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null | Shamanmuni | null | I've been in your place, I look for alternatives from time to time, but Qt still wins in the "cross-platform, good-looking and efficient desktop application" space. It takes some time to get into it because it's its own little world with qt widgets, qt quick and all the choices available.
To make the most out of it yo... | null | 0 | 1491915292 | False | 0 | dg47j4d | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg44wuu | null | 1493976895 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | destinoverde | null | > Then why do many developers use VSCode
Why they decision matter? Their are known to be bandwagon hipsters. | null | 1 | 1491915316 | 1491932402 | 0 | dg47jns | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg421ub | null | 1493976902 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | eskimoFry | null | failure prevention is much harder to get right than recovery. | null | 0 | 1491915329 | False | 0 | dg47jy0 | t3_64idzl | null | null | t1_dg37l46 | null | 1493976905 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bandofothers | null | Yeah, this guy has no efing clue what Electron actually is. The article is a bit misleading aswell. Electron uses node.js but also only a subset of "libchromiumcontent" of the browser... it's a huge subset... but still... | null | 0 | 1491915423 | False | 0 | dg47m5c | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg46o1h | null | 1493976935 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dangoor | null | I would think that, on the Mac at least, it would be possible to build an Electron-like thing that uses the Mac OS web view. At least that way you're not doing shipping an entire Chromium with each build, and the built-in web view is probably friendlier on the battery. Still going to use a lot more memory than a comple... | null | 0 | 1491915428 | False | 0 | dg47m9a | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg402le | null | 1493976936 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Raknarg | null | You're simply just ignorant, dude. I'm done with this. | null | 0 | 1491915430 | False | 0 | dg47mam | t3_64jd9r | null | null | t1_dg47icb | null | 1493976937 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tojal | null | > Does it run on a desktop? Then they are.
Does it run on hardware? Then they are systems developers. | null | 0 | 1491915436 | False | 0 | dg47mg1 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg44y25 | null | 1493976939 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | zelnoth | null | Isn't this fixed in chromium now? | null | 0 | 1491915443 | False | 0 | dg47mlk | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg400m3 | null | 1493976941 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | american_defector | null | I remember a while back I gave Atom a try on my laptop. I could sit there and watch the battery percentage drop. It eats battery like it's going out of style. It was at that point I went back to Sublime Text and haven't looked back since.
I actually avoid these apps by using an app called Franz. It lets you run multi... | null | 0 | 1491915459 | False | 0 | dg47mye | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493976945 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | JohnMcPineapple | null | > WxWidgets is the ugliest framework I've ever had the misfortune to use. Even as an end user you know which apps use Wx, because they're always incredibly ugly.
>
*How*? WxWidgets windows look exactly like native OS windows. | null | 0 | 1491915462 | False | 0 | dg47n1a | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg41sih | null | 1493976946 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | V13Axel | null | This is actually why I use `wee-slack`, a plugin for the Weechat IRC program that lets you use it for Slack without losing all the features. | null | 0 | 1491915465 | False | 0 | dg47n36 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg40foj | null | 1493976947 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lihaarp | null | Spot on. System media codecs? Nah. System notification mechanisms? libnotify? Screw that. Native styling? Let's roll our own. System keystore? No way. Font renderer? Fat chance.
The list goes on. | null | 0 | 1491915466 | False | 0 | dg47n43 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg409r2 | null | 1493976947 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | V13Axel | null | This is actually why I use `wee-slack`, a plugin for the Weechat IRC program that lets you use it for Slack without losing all the features. | null | 0 | 1491915478 | False | 0 | dg47nds | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg449bh | null | 1493976951 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | destinoverde | null | Fast and stable are relative. Wanna say the same for anyone using a 3 to 10 years old computer? Or one with limited resource. Emacs and Vim could run well in those? Electron? No. | null | 0 | 1491915485 | 1491916593 | 0 | dg47nj5 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3z7t7 | null | 1493976953 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Bntyhntr | null | I had never really considered the performance implications before, but does anyone else not use the slack app?
It's cross platform and requires no install if you just use the website. It's one of the 3 tabs I always keep open along with gmail and jira and things seem to be going fine. | null | 0 | 1491915490 | False | 0 | dg47nnw | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493976954 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Klathmon | null | There's "cross platform" and there's "cross platform".
With something like QT you might get windows, mac, linux. With a LOT of work and the paid version, you can eek out an ios and android version.
A responsive web app gets you all of the above, plus windows phone, my car's head unit, my TV, my fucking watch, and mor... | null | 0 | 1491915516 | False | 0 | dg47o7p | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43ffu | null | 1493976963 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mgracietti | null | An MVP is (usually) intended to support new features and scale after the first feedback from the market. If you started without a good structure, just to ship the MVP fast, you may have lots of headaches later.
And using this Xcode plugin (https://github.com/natangr/ViperTemplate) will remove the usual overhead of VIP... | null | 0 | 1491915530 | False | 0 | dg47oj6 | t3_64lfh5 | null | null | t1_dg3qy5q | null | 1493976967 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Voidsheep | null | And I'm arguing things like ease of development can be more beneficial to end-users than saving additional CPU cycles.
I'm not saying performance isn't important, but there's more to software development than that. The notion that teams working on Electron-based software should drop it and learn C is ridiculous.
The ... | null | 0 | 1491915533 | False | 0 | dg47ol1 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg465xr | null | 1493976967 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | rijoja | null | So what have you done in Go. Isn't the compile time a huge hassle even for simple projects it takes a lot of time to compile. Even though I want to like the language I find it a bit disturbing. | null | 0 | 1491915541 | False | 0 | dg47osf | t3_64ktrg | null | null | t3_64ktrg | null | 1493976970 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | homonomonohomo | null | They are just imported into the main config file, if I am not mistaken. That is, if one of the files is broken, nginx won't start. | null | 0 | 1491915552 | False | 0 | dg47p1y | t3_64k23v | null | null | t1_dg3s1sd | null | 1493976973 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | ktkps | null | >And chrome is a hog. Its huge and complicated. It uses ram and CPU like nobody's business, and it totally thrashes your battery life.
This reminds me of the opposite idea that [Symbian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian#Design) had for using any resource for that matter:
> Symbian OS was created with three... | null | 0 | 1491915628 | False | 0 | dg47qqj | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3zyds | null | 1493976995 | 346 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mrfrobozz | null | I hadn't heard of this. Thanks. | null | 0 | 1491915703 | False | 0 | dg47sg7 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47nds | null | 1493977018 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Flight714 | null | > It's still fast and I don't give a damn if it eats up RAM I'm not using or takes idle CPU cycles. That overhead is nothing and if it allows them to keep releasing new builds and implementing new features fast, there's no question if it's worth it.
>
> The average user wants the software to work like they wa... | null | 0 | 1491915733 | False | 0 | dg47t3b | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3zoak | null | 1493977027 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1491915774 | False | 0 | dg47u10 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3znlf | null | 1493977039 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | luutifa | null | I so agree. Fucking hell. This is the reason I once went full Raspberry Pi (1, 512MB) purist (and then back to PC, because I needed a modern browser for most dev resources :/ ).
I'm glad Spotify and Soundcloud have Mopidy as an alternative and there are lighter browsers as well (and optimizations to current ones). | null | 0 | 1491915807 | False | 0 | dg47urm | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493977049 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | badsectoracula | null | I don't really care about Wayland TBH, IMO it is DOA (and there is XWayland for people who really want to use it). HiDPI is also a niche when talking about desktop tech so i wouldn't bother with that at the immediate future.
Although these are issues for GTK2 and Qt4 devs which i didn't recommend. | null | 0 | 1491915835 | False | 0 | dg47vev | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg46lp2 | null | 1493977058 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Deviltry1 | null | > How the hell is "know more about how a computer works" / "managing memory is a thing" going to help me create a cross platform app like Electron does? | null | 0 | 1491915850 | False | 0 | dg47vqt | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4434m | null | 1493977062 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bubuopapa | null | Oh right, your millions and a new ferrari is much more important than the good of this world and all people... You arent a relative of hitler by any chance, are you ??? | null | 0 | 1491915860 | False | 0 | dg47w03 | t3_64jd9r | null | null | t1_dg47mam | null | 1493977066 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | PerfectionismTech | null | I hate this trend of chrome wrapper apps. It's great that devs can work in a familiar language and write once for all platforms, but these apps are always bloated.
Edit: The native UI elements usually look nicer, too. | null | 0 | 1491915873 | 1491922654 | 0 | dg47wav | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493977070 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Giroflex | null | IoT costs are ridiculously low. What's the cost of transmitting 2kB of data per day? Close to nothing.
The price set on this is the price that companies think people are willing to pay. That's pretty much all there is to it. | null | 0 | 1491915963 | False | 0 | dg47yd7 | t3_64qch2 | null | null | t3_64qch2 | null | 1493977097 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | badsectoracula | null | Yes, IMO GTK+3 is an abomination (GTK+2 is also an abomination but until GTK+3 was introduced and broke everything, it was at least something that was stable and you could rely on existing... apparently the GTK+ devs didn't think so), but it still an option if you want C or have a language with C interop.
There is al... | null | 0 | 1491915983 | False | 0 | dg47ysn | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43nwe | null | 1493977103 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MasterScrat | null | I disagree, correct English is important. But it kind of derails conversations. Maybe the bot could PM the author of the comment instead? | null | 0 | 1491915995 | False | 0 | dg47z2g | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4538k | null | 1493977106 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | agumonkey | null | I don't care, I run emacs in jslinux in Electron. Take that hipsters! | null | 0 | 1491916016 | False | 0 | dg47zjv | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493977114 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bitchkat | null | It's been 30 years but with I think that doesn't work. You have to terminate a statement with a period. So if you put a period on "do_nothing" that terminates all the way up to "if a". If you don't terminate do nothing. it still tries to make the 2nd else as part of "if b".
The only way I could work around this ... | null | 0 | 1491916152 | False | 0 | dg482pr | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg3xslu | null | 1493977156 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TheAnimus | null | But as the world moved beyond S60 it was rather limited.
Plus the much of the API made my eyes bleed.
Still rather liked it. | null | 0 | 1491916170 | False | 0 | dg4834h | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47qqj | null | 1493977161 | 37 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | brett84c | null | Are there any programs that allow you to throttle your Internet speed or computer specs (accounting for the processing power needed to run it)? I think that would be a super useful tool for all developers. | null | 0 | 1491916188 | False | 0 | dg483lo | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3uu0z | null | 1493977167 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | VM has been a ubiquitous hypervisor on System 360 descendents for a long time. I used the name VM/CMS instead of CMS because CMS by itself is a single-user system, so it's always used with VM.
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null | Sukrit966 | null | Blender | null | 0 | 1491916296 | False | 0 | dg4866t | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3znlf | null | 1493977202 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | logicalLove | null | >Is there another mature cross-platform renderer like chromium with licensing that would work?
node-webkit hehe | null | 0 | 1491916315 | False | 0 | dg486lu | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg42rj6 | null | 1493977208 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | coder543 | null | > Then why do many developers use VSCode instead of Sublime Text?
Two reasons:
1. Sublime Text was dead for several years. The lone author vanished off the face of the planet. I do *not* use unsupported software.
2. VS Code is open source. I *prefer* open source solutions, but I will use proprietary ones. Heck, I ... | null | 0 | 1491916346 | False | 0 | dg487c5 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg421ub | null | 1493977217 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mirhagk | null | Dude.... relax man. Don't take your problems out on me. I had a funny image of someone leaving the office and immediately turning their brain off. It was funny to me but you obviously have some shit going on in your life and that's a sensitive topic. I didn't realize, but you don't have to be a dick about it. | null | 0 | 1491916348 | False | 0 | dg487e8 | t3_64jd9r | null | null | t1_dg3bivh | null | 1493977218 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jpfed | null | YES. Every new IO capability should be treated as a potential attack vector. You want it? Get permission. | null | 0 | 1491916374 | False | 0 | dg48829 | t3_64pocv | null | null | t1_dg47gua | null | 1493977227 | 47 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Raknarg | null | Yup thats a perfect segue and logically follows. | null | 0 | 1491916417 | False | 0 | dg4893v | t3_64jd9r | null | null | t1_dg47w03 | null | 1493977240 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | KarmaAndLies | null | As opposed to ignoring the map and data from the United States Department Of Labor? | null | 0 | 1491916426 | False | 0 | dg489bv | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg3wgtt | null | 1493977243 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Jetlogs | null | i would of replied to this just to test if the bot would of worked | null | 0 | 1491916435 | False | 0 | dg489jd | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3xvic | null | 1493977247 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | could-of-bot | null | It's either would **HAVE** or would**'VE**, but never would **OF**.
See [Grammar Errors](http://www.grammarerrors.com/grammar/could-of-would-of-should-of/) for more information. | null | 0 | 1491916437 | False | 0 | dg489kz | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg489jd | null | 1493977248 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mirhagk | null | Besides which, if you don't have enough feature work for an extra programmer to do there's always training and working down the technical debt.
And I've never seen of a company that doesn't have enough feature/bug work to be done. Backlogs are mystical beasts that always grow. | null | 0 | 1491916440 | False | 0 | dg489o5 | t3_64jd9r | null | null | t1_dg3d20i | null | 1493977249 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Garethp | null | Okay, so regardless it's going to be a hard slog. I know C++ (A bit), but I don't know how to write *beautiful* C++. Coming from PHP with some Python, C# and Java with `class` and not splitting out header files makes me wonder if I'm writing C++ right or not... Also my design sense isn't great, hence why React and Boot... | null | 0 | 1491916461 | False | 0 | dg48a6z | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47j4d | null | 1493977255 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | coder543 | null | ST was developed by one dude. I'm 100% sure GitHub and Microsoft could scrounge up enough people to do at least as good as that one lone guy, but they definitely have not. Still, I'm a VS Code user because ST was abandoned for several years. | null | 0 | 1491916495 | False | 0 | dg48az1 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg42hdv | null | 1493977266 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | thedeemon | null | What "things"? Set of native controls is extremely poor and insufficient for those apps, so they'll have to make some custom elements anyway. And the ones that do exist natively look different on different OS versions and often take too much space. So to create a decent look they'll need to spend 10 times the effort an... | null | 0 | 1491916532 | False | 0 | dg48bwf | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43mm2 | null | 1493977278 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | coder543 | null | > sublime was first released in 2008. that's almost a decade of development. M$ was able to achieve pretty much the same features in less than two.
Microsoft also had more than one guy working on the project.
> BTW - I'm an ex-sublime user (with license and all) that switched to VSC.
same here | null | 0 | 1491916538 | False | 0 | dg48c2x | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg45zmf | null | 1493977280 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | UplinkCoder | null | Thanks for the tip!
I went with the first variant as it is easier to implement.
And this is unlikely to change because for very fast execution there is going to be a jit later ;).
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null | aptmnt_ | null | I notice it every day I'm forced to scroll through slack. If there's a performance difference people will notice. | null | 0 | 1491916572 | False | 0 | dg48cw4 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43ikj | null | 1493977291 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | runvnc | null | He says RAM isn't cheap.. But RAM _is_ cheap.. you can get 16GB of RAM for $107. Even if you run 30 Electron applications and they all take 400MB of RAM (which I think lightweight Electron apps use a lot less these days), you still have lots of RAM left.
Macs have always been a very poor value, and the new Macbooks... | null | 1 | 1491916578 | 1491916775 | 0 | dg48d1k | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493977293 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | shaboinkin | null | Fucking Windows 10... I have the same exact problem with my laptop and it pisses me off.
Also, just the other day, I was looking into going to Windows Server 2016 from Windows Server 2012 R2. The CPU usage in Server 2016 is fucking ridiculous.
This is what the usage is in 2012 at idle: http://i.imgur.com/R2nKENs.pn... | null | 0 | 1491916637 | False | 0 | dg48ehw | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg423gi | null | 1493977312 | 30 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Snowda | null | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand | null | 0 | 1491916732 | False | 0 | dg48gup | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg40pwj | null | 1493977344 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mirhagk | null | > Chrome
I thought chrome used it's rendering engine for it's controls? Maybe I misunderstood though.
Regardless it seems unfair to include browsers because they have to design a rendering engine so they have very different requirements to an application. | null | 0 | 1491916754 | False | 0 | dg48hds | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3znlf | null | 1493977351 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | badsectoracula | null | Well i can do that as the programmer, but not as the user of a Qt program.
> Would you rather be using MFC?
If only cared about Windows... maybe? I haven't written anything substantial with MFC but i feel very comfortable with the Win32 API and MFC is basically a helper set of classes (i've found that most people ... | null | 0 | 1491916757 | False | 0 | dg48hht | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4322g | null | 1493977352 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | phughes | null | 🤢 | null | 0 | 1491916836 | False | 0 | dg48jgn | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3xwfs | null | 1493977379 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | V13Axel | null | Sure! And if you have problems, come join us on freenode#wee-slack. | null | 0 | 1491916854 | False | 0 | dg48jyv | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47sg7 | null | 1493977385 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tobsn | null | i looked into it and build myself some useful tools like a instant drag & drop image type converter with imagemagick which is super handy. BUT it's useless to share because of its size.
when i looked into it there was no way to get the size down which is sad because if it was possible to compile it down to 5-10mb... | null | 0 | 1491916863 | False | 0 | dg48k7p | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493977388 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | phughes | null | Yeah, anyone who knows anything about Delicious Monster knows that's not true. | null | 0 | 1491916884 | False | 0 | dg48kqv | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg46nwg | null | 1493977396 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ijustwantanfingname | null | Uh, most IDEs? Netbeans, codeblocks, Kate (yes there's a windows native version!), eclipse | null | 0 | 1491916916 | False | 0 | dg48lji | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3znlf | null | 1493977407 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | monkeybreath | null | So "Flash for the Desktop" in the bad sense, then. | null | 0 | 1491917007 | False | 0 | dg48ntx | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47qqj | null | 1493977437 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | aa93 | null | Software Development is a gas-- the toolchain expands to fill its container. | null | 0 | 1491917008 | False | 0 | dg48nv7 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg40pwj | null | 1493977438 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mirhagk | null | > I mean, the slack app is 160 megs on disk. Thats about the size of 70 uncompressed copies of Lord Of The Rings.
That's a bit deceptive. It's the size of 70 uncompressed copies of the text of the books.
The movies of course are FAR larger. | null | 0 | 1491917067 | False | 0 | dg48pbl | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493977458 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Artificial_Ninja | null | Not the person you asked, but as a younger Cobol Developer.
Biggest issue when managing older code bases tends to be zealous use of Go To, unstructured procedural style, not attempting to properly initialize, the inherent dangers that naturally come with working with memory directly, and broad scope Terminators (which... | null | 0 | 1491917132 | 1491917662 | 0 | dg48qz8 | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg3veoy | null | 1493977480 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | phughes | null | > I never got any problems with Slack
I'd like to know what you're doing _right_. Slack is the biggest piece of shit I am forced to use on a daily basis.
Every time I look at the "Apps Using Significant Energy" display on my Mac, Slack is at the top of the list. Usually above Safari (24 tabs open ATM) and Xcode ... | null | 0 | 1491917192 | False | 0 | dg48sim | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3ztnq | null | 1493977500 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | expungeegnupxe | null | If your app sucks it doesn't matter what the hell it's built in. | null | 0 | 1491917257 | False | 0 | dg48u8z | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493977523 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Deviltry1 | null | I'm with 6 years of experience now, still is unacceptable. Next year with 7 it will become acceptable? | null | 0 | 1491917312 | False | 0 | dg48vq3 | t3_64idzl | null | null | t1_dg392zt | null | 1493977544 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vetinari | null | Recently, an Ubuntu guy asked at HN, what the people would like to improve most in Ubuntu.
HiDPI support was one of top requests.
So I don't think it is a niche. But what do I know, I'm biased, I like it.
Similar with Wayland. It is where the puck is going to be. For a new development, nobody sane should decide on l... | null | 0 | 1491917345 | False | 0 | dg48wl4 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47vev | null | 1493977556 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | neofreeman | null | What does Sublime use for UI. I know it's in python but what toolkit it uses for GUI? | null | 0 | 1491917576 | False | 0 | dg492lp | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493977637 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zeludon | null | I'm not condoning the use of incorrect grammar, but if my comment is going to be downvoted and have multiple replies dedicated to pointing out said mistake, I can't really consider this a place of intelligent discussion.
If someone made a PM bot like that where would you stop it? You might as well run every message th... | null | 0 | 1491917592 | False | 0 | dg492zf | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47z2g | null | 1493977643 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pnpbios | null | Written in GO but requires .net 4.5... | null | 0 | 1491917613 | False | 0 | dg493ks | t3_64qjk9 | null | null | t3_64qjk9 | null | 1493977650 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | irqlnotdispatchlevel | null | The whole software development cycle should take security into account, from design to implementation to QA. So the question should be "why only programmers?" | null | 0 | 1491917651 | False | 0 | dg494l7 | t3_64pa1v | null | null | t1_dg42cjg | null | 1493977663 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Brjl | null | >Since there’s probably not enough work to fill more than 40 productive hours a week
I feel layoffs coming to your place of employ. | null | 0 | 1491917678 | False | 0 | dg4959r | t3_64jd9r | null | null | t3_64jd9r | null | 1493977673 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | PenMount | null | While I think 1 to 3 are a good checklist for planning DIY projects, I think 4 and 5 (the meat of the show) are there same as writing "do magic".
So IMHO this is not fitting for r/programming. | null | 0 | 1491917696 | False | 0 | dg495ot | t3_64q91g | null | null | t3_64q91g | null | 1493977680 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Telexen1 | null | I think that in most cases, the SQL that LINQ generates isn't quite as bad as people let on. Don't misunderstand me, it's certainly not great. But, until you get into truly complicated queries, we're talking a difference of milliseconds. I personally think that the bigger issue with EF is everything that happens after ... | null | 0 | 1491917709 | False | 0 | dg4961x | t3_64m7iq | null | null | t1_dg3xta3 | null | 1493977684 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | espasmato | null | Yes. As is everything running on electron | null | 0 | 1491917761 | False | 0 | dg497fq | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47fhl | null | 1493977703 | 159 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Artificial_Ninja | null | Try to read a VSAM file, its essentially what the Matrix looks like. | null | 0 | 1491917777 | False | 0 | dg497u8 | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg3wkzc | null | 1493977709 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | irqlnotdispatchlevel | null | It's obvious that one person can't be an expert in everything. Even in security, computers are so complex that you have experts in certain areas, not in all. Your average dev should know some basic stuff and be familiar with what's considered good practice for whatever he is working on. You should have a security exper... | null | 0 | 1491917835 | False | 0 | dg499dl | t3_64pa1v | null | null | t1_dg43o8d | null | 1493977729 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Artificial_Ninja | null | They still hiring? <cough> | null | 0 | 1491917903 | False | 0 | dg49b7t | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg3wiy2 | null | 1493977753 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TGiFallen | null | I personally find XHTML awful to work with. The extra verbosity is tiresome. | null | 0 | 1491917914 | False | 0 | dg49bic | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg440e3 | null | 1493977757 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flamingspew | null | This is obviously a memory leak. Native apps are no less susceptible. The tooling is there for js... just lazy developers. I'd say 75% of my native apps have terrible memory leaks. Photoshop is one of the worst. You can close all open documents and have to restart because all RAM is gone. | null | 0 | 1491917920 | False | 0 | dg49bnc | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg40t8n | null | 1493977759 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Voidsheep | null | If there's no need for it, why do you think it's the choice for so many software developers?
The average user has no idea what is behind Spotify, they care it works like they want, regardless of where they use it.
They don't install it because they want an excutable made specifically for their operating system, they ... | null | 0 | 1491917937 | False | 0 | dg49c43 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47t3b | null | 1493977766 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | criticalcontext | null | I was about to say, when JetBrain's is your alternative (which takes a long time to learn and is gigantic), or VIM (archaic and also hard to use), or proprietary software like Sublime, I'll use Atom any day of the week. It fills a need and no one can deny that. | null | 0 | 1491917976 | False | 0 | dg49d5f | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg46hqc | null | 1493977779 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Brjl | null | The COBOL I see is only for a national company, so I'd definitely believe that other larger businesses or banks see much larger than 70k lines. | null | 0 | 1491918003 | False | 0 | dg49dum | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg3rh9s | null | 1493977788 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ThisIs_MyName | null | >check for empty variables
...until you forget it one time. Nobody will notice something that isn't there.
Or you could use `set -o errexit -o nounset -o pipefail`.
Or you could use a language that isn't fucked by default. | null | 0 | 1491918029 | False | 0 | dg49eks | t3_64idzl | null | null | t1_dg3vcw9 | null | 1493977798 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Elbradamontes | null | Ah the old brute force option. I'm stuck in this conundrum currently. I own a lesson studio that runs entirely in macs. I buy a program once and put it on ten computers. Waaay cheaper than any alternative. At home I have mac and pc. I edit music on mac almost exclusively because of training. Edit video on mac because o... | null | 0 | 1491918062 | False | 0 | dg49fgn | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg40pwj | null | 1493977810 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | twiggy99999 | null | > And do not forget to star :star2: the project if you like it :heart_eyes:
Cringe worthy | null | 0 | 1491918082 | False | 0 | dg49g0r | t3_64qjk9 | null | null | t3_64qjk9 | null | 1493977818 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mrfrobozz | null | Agreed, but that verbosity is what allows it to be strict. It's definitely a trade off. | null | 0 | 1491918109 | False | 0 | dg49gqo | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg49bic | null | 1493977827 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vinniep | null | [Here is Electron's list of apps that are built on it](https://electron.atom.io/apps/). A lot of geekier dev things, but a few that are fairly common as well. | null | 0 | 1491918112 | False | 0 | dg49gt8 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47fhl | null | 1493977828 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | webbson | null | Not working for me, copies folders but then just dies without any errors. | null | 0 | 1491918185 | False | 0 | dg49iqc | t3_64qjk9 | null | null | t3_64qjk9 | null | 1493977854 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Brjl | null | Business cares about literally nothing but the next 6 months. If they get convinced that a decision will save money over that short period, they'll do it.
I must have touched a nerve. You're wrong, of course. Everyone has observed businesses doing things that are simply nonsense which comes back to bite them. All it ... | null | 0 | 1491918205 | False | 0 | dg49jb4 | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg3ja53 | null | 1493977862 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | loz220 | null | What does as3 have to offer over modern JS? If it's the type system that you miss take a look at flow | null | 0 | 1491918225 | False | 0 | dg49jv8 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg442c1 | null | 1493977869 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | IbanezDavy | null | Because the western world is built on dictatorships and the dictatorships around the world are the smoothest running machines?
Nope, I disagree strongly with you. And so does all verifiable facts. You could make an argument for oligarch (where a group of people make decisions for the whole), but to say dictatorships ... | null | 0 | 1491918255 | False | 0 | dg49kqe | t3_64n5ym | null | null | t1_dg3l91r | null | 1493977881 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mixedCase_ | null | LGPL. Meaning you can dynamically link it without having to GPL your code. | null | 0 | 1491918289 | False | 0 | dg49lmw | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4682y | null | 1493977892 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | my-alt-account- | null | Looks pretty bad on Windows too imo, but it does look mostly like a Windows application. | null | 0 | 1491918297 | False | 0 | dg49lul | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg41a99 | null | 1493977895 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ThisIs_MyName | null | That's a very low bar, but you're right :) | null | 0 | 1491918345 | False | 0 | dg49n50 | t3_64k23v | null | null | t1_dg3okj3 | null | 1493977913 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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