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by sjellis 10y ago
> A big non-safety selling point of Rust for me is a systems language with the tooling and ecosystem of a modern dynamic language. I've reached this point from the opposite direction, as a frustrated Rubyist: I really crave the nice
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by sjellis 10y ago
The Rust community is as great as it is because of very deliberate decisions and investment in engineering structures to maintain a positive community at scale, so I'm pretty optimistic that it will stay really good. Arguably this work
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Thank you, that was very clear and helpful.
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If you're OK with questions: One of the things that worries me about suggesting Elixir at the Rails shop that I work in is the concern that we'd have to develop a working knowledge of Erlang as well as Elixir. Can you speak to tha
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Flatpak 0.8: First Long-Term Support Version of Flatpak(blogs.gnome.org)
3 points by sjellis 10y ago|0 comments
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by sjellis 10y ago
Windows Server has the promise of native SSH, but it isn't part of the OS builds yet. I think that it's fair to say that Windows remote access today is PowerShell and RDP (which is awesome, but not for this). To me, that's so
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by sjellis 10y ago
> Programming languages, being technologies, are subject to the Lindy effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect ). This means that the younger a language is, the lower its life expectancy. This is a really v
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by sjellis 10y ago
> If I'm running a business and I need something, I should be able to pay a reasonable amount of money to get it. What's reasonable as determined by a negotiation between me and the party providing it. If I went to him and he w
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by sjellis 10y ago
"> I don't can't think of a single CI or automation thing that works with Linux that you can't do in Windows if pushed I can probably come with considerably more things which are opposite. I agree wholeheartedly with
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by sjellis 10y ago
I'd note that both of those arguments boil down to "Microsoft will make your life worse unless you comply". But years in tech support and mail server stuff mean that I loathe Office, and particularly Outlook.
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I suspect that Trump deliberately sets things up so that there are multiple people involved who will disagree, which enables him to maintain control of the situation by picking who to support and how much. I first noticed this with the mudd
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by sjellis 10y ago
> I think what you mean is "I get the idealism but you also need to be realistic." It's not pragmatic to stand your guns and ask a multi-million dollar company to change the code they submit to your open-source project. Th
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by sjellis 10y ago
The Apple keyboard and trackpad are rock-solid with Macs, probably for the same reason: the same vendor controls both ends.
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A Quick Introduction to Flatpak(apebox.org)
45 points by sjellis 10y ago|32 comments
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by sjellis 10y ago
It's not mature yet, but xi can apparently already handle files of several hundred MB with no tearing or lag at all: https://github.com/google/xi-editor . It completely separates the (Rust) back-end process that ma
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by sjellis 10y ago
The original commit being linked to is actually for adding optional support for Yarn, which is awesome in itself: "This add a package.json and the settings needed to get npm nodules integrated in new apps when the --yarn option is used
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by sjellis 10y ago
Yeah, Ubuntu was revolutionary when it came out, because it made Debian accessible to a much broader audience and fixed all sorts of small but important hangnails, at a time when that was exactly what was needed. Today, the gap between Ubun
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by sjellis 10y ago
I'm surprised that there aren't more comments on this, because it seems like it could be enormously useful. My first thoughts are that it could simplify synchronizing data between environments, or coordinating backups where a syst
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by sjellis 10y ago
I agree that microservices appear to move the complexity around (and add to it), rather than necessarily making things simpler. My feeling is that they make a lot of sense for addressing the organizational problems of having multiple sets o
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by sjellis 10y ago
I've only been following Fedora development from a distance, and haven't had time to look at Fedora 25 yet. From memory, there's a bunch of things: * Fedora and Ubuntu are more aggressive about compiling security features int
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by sjellis 10y ago
This is a common sentiment, but I have to say that it's not in line with my experience as a Google Apps/G Suite business customer. If there is an issue, I simply call the phone number, get a competent support representative prompt
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by sjellis 10y ago
For me, the beta tag on things like App Engine Flexible instances is the biggest concern. We've had "fun" with Microsoft Azure services being less than fully baked, or Microsoft totally replacing services with different ones.
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by sjellis 10y ago
FWIW, I always thought of it as being for portability of humans, and was very grateful for it on Windows. A large chunk of my time is spent on *NIX systems, so my fingers automatically type "ls" and "rm" instead of &quot
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by sjellis 10y ago
My suspicion is that most attempts to create a better OS for IoT will fail for political reasons. AFIAKT, one really important characteristic of Linux (and JavaScript also) for large tech companies is that they can control their own stacks,
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by sjellis 10y ago
I'm surprised that people haven't commented on the implicit story here: the intention to deliver the "Shiny" cross-platform graphical toolkit for Go. If that happens, Go becomes one of the very few programming languages
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by sjellis 10y ago
We need a better funding model for Open Source than a relatively small number of tech companies effectively paying everybody else's bills, but I don't think that this is it. Other people have talked about the developer side, but n
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by sjellis 10y ago
I've been using Atom since a fairly early version, upgrading with each release, and it has improved a lot. My guess is that SSD makes the biggest difference, though: startup is near instant on my current MacBook, but can visibly strugg
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by sjellis 10y ago
This is a concern for me. I really want the database and the app hosting in the same data centres.
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by sjellis 10y ago
I wasn't aware of SnapDrop, so thank you for that. I'm aggressively uninterested in proprietary desktop software these days, outside of work.
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by sjellis 10y ago
"Intranets are totally underutilized. How many people do you know who can reliably transfer personal files over a local area network? Not nearly as many as those who know how to use google or send an email... that's absurd to me,

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