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null | Lhopital_rules | null | Flash was great for the Web because native apps were not an option. Native apps *are* an option here instead of Electron, so the comparison doesn't hold up for me. | null | 0 | 1492309153 | False | 0 | dgbjhl0 | t3_65k067 | null | null | t3_65k067 | null | 1494105432 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | binford2k | null | Great looking does not necessarily translate to good UI. As a matter of fact, most desktop web apps have terrible usability and accessibility because of all the wheel reinventing and lack of standards. | null | 0 | 1492309191 | False | 0 | dgbjihg | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgb4c3w | null | 1494105444 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | editor_of_the_beast | null | WebGL came out in 2011. When do you think the first 3D game came out was? Around 1980-85?
> HTML wasn't designed for writing 3d renderers
No, it was not. And that's ok, but we're trying to make it do that like 40 years after that's already been solved. We're turning a browser into an OS that runs on an OS that we'... | null | 1 | 1492309386 | False | 0 | dgbjnbl | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbj397 | null | 1494105508 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | GhostBond | null | > Consider instead stodgy old coots who insist on C++ (or FORTRAN ['77]) over newer tools because "that's how we do things", and because "everything we do is cutting-edge". Yeah, cutting-edge algorithms implemented in the tools of the previous century. Like power windows & AC on a horse-drawn carriage.
It doe... | null | 0 | 1492309399 | False | 0 | dgbjnmm | t3_64sdig | null | null | t1_dg7h6ka | null | 1494105512 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | gnx76 | null | > We live in a time where web designers can design a site and it looks great on nearly all browsers and devices.
No it doesn't, it either looks OK on some and terrible on others, or looks like shite everywhere (which is the most common case).
Web UIs suck donkey balls, they are slow, unresponsive, unreliable, and ... | null | 0 | 1492309413 | 1492309616 | 0 | dgbjnye | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgb0fna | null | 1494105516 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BigotedCaveman | null | >GUI should look roughly the same between all platforms
Then it's a bad GUI. | null | 1 | 1492309417 | False | 0 | dgbjo1v | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgb5ktf | null | 1494105519 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | angryrancor | null | Yes, you are forced to deal with it, because you have no *ability* to change it. Users have very few to no "rights" when it comes to dictating software. This is how the world has always worked. If I build a new restaurant, I get to lock all the "users" out on Sundays when I go to church. I don't care about their feelin... | null | 0 | 1492309426 | False | 0 | dgbjo8q | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgaxmk1 | null | 1494105521 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | NovaX | null | Gradle's is fairly similar too and likewise useful. That is done using a [resolutionStrategy](https://docs.gradle.org/3.5/dsl/org.gradle.api.artifacts.ResolutionStrategy.html#org.gradle.api.artifacts.ResolutionStrategy:componentSelection), e.g.
dependencyUpdates.resolutionStrategy = {
componentSelection { ru... | null | 0 | 1492309433 | False | 0 | dgbjoez | t3_65hx0s | null | null | t1_dgaja5r | null | 1494105523 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tv64738 | null | I wonder why it's reimplementing the go tool dependency logic: https://github.com/therecipe/qt/blob/8d9fc2cc2f5d14c4ceca0d19cd7be1b7ba3e5000/internal/cmd/setup/install.go#L54-L82 | null | 0 | 1492309503 | False | 0 | dgbjq3s | t3_65ljzt | null | null | t3_65ljzt | null | 1494105545 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | c-smile | null | Imagine that you need to change styles and layout on all of them. Normally it is made by changing single CSS file they all use. With Qt and especially GTK, when layout of elements is nailed down in native code, it is not that trivial.
Think about high-dpi monitors support, multi-head systems that use displays with di... | null | 0 | 1492309518 | False | 0 | dgbjqfy | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbhr37 | null | 1494105550 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jessek | null | this guy doesn't really refute any of the points of the previous article. | null | 0 | 1492309529 | False | 0 | dgbjqo7 | t3_65k067 | null | null | t3_65k067 | null | 1494105553 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | elijej | null | The thing is, a lot of people (like me) don't want to have to spend hours upon hours learning a tool (like unity) that's insanely complex and headache causing. I don't want to have to sit through a whole series of videos just to know how to use the UI. C++ is a great language that has many libraries for rendering conte... | null | 0 | 1492309675 | False | 0 | dgbju6a | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbfynu | null | 1494105600 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | krum | null | Bullshit | null | 0 | 1492309736 | False | 0 | dgbjvp2 | t3_65knzb | null | null | t1_dgb6zpi | null | 1494105621 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | FG_Regulus | null | Played with it for a couple hours today and straight off the bat I'm blown away by the quality of the documentation! Honestly I expected to drudge through docs at the level of quality as something like Moonscript/lisp, but holy cow I couldn't have expected this!
Tutorials, in-depth documentation with example usage. It... | null | 0 | 1492309749 | 1492310205 | 0 | dgbjvz9 | t3_65fi6c | null | null | t3_65fi6c | null | 1494105624 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | _cowabunga | null | If you don't care about users, that's your prerogative for your own application. But the people who typically use Electron are using it because they think they have the newest best thing and attempt to get their product to market fastest.
I've built products that have sold, and have to deal with user-facing issues al... | null | 0 | 1492309848 | False | 0 | dgbjyb3 | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbjo8q | null | 1494105655 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jacqueman | null | Yeah, they're all over the place. It saddens me to see this on the front page of /r/programming though. | null | 0 | 1492309873 | False | 0 | dgbjyuy | t3_65if36 | null | null | t1_dgbjga7 | null | 1494105662 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | zem | null | https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/03/27/curl-is-c/ | null | 0 | 1492309955 | False | 0 | dgbk0u5 | t3_65free | null | null | t1_dgalmhp | null | 1494105688 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | snookums | null | What I'd like to see is an LLVM backend that takes C header files and spits out Racket bindings. I mean like something where you could just toss GTK+ headers into it and have perfect bindings with almost zero manual effort. | null | 0 | 1492310020 | False | 0 | dgbk2g2 | t3_65jol7 | null | null | t3_65jol7 | null | 1494105710 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AlotOfReading | null | Harding's argument is not that the facts of the universe are gender biased, but that our methods of learning those facts (a process called "science") can be gender biased. This isn't even necessarily through active bias. There's significantly less information available on the effects of most drugs on pregnant women for... | null | 0 | 1492310023 | False | 0 | dgbk2im | t3_65d47v | null | null | t1_dgag5sv | null | 1494105711 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | editor_of_the_beast | null | ohhh I totally agree with you. The bifurcation of everything between native and web is actually crazy when you think about it. But if you really get into it, there's a very singular design decision that led to that: the decision to have a web browser be the single enabler of using the web.
Let explain. You have an OS.... | null | 0 | 1492310046 | False | 0 | dgbk33s | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbiclp | null | 1494105719 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | inu-no-policemen | null | > HTML+CSS is nowhere near the ideal solution to making graphical user interfaces.
Now that we got flexbox (and grid), it's alright. | null | 0 | 1492310088 | False | 0 | dgbk42r | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgb0w0e | null | 1494105731 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | GENHEN | null | I know I sound like a noob, but what is UTF-8 decoding for? Is it for reading packets? | null | 0 | 1492310108 | False | 0 | dgbk4kh | t3_65ke97 | null | null | t3_65ke97 | null | 1494105739 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mindbleach | null | Ted Nelson had a thirty-year head start on Tim Berners-Lee. *Quick* has nothing to do with this. No sympathy for arrogant fools whose ideas are so good they never actually do them. | null | 0 | 1492310149 | False | 0 | dgbk5l6 | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbhy9b | null | 1494105752 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jarfil | null | > way to make cross platform desktop apps
> the web, because it is so ubiquitous.
Well, it kind of makes sense to use the "so ubiquitous" web, to develop "cross platform apps", doesn't it? Thus, electron.
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null | kirbyfan64sos | null | Allow me to introduce a ridiculously shameless plug:
http://howl.io
Just as fast as Sublime but just as easy to extend as Atom.
*walks away while dodging flying arrows* | null | 1 | 1492310382 | False | 0 | dgbkbf7 | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgb79y9 | null | 1494105833 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | paul_h | null | But in the 90's people (not necessarily programmers) with MsAccess were productive to the point where it took a day or so to launch, at least, a team application.
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null | angryrancor | null | Depends on the decision panel. I personally think you're making a lot of generalizations that make zero sense.
I didn't even say it was **my** attitude. I love the hell out of my users, and listen to them. If they know what they are talking about (general knowledge about **how to actually do the thing better**) I wi... | null | 0 | 1492310486 | 1492310880 | 0 | dgbkdxt | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbjyb3 | null | 1494105866 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | truthseeker1990 | null | Yeah me too though i bet quite a lot of people didnt read the article before upvoting. | null | 0 | 1492310531 | False | 0 | dgbkeyl | t3_65if36 | null | null | t1_dgbjyuy | null | 1494105880 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | myringotomy | null | >Fast at startup (and in general a responsivity-tuned ootb experience)
That's there.
>Native-feeling UI
Pipe dream which no framework has ever been able to deliver.
>Not needing to download security upgrades regularly
Security upgrades are crucial and anybody who advocates that a platform never receive th... | null | 1 | 1492310647 | False | 0 | dgbkhuc | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbi0yr | null | 1494105918 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pixel4 | null | I guess you could argue that Go is still much slower than C++ and the same electron argument could apply here. C++14 (and beyond) is pretty rad - and the Qt lib has tons on convenience features - I don't know why you'd pick Go over it. *shrug* | null | 1 | 1492310652 | False | 0 | dgbkhz8 | t3_65ljzt | null | null | t1_dgbf4h6 | null | 1494105920 | -19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vividboarder | null | Right. But it created the Mac app with an icon that would execute that with a distinct profile as well. | null | 0 | 1492310689 | False | 0 | dgbkiwg | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbizaq | null | 1494105933 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jarfil | null | That sounds like whoever make that web did a piss poor job.
Do you honestly think that using LuaJIT or WebASM to put a big ass cuckoo clock which updates 100 times a second for better fps, while overriding the default scrollbars so you have to go click-click on a tiny arrow somewhere in the corner, would solve anythin... | null | 0 | 1492310805 | False | 0 | dgbklqc | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbigme | null | 1494105971 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jackmott2 | null | If we sort of characterize the relative performance potential in terms of a crudge graph it would be something like
[----------------------------------------------------------------------------]
electron ------------------------------------------------------ Go/Qt --- C++ | null | 0 | 1492310911 | False | 0 | dgbkoew | t3_65ljzt | null | null | t1_dgbkhz8 | null | 1494106007 | 43 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Uncaffeinated | null | HTML didn't even exist in 1980, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. | null | 0 | 1492310934 | False | 0 | dgbkozq | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbjnbl | null | 1494106014 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jackmott2 | null | I feel like you didn't read what I wrote.
The whole thesis is that electron is a sensible thing to use, because we are used to using the web, and so people want to make an app, and this is all they have.
The problem is that this is all they have.
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null | editor_of_the_beast | null | Point being, we're reinventing the wheel because some people don't realize that programs don't need to run inside of a browser. | null | 1 | 1492311128 | False | 0 | dgbktvz | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbkozq | null | 1494106080 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TexasJefferson | null | > That's there.
When did that happen? I thought there were still major security problems to trying to not start interpreting/jitting from scratch on every application load?
> Pipe dream which no framework has ever been able to deliver.
Developing 3 native shells is *really* not that hard. If one cannot develop... | null | 0 | 1492311263 | False | 0 | dgbkxef | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbkhuc | null | 1494106127 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sonicxml | null | For linear algebra, I'd strongly recommend [Gilbert Strang's online video lectures](https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/video-lectures/) if you prefer video to textbooks like me. They don't really go into the abstract algebra (which is fascinating in its own right), but do provide a... | null | 0 | 1492311265 | False | 0 | dgbkxgz | t3_65if36 | null | null | t1_dgawojy | null | 1494106128 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | aedmark | null | is qt creator not good enough? | null | 0 | 1492311296 | False | 0 | dgbky6p | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgayrgn | null | 1494106138 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Tipaa | null | I'm surprised that this didn't mention the reflection/introspection/metaprogramming ability of D in its comparison with other languages. I think it's the pinnacle of reflection from the languages I've looked at or tried reflection in (I'm yet to play with Idris' `Elab` reflection though).
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null | TexasJefferson | null | If only someone else could have actually built a [production-ready, network-transparent, platform-agnostic application system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS) in time... | null | 0 | 1492311452 | False | 0 | dgbl1x7 | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbk5l6 | null | 1494106187 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | gnx76 | null | Moreover, that's a logarithmic scale. | null | 0 | 1492311612 | False | 0 | dgbl5sr | t3_65ljzt | null | null | t1_dgbkoew | null | 1494106239 | 42 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | _cowabunga | null | Okay. | null | 0 | 1492311937 | False | 0 | dgbldp5 | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbkdxt | null | 1494106345 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Ginfly | null | I think you responded down too far.... | null | 0 | 1492312041 | False | 0 | dgblg9k | t3_651fzh | null | null | t1_dgbhlpy | null | 1494106380 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | musicin3d | null | \*compile\* on everything. I know it's a little pedantic, but this _is_ /r/programming.
Edit: I concede! I learned my lesson. | null | 0 | 1492312057 | 1492393057 | 0 | dgblgnl | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbfgu8 | null | 1494106385 | -15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | phySi0 | null | Ah, sorry. | null | 0 | 1492312144 | False | 0 | dgblipx | t3_651fzh | null | null | t1_dgblg9k | null | 1494106413 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jacqueman | null | I'm more afraid that all these people *did* read the article! | null | 0 | 1492312157 | False | 0 | dgblj0t | t3_65if36 | null | null | t1_dgbkeyl | null | 1494106419 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | phySi0 | null | >If you're getting married you're already down the path of tradition for tradition's sake.
Not necessarily. As much as I am not a fan of it, there is a case to be made for marriage on its own merits. You're making an assumption here. | null | 0 | 1492312165 | False | 0 | dgblj7b | t3_651fzh | null | null | t1_dg7egt8 | null | 1494106421 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jocull | null | Amen. If you want to talk about insecure let's talk about Java applets...... | null | 0 | 1492312177 | False | 0 | dgbljix | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgb2w72 | null | 1494106425 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | countcet | null | I'm pretty sure you have to be accepted into it though. | null | 0 | 1492312237 | False | 0 | dgblkwg | t3_65if36 | null | null | t1_dgb8r6u | null | 1494106443 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | slashuslashuserid | null | UTF-8 is a way of encoding Unicode text such that each character uses a multiple of 8 bits. UTF-8 decoding is taking the bytes and figuring out what characters they mean.
If you don't know what ASCII is, read about that first and then come back here.
ASCII needs 7 bits for any character, so if you store it in one byt... | null | 0 | 1492312239 | False | 0 | dgblkyh | t3_65ke97 | null | null | t1_dgbk4kh | null | 1494106444 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | angryrancor | null | I love you. I want to have your babies. | null | 0 | 1492312272 | False | 0 | dgbllpe | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbkbf7 | null | 1494106453 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SuprDewd | null | Haha, just for you my friend. | null | 0 | 1492312435 | False | 0 | dgblplj | t3_65fjs2 | null | null | t1_dgbik51 | null | 1494106506 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SuprDewd | null | Iceland actually, but thanks. :) | null | 0 | 1492312460 | False | 0 | dgblq7c | t3_65fjs2 | null | null | t1_dgbj7fl | null | 1494106514 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | euphoric_grammar | null | The other two are just Gorean friends of his from that site. | null | 0 | 1492312564 | False | 0 | dgblsnd | t3_65free | null | null | t1_dgaxbbv | null | 1494106547 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Lachiko | null | perhaps this wasn't the real book but just a tribute?
RemindMe! 2 Months | null | 0 | 1492312844 | False | 0 | dgblz8e | t3_5ijwy9 | null | null | t1_dgbepog | null | 1494106636 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DarcyFitz | null | While javascript is pretty inefficient and the delivery mechanisms are inefficient because they are text rather than binary, the web as a platform isn't really that bad.
The problem is that everything implements its own interpreted UI layer.
In a native app, you say "text here" and "button here" and it renders fast a... | null | 0 | 1492312859 | False | 0 | dgblzkt | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgb46mc | null | 1494106640 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Elavid | null | I've interacted with some Savannah projects before but its interface is too ugly for me to even want to learn more about it.
Wait, I can't just make a new project on Savannah? I need to get approval. No thanks! They've decided that to be ethical they have to enforce tons of rules on people and make their service ha... | null | 0 | 1492313075 | 1492313512 | 0 | dgbm4hu | t3_65lqtc | null | null | t1_dgbgnq6 | null | 1494106706 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tryx | null | This post is being kept up because the comment thread is enlightening and applying critical thinking and source analysis in all aspects of life is important. It's not an endorsement on the quality of this post. That said, please keep the conversation civil without personal attacks against the author. | null | 0 | 1492313357 | False | 0 | dgbmb4n | t3_65if36 | null | null | t3_65if36 | null | 1494106795 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | euphoric_grammar | null | One of them referred to the collar as a necklace in one place, The others didn't.
As for his 15 year old friend, what exactly do you think is happening with an adult "involved with" a 15 year old girl interested in Gor?
I'm sorry dude but it *really* sounds like you're trying to make excuses for some child abusers ri... | null | 1 | 1492313364 | False | 0 | dgbmbag | t3_65free | null | null | t1_dgayl2v | null | 1494106797 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Jazonxyz | null | Any tool that is good for fast prototyping will inevitably be used in production. IIRC Unity, Angular were both designed for prototyping and now they're widely used as the end product.
I really do wish they invested more resource into delivering a sound product, but that's not always possible, especially with startup... | null | 0 | 1492313756 | False | 0 | dgbmk5i | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbesho | null | 1494106917 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | myringotomy | null | >When did that happen?
Three or four years ago.
>I thought there were still major security problems to trying to not start interpreting/jitting from scratch on every application load?
Maybe you should try to catch up.
>Developing 3 native shells is really not that hard.
It's so hard that nobody wants to d... | null | 0 | 1492313797 | False | 0 | dgbml9h | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbkxef | null | 1494106931 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | JohnFrum | null | Can we please just stop with QT until it transitions to different resolutions smoothly? Seapine surround is painful to use because of QT. | null | 0 | 1492313990 | False | 0 | dgbmq6k | t3_65ljzt | null | null | t3_65ljzt | null | 1494106998 | -22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | russmbiz | null | Then you aren't using html and css. You have one big div and are drawing to it. The same problems still exist. | null | 0 | 1492314051 | False | 0 | dgbmrnp | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbj397 | null | 1494107018 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | gfixler | null | And don't forget to push the commit!
(just trying to help the old folks - memory is one of the first things to go) | null | 0 | 1492314065 | False | 0 | dgbmrz8 | t3_65knzb | null | null | t1_dgb7yo9 | null | 1494107022 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | paul_miner | null | >And the "auto" jumper setting? Fuhgeddaboutit.
Cable select; required an IDE cable with a cut in a wire between the two peripheral connectors. | null | 0 | 1492314093 | False | 0 | dgbmsnu | t3_65i2p2 | null | null | t1_dgbg17v | null | 1494107032 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | russmbiz | null | Webasm may finally help with that wall. | null | 0 | 1492314184 | False | 0 | dgbmuuf | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbiclp | null | 1494107062 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | euphoric_grammar | null | "someone said something about my race or gender. REEEEEEEEEE" -you
grow the fuck up | null | 0 | 1492314213 | False | 0 | dgbmvhi | t3_65free | null | null | t1_dgb6bd5 | null | 1494107070 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Shautieh | null | Flash was never great, and it either didn't work or work so-so with intermittent crashes and awful security. I haven't used it since the early 2000... | null | 1 | 1492314245 | False | 0 | dgbmw89 | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgb2w72 | null | 1494107079 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ajr901 | null | /u/jackmott2's comment about how Vscode (which uses electron) will output 32,000 tons of CO2 per year while blinking a cursor:
[I did some bro science napkin math: Assuming 1 million users of VS Code This blinking cursor will waste $3 million per year in electricity costs, and output 32,000 tons of c02 per year.](http... | null | 0 | 1492314261 | False | 0 | dgbmwlh | t3_65k067 | null | null | t3_65k067 | null | 1494107085 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | truthseeker1990 | null | Lol. | null | 0 | 1492314296 | False | 0 | dgbmxdd | t3_65if36 | null | null | t1_dgblj0t | null | 1494107095 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | craftkiller | null | Unicode assigned each glyph number. For example, a snowman is 9731. This number needs to be encoded in some way. There were multiple solutions like utf-32 and utf-16 which just encode the number as 32 or 16 bit numbers. This works fine, but the vast majority of text is in the range of 0-127 so they made utf-8 as a vari... | null | 0 | 1492314502 | False | 0 | dgbn1x2 | t3_65ke97 | null | null | t1_dgbk4kh | null | 1494107156 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ineedmorealts | null | Oh no I don't like people being openly raciest, what a terrible person I am | null | 0 | 1492314516 | False | 0 | dgbn29h | t3_65free | null | null | t1_dgbmvhi | null | 1494107160 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | redalastor | null | Yes, I do prefer building UIs with Qt. | null | 0 | 1492314597 | 1492321767 | 0 | dgbn40w | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgb80vv | null | 1494107183 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | VictorXLR | null | OMG, You are Real,
I am on Kattis Too, Damn i want to beat your score so bad but the next best score is about 1000 points difference. I am still trying though
I only have 20 points, but i grinded all those 20 points through java.
im in my first year in uni and your website has inspired me to master algorithms before ... | null | 0 | 1492314620 | False | 0 | dgbn4l6 | t3_65fjs2 | null | null | t1_dgblq7c | null | 1494107192 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | paul_miner | null | It's a boring sounding address, but 00000 is one of my favorites. All the goodies were down there, starting with the interrupt table. Interrupt 0x1C! | null | 0 | 1492314638 | False | 0 | dgbn4zg | t3_65i2p2 | null | null | t1_dgatr14 | null | 1494107197 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | blobjim | null | no, we should be using bare webassembly with no formatting/inefficient text based data. Developer tools should never end up on end user's computers. | null | 0 | 1492314727 | False | 0 | dgbn6zv | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbcyfk | null | 1494107224 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pixel4 | null | lol - [here's a real chart](
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programs-are-fastest-firstlast.svgz) - of course benchmarks like this are shitty since lots of the implementations are not always idiomatic | null | 0 | 1492314779 | False | 0 | dgbn84h | t3_65ljzt | null | null | t1_dgbkoew | null | 1494107239 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | probably-poop | null | It doesn't even cover any of the BSDs... | null | 0 | 1492314816 | False | 0 | dgbn8xw | t3_65ljzt | null | null | t1_dgbj1ie | null | 1494107249 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jarfil | null | I don't agree.
There has been Java for a long time, aiming to be multiplaform from the beginning, which just happens to use a JVM instead of a browser stack.
There has been Flash also for a long time, also multiplatform, with its Air for the desktop; it just happened to be... well, you know, Flash.
It just so happen... | null | 0 | 1492314863 | False | 0 | dgbn9yx | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbkr94 | null | 1494107264 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | blobjim | null | java has runtine class loading and modification... | null | 0 | 1492314874 | False | 0 | dgbna84 | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbklqc | null | 1494107267 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | weberc2 | null | I'm a former Qt/C++ dev and I would pick Go for the build system alone ("go build" vs "writing a qmake file, realizing you can't build any non-Qt dependency from source, trying out CMake, cargo culting the Qt recipe, finding out it doesn't apply to your patch version of Qt, finding the right CMake file, tweaking it so ... | null | 0 | 1492314907 | 1492343737 | 0 | dgbnayn | t3_65ljzt | null | null | t1_dgbkhz8 | null | 1494107276 | 64 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | theamk2 | null | The author of this also works on bloc, which is commercial code bootcamp. So:
Option 1: he wanted to have easy-to-use application for beginner programmers (such as people attending his bootcamps) who do not want to figure out how to use regular ssh/terminal/AWS console
Option 2: the goal is to lock-in the users, then... | null | 0 | 1492315067 | False | 0 | dgbnehu | t3_659qps | null | null | t1_dg8nrji | null | 1494107324 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | redditthinks | null | Maybe we should hold ourselves to a higher standard. | null | 0 | 1492315092 | False | 0 | dgbnf0o | t3_65k067 | null | null | t3_65k067 | null | 1494107331 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Doctor_McKay | null | Nothing "was" about it. Even with the "lightweight" client it's currently using 1.5 GB of RAM on my machine. It also crashes rather frequently. | null | 0 | 1492315181 | False | 0 | dgbngyy | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbcbdr | null | 1494107356 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | weberc2 | null | I don't know how this lib works, but Go doesn't try to collect references from C by default (though you can wrap them in a Go pointer and ask the runtime to C.free() them when the Go pointer is collected). This is good because Qt will try to free it's own stuff, at least on the UI side. | null | 0 | 1492315289 | False | 0 | dgbnjfy | t3_65ljzt | null | null | t1_dgbckzw | null | 1494107390 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | theamk2 | null | > ... which is why I’ve been working for Nanobox for the past 2 years, [...] In my mind thats the perfect platform ...
| null | 0 | 1492315299 | False | 0 | dgbnjp9 | t3_656hfx | null | null | t3_656hfx | null | 1494107394 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cephas384 | null | I think that was the point: Atom works great for me. Favorite editor yet (unless I have truly huge files to edit, then I grab vi). But as a hardware/embedded engineer, most of my work is closer to how the original hardware-mapped terminals worked. It's clearly not that.
I do think that there is room for improvement... | null | 0 | 1492315354 | 1492358322 | 0 | dgbnkxf | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbf0gm | null | 1494107410 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SuprDewd | null | Kattis is a hidden pearl. :) | null | 0 | 1492315666 | False | 0 | dgbnrms | t3_65fjs2 | null | null | t1_dgbn4l6 | null | 1494107500 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | btreecat | null | But none of these compare what it might take an average human to do the work "by hand."
Which if we are honest, is the actual real world metric.
If go, python, nodejs, Lua, php, Scala, etc are all multiple times faster than by hand, we are really only squabbling over minor performance percentages. | null | 1 | 1492315765 | False | 0 | dgbntqh | t3_65ljzt | null | null | t1_dgbn84h | null | 1494107530 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | apachechief | null | ...you think unity is easier to use than HTML + CSS?
I mean, at this point HTML and CSS is ridiculously easy to whip things up in, be performant, work on mobile/desktop/tablet, etc... | null | 0 | 1492316036 | False | 0 | dgbnz8n | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbfynu | null | 1494107603 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1492316041 | 1492316329 | 0 | dgbnzcs | t3_65ljzt | null | null | t1_dgbn84h | null | 1494107605 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Chii | null | but the coder didn't write that into the code, it's emergent from the sampling and data, which, if carefully selected to be randomized across society, will mean that we do have a biased society! | null | 0 | 1492316184 | False | 0 | dgbo2j3 | t3_65d47v | null | null | t1_dgb1l1r | null | 1494107649 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | weberc2 | null | Case and point: a new UI framework comes out every week, trying to cross the bridge between a stack rooted in document markup semantics and the dream of a stack with UI control semantics. Rather than building out divs and JS, we should define the presentation and behavior of a widget in a single reusable component! Rat... | null | 0 | 1492316498 | False | 0 | dgbo91q | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgb51jp | null | 1494107736 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Vyse007 | null | As someone who has very recently fallen in love with Racket, I really hope someone takes this up. It would be amazing to just have it work with any C library out there. | null | 0 | 1492316541 | False | 0 | dgbo9y9 | t3_65jol7 | null | null | t1_dgbk2g2 | null | 1494107748 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | 4vfz2ps34j | null | Especially since their ICBM failed to launch. | null | 0 | 1492316634 | False | 0 | dgbobvd | t3_65free | null | null | t1_dgar3o2 | null | 1494107774 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | weberc2 | null | I'm not sure I follow. Electron is still a full browser instance, it's just devoted to your application. Seems it would be easier to just go the ChromeOS route and write a window manager for Chrome tabs. Take it a step further and allow the application server to be installed on the host machine in an app sandbox and yo... | null | 0 | 1492316774 | False | 0 | dgboerq | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbk33s | null | 1494107813 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mindbleach | null | If only it'd run on machines anyone owned.
The web exploded because any idiot could use it. It didn't need a lite version of a library of an implementation of a license just to go Hello World. It was unquestionably the best solution to the actual problem of networking, which is getting people on the goddamn network. T... | null | 0 | 1492316868 | False | 0 | dgbognb | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbl1x7 | null | 1494107838 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | funkinaround | null | > Posted November 15, 2009
I wish the author would have included more examples of both ugly comments and ugly code. The one concrete example is:
if item.getState() == 'finsihed': #is this correct?
Of course this code is ugly, but the comment isn't, at least no more ugly to me than having "TODO" comments in co... | null | 0 | 1492316911 | False | 0 | dgbohk4 | t3_65n5df | null | null | t3_65n5df | null | 1494107851 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | snookums | null | I was looking at libclang today and thinking about it, but I suspect any large code base would be essentially impossible without some manual tweaking. | null | 0 | 1492316961 | False | 0 | dgboin4 | t3_65jol7 | null | null | t1_dgbo9y9 | null | 1494107865 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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