sime2009

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by sime2009 6y ago
Sure, from a dev perspective the API may be bad. But I'm saying that that isn't the right perspective to use when judging it. "Nice" APIs or higher level APIs are desirable of course, but they tend to be much bigger in s
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by sime2009 6y ago
The Web Component APIs don't aim to be easy to use by application developers. That is simply not a goal of the spec. They're low level APIs which expose behavour and hooks on which libraries and frameworks can be built. As an appl
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by sime2009 6y ago
Here is some simple advice for sustaining a side project over a long period of time. 1) Work on it consistently. Ideally, work on it every day. It doesn't have to be a big block of 2 hours each day, browsing through bug reports for 10
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by sime2009 6y ago
Is this related to the "Network Computer" idea that Sun was pushing around that time in the 90s? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer
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by sime2009 6y ago
OMG, as a developer of a terminal application I've encountered this little symbol but just couldn't figure out where it was coming from. I assumed it was something I was doing wrong on the emulation side.
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by sime2009 6y ago
I'll never understand what happened about that time period. We went from the idea of "try minimize eye strain" to "fsck it! White looks great! Let's stare at light bulbs all day!". Grey backgrounds are a lot so
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by sime2009 6y ago
The big take-home point here is that comments may be symptom of the code itself not being as clear as it could be. First priority is to make the code itself clearer, that will eliminate the need for a comment to "make it understandable
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by sime2009 6y ago
Sorry, but that is just nonsense. VSCode is running on plain Electron in this case. There is no "bypasses chrome" magic going on here.
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by sime2009 6y ago
> Go had none of that. Side note: Go has a little bit of baggage. That community is in the process of going from multiple 3rd party package/dependency managers to one official one.
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OnShape ( https://www.onshape.com/ ) have been doing CAD in a browser for a while.
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by sime2009 6y ago
> Both VS Code and Atom use significant amounts of WebAssembly and low level libraries to achieve that performance. Atom has some internal data structures written in C++. VSCode uses a native executable to do the file search, but no furt
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by sime2009 6y ago
OnShape ( https://www.onshape.com/ ) offers professional level CAD which runs in a browser. Works great.
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But why? Sure, there are people who want to tinker with it for fun, but outside of that what is the point in having Swift on Linux and Windows? You can't use it to build mac or iOS apps on Linux because the important libraries aren&#x2
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by sime2009 6y ago
I've seen plenty of people in IT with mediocre skills having no problem at all finding new jobs. I've also seen talented developers stay in the same place for a long time. I'm much more willing to believe that the quality of
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by sime2009 6y ago
Speaking of the future, does anyone here have an idea as to the the time frame when generics could land in a release?
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by sime2009 6y ago
May I ask which solution you ended up going for in this situation? (I'm trying to solve for myself too.)
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by sime2009 7y ago
Because the last time I needed to do that job I couldn't find any native tools that were anywhere near as good as LICEcap.
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by sime2009 7y ago
LICEcap also works quite well on Linux via Wine.
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by sime2009 7y ago
Very rarely, beyond a couple weeks of commits. In those cases it is more a question of "did some particular commit hit branch XYZ?". I wouldn't call that source-control-arachaeology. I'm at the stage where if someone sug
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by sime2009 7y ago
You've missed the point. I'm not talking about processes at all. I'm talking about the relationship and trust between company management and the team. That is the core problem here. If management want to play Command and Cont
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by sime2009 7y ago
I've done scrum for years and have very rarely had a manager involved in any of those processes, and I have certainly never had senior management involved. Those processes exist for the benefit of the team and for the team to 'run
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by sime2009 7y ago
This morning I paid about 1.68 euro/L as a consumer for plain gas/petrol here in the Netherlands.
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by sime2009 7y ago
Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean plz? What's the link between "interchangeably" and having a build process?
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by sime2009 7y ago
> Goodness this is incredibly naive. Actually it demonstrates hard earned wisdom. A team which isn't aligned will only produce a mess regardless of whether their end goal was the right thing. An aligned team may miss the target but
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by sime2009 7y ago
Fair enough. I'll try to tie it back to the mono-culture question. The primary reason why the hellscape was bad, and remained bad for so long, was because we had a single "winner" of the browser wars. Microsoft won and they i
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by sime2009 7y ago
> no types!! This might be news to you, but JS is full of types regardless of whether you document and automatically check them. I prefer to document my types and have them properly checked, plus the IDE advantages.
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by sime2009 7y ago
In terms of being a platform for applications, the browser landscape today is paradise on earth compared to the hellscape we endured in the early 2000s while trying to develop apps for IE6. Just focussing on the browser itself: * Today&#x27
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by sime2009 7y ago
Regarding the topic of browser mono-cultures, I was web developer in the post browser war era in the early 2000s where we had a dominant IE6 and a stagnant browser landscape. It was bad. Real bad. But I'm actually fairly positive about
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by sime2009 7y ago
> Also, how can standups be designed to make the team work more effectively? Tips: * NO MANAGERS. The standup is for the scrum team to organise and help itself. It is not there give a status update for the manager. The manager isn't
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by sime2009 7y ago
If team members need to be directly asked if they see problems otherwise they won't do it themselves, then there is a much bigger trust or "safety" issue at play.

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