I'm a New Zealander and have been trying to relocate to the states for many years. It basically comes down to finding someone to marry me while I am there on my 3 month visiting visa.
Problem is, it's hard enough finding someone to hold my hand in NZ, let alone marriage in another country.
I had high hopes that Clinton would win and I'd have my dream realised. I guess, it was never meant to be.
I don't know where all the hate for GitLab is coming from, but for my use case, their SaaS git solution is almost exactly what I have been looking for.
It's so good, I am both surprised and angry I didn't find it sooner.
Might be costly to emulate x86 - negating the power-saving benefits of ARM, however as it'll be using an SOC, they would have a lower physical presence.
Imagine the motherboard on your phone, but in your laptop. The rest of the space would be used for batteries.
Generally speaking, I really like OSX/macOS. I am starting to grow a disdain towards Windows, with it's insistence on changing the default browser to IE + Bing on every update.
Linux is great, but it just doesn't do it superficially for me. I can make it look great for screenshots, but as soon as I click a button or engage with the DE, the facade falls apart.
macOS/OSX seems to be like a Linux distro with a very well developed desktop manager.
The only problem is, I need to buy a Mac. Who the hell can afford that, holy sh*it
Can I get someone's opinion on Snap? Is it worth paying attention to?
My understanding is that it's a package manager that installs applications in their own isolated Linux sandbox, meaning you can install/distribute them on any distribution.. right?
Does that mean software like node.js or nginx/apache will be available via Snap?
I think you're confusing the company formerly known as Snapchat, now called 'Snap Inc.' with the 'Snappy' package manager (hosted out of 'snapcraft.io') which makes linuxy packages called 'snaps'. The two are unrelated.
I also got confused (I was wondering "who is Snap, and why is he investing in Google"), Snap is not that popular at the news sites that I read (which is mostly Hacker News :), at least after their name change.
I'm a Jr dev who spent a year sneaking into lectures, studying, stealing food before I became employable. I now work 70 hours a week for peanuts and although I feel fine, I am pretty sure I am about to rip my hair out.
You do not need to work 70 hours a week. You would be more productive if you worked 40 hours a week. Beyond a certain point, more time spent is a net negative, because it hurts your ability to think clearly. Plus, even if it did make you more productive, the cost still wouldn't be worth it.
Thus, whatever is motivating you to work longer hours is mistaken. If it is your own belief, fix it. If it is the belief of the company you work at, either try to work with them to get more reasonable hours or try to find a new job.
I think they need to focus more on encouraging developers to get into making Apps for their platform.
In my opinion, we don't need another platform to learn - you can see how many people agree with me when you look at how prevalent web > native technologies are right now. PhoneGap, ReactNative, NativeScript.
If Microsoft decided to focus on Edge, not as a token "we still make browsers" gesture, but with a genuine interest to innovate.
They focused on web technologies, providing native support for web within their operating systems. Support in ways other manufacturers haven't.
Imagine if their app store was a place where you could publish a progressive web app (along side their current apps).
> Imagine if their app store was a place where you could publish a progressive web app (along side their current apps). How low would the barrier of entry be then?
Win10 (UWP) apps can be written entirely in HTML5/JS:
Insofar as the HTML and JS standards specify APIs, it uses them - e.g. you get IndexedDB, websockets, canvas, WebGL etc. For OS-specific things that aren't covered by the standards, you invoke WinRT APIs directly, but they're exposed as JS objects (and in a way that maps naturally to idiomatic JS - e.g. callbacks for async).
All this has been there since Win8. What more, Microsoft is also investing into PhoneGap, e.g. by adding direct support for it in its tooling:
Problem is, it's hard enough finding someone to hold my hand in NZ, let alone marriage in another country.
I had high hopes that Clinton would win and I'd have my dream realised. I guess, it was never meant to be.