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null | UncleFupa | null | As a 35 year old developer, my advice for you is to save your money. | null | 0 | 1491929425 | False | 0 | dg4ja2a | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg1eghi | null | 1493982573 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TheCocoanaut | null | Funny how programmers don't give a fuck about resource usage anymore. Just because it's "cheap" (it sure is relative, and I don't think of 100$ as cheap) we shouldn't just do it. There's always the energy consumption of such things, the waste of resoures overall. Let's just try to keep things down to earth for such stu... | null | 0 | 1491929444 | False | 0 | dg4jaoz | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg48d1k | null | 1493982582 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | GuiSim | null | There has to be a Kotlin or Scala binding | null | 0 | 1491929504 | False | 0 | dg4jcno | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg430x5 | null | 1493982609 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | >unless you wrap everything in shared_ptr
I don't care to detract from your broader point, but if you find yourself using shared_ptr often, you're doing it wrong. Not once did I find a good use case for shared_ptr while writing business code. Unless you have a highly specialized algorithm and are able to ensure pro... | null | 0 | 1491929514 | False | 0 | dg4jd0g | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3z3h0 | null | 1493982613 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | icefoxen | null | Which is still crazy. When a 120 GB SSD costs <$50, what excuse do high-end phones have for charging me $50 to go from 16 to 32 GB?
Everyone else is doing it so they get to load up on the pork too. Yay for a competitive market? | null | 0 | 1491929517 | False | 0 | dg4jd52 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg43wzy | null | 1493982615 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ScrewAttackThis | null | Oh god, you're just doubling down. Keep at it. | null | 0 | 1491929547 | False | 0 | dg4je5c | t3_64idzl | null | null | t1_dg4i0up | null | 1493982628 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pathartl | null | What I'm saying is using Discord as an example for decreased battery life is a terrible example because it's not really designed with that in mind. I did shift I admit, but I was saying that while Electron is probably heavier than most, it's not as bad as people make it out to be. | null | 0 | 1491929600 | False | 0 | dg4jfvr | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4j1jp | null | 1493982652 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | IDE's are powerful tools, perhaps the people who dont know ass from elbows are just mislabeled as devs to begin with :( | null | 0 | 1491929601 | False | 0 | dg4jfwv | t3_64ji2j | null | null | t1_dg36x7s | null | 1493982652 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1491929664 | False | 0 | dg4ji0d | t3_64idzl | null | null | t1_dg4je5c | null | 1493982680 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | choikwa | null | It's amusing that IBM is supporting nodejs to run on mainframes. | null | 0 | 1491929690 | False | 0 | dg4jivp | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg3tdox | null | 1493982692 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | 2Dtails | null | What makes you think you wouldn't be listening to ads with a native desktop app? Or am I misunderstanding your comment? | null | 0 | 1491929700 | False | 0 | dg4jj7p | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4ha31 | null | 1493982696 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | allthingseverywhere | null | Blue sky: What would be the ideal solution to this? A pluggable, embedable browser? Something else? Servo seems like a contender?
If you had magical power and unlimited wealth and resources, what would the best solution be? | null | 0 | 1491929722 | False | 0 | dg4jjyb | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493982706 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | NAN001 | null | Seems pretty clear to me that the point of Symbian is to put most of the % on performance. | null | 0 | 1491929728 | False | 0 | dg4jk6c | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4d4uq | null | 1493982709 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | exactly, in our quest to make the web a better place we just replaced the same things we had with other things of similar value; chrome is basically the IE6 of this generation | null | 0 | 1491929762 | False | 0 | dg4jl9u | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493982724 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pta2002 | null | Isn't telegram a web wrapper | null | 0 | 1491929786 | False | 0 | dg4jm1u | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4bg23 | null | 1493982734 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | redwall_hp | null | You are both correct: it was Qt until late 2013 to early 2014, then it became an Electron abomination. I still miss the Qt app...
It felt much closer to the system UI widgets, was snappier and didn't eat RAM like candy.
One thing that bothers me daily: the new Electron app makes dragging and dropping songs to reorder... | null | 0 | 1491929820 | False | 0 | dg4jn6h | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg42fvz | null | 1493982749 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | _Mardoxx | null | Can't tell if you're taking the piss or not | null | 0 | 1491929905 | False | 0 | dg4jq0s | t3_64qj1m | null | null | t1_dg4dbfb | null | 1493982787 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1491929921 | False | 0 | dg4jql9 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3ztnq | null | 1493982794 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | >we require overly complex technologies so we can assert how much better we are than everyone else rabble rabble | null | 0 | 1491929954 | False | 0 | dg4jrps | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3yrg0 | null | 1493982809 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Ph0X | null | Yet, what I don't understand is how their actual web application is so trash... | null | 0 | 1491929960 | False | 0 | dg4jrvr | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg497fq | null | 1493982811 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | heisgone | null | The alternative is QT, which isn't completely free and is meant to be used with C++, and let's not talk about Java... so yeah, pretty well done software have been released with the Electron & Co frameworks. Still, I suspect the learning curve for those frameworks to be quite steep and it target a different audience... | null | 0 | 1491929965 | False | 0 | dg4js1e | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4j3id | null | 1493982814 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CaptainKraft | null | My favorite part:
> Also all you web devs: Go learn C or Rust or something. Your program runs on a computer. Until you know how that computer works, you're doomed. And until then get off my lawn shakes fist.
It's good to be a systems programmer. The web is just a fad... right... RIGHT? | null | 0 | 1491929994 | False | 0 | dg4jt08 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493982827 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | _Mardoxx | null | Lol. PP. | null | 0 | 1491930064 | False | 0 | dg4jvcn | t3_64r9jh | null | null | t3_64r9jh | null | 1493982859 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Patman128 | null | > With Qt
So your app will look like it's 10 years old, be impossible to style correctly, *and* take 300% longer to write? Sign me up!
> I can write the whole thing in C++ (with its crazy powerful type system)
And yet not nearly as powerful as TypeScript, which seamlessly combines dynamism (something you C++ t... | null | 1 | 1491930076 | False | 0 | dg4jvqv | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg424so | null | 1493982864 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | chriswarbo | null | Seems pretty cool. I imagine there could be a subsequent "meta-problem", if such interoperable shims become widespread: this system (by design) only defines "common denominator" primitives. To be really useful, libraries will need to be written on top, e.g. to present a meaningful API to JVM objects, or Python objects,... | null | 0 | 1491930086 | False | 0 | dg4jw2x | t3_64lu5n | null | null | t3_64lu5n | null | 1493982869 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flamingspew | null | Exactly. Something like slack that's always open may want to do some profiling... | null | 0 | 1491930110 | False | 0 | dg4jwxs | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4dzpg | null | 1493982881 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | _Mardoxx | null | I thought slack was nodejs? | null | 0 | 1491930126 | False | 0 | dg4jxgi | t3_64qjk9 | null | null | t3_64qjk9 | null | 1493982887 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | oneonetwooneonetwo | null | The issue may also be that resources taken up by your chat client are not taken up by your game. I think stuff that runs in the background while you play games (chat clients, recording software, etc) should try to be lightweight for that reason.
Yeah, you've got a beefy computer but you didn't get it to run chat clien... | null | 0 | 1491930137 | False | 0 | dg4jxtw | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3zf89 | null | 1493982892 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1491930160 | False | 0 | dg4jyjw | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg40xtg | null | 1493982902 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CaptainKraft | null | Check out [MotionBox](http://omega.gg/MotionBox/). I think he does a good job with the Qt GUI. | null | 0 | 1491930167 | False | 0 | dg4jyrk | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3znlf | null | 1493982904 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | That doesn't make all C++-written toolkits bad by definition though, as asserted above. | null | 0 | 1491930214 | False | 0 | dg4k08y | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3yx7i | null | 1493982925 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CaptainKraft | null | > Every time I end up picking electron for my gui project I feel kind of dirty.
Me too :-P | null | 0 | 1491930218 | False | 0 | dg4k0dj | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg402le | null | 1493982926 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | HurtlesIntoTurtles | null | I have heard of [PyOtherSide](https://pyotherside.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), but I don't know about its quality.
Also, there was/is some [work being done](https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/PYSIDE-355) to make PySide 2
talk to QML.
And [this](http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt5/qml.html) does not look like "no QML... | null | 0 | 1491930267 | False | 0 | dg4k1zt | t3_64r2vr | null | null | t1_dg4ef4c | null | 1493982948 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | beginner_ | null | Ah true. I misunderstood. They only used 1 specific device not many of the same type. yeah makes it much harder. | null | 0 | 1491930338 | False | 0 | dg4k4ai | t3_64pocv | null | null | t1_dg4iddg | null | 1493982980 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bobobo1618 | null | Specifically it seems to be an issue _with Chrome_ on Mac. Mac itself is fine. | null | 0 | 1491930339 | False | 0 | dg4k4b4 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg45gh3 | null | 1493982980 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | UplinkCoder | null | in D sizeof(void*) returns a compiler error :)
either way I hook into the compiler at a late stage of compilation (semantic 3) it's an integer literal when it get's to me.
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null | american_defector | null | Not a ton, really. It keeps things self-contained in a singular standalone app. It does add native notifications and some other minor things. My workspace is web dev so Chrome is often littered with tabs and projects I'm working on. So keeping my messaging and chat stuff isolated is really helpful. It also reduces the ... | null | 0 | 1491930357 | False | 0 | dg4k4wp | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4j2m6 | null | 1493982988 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | zscruz | null | Wouldn't really describe c++ as a crazy powerful type system. I mean it definitely has a lot of types and a type system but crazy powerful not so much.
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null | silveryRain | null | What they're written in has nothing to do with usability, it's all about the API, or lack thereof. | null | 0 | 1491930412 | False | 0 | dg4k6q0 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3yact | null | 1493983013 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | benjaminabel | null | In my case, it's PHPStorm, Chrome and then Slack. | null | 0 | 1491930415 | False | 0 | dg4k6tt | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg48sim | null | 1493983014 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Shakti213 | 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 e... | null | 0 | 1491930529 | False | 0 | dg4kaih | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4cosd | null | 1493983065 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CaptainKraft | null | Agreed. We need more articles like that. | null | 0 | 1491930552 | False | 0 | dg4kb8f | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3uu0z | null | 1493983074 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | chriswarbo | null | Reminds me of [Ian Piumarta's "id" object model](http://piumarta.com/software/id-objmodel), which retrofits dynamic dispatch on to arbitrary memory regions. Maybe the two could be used together, considering that this liballocs system, as mentioned in the paper, specifically avoids associating behaviour (vtables) with m... | null | 0 | 1491930592 | False | 0 | dg4kcjr | t3_64lu5n | null | null | t3_64lu5n | null | 1493983092 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | berkeley-games | null | I was thinking the same exact thing.
It's unfortunate the Flash brand has pooped on the popularity of AIR... it's not the best for everything, but it's certainly underrated. | null | 0 | 1491930597 | False | 0 | dg4kcpn | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4ijnu | null | 1493983094 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | marksymoo | null | Left the job (true story).
Thankfully my manager took all the heat (I was a junior dev back then).
The place was bringing in (and loosing) millions each month so it wasn't AS bad as it could have been. DR plans were put in place after that hiccup though :) | null | 0 | 1491930598 | False | 0 | dg4kcr2 | t3_64idzl | null | null | t1_dg3g3p6 | null | 1493983095 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | antiduh | null | I'm not sure they *are* sluggish. VS 2015 on my desktop (with an SSD and 8 GB of ram) loads in about 2.5 seconds when opening reasonably-sized projects. | null | 0 | 1491930612 | False | 0 | dg4kd6q | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4fr67 | null | 1493983100 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | derplordthethird | null | Agile and Scrum are fine. However, team structure is a business decision as 1) they pay the bills and 2) they need to be active participants in the process and you can't force someone to participate in something they don't want. Thus, a team deciding to switch can meet with huge disappointment and thus the methodology ... | null | 0 | 1491930621 | False | 0 | dg4kdip | t3_64os39 | null | null | t3_64os39 | null | 1493983105 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | time-lord | null | Microsoft did this too, when developing Windows 95. They forced their developers to keep using 3.1 era PCs, and Windows 95 turned out *blazing* fast.
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null | throwawayco111 | null | Wait what? Is that your algorithm to identify who's trolling? Man, that's the most stupid shit I've ever read. | null | 0 | 1491930628 | False | 0 | dg4kdra | t3_63mkxt | null | null | t1_dfwxml3 | null | 1493983109 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CaptainKraft | null | We could use this as punishment for making bad software. Love it | null | 0 | 1491930649 | False | 0 | dg4keha | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3zu6d | null | 1493983118 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | benjaminabel | null | I'm not saying that its the same or better that native apps. Native will *always* be faster. There is no doubt about that.
As for most of the frameworks as QML, there is one big disadvantage. They look absolutely horrible by default and you have to put a lot of effort to make them look good. Maybe I'm wrong, but when ... | null | 0 | 1491930653 | False | 0 | dg4kemu | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4a00o | null | 1493983120 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | berkeley-games | null | AIR is still alive and kicking. | null | 0 | 1491930683 | False | 0 | dg4kflt | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg413n6 | null | 1493983134 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jackmott2 | null | We went from C to Java/C# now javascript/electron.
The pace of increasing inefficiency is faster than the pace of hardware improvements. Especially when you consider RAM latency has not kept pace with CPU cycle speed, and many of our modern programming conveniences add extra indirection which nullifies a lot of CPU pe... | null | 0 | 1491930706 | False | 0 | dg4kgc3 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4344r | null | 1493983143 | 67 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | skizmo | null | go spam somewhere else | null | 0 | 1491930750 | False | 0 | dg4kht5 | t3_64s5jy | null | null | t3_64s5jy | null | 1493983163 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | technomancy | null | I still use a Thinkpad from 2009, but that has more to do with the newer models have a worse display aspect ratio than anything else. Still, it's surprising how usable things are if you take a whitelist approach towards allowing JS in the browser. | null | 0 | 1491930801 | False | 0 | dg4kjh0 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3zu6d | null | 1493983186 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | No worries. My nomenclature could use some brushing up so I thought perhaps I was misunderstanding the term. :) | null | 0 | 1491930848 | False | 0 | dg4kl1m | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg4in0q | null | 1493983206 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | oneonetwooneonetwo | null | x201 master race here. There's a lot of life in them yet. | null | 0 | 1491930859 | False | 0 | dg4klfb | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4kjh0 | null | 1493983211 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cobolNoFun | null | > it was all of the other ancillary "stuff" like the JCL
god damn JCL! Like playing basketball with a cinder block blindfolded. | null | 0 | 1491930868 | False | 0 | dg4klom | t3_64jymy | null | null | t1_dg4hvcp | null | 1493983215 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Paradox | null | http://i.imgur.com/25q0CsG.png | null | 0 | 1491930898 | False | 0 | dg4kmoh | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4il33 | null | 1493983228 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SilentWeaponQuietWar | null | to be fair, IDEs do a lot more today than they did 12 years ago too. | null | 0 | 1491930932 | False | 0 | dg4knq7 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4344r | null | 1493983243 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | benjaminabel | null | I have used Electron apps on my old laptop and yes, they really choppy and unresponsive most of the time. And thats a big disadvantage of Electron and such. Native will always perform better. I just wanted to say that it's definitely possible to improve it. And the article is meaningless, because: 1. "Don't use it! I k... | null | 0 | 1491930976 | False | 0 | dg4kp5u | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4a5nr | null | 1493983264 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | PendragonDaGreat | null | And I can load a project from my HDD (vs15 executable is on ssd) in less than 5. VS is definitely pretty nimble these days. Eclipse is the sluggish one and IntelliJ seems pretty solid as well (though I admit I don't use it a lot) | null | 0 | 1491931023 | False | 0 | dg4kqnf | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4kd6q | null | 1493983283 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mcosta | null | submitted 6 years ago | null | 0 | 1491931049 | False | 0 | dg4krjb | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg425v5 | null | 1493983295 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | paul_h | null | I stand corrected. | null | 0 | 1491931061 | False | 0 | dg4krwz | t3_64r2vr | null | null | t1_dg4k1zt | null | 1493983300 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | unbannable02 | null | Always cloud! We must always jump on the latest bandwagon, trendiness is life! | null | 0 | 1491931162 | False | 0 | dg4kv87 | t3_64r5j6 | null | null | t3_64r5j6 | null | 1493983344 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | snaftyroot | null | I'm a bit late to the game, but web assembly has just reached a consensus among the major browser vendors, so that's something to consider. Essentially you right your code in done language that gets compiled to web assembly that runs close to the metal in a sandboxed environment. It has a JavaScript api so yea, there's... | null | 0 | 1491931167 | False | 0 | dg4kvdu | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg402le | null | 1493983346 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Geneolgia | null | Yeah, memory leaks are rough, they should have built the Slack client in something memory safe like C | null | 0 | 1491931173 | False | 0 | dg4kvjk | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg46vdp | null | 1493983349 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Geneolgia | null | And is also kind of trash | null | 0 | 1491931191 | False | 0 | dg4kw4f | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4kflt | null | 1493983357 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | PonysaurousRex | null | I totally agree. In fact, a lot of Android apps use the native WebView for their UI, which is now just a shared Chrome instance. | null | 0 | 1491931350 | False | 0 | dg4l1ec | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg40xtg | null | 1493983428 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zeno84 | null | Gotta say, the cost to subscribe is totally worth it. | null | 0 | 1491931412 | False | 0 | dg4l3g9 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4ha31 | null | 1493983456 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mfukar | null | It was. The kernel focused heavily on giving real-time guarantees and maximum availability. | null | 0 | 1491931446 | False | 0 | dg4l4l1 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4jk6c | null | 1493983471 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mrand01 | null | Flex (combined with AIR) was very good at all of this. I suppose it still could be if you feel like writing AIR apps, but I can't say it's a very marketable skill these days.
As far as performance goes, I'm willing to bet it's better than Electron, but worse than other lower-level alternatives. | null | 0 | 1491931484 | False | 0 | dg4l5ua | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg405xs | null | 1493983488 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Anon_8675309 | null | Our industry sucks. Programmers these days care so much about programmer productivity and so little about the end user. It's really pathetic.
"But, I can write twitter in a weekend!"
Good for you, but do my lights have to dim every time I send a tweet!?
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null | darchangel | null | Early Microsoft was wonderfully savvy about such things. Back when the proto-MS Office stuff was competing with Lotus, MS made Excel vastly more powerful than Lotus 123. Too powerful in fact to be run on existing affordable hardware. This was intentional -- taking Moore's Law into account. It didn't take long before co... | null | 0 | 1491931541 | False | 0 | dg4l7ql | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4kdlj | null | 1493983513 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | Minikloon | null | The most used AIR app is the League of Legends non-game client. | null | 0 | 1491931559 | False | 0 | dg4l8ah | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg41kix | null | 1493983520 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TheHillwoodMonkey | null | Yes, and to share code between their web apps and their desktop apps. Those are major factors too, undoubtedly. However, there are some major projects built on electron that don't fit this narrative at all, such as Visual Studio Code. | null | 0 | 1491931584 | False | 0 | dg4l93r | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4epab | null | 1493983531 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | derplordthethird | null | The Liskov substitution principle is probably one of the more rigorous aspects to SOLID and the most easy to not only violate but miss completely, often by accident. You really need to understand how an object can be used and what it returns. Often times, you need to develop adjacent objects that feel weird to not viol... | null | 0 | 1491931589 | 1491934338 | 0 | dg4l99b | t3_64kc8t | null | null | t1_dg2tanw | null | 1493983534 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | myrrlyn | null | You could *have* done the same | null | 0 | 1491931624 | False | 0 | dg4laey | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3zdih | null | 1493983549 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | crackhappy | null | I like this article, it's easy to share with higher ups. | null | 0 | 1491931668 | False | 0 | dg4lbux | t3_64qfpy | null | null | t3_64qfpy | null | 1493983569 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flyingcaribou | null | > stuff that would've taken me an entire day to do in Qt or wx or FLTK
It is super fun to bang out GUI apps with PyQt, and the learning curve is fairly minimal. | null | 0 | 1491931694 | False | 0 | dg4lcrd | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg402le | null | 1493983580 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | beaverlyknight | null | It is still a matter of implementation. You can do a good job, or you can fuck it up just like any software. I find Atom to be sluggish, but VSCode to be reasonably quick. Not quite so fast as Sublime, but easily usable. Microsoft clearly put a lot of thinking and optimization into their work. GitHub, ehh, not so much. | null | 0 | 1491931730 | False | 0 | dg4ldzk | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3ztnq | null | 1493983598 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Gawwad | null | What OS are you using? I've been using IntelliJ on MacOS and on Gnome in Linux and I think the UI fits in nicely on both. I can imagine it looking less at home on Windows with the large buttons and borders in the OS. | null | 0 | 1491931823 | False | 0 | dg4lh1f | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4hbof | null | 1493983640 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ikariusrb | null | Still not making sense to me. If I'm doing a "map" sort of function, I'm 99% likely going to iterate through the array. If I'm pulling a slice from an array- which I avoid whenever possible, I want the documentation of which parts of the array are being pulled out right next to the data structure, NOT next to the ass... | null | 0 | 1491931860 | False | 0 | dg4lia6 | t3_64qjd5 | null | null | t1_dg4iedf | null | 1493983656 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Gawwad | null | I read on their blog a while back that they have customized swing quite a lot to get some performance out of it. | null | 0 | 1491931900 | False | 0 | dg4ljkh | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4h5yp | null | 1493983675 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | technomancy | null | I still SSH into a beefier machine to do dayjob dev work requiring a cluster of 8 containers, but for any end-user type stuff NoScripted FF and Emacs gets the job done with grace and aplomb. | null | 0 | 1491931913 | False | 0 | dg4lk0k | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4klfb | null | 1493983680 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Gawwad | null | If you're interested, they have blogged about how they use Swing in the past. From what I remember, that includes customizing it pretty heavily on the source level. | null | 0 | 1491931978 | False | 0 | dg4lm8b | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4fmiv | null | 1493983709 | 32 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ellicottvilleny | null | He gonna take you with him. That be my point, arrr.
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null | ErstwhileRockstar | null | Adam Bien: [Java EE 7 + Thin WARs + Docker = Great Productivity](http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/entry/java_ee_7_thin_wars) | null | 0 | 1491932021 | False | 0 | dg4lno0 | t3_64qj1m | null | null | t3_64qj1m | null | 1493983729 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | rentnil | null | Don't forget at least 10% on innovation for innovation's sake. | null | 0 | 1491932030 | False | 0 | dg4lny1 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4d4uq | null | 1493983732 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | gwolf23 | null | JavaScript - kill it with fire! Once and for all! Please. | null | 1 | 1491932054 | False | 0 | dg4loqp | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t3_64oqaq | null | 1493983744 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Yamitenshi | null | >But if you talk about security in terms of, say, the Heartbleed Bug
You mean a bug that was introduced by programmers not taking into account that you can't always trust the data you receive? Pretty crappy example, if you ask me.
Yes, programmers need to know about security. No, not enough is being done to teach... | null | 0 | 1491932055 | False | 0 | dg4losr | t3_64pa1v | null | null | t3_64pa1v | null | 1493983744 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mirhagk | null | Are you really this upset because someone made a joke about a grammatical error you had?
Are we just to remove all jokes from everywhere so that nobody ever gets offended? I don't want to live in that society. | null | 0 | 1491932083 | False | 0 | dg4lpqc | t3_64jd9r | null | null | t1_dg4iv0m | null | 1493983757 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CheshireSwift | null | I wouldn't consider React state of the art (to me that'd be something using Vue and GSS, probably). But yes, agreed, it's mostly just an absence of good options. | null | 0 | 1491932091 | False | 0 | dg4lq09 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg4fyl4 | null | 1493983760 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | asegura | null | And also that you can directly use `.ui` files created with Qt Designer for UI layouts.
So you don't need that much code to setup widgets, actions and controls, your window init can do:
self.ui = uic.loadUi("MainWindow.ui", self)
And you are done.
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null | admdrew | null | > they're usually used
Got a source for that? | null | 0 | 1491932216 | False | 0 | dg4lu46 | t3_64os39 | null | null | t1_dg44zdy | null | 1493983815 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dunoid | null | Haven't you heard? Java is the slowest language ever made! HTML/CSS/JavaScript is far faster, as it's webscale. | null | 0 | 1491932264 | False | 0 | dg4lvo2 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3zcv6 | null | 1493983837 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ItzWarty | null | Yeah, but if you're using QT bindings for another language you're going to have a substandard second-class experience. You'll often miss IDE integration or the second you need to work with lower-level concepts you'll have a bad time. That's always the case with language-language interop. So it's less a "it can be done"... | null | 0 | 1491932331 | False | 0 | dg4lxv8 | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg3yv33 | null | 1493983866 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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