chiefsucker

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by chiefsucker 3y ago
Disclaimer: I am an application developer, and one of the maintainers of the Drogon C++ web framework. C++ & apps don’t fit well together technologically these days. Android? Go Kotlin. iPhone? Go Swift. Cross platform? Meh, kind of dis
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by chiefsucker 5y ago
The less updates a software gets, the higher is the probability that you’re dealing with abandonware.
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by chiefsucker 5y ago
Just to give you an example: Some Samsung SSDs have slightly strange TRIM behavior that basically seems to get unnoticed during normal workloads. But when you build a Hackintosh with a recent version of macOS this exact TRIM behavior result
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by chiefsucker 5y ago
Isn’t this already one recursion level too deep? ;)
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by chiefsucker 5y ago
If it’s about side money, it usually also implies a smaller, side project, not necessarily, but eventually for smaller businesses to whom technological choices don’t matter. You just define the outcome together with your client, and use C++
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
From my limited understanding not the distance is the problem, but the constant focus at a point in the same distance. That’s the reason why they recommend to look at distant objects every 15 minutes or so. Starring at a tree for ten hours
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
Tab cycling can be a productivity killer, especially when you need to cycle between more than 4–5 applications (which can happen quite often, but OP wrote “alt-tab (or otherwise)”. What works excellent (at least for me, not necessary for yo
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
I also don’t mean to pick on you personally, but do you think that 8x as stupid is better than 4x as stupid? Not everything is a numbers game.
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
It’s really fascinating how humanity can twist almost everything around and start seeing it from a bad perspective. Maybe the author is a very engaged developer who already knows a huge part of the “boring software that supports the world”?
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
This is patently false. I talk to non-tech "regular" users all the time that don’t know what I’m talking about when I mention AMP and its issues.
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
A common convention with system administrators is to have the canonical name at www.* and redirect www-less requests to the former. If you argue that a browser implementation should fix uncommon configurations, I would argue that administra
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
What the heck? A regular user doesn’t understand or care what the technical difference between a “regular” page and AMP is. I wouldn’t call this ignorance per se.
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
To have a monopoly doesn’t mean to have a specific market share, it means to show monopolistic behavior.
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
Apple wouldn’t be Apple if they wouldn’t abandon old technologies in favor of newer ones. This actually splits developer mindset into two camps: those who love the introduction of new stuff and deem it necessary to achieve progress, and tho
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
+1 When you’re on it, also install Vimac [1]. I’ve mapped it to ⌃Space (similar to Spotlight’s ⌘Space). It’ll make you grab the mouse / trackpad less often. [1] https://github.com/dexterleng/vimac/
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
AWS doesn’t necessary sound like OSS, but to each his own ;) It’s definitely great that such an architecture worked for you and also shows how hard it can be to run a full OSS stack these days.
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
> "whatever is the latest framework can take advantage of all the latest methods and libraries to become the fastest" I’m not sure I understand this, i. e. TRANTOR (which is the underlying network library for Drogon) recently m
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
One of Drogon’s project goals is great performance. That’s also one of the reasons why it’s written in C++.
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
> For example, https://github.com/an-tao/drogon (benchmark winner) or https://oci-pronghorn.gitbook.io/greenlightning/ just aren't pleasant to work with. What makes you say that Drogon isn
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
Yes, exactly. When I need HN in dark mode, I open a pre-configured Terminal profile with w3m launched by default, and have a nice greenish font on a dark background. It looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/FqLB0g8
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
Huh? Apple provides an example implementation at https://github.com/apple/swift-nio and I would say it’s straightforward to “get up and running”. It’s pretty easy to take Apple’s HTTP implementation, add a router, int
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
It may be tempting to go the middleware route, but whenever I worked with middleware I had completely unrelated issues to the underlying framework which either complicated matters, or made it impossible to fix specific bugs. Then there’s th
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
I understand the author’s perspective on the topic, especially from where he’s coming from, but I’m less excited for Swift on the server. As things currently are you are better off with C++ on the server than with Swift. This is how bad thi
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
I use the “Emacs Mac Port” which is available via Homebrew. https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
> Didn't really occur to me that the installation experience is completely different these days, but that makes sense. I used Gentoo as my main OS for multiple years over a decade ago, installed it a couple of times, and helped with
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
I also have this bug, and a couple more. When you use the smaller floating keyboard at some point the keyboard starts to jump to the lower left corner. Swipe to type doesn’t work anymore. I also have a bug with their hardware keyboard. Afte
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
If you want something minimalist I can recommend the HÅG Capisco. It looks a little bit weird, but is really comfy once you get used to it. The chair supports active sitting which means you won’t sit in one position for eight hours straight
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by chiefsucker 6y ago
It’s only supported on Ubuntu, not Linux in general, and it still lacks. The corporate backing is missing, and IBM going away from the Server-side Swift deal doesn’t spread confidence. The whole ecosystem just isn’t there (yet?). This rewri
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
> It is obvious the author has little to no experience in developing production software in Rust. Statements like these don’t necessarily speak for the user-friendliness of Rust or Rust itself. Safety? OK, cool. But for what cost?
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
Using a frozen language isn’t the real problem here, though. The Apple ecosystem slowly gains new frameworks like SwiftUI that simply don’t work with Objective C anymore. The platform is abandoning one language similar to Microsoft and thei

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