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"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." - Alan Perlis
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Software updates are a kind of project heartbeat. The content of them is less important than the signal, "this project is still alive, and maintainers are fixing issues for people". If a project does not put out updates, then user
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"Any potentially addictive software/service should offer a way for users to lock themselves out of their own account for a predetermined set of hours." It's really noticeable that Hacker News provides exactly this featur
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I am wondering if the long-term solution is going to be that SQL Management Studio goes away, in favor of SQL Operations Studio and possibly some other graphical tools for more specialized things like data warehousing etc. The more good nex
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"While Linux certainly works on laptops it doesn't work well." Part of the issue is that using Linux exposes you much more directly to the quality of the hardware (and the associated firmware and drivers). The hardware that &
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"Windows has gotten a lot better, but the rules regarding new computers hasn't changed in the past 30 years, you still need to wipe the hard drive and install it yourself from scratch, and then spend a little time disabling the ad
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I think that the aluminium body, crisp display, and the blessed silence win it for the Mac, otherwise I would have said ThinkPad T420 as well. I don't even remember that the MacBook that I am typing this from has a fan unless I reall
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It's very useful for applications that don't guarantee API or data format compatibility between major versions. If you were running PostgreSQL 8, then under no circumstances would you want a silent upgrade to PostgreSQL 9, because
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These are not specifically about structuring projects, but I would recommend two books for "thinking like a programmer". The Pragmatic Programmer, by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, is a fairly slim book that aims to cover the unwritte
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"Why can't they let the devs manage their own machines?" Part of the problem is that then the devs aren't actually managing the systems, they are blindly trusting the vendors. To a large extent, (re)packaging is make-wor
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You are mistaking the variety of desktops with a variety of graphics stacks (which there aren't). At the levels of the stack that nVidia work at, there are only a small number of options (sometimes one), maintained by specialist develo
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"The pressure from consumers is in the favor of slimmer, sleeker gadgets. This causes manufacturers to use production techniques that make repairing impossible." I am not sure: we can only choose from what the manufacturers decide
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It was a very bad choice of words. I wish that I knew a phrase to mean "has all of the documentation, tools, and libraries that are needed for an average team of developers following common practices to be likely to successfully ship
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For me, the ecosystem matters as much as the language itself these days (actually more). There are languages that I've used at home just as a learning experience, but ideally, I want a language that I can put into production at work. T
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"The school should be punished and pay compensation for lying. However, we should not hand over the right to offer education to a government that, given the opportunity to provide it, failed the competency test to "actually teach
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I've upvoted you, even though we obviously don't agree, because I think that was a really excellent response. Personally, I find that I have knee-jerk reaction to this. My feeling is that if something can be wrong or be abused, it
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Linux Firmware Updater reaches 1.0 and 165,000 devices per month(blogs.gnome.org)
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"Most apps are opt-out though, the checkboxes are already checked and a message shown." IMO, this is the key problem. I have no issue with optional telemetry, but there should be a bright line here: all telemetry should be opt-in.
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"Muji is a successful Japanese brandless shop where I get my clothes. We have generics drugs that are less expensive. I think a brandless Walmart would be successful too, for those who refuse to be brainwashed." This is one of the
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I suspect that the first step is for to break down the problem a bit more. Large projects need full-time developers, plus other kinds of expertise, which means organizations. For the long tail of libraries and small tools, I don't thin
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"Why does the company force hardware upgrades?" Partly to pre-empt hardware issues. Vendors will only offer warrenties for so many years, because they can only maintain stocks of replacement parts for any given model for so long.
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"So there is the question, which you must ask yourself, and your team, do you want to be learning skills specific to the technologies you are using, or do you want to be learning skills that are specific to AWS?" If you are runnin
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"The funny part is, that there is NO EDGE FOR WINDOWS. Precisely, Edge is for Windows 10 only, which is the minority of all Windows devices today." Bizarrely, Microsoft Edge is not supported for Windows Server, which is the editio
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That's very interesting. AWS WorkSpaces does have a per-hourly billing, but OVH might be simpler and a better price for some cases.
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There are surprisingly few providers, and AWS WorkSpaces is unusual in that it has no minimum number of desktops. One gotcha with WorkSpaces: it is cheap enough to make sense for just one user if you the free "Simple" AD option, b
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Teradici PCoIP is proprietary, but absolutely, amazingly good. It is licensed by various thin client and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure products, like AWS WorkSpaces. RDP is also really effective. I use both, but Teradici is the one that ma
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"Like pretty much everybody, I can't stand electron." Except, you know, all of the folks that say that they like Atom or Visual Studio Code: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-mo...
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> For tasks like the one the author describes, I prefer using just [1] over make. Just really ought to be better known.
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"I prefer to do most things on the command line rather than set up IDE configurations, so a plain text editor suits me just right." For me, the killer feature of editors like Atom and VS Code is zero-hassle setup of linters and co
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I wish that I could upvote this twice.

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