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null | whisky_pete | null | I don't get the rabid hate for electron apps in all cases, but apps shouldn't be written 100% about looks to the detriment of all else either. There's a reason to use native multiplatform and electron, too.
Sure Qt doesn't use the native widgets on each system, but that doesn't mean every app is ugly or has to be. Fra... | null | 0 | 1491920882 | False | 0 | dg4bmv9 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4b7x3 | null | 1493978875 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | rijoja | null | Well compared to make + gcc it's way behind. Make also caches object files so this is not a very cool selling point. And in case of PHP we have no compile time at all. | null | 0 | 1491920970 | False | 0 | dg4bpia | t3_64ktrg | null | null | t1_dg4blof | null | 1493978911 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MercurysMessage | null | Or you know, take more time and do a better job, building a better product. Nothing is instantaneous. | null | 0 | 1491920972 | False | 0 | dg4bpkk | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg46ki0 | null | 1493978912 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | darkpaladin | null | As a developer on a smallish team, one thing to support that's not great is far superior to having two things to support that are slightly better. | null | 0 | 1491921001 | False | 0 | dg4bqex | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47m9a | null | 1493978923 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mlewand | null | I think Blizzard has implemented their Battle.net client with Qt. It looks really nice, works smooth and has some decent accessibility: https://i.imgur.com/VCNEhgm.jpg
What you see above is eating up 124megs.
However there was only one major issue: it was lacking hidpi support on Windows for a long time.
But for me ... | null | 0 | 1491921040 | False | 0 | dg4brhx | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3znlf | null | 1493978938 | 37 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | fjonk | null | > No because developers haven't literally consumed all the increase in resources
I'm not much for buying new hardware but when I do it's the developers that forces me to. The improvements in applications are marginal(if even existing) compared to the extra power I need.
As an example my iphone 5s takes around ~2 s... | null | 0 | 1491921077 | False | 0 | dg4bskj | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg46092 | null | 1493978951 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MarshallOfSound | null | When I was comparing platforms I deducted "points" from Qt for not fulfilling the first 3 things on my list, speed of development, ease of development and learning curve.
Using Qt isn't like anything else, if you're new to it you have to learn the entire framework, syntax, structure and API's from scratch. Beauty of ... | null | 0 | 1491921102 | False | 0 | dg4btaz | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg475zv | null | 1493978962 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hockeyketo | null | Webstorm is $5/month last I checked and is updated frequently. It's not perfect, but I switched from ST to Webstorm and have looked back. | null | 0 | 1491921142 | False | 0 | dg4buid | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg41drx | null | 1493978978 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Shadilay_Were_Off | null | Quality > quantity. I'd gladly do without a few apps to have the few left be of higher quality because they treat computer resources as something to be used wisely, rather than abused willy nilly. | null | 0 | 1491921170 | False | 0 | dg4bvbj | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg410oc | null | 1493978989 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MercurysMessage | null | You are clearly not thinking about development paradigms and productivity tools. | null | 0 | 1491921184 | False | 0 | dg4bvqq | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4adwx | null | 1493978995 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | doublehyphen | null | In my experience there is no build system popular enough to be the de facto standard. | null | 0 | 1491921252 | False | 0 | dg4bxqw | t3_64k23v | null | null | t1_dg3od2r | null | 1493979022 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | forsubbingonly | null | I'm going to second the opinion that we don't install apps because most apps are garbage that we don't need. Music, texting, a banking app, and maybe one or two apps based on your hobby. What else are you even going to install? Six hundred different productivity apps? Seventy shitty clones of the same game? Phone apps ... | null | 0 | 1491921274 | False | 0 | dg4bye6 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43wzy | null | 1493979030 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | redditMacha | null | Not enough meat in this article to get started. | null | 0 | 1491921278 | False | 0 | dg4byj8 | t3_64q91g | null | null | t3_64q91g | null | 1493979032 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | somersettler | null | I think your theory is pretty true but your examples are wonky. A bloated IDE won't affect the performance of the end product on the user machine, and a chain of toy language transpilation probably wont either if it ends up as C. But i totally know what you mean :) | null | 0 | 1491921289 | False | 0 | dg4byvp | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg40pwj | null | 1493979036 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | doublehyphen | null | Oh, I hate writing autotools scripts, but when they are correctly implemented the experience for the end user is pretty smooth. | null | 0 | 1491921310 | False | 0 | dg4bzi8 | t3_64k23v | null | null | t1_dg3xf73 | null | 1493979045 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | steamruler | null | > For the commercial licenses I used a Binpress generated license with a few modifications.
Heh, figured. Saw that site a bunch when googling some queries.
>Not quite -- cdnupload uploads new or modified files (or deletes old ones) and generates the JSON mapping.
Oh, yeah, mentally skipped that when writing be... | null | 0 | 1491921358 | False | 0 | dg4c10f | t3_64qgg3 | null | null | t1_dg4aozn | null | 1493979066 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | utnapistim | null | > > Accountability for code quality (and in general) doesn't rest on one person, but the entire team.
>
> That sounds very warm and fuzzy, but the reality of any team is that some people are more experienced, and some less so.
That's a red herring: yes, some people are more experienced, and still, the... | null | 0 | 1491921428 | False | 0 | dg4c359 | t3_64n5ym | null | null | t1_dg3hopq | null | 1493979093 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bobobo1618 | null | > But on the other hand none of the existing GUI toolkits offer the same level of getting-it-done-ness.
To be fair to the other toolkits, my guess is you haven't spent nearly as much time trying to learn them as you have HTML. If you invest as much time in say Qt, I think you can get pretty productive in it.
> ... | null | 0 | 1491921456 | False | 0 | dg4c40x | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg402le | null | 1493979106 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | WelshBluebird1 | null | On my Windows 10 dev machine slack is idling at 0% CPU usage and using around 250 - 300 meg roughly of RAM. Wonder if the stats on my Macbook at home will be much worse. | null | 0 | 1491921497 | False | 0 | dg4c5a6 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493979123 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Vhin | null | It's not that they use "a bit" more RAM. Some Electron apps have a memory footprint an order of magnitude (or more) greater than an equivalent native app with the exact same feature set would have. If it was a matter of using 2x or 3x more RAM, I could understand. RAM is cheap and plentiful, but it's not infinite, and ... | null | 0 | 1491921516 | 1491922254 | 0 | dg4c5w2 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg45jip | null | 1493979132 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | PenMount | null | Why did you choose to use GO over a .NET languages or powershell/cmd? | null | 0 | 1491921525 | False | 0 | dg4c66d | t3_64qjk9 | null | null | t1_dg49pv6 | null | 1493979136 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bloody-albatross | null | VLC uses Qt, but it only looks good on macOS, where it doesn't use Qt.
Then there is [Krita](https://krita.org/), a GIMP/Photoshop alternative. [Screenshot](https://docs.krita.org/images/1/1b/Krita_multiple_views.png) | null | 0 | 1491921540 | False | 0 | dg4c6my | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3znlf | null | 1493979142 | 39 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Isvara | null | If you're not thinking about security until testing and review time, you've already failed. | null | 0 | 1491921576 | False | 0 | dg4c7ru | t3_64pa1v | null | null | t1_dg443zy | null | 1493979156 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lordkoba | null | You can do the initial configuration on a new server with a cloud-init user-data script. This is supported by all known cloud providers as well as local network provisioning systems.
Configuration systems (puppet, chef, salt). Install, configure and update software automatically. These recipes are testable and version... | null | 0 | 1491921636 | False | 0 | dg4c9m6 | t3_64idzl | null | null | t1_dg3z7qg | null | 1493979181 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | weberc2 | null | > The actual common definition is, or at least is very close to, the CIA triad in which these controls help ensure Integrity but also Availability to a degree.
Feel free to support your argument. [Wikipedia disagrees with you.][0]
> Administrating massive RDBMS systems is not the same as just using an RDBMS in ... | null | 0 | 1491921649 | False | 0 | dg4ca0w | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dg3v7sk | null | 1493979187 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Shautieh | null | Same problem with VS code, but not often at least. It's worse when it takes up all the memory, several GB. | null | 0 | 1491921650 | False | 0 | dg4ca1d | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43608 | null | 1493979187 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Isvara | null | Managers should be pushing to make sure that programmers are sufficiently educated in security. The ones they hire probably won't be, so those managers should be instigating that education. | null | 0 | 1491921651 | False | 0 | dg4ca2r | t3_64pa1v | null | null | t1_dg42cjg | null | 1493979187 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | steamruler | null | >It's possible to create a good ~~Java~~ Docker image, but it's not a trivial task. There are a lot of things you need to consider.
FTFY. Pretty often I find unnecessary services running. Sometimes ones that even cause confusion as for why. | null | 0 | 1491921680 | False | 0 | dg4caxd | t3_64qj1m | null | null | t3_64qj1m | null | 1493979198 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bloody-albatross | null | /u/PitaJ said good-looking. :P
Yeah, those are totally fine for IDEs. Who really needs "good-looking" for those anyway. They have to be functional. Well behaved is much more important for an IDE. | null | 0 | 1491921695 | False | 0 | dg4cbeq | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg48lji | null | 1493979205 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Condex | null | There's at least two problems here I think:
1) Education isn't enough. Sure you can tell people to use auto escaping SQL functions and to hash user passwords and this will make the situation better. But eventually the default hash function is compromised or a legacy data format with non-obvious escaping rules has to... | null | 0 | 1491921705 | False | 0 | dg4cbqf | t3_64pa1v | null | null | t3_64pa1v | null | 1493979209 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Isvara | null | Then stop chasing every shiny new framework and spend that time learning something as important and fundamental as security. It'll make you a better programmer anyway. | null | 0 | 1491921738 | False | 0 | dg4ccqn | t3_64pa1v | null | null | t1_dg43o8d | null | 1493979223 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Brjl | null | Most "full stack" developers need something like bootstrap. Very few rely on their own technical prowess.
If SO was to mysteriously disappear, and things like bootstrap stopped existing, I'd wager 80% of your average full stack developer would be dead in the water, having absolutely no idea where to even look to keep ... | null | 0 | 1491921769 | 1491922137 | 0 | dg4cdoz | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg46ifm | null | 1493979235 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | grizwako | null | First time seeing it.. Would have saved me quite some time going trough all options for learning various subjects if I knew about it earlier.
This is quite well compiled, went trough a lot of those resources and almost all are superb. The list is really very close to what I would have made.
Personal favorites are ... | null | 0 | 1491921777 | False | 0 | dg4cdzb | t3_64qezf | null | null | t3_64qezf | null | 1493979239 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LtAramaki | null | > That's a red herring: yes, some people are more experienced, and still, the responsibility to keep the code quality high, rests with the entire team regardless of experience levels.
We're talking about who does code reviews. I didn't say one person *writes code* in the team, obviously... so everyone who writes co... | null | 0 | 1491921787 | False | 0 | dg4ce9t | t3_64n5ym | null | null | t1_dg4c359 | null | 1493979243 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | zyzzogeton | null | The author suggests using React Native instead... but doesn't that need Node Webkit to work as a desktop app? | null | 0 | 1491921790 | False | 0 | dg4cee0 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493979245 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | doublehyphen | null | Nginx:
- Event based where each worker can handle many connections
- Built with a focus on being a reverse proxy (i.e. being a proxy in front of an application server)
- Built with a focus on handling many concurrent connections
- Implements new technologies quicker
- Good support for streaming
- Can run code in the w... | null | 0 | 1491921805 | 1491922339 | 0 | dg4ceti | t3_64k23v | null | null | t1_dg3l1nb | null | 1493979251 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dccorona | null | Doesn't VS Code have a better UX and feature set for the type of development it's targeted at than Sublime? I suspect that's got a lot to do with it. | null | 0 | 1491921806 | False | 0 | dg4cev8 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg421ub | null | 1493979251 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Shautieh | null | Exactly. I only use SSD now but applications should be tested in an environment reminiscent of what the users have. Developers should have to use their apps with crappy laptops in order to feel the pain and remind them every one do not have SSDs, fast multicore procs and optic fiber internet. | null | 0 | 1491921819 | False | 0 | dg4cf8b | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43ydx | null | 1493979256 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bobobo1618 | null | That's a valid point but on the other hand, think of just *how many* users are using these applications. In the case of Slack it's 5 million. Every second of extra CPU time on Slack is 5 million seconds of extra CPU time on client devices. Every 10s OS hang when the device gets low on RAM is 50 million seconds of lost ... | null | 0 | 1491921827 | False | 0 | dg4cfgu | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg410oc | null | 1493979259 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | steamruler | null | To be fair, it would be refreshing to see something new developed in something "not current". | null | 0 | 1491921856 | False | 0 | dg4cgd6 | t3_64os39 | null | null | t1_dg44va3 | null | 1493979271 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MercurysMessage | null | To be fair, Win10 is more efficient than Win7 was, and Apple does telemetry as well. The only one where you might not get it is Linux. | null | 0 | 1491921860 | False | 0 | dg4cgh8 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg48ehw | null | 1493979272 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sushigun | null | Sometimes I think about how much electric power is wasted all over the world everyday by all the inefficient software that is based on bloatware like Electron, Hibernate, etc. | null | 0 | 1491921915 | False | 0 | dg4ci5x | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg40pwj | null | 1493979295 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Isvara | null | Almost nothing is done to educate programmers about security, so no, not enough is being done.
I wrote [a Stack Overflow answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/818506/56050) about my experience on the security team at Citrix R&D a few years ago. | null | 0 | 1491921933 | False | 0 | dg4ciq2 | t3_64pa1v | null | null | t3_64pa1v | null | 1493979302 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CheshireSwift | null | The moment I'm looking at `setBounds(a,b,c,d)` I dislike a GUI framework. The problem to me is that HTML isn't ideal for UI, but it's the only widely used high level declarative format for describing design. JUCE's FlexBox is a start, but it's still got a long way to go.
In general, a DOM is a really nice UI abstract... | null | 0 | 1491921959 | False | 0 | dg4cjhq | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43wa9 | null | 1493979313 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | turbov21 | null | I use the slack app because we use 3 chat systems where I work at it's easier to command+tab through them than command+tab two and juggle browsers. | null | 0 | 1491921963 | False | 0 | dg4cjmi | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47nnw | null | 1493979315 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | thrilldigger | null | How is that name-dropping? I doubt he expects anyone to be impressed that he wrote X360 controller drivers into Chrome.
He's using that as a good example of bloat (OS behavior: drivers) in what should ostensibly be a fairly thin application (a web browser) - and going on to point out how crazy it is for a simple ap... | null | 0 | 1491922007 | False | 0 | dg4ckz5 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg477q0 | null | 1493979333 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Atsch | null | libreoffice, blender, unity, unreal engine, Telegram desktop, freecad, krita, kicad, maya, luxrender, meshlab, audacious, musescore, picard, EAGLE, openSCAD, QBittorrent, transmission, callibre, cmake, doxygen, GNU octave, KeePass, Malwarebytes, VLC
I keep thinking of more. | null | 0 | 1491922010 | False | 0 | dg4cl3m | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3znlf | null | 1493979334 | 29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | PaulBGD | null | It uses Qt internally, in theory react-native-ubuntu could run on anything. | null | 0 | 1491922019 | False | 0 | dg4cldd | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3zs3y | null | 1493979338 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | badsectoracula | null | Well, i didn't recommend such a library in the first place. My original response to the top comment was about an alternative to Qt and i already mentioned that i do not recommend GTK+ anymore.
But yes, what your target requirements are what matters. If you want to target HiDPI and Wayland you need some library that su... | null | 0 | 1491922033 | False | 0 | dg4clsl | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4bl8t | null | 1493979345 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | steamruler | null | Yup. All pricing is split in two, cost to develop/produce/maintain and price that people are willing to pay.
You never see projects where the first is larger than the latter, and you very rarely see the numbers for the first unless you're involved with the project. | null | 0 | 1491922074 | False | 0 | dg4cn3d | t3_64qch2 | null | null | t1_dg47yd7 | null | 1493979364 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | benhoyt | null | Thanks again.
If it had B2 support, would you consider it for a business use or a personal project? | null | 0 | 1491922091 | False | 0 | dg4cnn8 | t3_64qgg3 | null | null | t1_dg4c10f | null | 1493979371 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | turbov21 | null | I read that as, "if you're hot shit," which I guess is the same thing in this context. | null | 0 | 1491922096 | False | 0 | dg4cnsg | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4abof | null | 1493979373 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mech_eng_lewis | null | So many posters forget about the energy usage associated with electron apps. I have not done an experiment, but I literally cannot use Atom/VSCode as my day-to-day editor because it drains my MBP's battery so fast. | null | 0 | 1491922108 | False | 0 | dg4co63 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493979378 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Atsch | null | you don't need to use chromium, you can just use webkit itself. | null | 0 | 1491922123 | False | 0 | dg4cone | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg42rj6 | null | 1493979384 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | damnNamesAreTaken | null | I honestly have no idea why everyone seems so concerned about using a few hundred megabytes of ram. Yes, is nicer when applications use less but with sixteen gigs I'm never even anywhere close to my limit. I've had discord, slack, Spotify, atom, and chrome (with many tabs) all open at the same time and still had enough... | null | 0 | 1491922127 | False | 0 | dg4cosd | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493979386 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | eric-douglas | null | Many thanks for your feedback :) | null | 0 | 1491922149 | False | 0 | dg4cpgq | t3_64qezf | null | null | t1_dg4cdzb | null | 1493979396 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | gschizas | null | 1. This is not the way things work in Windows. The only official "package manager" is the App Store. (homebrew isn't official, either)
2. Chocolatey works by repacking installers, mostly. It doesn't do the build part or the install part.
3. Chocolatey obviously [doesn't have weechat](https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=w... | null | 0 | 1491922153 | False | 0 | dg4cplv | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4cdu5 | null | 1493979398 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | elmstfreddie | null | Eclipse's interface is garbage. | null | 0 | 1491922174 | False | 0 | dg4cqa5 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg48lji | null | 1493979406 | 49 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | steamruler | null | > in particular if you use a GoboLinux layout
*screams in terror* | null | 0 | 1491922239 | False | 0 | dg4csc8 | t3_64k23v | null | null | t1_dg2tvw4 | null | 1493979434 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | heap42 | null | Meh... I love theoretical Computer Science and i think the theory behind cryptography is very interesting, that does not make me a security expert... and a course that taught me how to properly use BCrypt[insert security library] would have bored me and frankly I would probably not know much more on how to write a secu... | null | 0 | 1491922313 | False | 0 | dg4cun2 | t3_64pa1v | null | null | t1_dg4ccqn | null | 1493979465 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | s0r00t | null | Or, you know, you can just type "sublime text 3 license" on Google and catch a working one... | null | 0 | 1491922320 | False | 0 | dg4cuur | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg41drx | null | 1493979468 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | heisgone | null | If at least they could share the codebase (chrome) and save some disk space. What happened with Google Apps which were supposed to be like desktop apps, by the way?
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null | Isvara | null | You seem to heavily equate security to cryptography. It's much, much broader than that, which is why it has to be weaved all through your development lifecycle. You should be considering the security implications of pretty much every line of code your write. "How could this be subverted?" should be a mantra. Handily, i... | null | 0 | 1491922485 | False | 0 | dg4d036 | t3_64pa1v | null | null | t1_dg4cun2 | null | 1493979537 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nosmokingbandit | null | This is how I feel as well. Html/css/js were designed specifically to create interfaces. I've used a handful of widget kits and whatnot and nothing has the flexibility of a web stack. I feel like a lot of it is holdovers from 20 years ago when a gui didn't need to be near as complicated as today. | null | 1 | 1491922493 | False | 0 | dg4d0bw | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4bckc | null | 1493979542 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | probablyunsound | null | Off we go to North Carolina I guess... | null | 0 | 1491922504 | False | 0 | dg4d0p6 | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg38et9 | null | 1493979546 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | vetinari | null | This is QGIS, a Qt4 app running under OSX: http://imgur.com/a/EyROJ
Note the main window: it is nothing like OSX app. It looks like Windows app warped into OSX widgets. I don't think I've seen such ugly toolbars / gradients on any other OSX app. Or such amount of toolbars, for that matter.
Note the dialog: it contain... | null | 0 | 1491922566 | False | 0 | dg4d2q1 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4bmv9 | null | 1493979573 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | badsectoracula | null | The ideas are nice but on the other hand Symbian OS with its "Symbian C++" (ie a badly mutilated C++ "subset" where you had to use macros to do the compiler's work) and the ridiculously complicated and overengineered API was an abomination that deserved every yoctosecond of death it experienced.
I vividly remember a S... | null | 0 | 1491922571 | False | 0 | dg4d2vy | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47qqj | null | 1493979575 | 50 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | thrilldigger | null | >The integrity and security of user data is paramount
Yes.
>User time must not be wasted
When reasonable, but if you're making development a pain in the ass just so users don't have to wait for fractions of second, you're shooting yourself in the foot.
>All resources are scarce
As with user time, "when re... | null | 0 | 1491922631 | False | 0 | dg4d4uq | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg47qqj | null | 1493979601 | 50 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mirhagk | null | Not to mention the audio. And there's like 12 hours and 6 minutes in the extended versions.
BTW it doesn't affect the calculation much but LOTR would have been shot at 24FPS. | null | 0 | 1491922745 | False | 0 | dg4d8i9 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4asgq | null | 1493979651 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AbominableShellfish | null | I'm a huge fan of "roll your own" solutions. I hate the trend that you should just use bloated prefab libraries, just so you don't have to learn the right way to solve problems.
Thaaaaaat said, IDEs were sluggish on your old computer too. Rose colored glasses. Other than some regression problems (Visual Studio 2012... | null | 0 | 1491922747 | False | 0 | dg4d8jw | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4344r | null | 1493979651 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | heap42 | null | I said i know how basic cryptography works, and that that does NOT mean i know anything about security.
Also another point: I am not really interested in Security. And I think pushing it down my throat would not help anyone. | null | 0 | 1491922794 | False | 0 | dg4da0v | t3_64pa1v | null | null | t1_dg4d036 | null | 1493979670 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dangoor | null | I could imagine an Electron-like framework that uses whatever web view is shipped with the OS on Windows/Mac/Linux (assuming there is one on common Linux distros?). Then the only thing you have to support is "modern browsers", which isn't so bad.
I do completely agree that Electron wins the simplicity battle! It's all... | null | 0 | 1491922836 | False | 0 | dg4dbeh | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4bqex | null | 1493979689 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | geodel | null | I like these numbers. This shows why Java on cloud is so awesome.
* 4.8MB Alpine Linux Layer
* 103MB OpenJDK JRE Layer
* 61.8MB Application WAR file
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
* sbdemo/run latest 6f432638aa60 7 minutes ago 143 MB
* sbdemo/tutorial 1 669333d13d71 12 minutes ago 1.28 GB
* sbdemo/tutorial ... | null | 0 | 1491922837 | False | 0 | dg4dbfb | t3_64qj1m | null | null | t3_64qj1m | null | 1493979689 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bubbleguuum | null | That trend is not going to stop, with more and more developers choosing JS/TS/HTML5 to make apps with a single codebase running on mobile, web, ... and desktop with Electron (or your cool embedded web browser of the moment). Ideally there should be a WebView API available at the desktop level, like already the case on ... | null | 0 | 1491922908 | False | 0 | dg4ddpi | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493979719 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | badsectoracula | null | That is sad, i remember implementing that functionality (in Seamonkey) years ago :-(. It was my one and only contribution to Firefox's codebase (it was shared with Seamonkey at the time) :-P. | null | 0 | 1491922909 | False | 0 | dg4ddqu | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg46brn | null | 1493979719 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kaymud | null | it doesn't look fancy, yeah. but how long are you really looking at it once you've joined a channel ^^ | null | 0 | 1491922920 | False | 0 | dg4de3a | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg49lul | null | 1493979725 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | 190n | null | Careful there, Spotify uses Chromium Embedded Framework. | null | 0 | 1491922924 | False | 0 | dg4de70 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3znlf | null | 1493979726 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lsumnler | null | I find all of the comments here rather humorous. I started out in 1970 as an IBM 360/370 assembler programmer and by 74 was coding in COBOL up until about 1985. I have since coded in several other so-called modern languages and would say of all I have enjoyed python the most. I didn't think COBOL (as a business lang... | null | 0 | 1491922937 | False | 0 | dg4delx | t3_64jymy | null | null | t3_64jymy | null | 1493979733 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jones1618 | null | Amen. And the way for the Electron team to do that is well established: Take the top five or 10 Electron apps and profile them while running them through exhaustive use cases. Step 1: Look at a histogram or heat map of all the code that isn't touched by those big apps. Based on that, create an Electron-lite that prunes... | null | 0 | 1491922977 | False | 0 | dg4dfug | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg41a4l | null | 1493979749 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | XeonProductions | null | I laughed out loud at that comment. | null | 0 | 1491923123 | False | 0 | dg4dk96 | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg2yhf8 | null | 1493979809 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jhasse | null | > I thought chrome used it's rendering engine for it's controls?
Yes, not from the beginning though. | null | 0 | 1491923131 | False | 0 | dg4dkij | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg48hds | null | 1493979812 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | whisky_pete | null | Thanks for taking the time to show me an example to illustrate your point. I guess I do agree with you here on the advantage. Electron apps have awesome flexibility and you can achieve basically any look and feel you desire. Actually, I commonly argue with my coworkers that html/css is typically the nicest UI system to... | null | 0 | 1491923170 | False | 0 | dg4dlpx | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4d2q1 | null | 1493979829 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | steamruler | null | The point of the FS structure in GoboLinux is to make the FS more user-friendly. Sure.
But, if you use another locale than English, how should you handle the paths? Translate them, causing the same issues as Windows has? Don't translate them, sacrificing user-friendlyness because the user can't understand what it says... | null | 0 | 1491923217 | False | 0 | dg4dn5l | t3_64k23v | null | null | t1_dg4a7eu | null | 1493979847 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | IamTheFreshmaker | null | Try Typescript- it has all the overhead and type safety you're 'missing'. | null | 0 | 1491923266 | False | 0 | dg4dopi | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg442c1 | null | 1493979869 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cbruegg | null | Very interesting. Some remarks:
* This assumes the attacker knows when the victim starts and stops entering the PIN.
* They've only tested it using a Nexus 5. Different motion sensors don't behave exactly the same, so this method may or may not work well when more devices come into play.
* They've collected data from ... | null | 0 | 1491923294 | False | 0 | dg4dpmc | t3_64pocv | null | null | t3_64pocv | null | 1493979880 | 63 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jhasse | null | > The Python bindings for wxWidgets, wxPython, appears to be dead. There was supposed to be a Grand Rewrite, which hasn't materialized yet.
The Grand Rewrite is named Phoenix and it's under active development: https://github.com/wxWidgets/Phoenix | null | 0 | 1491923370 | False | 0 | dg4ds12 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg46lp2 | null | 1493979913 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jhasse | null | Technically very hard for Qt because it's written in C++.
Gtk has pretty good bindings IMHO. | null | 0 | 1491923459 | False | 0 | dg4duqh | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3zfvf | null | 1493979949 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | oi-__-io | null | Windows 10 loves high powered PCs. Leaving the "telemetry" aside for a bit, it automates more and more of the "maintenance" tasks that had to be manually be performed before, Windows 8 and 8.1 also did this but not as much. Automatic disk defragmentation for example, was also present in Windows 8.1 but random backgroun... | null | 0 | 1491923460 | False | 0 | dg4dur7 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg48ehw | null | 1493979949 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | balefrost | null | > Html/css/js were designed specifically to create interfaces.
Really? I thought they were designed specifically to create documents, and that's why things like "vertical centering" were hard until very recently. | null | 0 | 1491923501 | False | 0 | dg4dw2m | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4d0bw | null | 1493979967 | 46 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Dirty_Rapscallion | null | There is [Nuklear](https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear) which I've used a couple times and it's an amazing desktop UI library. | null | 0 | 1491923522 | False | 0 | dg4dwpw | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3xuf4 | null | 1493979975 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lx45803 | null | That bugs like these crop up is rather the point though.
Edit: Okay, *part* of the point. I guess the article was more about bloat. | null | 0 | 1491923562 | 1491949261 | 0 | dg4dy0l | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg46rup | null | 1493979992 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TheAnimus | null | Different users and manufacturing variances might make this method a bit impractical. If you've enough control to put up a fake keypad and "calibrate" then you've probably got more than enough for a phishing anyway. | null | 0 | 1491923567 | False | 0 | dg4dy65 | t3_64pocv | null | null | t1_dg4dpmc | null | 1493979994 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | xiongchiamiov | null | To be fair, if very few people keep your app open for long periods of time, and it's easy to fix the performance issues as a user (restart the app), then tracking down memory leaks is probably not the best use of your time. | null | 0 | 1491923613 | False | 0 | dg4dzpg | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg49bnc | null | 1493980015 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | redwall_hp | null | I think someone did compile vim with emscripten... | null | 0 | 1491923628 | False | 0 | dg4e07p | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4a48a | null | 1493980022 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jhasse | null | > Could we swap webkit to Servo in Electron whenever it's advanced enough?
Electron is using Blink now instead of WebKit. | null | 0 | 1491923641 | False | 0 | dg4e0oa | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43723 | null | 1493980028 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | grimdeath | null | Someone is talking about web/js on Reddit again! Time to downvote all the things!
*shakes head*
Ugh, this is the reason I've considered dropping /r/programming from my subs list. | null | 0 | 1491923680 | False | 0 | dg4e1y0 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3ynoz | null | 1493980045 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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