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by sjellis 10y ago
> Their browser market dominance (which they got in part through shady marketing strategies) is a big part of it. I have to point out that Microsoft are still the biggest supplier of desktop Web browsers.
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I would second this. For me, the fact that they often talk about Ruby helps me understand more easily, but I really listen because I like the hosts and it's interesting to hear how people in a successful consultancy and a SaaS company
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by sjellis 10y ago
I like the analogy of jet fighter pilots vs. airline pilots. Most programmers are metaphorically airline pilots, doing a routine job that is more about following the processes than elite skills, but some people wish that they were doin
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> I think they are part of the "possibility to customize-everything" crowd. Sometimes, yes: I know developers that do customize heavily, but personally the furthest that I go is changing a desktop wallpaper :) (DevOps: I switch
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> I think that building a good UI for the desktop is only possible if UI developers agree on "look-and-feel" and that may be simpler for Canonical than for a community like Debian and they came to the conclusion that building t
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I think that the most charitable answer is that Ubuntu changed it's basic premise, and some people don't like the newer approach. Back when Ubuntu started, it was explicitly a variation of Debian with a GNOME desktop, plus some cu
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> So who really knows whats going on... Pretty much all of the conversations and disputes have happened on the Internet, so if you are interested you can read the mailing lists, Google+, blog posts etc. in each case. There's no reas
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by sjellis 10y ago
From the audiblemagic.com Website linked to by another commentator: "The Leading Automated Content Recognition Solution" "Content ID Software & Information Services for Networks, Cloud Platforms, Devices & Apps"
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by sjellis 10y ago
If you want examples of "industrial-sized" Go projects right now, you may have to look at case studies for proprietary cloud infrastructure, e.g. CloudFlare, Fastly, DigitalOcean, SoundCloud, and SendGrid. These companies obvious
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I've seen talks where Rob Pike describes Go as being "light on the page" vs. "noisy", meaning (I think) that it doesn't have lots of sigils and annotation bits around the code.
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Git Extensions was a fantastic project back when the idea of Microsoft supporting Git would seemed impossible. It made my life better everyday when I was a C# developer. These days, I use the Git CLI on Windows, but VS integration with Git
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> It shouldn't be that hard to demonstrate "shocking" difference in experience. Please try installing Rust with the rustup tool, creating a "Hello world" skeleton CLI tool, and compiling a deployable executable f
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GNOME and Fedora are definitely further ahead, since the lead developer for Flatpak is a long-time GNOME contributor as well as a Red Hat employee. There are Flatpak contributors focusing on other things: at least two developers are working
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> Snappy is an Ubuntu/Canonical project and FlatPak is a Fedora/RedHat/FreeDesktop project. Snappy and FlatPak are remarkably similar and kind of mirror the DEB/RPM spit. This isn't actually a good analogy, becau
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>Obama didn't accomplishing this much in his 8 years, as Trump has in 2 weeks Err, no. He has put out some Executive Orders, and done some hiring and firing. Even that has been enough to massively damage his Administration, such is
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This article in the set definitely ought to read: https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/the-fbi-has-quietly-inve...
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> You says "X is bad", "Y is better" but you don't say how exactly X is bad, in what way Y is better. I gave you a breakdown in my earlier comment, but I'm thinking that writing more isn't going to make
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Personally, I use Firefox because Mozilla is a non-profit organization with a mandate to support a free and open Internet, which includes protecting the privacy of Internet users. That sounds like very fine words, but they do the technical
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by sjellis 10y ago
My original comment was specifically about building a CLI tool, which I did as a learning exercise to practice writing a multi-file Python project that could act as a library as well as a CLI, and be packaged as a wheel for PyPI. Please bea
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> there is no boilerplate structure to create (and that would require a tool): REPL, Jupyter notebook in a browser, a single file (module) is enough in a simple case. Rhetorical question: is Python a scripting language or an applications
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> How about we avoid all antivirus software, integrate virtualization as a key feature of the UI of our operating system, and completely sandbox all apps. This is basically the end-game for Flatpak: https://blogs.gnome.org&#x2
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Python best practice: figure out the correct directory structure by reading docs and looking at GitHub repositories, learn how to write setup.py & setup.cfg & requirements.txt & MANIFEST.in files, setup py.test and tox (because
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This is actually one of the big problems, I think: Python packaging involves knowing a number of different things and reading various resources to get the full picture. Recently, I built a small CLI tool in Python, and learned all of the bi
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I suspect that Ruby also benefited from having a comparatively young community. There are folks that used Ruby before Rails, but the majority of Rubyists only started in 2006 or later, so they are used to the faster replacement rate of mode
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Solus Linux Adopts Flatpak(solus-project.com)
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I think that it depends on the size and number of your projects. The fact that Go has the equivalent of Sinatra/Flask/Express in the standard library is really cool, but that isn't always what you need. At work we have severa
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Buffalo – MVC Web Framework for Go(gobuffalo.io)
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Firefox Developer Edition for Flatpak(eischmann.wordpress.com)
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Rust, definitely. I'm actually most interested in the possibility of using it for some of the areas that people are currently using Go (CLI tools and back-end Web). Rust actually already has a lot of the selling points of Go and in the
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One of the distinctive things about Rust community management is how much is literally engineered, and done with software and processes so that it can scale. All of the touch points are designed: the rustup tool manages the installation exp

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