stephen

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   by stephen 11y ago

   We've been using GWT master with both incremental compilation + Java 8 lambdas (!) and it's pretty fun. Granted, the non-JVM debugging experience is not nearly as magical as it was before, but I believe there is some work afoot to
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   by stephen 11y ago

   Personally, I think "blessing" UI frameworks as JSRs ("official!") is a bad idea. I think it leads to the UI framework (e.g. JSF in the past or this new MVC spec) "winning" and getting adopted by teams who, if
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   by stephen 11y ago

   I imagine most Java web/services would consider it bad style/coupling to pick just one data back end (e.g. assume everyone uses JPA or Hibernate or what not), which would be needed to support migrations. Even after Rails, the Java
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   by stephen 12y ago

   That's the goal of startups, right? (Or IPO, but that is rare.)
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   by stephen 12y ago

   Any plans to collaborate with sdbg [1] for the Eclipse/debugging/source mapping side of the developer experience? (AFAIK sdbg is just one guy who regularly copy/pastes code out of the Dart IDE + does some polish for GWT proje
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   by stephen 12y ago

   Seems like one of the better (best?) shutdowns Google has done IMO. There are several compelling (also free) alternatives (GitHub/etc.), so this isn't like Reader (which had previously killed a lot of viable/non-free competit
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   by stephen 12y ago

   I've got five kids...how about a 10 x 30 version. :-)
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   by stephen 12y ago

   +1 to davmail proxy; it is incredibly important to my productivity. I actually donated some money to the developer, but I should do it again. The davmail code even handles Outlook having two-factor auth enabled, e.g. it'll recognize th
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   by stephen 12y ago

   We were getting really close to converting our RDS instance from MySQL -> PG, but now with Amazon Aurora being the spiffy super-scalable/etc. RDS engine, we'll probably end up moving to that when/if needed. Which is a mixe
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    by stephen 12y ago

    Looks really great. Has anyone compared this to CloudWatch Logs? When I initially looked at CW Logs, it seemed fairly incomplete compared to Splunk.
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    by stephen 12y ago

    Any post/tool that mentions "cross-browser debugging protocols" has my immediate +1. Doing so from outside the browser (which gets me that much closer to staying in my IDE) has my immediate +100. I understand the fancy side o
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    by stephen 12y ago

    These books that are kind of pop-science descriptions of concepts like dysrationality are great, but what I'd love is a set of workooks (at various levels, e.g. my kids, adult learners like me, etc.) to systematically teach these skill
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    by stephen 12y ago

    > 1. The Firefox Tools Adapter ("Valence"), which lets you use the Firefox dev tools to inspect and debug pages in Chrome for Android and Safari for iOS. The goal: one set of tools to debug any browser. That's amazing. I c
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    by stephen 12y ago

    > JsLayout I went looking for Inbox's template engine and came across: https://code.google.com/p/google-jstemplate/wiki/HowToUseJsT... The "jstcache" attribute looks the same. Although, look
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    by stephen 12y ago

    > on top of the fact that the obese are already carrying extra muscle mass Huh...I follow Lyle, but I've read the exact opposite in Body by Science: in cross-sectional views of obese people (CT scans), their muscles are small, weak,
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    by stephen 12y ago

    I used Prevayler on a small project a long time ago; it was awesome. The webapp was just incredibly snappy. Thanks for the nostalgia. :-)
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    by stephen 12y ago

    How is ScalaJS's output size lately?
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    by stephen 12y ago

    Google is a big place; Dart and Polymer are funded as products under the Chrome division (that has budget to spend on big teams and marketing and developer advocates like Seth Ladd). GWT is under the platform/languages team, e.g. the
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    by stephen 12y ago

    > Once again GWT is rebooting You are right that GWT has been a lot of things over the years, but, to be fair, it's been around since 2006. E.g. you mentioned the GWT 1.5 release, that was in 2008 . What other web (or client-side J
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    by stephen 12y ago

    > but we're not planning to "go away" or get acquired or something If you've taken VC money, haven't you already gave up that choice? Despite pretenses, the VCs are going to want: a) IPO or b) acquisition. Since
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    by stephen 12y ago

    FWIW this patch: http://www.infinality.net/blog/infinality-freetype-patches/ https://launchpad.net/~no1wantdthisname/+archive/openjdk-fon... Makes IntelliJ fonts actually look good on Li
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    by stephen 12y ago

    Well, my comment is dead, but thanks for the Uptime Robot mention. We'd seen them too last week when Googling for competitors but were, right, scared off by their "seems fly-by-night" free-ness.
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    by stephen 12y ago

    Yeah, we did that, and just had all of our PagerDuty alerts go off when Pingdom sent out their nice marketing email (which PagerDuty validly took as an "incident"). Thankfully it was basically morning, depending on the time zone
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    by stephen 12y ago

    To celebrate, they just sent this marketing email to all of our "serviceX-alert@" addresses: Subject: We are joining the SolarWinds family Body: Pingdom is moving forward quickly. We can’t wait to show you all the ideas
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    by stephen 12y ago

    > ideally will generate much of the Javascript Just to play devil's advocate, but with any compiled-to-JS language, you're right back to where GWT is with superdevmode: stuck in the browser's debugger. My hope is that with
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    by stephen 12y ago

    I know the Google GWT manager, and unless he's playing his cards very close to his chest, GWT is not EOL'd inside of Google. Google did "re-open source" GWT a few years ago, and unfortunately it coincided their (AFAIK un
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    by stephen 12y ago

    > I heard that it's shortlisted for end-of-life at Google because it's a hassle to work with. Did you hear that from a Googler that actually knows their long term budget/support plans for GWT, or just the usual misguided r
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    by stephen 12y ago

    I just looked at your profile, and it's amazing you have an average of 3.81 even after all of the down vote hits you take each time this comes up. FWIW, with the whole money transmission thing, it does sound like you got screwed for do
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    by stephen 12y ago

    Interesting; I didn't realize LXQt was the next-gen LXDE vs. just being a fork/sibling. I'm currently using Lubuntu which is Ubuntu+LXDE but then with Xmonad as a window manager and really enjoying it.
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    by stephen 13y ago

    :-) Thanks, none taken.