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by sjellis 9y ago
"I'm aware. You can build two native apps, you know." The problem is that you now have two separate apps. Not only does at least some of the code have to written twice, but every other activity from hiring developers, designi
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by sjellis 9y ago
Yep. Since there are no interoperability standard, any new entrant into the market is now going to have to spend a lot of resources on developing a process to reliably migrate accounts and history out of Slack, Yammer etc.
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"That said, one thing I've learned is that you can't please developers. The same people on this forum that are deriding "personal communication" in favor of more formal communication are the same ones that complain
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by sjellis 9y ago
"Note that owning land is a great zero sum way to get rich. If the Duke of Westminster owns half of London, and isn't interested in selling it, you can't invest there." This is the point: an aristocracy is a closed shop.
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by sjellis 9y ago
It's good to see thoughtful competition in this space - Slack is mostly a joy to use, but we really need healthy competition. In the absence of widely-used open standards, the consequences of putting ever-increasing our institutional m
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Security Improvements in Linux 4.13 Kernel(outflux.net)
1 points by sjellis 9y ago|0 comments
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by sjellis 9y ago
"The correct comparison would be to .NET's community based alternative, which is Mono. Mono in turn had it's initial release in June 30, 2004, which is _13 years ago_, and 3 years before OpenJDK itself." Mono is owned by
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by sjellis 9y ago
"Things have to be said." Then say them. Simply posting that systemd is bad, and appealing to your position as an experienced UNIX user without giving specifics is just signalling at best. I probably count as a Veteran System Admi
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"I (thankfully only) used to do Linux BSPs in a former life. In the last year or so of doing that, I think we spent about 15-20% of a project's time debugging systemd problems and working around it being too smart for its own good
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by sjellis 9y ago
"The integration of the ORM into the framework provides many conveniences, but this tends to involve a lack of awareness/control over exactly which queries get made." I think that the lack of visibility is the problem, more t
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by sjellis 9y ago
Unfortunately, the support for managing code-signing in Fastlane isn't quite fully-baked, and it can get messy. It's still really useful, though, if you have to deal with iOS builds.
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"6. Ask “Will this scale?” no matter what it is It’s important to find out if things will scale no matter what it is you’re discussing. No one even really knows what that means, but it’s a good catch-all question that generally applies
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by sjellis 9y ago
That was my first thought as well. I use a phone a lot, but only for a finite number of things, and I have pretty good apps for all of those things. Therefore, I download an average of less than one new app a month. If I download a new app
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by sjellis 9y ago
I guess that the article did annoy me. Partly because I remember GNUStep, Longhorn, OLPC etc. etc. which attempted some of these things, and we already know why those projects failed completely, and partly because I can now see the desktop
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by sjellis 9y ago
"This does of course not only go for GPU's, but CPU's and their BSP's and secret management controllers as well, as the dozen or so secret binary blobs you need to get all the hardware to work at all." My first thou
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by sjellis 9y ago
I agree. On Linux, Flatpak actually does the same thing: apps only get permission to access resources when the user chooses to work with those resources by making selections in the UI.
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The problem is that Docker is effectively an OS-level facility that platform vendors have already integrated into their stacks to prevent that from happening. If you use Docker and want support for production instances, you still pay Red Ha
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by sjellis 9y ago
I think version control is a good analogy (Subversion and Git). It enables whole classes of products and services to be built on top of it, but that only happens because the basic tool is unambigiously free and can be used everywhere. Tryin
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He addresses this in his email to staff, which quoted in the article: "The right answer is for us to be consistently content neutral. But we need to have a conversation about who and how the content online is controlled. We couldn’t ha
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The Community Imbalance Theory – Why Open Source projects are hard to sustain(medium.com)
2 points by sjellis 9y ago|0 comments
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by sjellis 9y ago
"These days windows just feels wrong though. It's probably just me but I feel like my windows machines are basically iPads with keyboards that I can't really do anything with the way I want to. Git sucks on windows, paints re
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Static code analysis for Go(staticcheck.io)
4 points by sjellis 9y ago|0 comments
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"I use Linux as my desktop and the rising popularity of electron means that most "cross platform desktop app" links which used to mean "we do windows AND mac!" are actually cross-platform, are usable on Linux and ar
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At some point, it stops being isolated incidents and starts being a pattern of decision-making. IMO, Microsoft has a crisis in the way that Windows is managed, and part of that is that the C-Level level of the company either no longer cares
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by sjellis 9y ago
I suspect that you learned a lot from Rails, though. For example, your applications probably have a thought-out directory structure, you clearly understand how the applications are layered, you probably pay attention to having good names, a
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For me the value of Rails is that it puts a lot of good practices into every application. Once you are more advanced as a developer or have a larger project then you might not like some of the choices that Rails makes, but it not only save
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"I'd also like to remove one of the biggest arguing points over the programming language go, a language I think hits lots of important requirements. Getting it adopted by more teams will be easier and the whole go ecosystem will e
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by sjellis 9y ago
I only follow Linux graphics casually, but AIUI one of the principles of the Wayland initiative was to replace the monolithic model of X with a combination of more tightly scoped components. For example, libinput was created to take respons
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by sjellis 9y ago
I was surprised (and pleased) to find out that Rust has doctests as well.
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I think that it's always worth remembering the iceberg effect when we talk about trends: the silent majority of developers don't comment on HN or Reddit, don't answer questions on Stack Overflow, don't publish code on Gi

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