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by sjellis 10y ago
Yes, I've seen Python described as "everybody's second-favourite language". It's not the best at anything, but if your main requirement is a bunch of different people all need to be able to read and edit the same co
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by sjellis 10y ago
I've used Linux for a decade-and-a-half, but I've never totally loved the shell, because of the need to learn this sort of pointless arcana. PowerShell was a massive step forward, and I had hoped that an Open Source, cross-platfor
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by sjellis 10y ago
I don't follow Microsoft closely enough to really determine which decisions are influenced by Nadella, but I do think that it's a very good question to ask. Windows is one of Microsoft's mainstays, and Windows 10 issues have
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by sjellis 10y ago
Your original post just specified "Web site", so I assumed that you'd be using an Open Source stack - mea culpa. Without writing a long reply - I sympathize with where you are coming from. I spent 5 years as a .NET developer
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by sjellis 10y ago
The announcement email from David Herrmann explains that they did consider a user-space implementation, and lists the reasons why they decided that it had to be in-kernel: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksu
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by sjellis 10y ago
Speaking as a veteran Microsoft administrator, in total seriousness: buy a Mac. If you have a corporate network complete with good administrators, Windows can be made to work well enough. If you are a lone professional, Macs are secure, low
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I've been in this business a long time, and sadly the whole episode is entirely in line with the general level of competence and empathy that I've come to expect from the Windows division. SQL Server is really good, hugely impress
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by sjellis 10y ago
I'm really hoping that Aurelia starts getting more attention, and becomes an accepted next move from Angular.js 1. People have already mentioned some of the practical problems with Angular 2. OOP vs. functional styles is an interesting
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I think that it's fairer to say that it's built by enterprise technical people for enterprise technical people. Things like the fine-grained control over networking and resource permissions are hallmarks of enterprise tech. That&#
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That assumes that that you will need to do complicated things, which I suspect depends on your organization. If you are part of a larger business with an established system administration function, then the flexibility of AWS is probably ap
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by sjellis 10y ago
Another vote for PostgreSQL. I've recently completed an AWS migration project, am about to start another, and really wish that I could have pitched GCP. The two reasons that I didn't were the "Beta" tags on things (in pa