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by wfleming 10y ago
I did this: moved to the U.K. for several years. To echo some of the other excellent comments here, I think the main takeaways should be: 1. Compensation is generally lower than in the US. That's worth keeping in mind depending on your
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by wfleming 10y ago
Nikanj isn't wrong (and is funny), but I think the other (more justifiable) reason is that jQuery largely isn't necessary anymore: when it came out, there were an uncountable number of browser incompatibilities that needed paint
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by wfleming 10y ago
I agree: I personally find Rust more expressive than Go. I don't think it has any more "semantic overhead" than any other language with a highly featured type system. To tie it back to the article a bit, Rust also seems like
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by wfleming 10y ago
I'm a little surprised it didn't seem that they considered a GC-less language like Rust. If your latency requirements are that strict & you're already considering a total rewrite, I would personally have been looking into
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by wfleming 10y ago
> Again: no way to enumerate the options at compile or runtime so copy paste it is: The author didn't find a built-in function to construct a list of option tags from a list of strings, so, instead of building their own... they copy
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by wfleming 10y ago
As you've probably noticed in the other replies here, opinions vary widely :). These kinds of things are also part of why I switched to OS X in 2003-ish, so I understand the hesitation. In my experience, Linux is perfectly fine nowad
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by wfleming 10y ago
I like the BSDs, and considered doing that instead of Linux. My company is a heavy Docker user, though: dealing with docker-machine & running Docker via a VM on OS X was one of the final straws that caused me to switch. Given that FreeB
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by wfleming 10y ago
Proper window tiling was one of the annoyances that prompted me to switch! I used dwm at first when I switched back to Linux, but found it still doesn't handle multi-head very well, so now I use XMonad (with dmenu), and have been very
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by wfleming 10y ago
> Linux can solve some pro needs, but not most. It’s a fantastic server OS but a miserable desktop one, and that will probably never change. Depending on which pro needs We're talking about, I don't believe this is true anymore
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by wfleming 10y ago
I had completely forgotten they added Windows Container support when running the daemon on a Windows host! Thanks for the correction.
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by wfleming 10y ago
To add some technical explanation to what larrybud said: Docker containers aren't full VMs. They don't virtualize the computer hardware or the OS kernel. So when you run a bunch of Docker containers on a computer, all of those con
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by wfleming 10y ago
I recently switched to Enpass[1] and am reasonably happy with it: it might be an alternative for you to consider as well. It's very much a 1Password ripoff, which I mean as a compliment: the UI will be familiar to you. It's not ne
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by wfleming 11y ago
Is that 10 hours being used or 10 hours just sitting in your pack? I've taken my iPhone 5 on a couple 5-10 day hikes in airplane mode & it's done pretty well.
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by wfleming 11y ago
Why wouldn't Apple's current usage of "force touch" also conflict with this?
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by wfleming 11y ago
Maybe I'm just tired & not able to detect sarcasm right now, but isn't 2^80 bytes more bytes than are currently stored in the world? That's on the order of 10^24, which is something like 1 million exabytes, which is a mil
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by wfleming 11y ago
There is a new content blocking API in iOS 9 that makes it possible to write third-party ad-blockers. Apple isn't writing their own, or pre-installing one, or anything like that. (At least, nothing like that has been publicly discussed
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by wfleming 12y ago
Ditto: so much about Meteor just makes the day-to-day work of building something a real pleasure compared to other tools. For me, the thing really holding it back from more serious work is that I've had real problems getting testing to
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by wfleming 15y ago
Do you have any plans for better iTunes library 'sync' support (i.e. delta updates from a changed iTunes library after initial import, and maybe even writing your changes back to iTunes)? I understand the long-term technical challenges invo