office can help. If you're in a city, you might try working out of a co-working space a few days a week. It would als
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by rpeden 10y ago
Thanks for the link. I'm in Toronto, and I'd heard that plain packaging was being considered, but I didn't realize the the gov't had committed to it. Since I don't know any smokers, and places that sell cigarettes a
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by rpeden 10y ago
Tobacco could be banned. It wouldn't be a popular decision, but it could be done. It seems that governments in many countries are playing the long game when it comes to an eventual tobacco ban. The first step is to require stern warnin
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by rpeden 10y ago
I think it is smart. As you mentioned, they don't have the full right for all of their shows. But they do have the full rights for many of them. Proceeding the way they are planning to will allow them to penetrate the Chinese marke
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by rpeden 10y ago
I enjoy listening to simulated activations of the EAS (Emergency Alert System) on YouTube. A few interesting ones: Nuclear Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZIynuYDRVA Alien Invasion: https://www.youtube.c
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by rpeden 10y ago
I remember you writing something similar 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5415585 It's definitely frustrating to see. And it's also frustrating to see the vitriolic reactions to anyone who critic
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by rpeden 10y ago
Yeah, the size of my node_modules directory doesn't bother me that much. I've worked on some large Node projects in the past, and didn't care too much about how many modules I had installed because I wasn't exactly run
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by rpeden 10y ago
Boring isn't always bad. Last time I tried to create an interesting project, I ended up with a couple hundred MB of node modules before I'd even done much. :)
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by rpeden 10y ago
I've had to do some PHP work recently, on a fairly old school PHP codebase for a high traffic website, after spending most oy my career working in Java and C# (and I still do most of my work in those languages). I've read a lot of
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by rpeden 10y ago
I love his videos too, though the fact that he quit working as a developer and got a job as a bus driver makes me worry that our industry is driving away thoughtful, creative craftspeople like him. It could be that his situation is unique t
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The new Google AdSense user interface: built with AngularDart(news.dartlang.org)
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by rpeden 10y ago
Yeah, it is similar to React Native ins that way. There's a limited set of cross platform components. In both Xamarin and RN, though, you can also include your own platform-specific components/plugins when necessary.
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by rpeden 10y ago
It's still limited in that it's not a good choice if your app requires UI functionality that is very platform specific. I think that's intentional - it isn't intended to be the right solution for every application. It&#x
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by rpeden 10y ago
The sad part is that things were looking pretty hopeful in 2008-2010. I particularly liked Cappuccino. It's basically a port of Cocoa to the web. You could design your interface in OSX's Interface Builder. The project is still aro

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