sparkymat

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by sparkymat 7y ago
Agreed. The original article made a good point of the language being simple (feature-light) makes it appealing for enterprises, as an alternative to Java, for building enterprise solutions. Go is easy to pick up and the language is opiniona
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by sparkymat 11y ago
I'd definitely recommend Spacemacs. It's a starter pack for Emacs which adds layers (it's like a collection of modes), mnemonic key bindings, and other things. Link: http://spacemacs.org/
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by sparkymat 12y ago
If you don't mind straying off the beaten track, you should try Nadeshiko. It's available for both Ruby and Go. Be warned that it's still a work-in-progress. https://github.com/kirillrdy/nadeshiko https
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by sparkymat 14y ago
In general, Apple favors skeuomorphism.
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by sparkymat 16y ago
As an Android and iOS developer, I would like to point out that one of the contributing factors to the lack of well-designed applications for Android is due to the lack of polish in the Android tools and the available IDE (ADT for Android,
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by sparkymat 16y ago
As a long term Windows (and Mac) user, I disagree with the part about Windows. Windows 7 is quite polished and I haven't had to deal with spyware in years (of using Windows XP / Windows Vista). Yes, Mac OS X is quite polished and has good w
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by sparkymat 16y ago
I agree. A lot of blame lies with the educational system which promotes rote learning and at times, even penalizes thinking out of the box.
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by sparkymat 16y ago
Nowadays, more and more Indian parents seem to be receptive of "unconventional" career choices. Not saying that it's common, or that most don't push their kids towards engineering/medicine, but the situation seems to have improved over the