codingthebeach
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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
For stuff I need to be remotely accessible, I use BitBucket and a commercial GitHub Private account. For stuff that can be local only, a series of local git repos.
If security is a concern, I trust a provider like GitHub or BitBucket to secure my data better than I trust myself to secure it, esp. if I also want to be able to access that data remotely.
Then there's the ability to easily convert projects between public and private. Publicize that private side project when it's ready, or privatize the open project that you want to take commercial.
There are a ton of integrations built in to GitHub (not just GitHub Pages) that to me make it a clear win for now with BitBucket a strong 2nd in my mind.
Comment · 11 years ago
Also useful in HTML/CSS/JS-driven desktop UI through Chromium or similar as a way of preventing selection on user interface chassis elements.
Comment · 11 years ago
Interesting ah..perspective.
To me, and to most builders, Windows desktops, and OS X / Linux desktops, are far more viable than iOS or Android; not less. Even John Gruber admits that the iOS app store is rotting.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/12/01/sketch-leaves-m...
Desktop machines may not be sexy -- unless you happen to like games, your example of choice -- but they're reliable, users understand them, they exist in huge numbers, and they're never going away, because humans will always like large, high-resolution displays, and whatever computing device provides that will be "the desktop" going forward.
The comment about "infesting Windows PC with viruses and software" is also inaccurate, and has been since about 2008 or so.
Comment · 11 years ago
@sprucely -- thanks for the downvote -- you prove my point.
Comment · 11 years ago
"In preparation to join US wars, Japan dismantles freedom of the press". What US wars? Populist hogswaddle. Such assertions should be backed up if you're going to make them. As for the supposed rise of "nationalism", to the average liberal, ANY movement in the direction of national security, or any display of pride in one's country, is not just nationalism but fascism, racism, and worse.
Comment · 11 years ago
Secretly one of the better authoring tools out there, but handicapped by an association with "Windows Live" (worst brand ever) and by an overly Windows-centric architecture. This tool should be rebuilt not under .NET (even with MONO) but under something like Electron, for the 3 major desktops, keeping the same clean round-trip HTML/Preview we loved in the old, and adding Markdown support.
Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Possibly just Round 2 of the massive DDOS from March:
https://github.com/blog/1981-large-scale-ddos-attack-on-gith...
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/ddos-attacks-that-cr...
Comment · 11 years ago
Nice! I had fun with this, especially comparing Ember's half a meg footprint to Backbone's 20K. One helpful data point could be whether the library supports a (formal) custom build apparatus, since you can often get a sizable reduction that way. Full jQuery UI clocks in at ~242K, but using http://jqueryui.com/download/ you can often strip it down to 20K or less. Similarly with THREE.js and several others. Going in the other direction, a library that seems small (Backbone.js, @ ~20K) may actually end up being relatively heavy because of required external dependencies. A more explicit side-by-side "compare" function would also be nice here, comparing library size along with other metrics like script loader compatibility, maintenance frequency, different flavors of popularity, etc.
Comment · 11 years ago
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Comment · 11 years ago
It would be nice if you wouldn't derail the conversation with another tired old "but it's not as good as gcc when it comes to X". This is a CTP. You split hairs over minor points of standards compliance that many devs won't even use on gcc yet because the features are so new, and completely avoid mentioning that the productivity of Visual Studio (for both .NET as well as native C++, including cross-platform C++) arguably dwarfs any other IDE on the market. Have you used, I mean really used, a recent version of Visual Studio for C++ work? Or are you making this comment because you haven't and you find it threatening? Tell you what. You build your C++ app with Xcode 6 or command-line gcc for all it matters. I'll build mine with Visual Studio 2013 or later. We'll see who wins. By the way, I love gcc. Love, love, love. That doesn't mean I have to take pot shots at Visual Studio, which is tooled to the Nth, completely stable, and not at all the old restrictive MS dev environment of yore. The times have changed.