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null | Adverpol | null | Aha, I see, thanks. So for the per-digit result (all possible PINs) and one try, we have 0.71^4 or 25% chance of getting it right, or 33% if you use three tries by changing e.g. the first digit. Spooky. | null | 0 | 1491918351 | False | 0 | dg49nah | t3_64pocv | null | null | t1_dg4570t | null | 1493977915 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | recycled_ideas | null | Symbian OS also sucked, in part because designing it that way meant that it took orders of magnitude longer to develop anything, in part because to meet those goals the feature set was cut to the bone, and in part because Nokia used those design principles as an excuse to put it on shitty hardware.
Electron allows you... | null | 0 | 1491918371 | False | 0 | dg49ntb | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47qqj | null | 1493977923 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Obi_Kwiet | null | We really don't though. Obviously there is a trade off between performance and features, but that doesn't mean that you give up on performance just because it's easier. Having an OS is a reasonable performance tradeoff for what you get. Having to run a chrome instance for some little widget is not. Maybe for an IDE, th... | null | 0 | 1491918389 | False | 0 | dg49o9i | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3yeix | null | 1493977927 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Artificial_Ninja | null | They added specific scope terminators in later versions,
Our version of Mainframe Cobol has END-IF, END-EVALUATE (case), END-PERFORM (conditional looping), etc... It's actually nice to have specific scope terminators, Period still exists, it goes against standards to use it more than once per routine, but there's noth... | null | 0 | 1491918398 | 1491918760 | 0 | dg49oia | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg482pr | null | 1493977932 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | absentmindedjwc | null | Agile is what you make of it. If your team is *actually* agile, it is not all that bad, as you have a pretty good roadmap of what you will be working on.
The problem is when a company incorporates "agile" - that is, calls their process agile, expects you to make a plan, drops random "priority" tasks into your sprint,... | null | 0 | 1491918433 | False | 0 | dg49pha | t3_64os39 | null | null | t3_64os39 | null | 1493977944 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | crazyymaxx | null | > itten in GO but requires .net 4.5...
Yeah slack-portable is written in Go
But Slack itself requires .NET Framework unfortunately :( | null | 0 | 1491918447 | False | 0 | dg49pv6 | t3_64qjk9 | null | null | t1_dg493ks | null | 1493977949 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | irqlnotdispatchlevel | null | But they are hard! I'd have to learn something new, instead I can just use JS and kill your CPU because lol what's a CPU? | null | 0 | 1491918524 | False | 0 | dg49rz5 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3y6w4 | null | 1493977978 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LonelyCannibal | null | Perhaps he wrote that not to convince, but to inform. | null | 0 | 1491918615 | False | 0 | dg49ugn | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg477q0 | null | 1493978011 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Voidsheep | null | Indeed they could have, but they didn't, because they choose to roll with Electron despite the overhead.
And when you start thinking what could possibly be worth that overhead, you start to understand why many companies do it. I argued this is something the author of the article should have done, instead of just stati... | null | 0 | 1491918633 | False | 0 | dg49uyb | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg48az1 | null | 1493978017 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | illuminatedtiger | null | It never ceases to amaze me how Slack and Spotify consistently dwarf tools like IntelliJ when it comes to memory and CPU usage. In a lot of ways the widespread proliferation of tools Electron smacks of laziness and a total disregard for those ultimately using said applications. As said in TFA modern operating systems h... | null | 0 | 1491918663 | 1491919145 | 0 | dg49vqi | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493978028 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | steamruler | null | Don't play around with licenses unless you know what you are doing. Here's a few key points I saw:
## Licensing confusion
>if the code for your website is open source, or if you’re a non-profit organization, you can use cdnupload for free under an AGPL license.
Assuming the non-profit wants to release their websi... | null | 0 | 1491918746 | False | 0 | dg49y1r | t3_64qgg3 | null | null | t3_64qgg3 | null | 1493978059 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mirhagk | null | I've heard good things about [Xwt](https://github.com/mono/xwt) if you're on C#. It targets GTK on any platform and WPF on windows and cocoa on mac, so it should look native while having a single unified language.
I'm hoping that Xamarin forms makes it's way to mac and linux. Then you'd be able to target everything (i... | null | 0 | 1491918798 | False | 0 | dg49zht | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg44wuu | null | 1493978078 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | z500 | null | It's actually easier to make it case sensitive, it probably just checks for "would of" but not "would Of" or "Would of" | null | 0 | 1491918805 | False | 0 | dg49zor | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4221c | null | 1493978080 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mixedCase_ | null | > Few apps I written in Electron are fast and light
If you had checked the task manager and compared it with, say, a QML app you would've seen it wasn't light at all.
And obviously, many Electron app authors check that their app runs "acceptably" when alone, but the moment your desktop ecosystem starts having mult... | null | 0 | 1491918816 | False | 0 | dg4a00o | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3ztnq | null | 1493978085 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | badsectoracula | null | About benchmarks, yes Free Pascal's optimizer isn't as good as what you'd get with HotSpot in intensive operations (but this is the entire point of HotSpot). But in practice i haven't seen performance to be a big deal.
About the community.
> First, it is not clear who develops the compiler.
That is an interestin... | null | 0 | 1491918851 | False | 0 | dg4a101 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg424f7 | null | 1493978098 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | maks25 | null | Yea I think you're right. I guess you'd have to run nginx test before committing the config. | null | 0 | 1491918883 | False | 0 | dg4a1w6 | t3_64k23v | null | null | t1_dg47p1y | null | 1493978110 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | enteleform | null | Does [**node-webkit**](https://nwjs.io/) suffer from the same bloat? | null | 0 | 1491918953 | False | 0 | dg4a3v2 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493978137 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | recycled_ideas | null | Except these are the right tools. They're shitty tools, but they're the right ones.
Electron is ~~right~~ *write* once, run anywhere. Nothing even comes close.
You can write native code, but you'll have to write a dozen versions of it, which no one does.
Edit: my post was not write once. | null | 1 | 1491918957 | 1491919976 | 0 | dg4a3z3 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43p0g | null | 1493978138 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | comrade-jim | null | What about vim? | null | 0 | 1491918965 | False | 0 | dg4a48a | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg46ofb | null | 1493978142 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | orbital1337 | null | > Few apps I written in Electron are fast and light and I never got any problems with Slack either, even when I'm using it at work with like hundreds of channels and private messages.
Yeah, when I'm using Electron apps on my personal machine with an i5-6600k @ 4,5 GHz, 16 GB of 2300 MHz RAM and a Samsung 850 Pro SS... | null | 0 | 1491919017 | 1491926632 | 0 | dg4a5nr | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3ztnq | null | 1493978161 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tripl3dogdare | null | As someone who uses both Atom and Curse on a regular basis, plus Discord, Steam (which while it isn't Electron is still primarily a web wrapper), Telegram, etc., not a single one of them does this. | null | 0 | 1491919034 | False | 0 | dg4a641 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg436hd | null | 1493978167 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1491919071 | False | 0 | dg4a75i | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg46uzf | null | 1493978181 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ThisIs_MyName | null | He never mentioned Windows.
I don't know why anyone would prefer FHS over GoboLinux. | null | 0 | 1491919081 | False | 0 | dg4a7eu | t3_64k23v | null | null | t1_dg36v2x | null | 1493978185 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | comrade-jim | null | >then the only choice left is no application.
wrong.
obviously you're a windows user. Microsoft software is cuckoldry. | null | 0 | 1491919083 | False | 0 | dg4a7h2 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg44btu | null | 1493978185 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Nomto | null | Salaries for programmers are pretty shit in France tbh, even by European standards. | null | 0 | 1491919144 | False | 0 | dg4a95y | t3_64jd9r | null | null | t1_dg32bop | null | 1493978208 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sapper123 | null | If a site that you visit requires permissions, and you want to grant them, do you grant them to the browser that you are using? Does this then not enable any websites accessed via that browser to inherit those permissions? Or is permission given on a URL basis? | null | 0 | 1491919167 | False | 0 | dg4a9t0 | t3_64pocv | null | null | t1_dg48829 | null | 1493978217 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | chronoBG | null | No, the actual problem is that you are in fact building like 5 apps at once. You're reusing some view-related code, but that's it. You still have to implement everything 5 times in the exact same way. | null | 0 | 1491919193 | False | 0 | dg4aai6 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg40ypk | null | 1493978226 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | badsectoracula | null | Personally I don't think a set of responses in a technical forum about a single distro which has clearly expressed interest at the past on supporting mobile devices (where HiDPI is more common) is proof enough that HiDPI support is not niche in general.
As for Wayland, it has too many problems for me to seriously cons... | null | 0 | 1491919224 | False | 0 | dg4abbk | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg48wl4 | null | 1493978237 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Garethp | null | I'll check it out. I'm not a C# guy, but I know more of that than C++. Thanks | null | 0 | 1491919232 | False | 0 | dg4abju | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg49zht | null | 1493978240 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | z3t0 | null | > if you're not shit.
Key point haha | null | 0 | 1491919237 | False | 0 | dg4abof | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg469mc | null | 1493978242 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | coderstephen | null | Blender looks pretty good on Windows, OS X, and Linux. Entire GUI is custom based on OpenGL. | null | 0 | 1491919264 | False | 0 | dg4acfg | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3znlf | null | 1493978252 | 36 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | wavemode | null | So websites can implement features based on device orientation.
In general, browsers have never hidden any information or features from JavaScript behind a permission wall unless it carried a known security risk. In fact the whole point is to let the website know as much about you as safely possible so that the site c... | null | 0 | 1491919288 | False | 0 | dg4ad2g | t3_64pocv | null | null | t1_dg45v3f | null | 1493978261 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | comrade-jim | null | >Then why do many developers use VSCode instead of Sublime Text?
Because of microsofts guerilla marketing.
They send shills in to tech forums to push a pro-VSCode narrative. Anyone who can't see the writing on the walls is naive. | null | 1 | 1491919297 | False | 0 | dg4adb5 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg421ub | null | 1493978264 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bitchkat | null | I saw on Wikipedia last night that END-IF was added in COBOL-85. I was taking that class right around then so I doubt that the computers we were using had COBOL-85 yet. | null | 0 | 1491919315 | False | 0 | dg4adtz | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg49oia | null | 1493978271 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | recycled_ideas | null | We are writing software thousands of times faster than in the 90s.
For all that electron is bloated as hell, you can crank out an app that will run in a web browser, on an Android phone, in iOS, on windows, Linux and Mac OS, with automated testing, CI, and a flashy UI in a week as a single developer.
Ask a developer ... | null | 0 | 1491919318 | False | 0 | dg4adwx | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg42urq | null | 1493978272 | 36 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | > If they get convinced that a decision will save money over that short period, they'll do it.
To the point: they could save money by switching from an IBM mainframe to GnuCOBOL on Linux. More simply, years Amdahl offered plug-compatible mainframes faster and cheaper than IBM but they still only captured a small pa... | null | 0 | 1491919358 | False | 0 | dg4af1p | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg49jb4 | null | 1493978287 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | GoTheFuckToBed | null | I wonder how much hacky it gets when you want to include a watchos app and transfer data between. | null | 0 | 1491919372 | False | 0 | dg4affl | t3_64pm1h | null | null | t3_64pm1h | null | 1493978293 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ThisIs_MyName | null | Well said. | null | 0 | 1491919401 | False | 0 | dg4ag8a | t3_64k23v | null | null | t1_dg3dk1d | null | 1493978303 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | z3t0 | null | If there is I wanna know | null | 0 | 1491919403 | False | 0 | dg4aga8 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg483lo | null | 1493978304 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Quteness | null | You're not going to get that much unless you are a consultant and answering the bids yourself. 100k is about right for a mainframe developer in Philadelphia | null | 0 | 1491919445 | False | 0 | dg4ahfc | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg49b7t | null | 1493978318 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ahappyhuman | null | * Kodi | null | 0 | 1491919459 | False | 0 | dg4aht0 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3znlf | null | 1493978324 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | z3t0 | null | What about laptops where ram is soldered. | null | 1 | 1491919463 | False | 0 | dg4ahx0 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg48d1k | null | 1493978326 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | GoTheFuckToBed | null | the tools that were made to support 20 years of legacy | null | 0 | 1491919526 | False | 0 | dg4ajn6 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg40t8n | null | 1493978349 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | coderstephen | null | Servo is slowly getting there: https://servo.org/
I've long thought about using Servo to create a GUI toolkit, but not using JS. The rendering part of web browsers is actually pretty darn fast and advanced, its everything else that makes slow resource hogs. In theory you could use a web renderer while writing everythi... | null | 0 | 1491919544 | False | 0 | dg4ak5b | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg42rj6 | null | 1493978356 | 35 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Gawwad | null | Well, [IntelliJ](https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/) uses Swing. I find it impressive they managed to make it look as good as it does. | null | 0 | 1491919576 | False | 0 | dg4al0e | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3znlf | null | 1493978367 | 135 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | The point is that either the arbitrarily changed filesystem names are localized to several languages in GoboLinux like they are in Windows and macOS, causing a pile of complexity and problems, or they're always in English and are even more arbitrary then /etc and /lib to people who don't speak English, yet also totally... | null | 0 | 1491919596 | False | 0 | dg4alkg | t3_64k23v | null | null | t1_dg4a7eu | null | 1493978374 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | coderstephen | null | Agreed, but not because of the syntax. I think using some sort of XML schema to define a UI is actually a boost to productivity. Its just the controls and the layout algorithm needs to be designed for a GUI from the get-go, unlike HTML. | null | 0 | 1491919684 | False | 0 | dg4ao24 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43wa9 | null | 1493978407 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | benhoyt | null | This is very helpful criticism -- thank you! No, I don't really know what I'm doing, but figured shipping imperfectly was better than never shipping! :-) I thought about getting a lawyer to do it, but it would probably cost hundreds or thousands, so wanted to try it myself first (this is a tiny side project). For the c... | null | 0 | 1491919718 | False | 0 | dg4aozn | t3_64qgg3 | null | null | t1_dg49y1r | null | 1493978421 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | orbital1337 | null | > I find VSCode to be orders of magnitude faster than Visual Studio "Proper"
Wow, a text editor is faster than a ginormous IDE that's like 20GB in install size? No way!
VSCode is better than Atom (which doesn't say much) but its still much less responsive than most native editors (at least the ones that I've used ... | null | 0 | 1491919718 | False | 0 | dg4ap06 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43b7j | null | 1493978422 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Gawwad | null | If you live in a world where developer time is cheap. If you need a different application for Windows, Mac OS and Linux you either need to have a very large user base or something is going to get cut. | null | 0 | 1491919718 | False | 0 | dg4ap08 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg42j1s | null | 1493978422 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | da_governator | null | Which is why I wrote that I was now working in the banking industry. | null | 0 | 1491919729 | False | 0 | dg4apb8 | t3_64jd9r | null | null | t1_dg3yjt5 | null | 1493978426 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mfukar | null | Yeah, but see where reasonable design principles and thorough design processes took them?
OS and frameworks like Symbian have to out-live the shitty alternatives, but during the time of crazy growth and adoption they end up losing money (and sometimes credibility) like nobody's business. | null | 0 | 1491919751 | False | 0 | dg4apwq | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47qqj | null | 1493978433 | 88 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | 9736d276a51f7609b521 | null | Because I do exec stuff with find all day and forget that --delete exists. Also I don't remember if it's verbose. | null | 0 | 1491919781 | False | 0 | dg4aqp5 | t3_64idzl | null | null | t1_dg3srkk | null | 1493978445 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | 3urny | null | Ah, now it makes sense! Because 160 megs are about one second of uncompressed HD footage.
> 160 mb * 1024 * 1024 / (1920*1080 px * 3 byte/px * 30 fps) = 0.9 s
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null | heisgone | null | I had a Psion Revo and the thing was pretty impressive for its time. The OS was snappy, allowed editing well-formatted Word and Excel documents, never crashed once. It wasn't called Symbian OS at the time but EPOC32. Your point still stand though. The OS didn't age well and was overly complicated to program and Nokia s... | null | 0 | 1491919844 | False | 0 | dg4ashk | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg49ntb | null | 1493978468 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | recycled_ideas | null | People don't install many apps because there's no compelling reason to. | null | 0 | 1491919896 | False | 0 | dg4atzc | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43wzy | null | 1493978488 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jpfed | null | I don't expect OSes to change their behavior here. But browsers themselves absolutely should. If they're going to be running code in Turing-complete languages supplied by untrusted servers this is a basic responsibility. A per-url basis is a good start. | null | 0 | 1491919916 | False | 0 | dg4auk7 | t3_64pocv | null | null | t1_dg4a9t0 | null | 1493978496 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | iwantashinyunicorn | null | Because the web is built upon a "let's add features without thinking them through, and then add hacks to work around the breakage when people complain enough" model. | null | 0 | 1491919933 | False | 0 | dg4av3w | t3_64pocv | null | null | t1_dg45v3f | null | 1493978503 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pzl | null | Sublime text as well | null | 0 | 1491919959 | False | 0 | dg4avsy | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg48lji | null | 1493978512 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Vhin | null | It's not dead. There's still regular activity on the repo, it's just that there's not been an official release. From what I understand, it's already usable. | null | 0 | 1491919967 | 1491921022 | 0 | dg4aw1q | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg46lp2 | null | 1493978515 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | otw | null | Meh I strongly disagree with the conclusion. The ability to cross platform web apps is worth absolutely worth the potential overhead. If your app is basically just a web site then it does not make any sense to have anything complicated to roll out native solutions. Just wrap it in a browser.
The laser focused develope... | null | 0 | 1491920020 | False | 0 | dg4axhp | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493978535 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | behrangsa | null | Quick. Someone be quadruply pedantic. Quick!!! | null | 0 | 1491920051 | False | 0 | dg4ayea | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3xiyy | null | 1493978546 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kybernetikos | null | Wirth's Law: software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law | null | 0 | 1491920063 | False | 0 | dg4ayqt | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg40pwj | null | 1493978551 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | penguinade | null | Just develop your app on a VM with limited resources. Don't need to buy anything. | null | 0 | 1491920070 | False | 0 | dg4ayz1 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3zu6d | null | 1493978555 | 40 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bschwind | null | > make less mistakes
Funny joke.
Spotify uses CEF and [they can't even manage to stop their app from taking 100% CPU for over a year](https://community.spotify.com/t5/forums/v3_1/forumtopicpage/board-id/windowsdesktop/page/1/thread-id/7226)
The two choices are not only CEF or assembler. If you're a company on the... | null | 0 | 1491920088 | False | 0 | dg4azg7 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg410oc | null | 1493978561 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Artificial_Ninja | null | Yeah I imagine they weren't, and it probably took many years for the newer versions to proliferate. The newer iterations of Cobol are definitely more thought out, but it seemingly took a while to get there, and a lot of the old syntax had to be maintained for legacy purposes. Far from the best language, but as far as ... | null | 0 | 1491920132 | False | 0 | dg4b0rd | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg4adtz | null | 1493978578 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LtAramaki | null | > Because the western world is built on dictatorships and the dictatorships around the world are the smoothest running machines?
That's a straw-man, because I never rejected the purpose of a democracy, on the contrary: I explained why it exists. To reduce the risk of a devastating dictatorship. But to claim it work... | null | 0 | 1491920134 | 1491920471 | 0 | dg4b0t0 | t3_64n5ym | null | null | t1_dg49kqe | null | 1493978579 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | RuthBaderBelieveIt | null | > Interesting. I wonder if there's a better way to organize data for humans?
Make them do something non trivial before executing a scary command. Github makes you type out the name of the repository you're deleting for example. | null | 0 | 1491920272 | False | 0 | dg4b4ta | t3_64idzl | null | null | t1_dg2qek4 | null | 1493978632 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | max630 | null | Even if programmers understand the need for the actions necessary for security they should get management approval to spend time on them. | null | 0 | 1491920302 | False | 0 | dg4b5p9 | t3_64pa1v | null | null | t1_dg43zgo | null | 1493978644 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | Dentosal | null | I have worked with -0.5x programmers: others used time to fix their mistakes or help them with trivial problems more than they did anything productive. | null | 0 | 1491920375 | False | 0 | dg4b7rx | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0s5rj | null | 1493978672 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vetinari | null | That was exactly the point.
Qt works, but looks ugly on most of these 10%. Electron apps look much better. | null | 0 | 1491920380 | False | 0 | dg4b7x3 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4a2vw | null | 1493978674 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | peterwilli | null | This is my experience as well. I feel like that making optimized web apps takes way more time as making optimized native apps.
I think the future lies in stuff like Electron, but we're not there yet. | null | 0 | 1491920380 | False | 0 | dg4b7xj | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg40t8n | null | 1493978674 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | paffle | null | It's certainly worth testing things using an older computer. Many of us will have one lying around, and they're cheap to buy.
That said, you'd have to buy one that's at least 6 or 7 years old to see a significant difference in power. Processing power hasn't changed much in the last few years. It has been more about po... | null | 0 | 1491920414 | False | 0 | dg4b8yu | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3zu6d | null | 1493978688 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TheHillwoodMonkey | null | In practice there is no simple solution to this. Core hours always end up centred around midday, but a huge number of people get most of their work done between 4pm and midnight. | null | 0 | 1491920434 | False | 0 | dg4b9jm | t3_64jd9r | null | null | t1_dg39z3s | null | 1493978696 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | txdv | null | Well, they recently changed it, but it always required flash before that ... | null | 0 | 1491920476 | False | 0 | dg4bar7 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3yk99 | null | 1493978711 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vetinari | null | That's good to hear.
Years ago, I was on a team that shipped an wxPython app. I quite liked developing with it. | null | 0 | 1491920490 | False | 0 | dg4bb6c | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4aw1q | null | 1493978717 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hyperforce | null | I find that a lot of articles are written this way. I hate it. | null | 0 | 1491920493 | False | 0 | dg4bba8 | t3_64lyd7 | null | null | t1_dg37990 | null | 1493978718 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | xymor | null | Vim uses ELinks after they migrated away from lynx embed following the market-wide convergence to javascript. | null | 0 | 1491920507 | False | 0 | dg4bbod | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4a48a | null | 1493978723 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | recycled_ideas | null | There were a lot of things Nokia shouldn't have done.
The fundamental issue is that no one can afford to be single platform or take two years to release anything anymore. It sucks sometimes working with all these frameworks, and despite all the evangelism JS is still painful to code, but you can't take the time anymor... | null | 0 | 1491920510 | False | 0 | dg4bbrh | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4ashk | null | 1493978725 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | albinofrenchy | null | I know the web stack and c++/QT reasonably well. The web is much, much faster for UI development. Even with qml and the UI designer -- which is great -- web stuff was essentially built for UIs, c++ decidedly was not. | null | 0 | 1491920538 | False | 0 | dg4bckc | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg46ifm | null | 1493978736 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Schmittfried | null | Maybe I'll give it a try some day. Just recently I began using Python for some minor projects like a Discord bot and a website.
[xkcd checks out](https://xkcd.com/353/) | null | 0 | 1491920564 | False | 0 | dg4bdc4 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43x1c | null | 1493978746 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | peterwilli | null | This is a bit the opposite on mobile. Many of the 'web based apps' actually use the OS-webview so the entire app often goes down to 1-2MB. There are other apps that want to support older Android versions or have to use Chromium-based features like WebRTC who embed Chromium into their apps. Those are often much larger. | null | 0 | 1491920632 | False | 0 | dg4bfdx | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43wzy | null | 1493978774 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Shamanmuni | null | The design part is not really a problem unless you're trying to make a very distinct GUI. You can always use Qt Quick Controls which are visual components ready to use for your application. All the usual stuff that you'd need for an app is there: button, menus, toolbars, forms, views, etc. They have their own very simp... | null | 0 | 1491920651 | 1491920946 | 0 | dg4bfxq | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg48a6z | null | 1493978781 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | qudat | null | Telegram is pretty nice | null | 0 | 1491920654 | False | 0 | dg4bg23 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3znlf | null | 1493978782 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MercurysMessage | null | Is your point that these chrome apps always look better? | null | 0 | 1491920664 | False | 0 | dg4bgcg | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3znlf | null | 1493978786 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | skulgnome | null | Absolutely not. Too many still see security as either a complete non-issue (i.e. the foolhardy), or an overriding concern over anything and everything else (i.e. the fearful). Both suggest an emotionally-motivated knee-jerk response born of ignorance. | null | 0 | 1491920733 | False | 0 | dg4bif2 | t3_64pa1v | null | null | t3_64pa1v | null | 1493978814 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Vhin | 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.
Two things.
One, are you honestly trying to say that the develope... | null | 0 | 1491920769 | False | 0 | dg4bjh1 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3zoak | null | 1493978828 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | seventeenninetytwo | null | Well I laughed about it. Don't know what that dude's problem is. | null | 0 | 1491920771 | False | 0 | dg4bjiy | t3_64jd9r | null | null | t1_dg487e8 | null | 1493978828 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | paffle | null | Yes. My partner bought a Dell Inspiron 5559 to "upgrade" from a nearly 10 year old HP laptop. Dual-core i5, 8GB RAM, 5400RPM HDD, Windows 10. Turns out it feels slower than the old HP. In fact it's slower than any laptop I have seen since about 15 years ago. Booting it is like time travelling back to 1998. Some apps ta... | null | 0 | 1491920779 | 1492009607 | 0 | dg4bjs4 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg423gi | null | 1493978833 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | thrawninioub | null | In France we have more and more middle-to high managers working part-time. What we call "three fith(no idea how to spell that)" who just go to the office three days a week, and taking the pay cut going with it.
I'v seen in in London a few times too.
Nice salaries, going to 40 y/o after their first or second burn out,... | null | 0 | 1491920786 | False | 0 | dg4bjzi | t3_64jd9r | null | null | t1_dg36dsd | null | 1493978835 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Gbyrd99 | null | It's also why it gets extremely bogged down and laggy | null | 0 | 1491920804 | False | 0 | dg4bkiq | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47fhl | null | 1493978842 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vetinari | null | It does not matter, what your (mine, entire Reddit or entire HN) opinion of Wayland or HiDPI is.
What matters, what the customers want. The paying one for commercial software, the community for Free software. I don't see it rational to paint yourself into a corner by choosing a library, that is a dead end already. | null | 0 | 1491920829 | False | 0 | dg4bl8t | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4abbk | null | 1493978853 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ekrubnivek | null | One of the language's organizing principles is fast compile times, so this experience is a little disturbing.
Generally running `go install ./...` will cache the compiled libraries your service depends upon so your code is the only thing getting recompiled as you change it; that's not obvious and usually helps with co... | null | 0 | 1491920843 | False | 0 | dg4blof | t3_64ktrg | null | null | t1_dg47osf | null | 1493978859 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MasterScrat | null | I fully agree.
At some point I considered making a system where you could point out errors in people's text (not only Reddit comments, but also blog posts, full-featured websites etc) and then these corrections would be aggregated on a page dedicated for you.
So you would go to eg grammarbot.com/Zeludon and would hav... | null | 0 | 1491920876 | False | 0 | dg4bmp7 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg492zf | null | 1493978872 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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