koshersalt

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by koshersalt 9mo ago
That’s cool if you can, but the majority of business desktops/laptops runs Windows. Hard to gain enterprise traction when it’s hard to run tools on your local machine
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by koshersalt 1y ago
Vscode is free, which is a huge positive for it. For lots of places it can be hard to get budget for dev tools. A lot of it can depend on your industry or region
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by koshersalt 2y ago
I think this is a major reason Ruby had trouble taking off compared to Python. Most desktops were Windows, especially for businesses.
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by koshersalt 3y ago
The windows support is a killer, but I think they’ve been working to improve it. 95% of workstations at my office are Windows, so there’s that’s a huge missing market share. I still say that the initial lack of good windows support by Ruby
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by koshersalt 3y ago
Usually it’s meant to prevent kids from changing fonts to make a shorter paper fit the page length requirements.
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by koshersalt 4y ago
I don’t think IMing a link is the main competition so much as “is there an companion app” For the hobbyist/small business though these regular desktop tools are still a godsend
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by koshersalt 5y ago
I tried using it a few years ago to find new stuff to use and was turned off by the amount of meaningless, buzzword laden vaporware. I also didn’t like the weird long comment chains between the product’s founder/cofounders/CTO in
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by koshersalt 5y ago
Also, a quick shoutout for Chocolatey which I use for making embedded packages for managing servers. https://chocolatey.org/ Scoop seems awesome too, just doesn’t fit my particular needs
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by koshersalt 9y ago
At our local theaters it now seems like the older generation can’t put away their cell phones either.
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by koshersalt 9y ago
Have you tried chocolatey? I’ve really enjoyed using it
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by koshersalt 10y ago
Isn't this essentially google news?