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by sjellis 8y ago
I think that Buffalo is actually the most credible replacement for Rails that I've seen: https://gobuffalo.io/ The lead developer is a ex-Rails developer with a very keen sense of what made Rails successful. One of the
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I think that you are right, but I'd say that the underlying issue behind these points is the number of people working on the project. Dynamic languages mean that you can rely on implicit knowledge, rather than be explicit about everyth
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Nuitka has been around for a few years: https://nuitka.net/ AIUI, this was basically a one-person effort for a long time, but the project is now growing.
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"As you are from Node/Express and Mongodb background the biggest risk is trying to become only better in these technologies. So you will only know how to make faster horses, how to train them for the best, but you will never learn
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"vpn for Teradici" This is probably why it wasn't so good. I've only used the AWS Workspaces client, which handles encryption, and that worked even on 4G connections.
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Teradici is really good, and amazingly efficient on bandwidth. The Teradici company license their technology to other vendors: it's what AWS Workspaces uses.
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"browser-based IDEs aren't new. But they've always been a beast of their own; this will work seamlessly with the tight VS Code integrations numerous languages and frameworks have." Yes, I evaluated AWS Cloud9 and walked
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by sjellis 8y ago
> I don't think Go should be used for larger projects. Apparently though the community disagrees because they're really adding generics. Go is actually specifically built for large projects: the project was started because C++
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> The issues largely fall into two categories - missing software, and missing or undercooked hardware support. I've trying every Fedora release for about two years, with a view to switching (back) from macOS. Everybody has their pri
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> what is happening instead is that small companies, starrups, etc. are getting fucked over by the sheer amount of "rules" they have to follow and implement Nope. The GDPR is a European-style regulatory framework: it sets out p
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Margery Allingham was active at about the same time (her last book was in the '60s), and ought to be much better known. Her writing is great, she's a really sharp observer of human psychology, but there's always a lightness t
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> Didn't Trump nominate the supreme court justice? And isn't the nomination confirmed by congress? What about the constant conservative vs democrat number battle in the supreme court? There's deliberately limited legal abi
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> Inspector Maigret Maigret books are really great time-fillers: there's a large number of them, they are short and self-contained, and I've yet to read a bad one.
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> Golang doesn't feel like a language that wants to prescribe a lot more than fundamentals. How you structure your code beyond the src/git/path/your-code/ is completely up to you and every repo you visit could be
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You can, but all of those issues apply to user desktops, and they won't run VMs. There's no advantage to anybody apart from Windows-only corporate system administrators to even try to work with Microsoft browsers right now.
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by sjellis 8y ago
> Many of you here don't test your own work in Edge. This is at least partly self-inflicted damage by Microsoft. Edge only works on Windows 10, which not only excludes all of the regular Win 7 and 8 desktops that haven't been p
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by sjellis 8y ago
> This is not unique, it is the “integrated” vs “best of breed” offering. The integration aspect really matters for security and compliance, as well as standardisation: all of which become bigger concerns the larger your organization. If
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There's gomacro, which is a Go REPL with debugging: https://github.com/cosmos72/gomacro It would be awesome to have a REPL in the standard Go distribution, and I definitely feel the lack: even Java now provides on
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by sjellis 8y ago
These days I preach the gospel of the project README: One file, Markdown format, versioned with the code, that says what the project does with high-level concepts, and how to build it and run the tests.
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> proprietary file formats, vendor lock-in, monopolistic and restrictive trade practices etc. are reasons why users dread switching OSs. That certainly used to be true, but I think most of those issues have fallen away, and it's mos
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Steve McConnell observed something like this in "Code Complete": an experienced programmer can get some level of proficiency in a new language in a few weeks, but mastering the tools, libraries and idioms of a language can take a
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I suspect that Windows and macOS support going to be a big impediment to adoption of RH's container tools. Fedora has become a really good OS and Silverblue is going to be another level of awesome on top, but I don't see huge numb
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> That depends on the functionality requirements of noSQL customers. I posit that writing a new, indepedent RDBMS that implements the latest SQL spec with the same maganement and replication capabilities as the incumbents is on-par with
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> IMO the issue isn't MS, really (though parts of the org are still worthy of strong skepticism), it's the cultural phenomenon of a certain generation of developers who essentially eat, breathe, and die by Microsofts product cy
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Office is one of Microsoft's most lucrative lines, whilst I doubt that most AWS users pay much attention to WorkMail/WorkDocs. Many big companies play games with reporting numbers, and this is just a rather transparent example. Un
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Here's a post on the GNOME blog aggregator about the issues of themes and adjustable sizing of elements: https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2018/10/15/restyling-apps-a...
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Red Hat's Open Source only approach does mean that none of these projects can be closed down, though: AFAIK, IBM are acquiring people and a brand, but no significant proprietary IP. If higher-ups at IBM turn out to be as clueless as Or
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> If you want to maximize the chance that your software will compile and execute correctly on a Linux distro 5+ years from now, a good first step is making sure it builds and runs natively on some of the BSDs. Like everything, this is a
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The incident was trivial, but it exposed serious concerns in the process. Mozilla itself strongly promotes privacy and digital rights, but their marketing people did not understand that this was a breach of trust, and all of the technical p
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I would upvote this post twice if I could. Rails is probably still the best implementation of a full-stack framework, and I agree that full-stack frameworks are are the best way to learn. Despite working for a Rails shop for a long time, I

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