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by sjellis 8y ago
> Linux on the Desktop and FOSS in general, so projects which don't directly make money like Cygwin, gtk, gnome, gcc, and PulseAudio may be in danger. People really should talk about this a lot more: Red Hat fund so much of the dev
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Yeah, Cloud9 is billed as an IDE, but it's really more useful as a terminal inside your cloud environment that happens to have a text editor. Workspaces has been great for a cloud-based development environment, and the new Linux Works
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That's the meme, but my experience with the business support for G Suite does match it at all: I can easily call the phone support, get a competent human quickly, and they are very helpful.
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Oni is my current text editor, and even though it's pre-1.0, it's been a fantastic experience. It starts fast, looks great, works perfectly as a Vim (it supports standard Vim plugins), and requires almost no configuration (I don&#
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by sjellis 8y ago
If people are interested in shells, three projects that you might find interesting are: * oilshell - An ambitious project to build a shell that is compatible with bash (to completely replace it), but also better. * xonsh - A Python shell *
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> interpret the repeated issues as design feedback. If CS reps are "always getting stuck", figure out what about the UX is causing them to get stuck. If the problems are fixable by the user, can you add messaging to the interf
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> I was not writing the post to criticise Alpine as I really like it, but people need to take the missing security updates into consideration before they start to depend on Alpine for important things. I tried Alpine Linux and was very i
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> In my opinion the super hype over Javascript is because of it's simplicity(compared to GO for example). IMO, the core of modern ES6+ JavaScript is a really nice scripting language that is simpler than alternatives, but doing produ
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"If the major browser vendors today team up and decide to implement something people find hostile, say strict DRM, there's not much the world can do to stop them. It's just too much code to work through if you make a fork.&qu
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> I was trying to write a thin ORM for Go and quickly found out it was impossible to do what I needed without blowing a bunch of nasty generated source files into the build. In Java, I can give the developer a nice clean interface and ju
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> Web IDEs in general are a great concept though, mostly because developers generally love having their editor customized the way they like it, and from there, having it in the cloud accessible from any computer is a huge win. That being
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Stackblitz is definitely one of the few Web IDEs that I think has potential, because it can access the VS Code ecosystem of plugins.
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FWIW, the next version of Ionic (in beta) decouples from Angular, so that people can use the tools and platform support of Ionic to build mobile apps with Vue, or whatever they prefer.
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I've just switched to Oni, and would highly recommend it for someone who wants a Vim with the best features of modern graphical editors like Visual Studio Code. Oni does have some rough edges, since it's still pre-1.0, but it is l
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> In my view, programming language choice is cultural yet is always framed as something objective. I agree, and think that the culture around a programming language is one of the most important attributes, so we should not be afraid to t
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I'm a GNOME loyalist, but if I was going to set up a system for a non-technical user today, I would go for MATE and set the theme that emulates the OS that they used before, or to suit their preferences. MATE has really impressed me wi
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by sjellis 8y ago
I remember ALT.NET, and I would not retroactively declare a success. What it did was push into the open the fact that the Microsoft of the day could not effectively handle having rival technologies on their platform, open or closed source.
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"I think Microsoft is trying (and, so far, succeeding) to consume this market with their C#/.NET offerings. Their open-sourcing of .NET Core and their commitment to cross-platform makes C# (which, of course, has similar syntax and
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by sjellis 8y ago
> 1. What is happening to Atom? Funnily enough, this was my immediate concern, followed by Electron generally. It actually prompted me to go all-in on Vim: I've used Vim in terminals for a very long time, but never found a graphical
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> Meanwhile, I'd really like for people to stop hating Microsoft just because "Microsoft". To be fair, Microsoft need to stop doing stuff that makes people dislike them. Microsoft aggressively court developers who don&#x2
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by sjellis 8y ago
Note that some of the pull quotes on that site don't specify .NET Core, and probably predate it (e.g. the Stack Overflow story dates back to 2014, and refers to Framework). We know that .NET Core is generally liked by Microsoft develop
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"I've developed a strong loyalty to Motorola because of this. I've owned several Verizon exclusive models (Droid Turbo, Turbo 2, Z Play Droid) and all have featured incredible real world battery life and stockish Android.&quo
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> However, I think the author trivializes the amount of work required to make different types of Python/PHP/NodeJS/whatever apps all work in a consistent way through configuration management, saying "I can just write
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I think that it is telling that Red Hat have been working for quite a while to get Docker out of the stack: containers are a great idea, Docker is not great technology. The last piece is Buildah, a tool which builds and runs containers with
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"Devuan and Mint do a decent job shipping gnome 2 style environments by default." I've been very, very impressed with the MATE desktop. It's actually GNOME 2, carefully upgraded to GTK 3, then with a sensible set of impr
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> White, heterosexual, cis-gender male that "looks like a junkie", acts disrespectful and speaks slang? Good luck getting authorities to consider you a "respectable citizen, handle with care". Yes, that's why I s
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"Seriously, what is this shit? Is there a grant I'm not aware of that's given to straight white men" You can get a little badge that says "respectable citizen, handle with care". You don't see it, but peop
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Team Silverblue: Fedora as an image and container-based desktop OS(teamsilverblue.org)
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I get the impression that backwards-compatibility does weigh pretty heavily on the Python core developers these days. There are so many Python installations out there doing so much that the default answer to a change has to be "no&quo
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I think that one of the reasons that classes were added to the language was that people kept implementing them anyway, so it was better to standardise. This may be a good thing: JavaScript arguably has to be multi-paradigm, more than other

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