throwaway89988

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by throwaway89988 2y ago
What you say works 100% for trivial CRUD applications. Which is also, where SCRUM is still a bad framework, but at least SCRUM works on this trivial level of software development. When a project is about non trivial projects, people, especi
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by throwaway89988 2y ago
There are only relative few startups or non startups which need complex infrastructure from a technical point of view... In reality, there is a strong bias in favor of complex cloud infrastructure: "We are a modern, native cloud compan
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by throwaway89988 2y ago
Sorry, you lost me there. I am CS and literally every single one colleague in IT with an electrical engineering background where subpar compared to CS students. (Of course I don't claim that is true in generell or for that there are no
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by throwaway89988 2y ago
Another vote for KDE3 as the best Linux desktop environment. I forgot how it was called, but one could easily automate the whole desktop back then via scripts and an interface to the KDE3 programs. KDE IMHO never returned to that level of p
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by throwaway89988 2y ago
I used MermaidJS for diagrams in one of my projects. Initially it was fun, although MermaidJS lacked support for the diagram types I used at that time. What stooped to be fun, is that MermaidJS needs a whole Chromebrowser engine to render t
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by throwaway89988 2y ago
Thank you very much for insights and elaboration! I am not too very happy that we need at least CSS/HTML/Javascript (ok, HTMX...) for web applications and would love to have a simpler tech stack. For me, the biggest concern is CSS
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by throwaway89988 2y ago
Hi Jeremy, congratulations for the launch and the website looks very nice indeed. I am honestly mostly interested in your reason, to mix HTML/CSS generation into the Python code. Disclaimer, I am very biased towards separation of conce
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by throwaway89988 2y ago
The base system does not need a Firewall, according to them, and they might be correct about that or not. IMHO the point of having a firewall which simply denies all incoming connections is, that once a user starts installing a few programs
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by throwaway89988 2y ago
I tried out Aeon a while back and mostly liked the idea, but not so sure about the execution. First, last time they had no firewall and the main developer thinks a firewall is not needed. I disagree strongly and won't run an OS w/
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by throwaway89988 2y ago
Linux desktop user here, and you ask a very good question which frustrates me to no end. You are 100% correct, everything which is executed with your login user users rights, can happily upload everything from your home to some random serve
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by throwaway89988 3y ago
I might be able to add several points to this discussion: - For me, caffeine has really bad impact on my sleep quality, and it is an accumulative effect: After being abstinent for 1-2 weeks, I can drink 2 cups of coffee in the morning, and
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by throwaway89988 3y ago
Sadly I totally agree: Open Source is the playground of people who can afford it. I benefited a lot of Open Source in my career, life so I am very thankful for all contributors (and try to give back in money/time, when I can afford one
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by throwaway89988 3y ago
Thanks for the inside story. Let me elaborate: Scala failed hard in the sense, that it was IMHO a far superior language compared to Java around 2010 (! JDK 7/8 times) and basically is dead now for new projects (unless there are some di
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by throwaway89988 3y ago
IMHO the keyword is 'microservice': Compile times of 30sec for a microservice are not acceptable for me, btw. The projects I am referring to were bigger, and the time to compile/open projects in IDEA where _not_ acceptable at
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by throwaway89988 3y ago
Nice writeup, the IT industry is fashion driven for at least 2 decades now, and in the echo chamber of the internet bullshit like 'exceptions == bad' are repeated w/o any real world experience. Checked exceptions in Java are
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by throwaway89988 3y ago
Sorry, but Odersky is nothing like Wirth. Scala failed hard because it is kitchen sink of every half baked feature someone wanted to write a PhD thesis about. The graphs of the interdependencies of the standard library are an excellent exam
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by throwaway89988 3y ago
I am not a big fan of Linux and it has its share of problems, but your comment just shows severly misunderstandings. 1.) Linux is rock stable as a server/embedded os, given the right distribution (Debian, RHEL) 2.) On the desktop Linux