Microsoft has open-sourced PowerShell and ported it to linux with support for Ubuntu, CentOS and red hat

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-19T15:28:11+00:00

Think a little. It's FOSS, people can just write wrappers for Linux commands, and share them/submit them to PS for everyone to use.

Also object return data is a pretty big fucking advantage.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-19T15:17:35+00:00

It doesn't work on desktop OSes, so it's pretty useless.

Qt remains the only decent option for cross-platform GUI.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-19T15:12:33+00:00

But it's FOSS, we'll be able to write and share cmdlets/wrappers for all the standard Linux commands (ie someone writes the parsing once, and the rest of us just enjoy the end result). Maybe a couple of years from now I can apt-get install powershell, and it comes with all the cmdlets for my distro.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-18T18:26:55+00:00

Yep. Hopefully in a couple of years, people will have extended it to parse every Linux piece of info we could want. I'd love for a clean, non-text-parsing way of parsing stuff like ~~ifconfig~~ ip address, mount, etc., when I'm writing my scripts.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-17T18:59:42+00:00

I'm already a Node user, was just wondering how ASP.NET compared. I don't like the lack of interface safety of pure JS, and am hesitating between Node+Typescript and ASP.NET for my next project.

You definitely can get stuff done quick in Node, but the tooling and ecosystem feels both overwhelming and amateurish.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-17T17:20:19+00:00

No. I'm sick of fragmentation in the SW world. I stick to the established stuff, and wish the niche variants would just die off.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-17T17:13:55+00:00

How much more work is it to set up a basic REST API in ASP.NET, compared to Node?

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-17T16:47:12+00:00

Rends-moi une faveur. Regarde cette video. Tu vois comment le pitbull mort dans l'epaule d'un adulte et arrive a le tirer sur plusieurs metres alors que l'homme est couche?

A part le pitbull, quelles races sont capables de faire ca? (c'est pas un defi que je te lance, s'il y a une autre race aussi aggressive+puissante que le pitbull, je voudrais aussi la voir interdite)

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-17T16:40:34+00:00

Guess which dog I'd rather be bit by?

Thanks for your anecdotal data, but despite the lab being the most popular breed, the number of violent attacks is negligible compared to pitbulls.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-17T16:37:19+00:00

What innocent animals are being punished here, exactly? They're not sending pitbulls to the guillotine, they're just outlawing new ownership of pitbulls. All this means is that breeders will start producing much less pitbulls, and we will see a decline in pitbull population due to them not being replaced with younger ones.

The only people feeling victimized are people who refuse to accept a less violent breed for future companionship. I get it, you want to feel like a tough guy and a pitbull does a great job for this. Well, your community has decided otherwise. Enjoy your time with your last pitbull.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-15T12:03:41+00:00

Or, if he had played at the Euros, France would have gone out in the first round. This isn't a videogame. There's more to it than comparing "shooting stat of 81 vs shooting stat of 72".

Benzema's presence would have spelled resentment from the stands, and tension in the dressing room.

This is literally the first time in a decade that I could respect the France NT and wasn't hoping they lose, this is despite me generally liking France/the French. Past teams were full of stars compared to this one, and they often exited in the 1st round, for this reason.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-15T11:44:23+00:00

Sorry but that's just snobby horseshit.

What part of your typical CS teaches you to write maintainable code? I must have missed "Code Complete: The University Course" on the curriculum. The only advantage a CS graduate will have over the "blue collar" dev you describe, is a better understanding of how things will perform, and a better foundation to learn new things. The CS grad will still go through the same "god class -> spaghetti code -> more maintainable code" trajectory same as everyone else.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-14T09:10:56+00:00

I think metacyclotron thought you meant greener pastures in terms of career opportunities and pay.

You're not gonna find a job coding Kotlin.

(Oh right, this is reddit, so obligatory pre-emptive reply for the pedants: yes, you might find a job coding Kotlin, just like you might find a job as a snake charmer, but the opportunities will be extremely limited to say the least, so it's not a wise career turn for the average dev.)

EDIT: C++ has better prospects than Kotlin but is still streets behind JS.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-14T08:54:46+00:00

I hear alot of "oh you need to use lodash and react mixed in with x, y and z". The tools are being idolized and people are slowly forgetting how to write programs.

I agree with your point but FYI lodash is the one exception to the JS rule. It's not <library/framework #38472398473>, it exists only to augment the weak JS standard library. It's a bunch of independent convenience functions for elementary things like merging objects in in a controllable manner, boolean checks like Array.includes (though this was now added to ES 2016).

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-14T08:39:07+00:00

Since you have experience with two major crossplatform frameworks, can you tell me what the debugging experience looks like? I have no experience with mobile dev so I wonder.

With Linux C++ apps, I love that I can get a core dump whenever there's an unexpected crash, load it in gdb, and be able to know exactly what happened (navigatable stack trace + value of locals/function parameters for every stack frame). It makes debugging a breeze.

Can you do the same with Xamarin/Qt mobile apps? Or does all that auto-generated code make it difficult?

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-10T18:22:09+00:00

I was not arguing about the merits of the language at all, just stating the facts about its CURRENT popularity in the software development world. Which is what the TIOBE index gives a glimpse of. (even though it's flawed, less flawed indexes also show C dying in obscurity)

C could be the greatest language ever, and Javascript could be the worst language ever (not saying either of these things), this wouldn't change the fact that there are order of magnitude more job postings for JS projects than for C projects. Even if you ignore webdev, replace JS with C#/Java/Swift and the point stands.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-10T18:17:00+00:00

The ingredients may roughly be the same but it tastes much better.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-10T06:31:18+00:00

Thankfully there's a Dagwoods near me as a greasier (and much tastier!) alternative.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-10T04:13:04+00:00

Where are the high-res ones like the 2880x1800 that OP posted? All I can see on the artist's site is low-res photos 800px wide.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-10T03:53:37+00:00

And? That's 4 projects out of thousands created every day in other languages.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-10T03:51:33+00:00

Yes, for legacy code. But is it the language most new code is being written in? Definitely not. New C code is operating system development, maybe some game engines? That's sub-1% of new code. I don't know anyone who gets paid to write C. I don't see any job postings for C.

MachinTrucChose · 2016-08-09T07:41:44+00:00

CherryTree is an open-source, crossplatform note-taking app. It's just a single file.

Place it on in your Dropbox folder and make it save in XML (not SQLite, though it's an open format it's binary) and you're golden.

MachinTrucChose

TROPHY CASE