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I have never been able to understand the Slack fetish most tech people have. IMO MS Teams is feature-wise better in most cases. Especially functionality for formatting posts is far better in Teams.

Comment · 1 year ago

Imagine the rapid advancements we could make in those fields if researchers stop wasting time on a baroque, outdated typesetting system.

Comment · 1 year ago

Using a word processor (MS Word, Apple Pages, LibreOffice Writer) is nearly as bad as using LaTeX (in some cases, worse).

Using a plain-text format like Markdown, ReStructuredText or AsciiDoc is likely better in almost all cases.

Comment · 1 year ago

No, I like Markdown.

Comment · 1 year ago

From https://www.latex-project.org/about/:

"LaTeX is not a word processor! Instead, LaTeX encourages authors not to worry too much about the appearance of their documents but to concentrate on getting the right content."

IMO, the only people that use LaTeX are people who are willing to trade the convenience and productivity of using a sane document authoring format for the warm and fuzzy feeling you get when you use an outdated piece of typesetting software that is a) hard to configure, b) hard to use and c) produces output for the least useful reading platform available (paged pdfs).

And the pronounciation is stupid.

Comment · 3 years ago

I always recommend "The Pragmatic Programmer" (Hunt, Thomas) and "Code Complete" (McConnell).

Comment · 3 years ago

Joel Spolsky's (harsh) comments on SOLID, from a 2009 episode of the Stack Overflow podcast (https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/01/22/podcast-38/ https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?pg=pgWiki&comm...):

"And, when I was listening to them, they all sounded to me like, to me, extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly."

Comment · 3 years ago

https://docs.python.org/3/

Comment · 4 years ago

Of the modern front-end frameworks: What is the best framework to add some front-end interactivity to a existing server-side-rendered application (Flask, Ruby on Rails etc.), without going all SPA?

Comment · 5 years ago

I wish there was benchmarks for IDEs/editors, just like there are benchmarks for web frameworks (https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ https://web-frameworks-benchmark.netlify.app/).

For instance, given some Java program/project:

1. Clock time from selecting "Run" in the IDE to first line written to stdout (to measure startup time)

2. Clock time from selecting "Debug" in the IDE to breakpoint hit and debugger able to inspect stack (with breakpoint on line N)

3. Total memory used with open project, with single editor window open.

4. Total memory used when breakpoint hit.

5. Clock time from selecting "Run tests" in the IDE to test results are displayed

6. Clock time from selecting "Debug tests" in the IDE to breakpoint hit and debugger able to inspect stack (with breakpoint on line N)

Comment · 5 years ago

I hope the author at some point adds the section on ConfigureAwait. I've seen code bases where the devs have added .ConfigureAwait(false) to all invokations "just to make sure".

Comment · 6 years ago

Found this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41550727/how-does-docker...

And:

https://dockercon.docker.com/watch/U7Bxp66uKmemZssjCTyXkm

Comment · 6 years ago

I do not understand docker on windows.

If I understand correctly, when I run a docker image on Linux then the dockerized processes's syscalls are all executed by the host kernel (since - again if I understand correctly - the dockerized process executes more or less like a normal process, just in isolated process and filesystem namespace).

Is this correct?

But how does docker on windows work?

Comment · 7 years ago

Are there any plans for implementing code completion/intellisense?

Comment · 7 years ago

IMO, MS Teams works pretty well. Not as good as Slack, but not horrible.