philosopherlawr

This is a bit too generic for my taste. I overall agree with the value chains he outlines for each company, but it gets too general when trying to say why Amazon is failing at groceries and Google is failing at Cloud.

I know there's something else he's trying to say, but all I read is "it's outside of their core competency".

So, does this mean Facebook is adopting VS Code?

No way engineers will ever do this. We're far to use to TLAs and also, it's way too long. Having a simple, metaphorical brand name allows you to then build on top of that. Can you imagine if Java had instead been called WriteOnceRunAnywhereC++Alternate instead of java? Then, we'd have the writeoncerunanywhereC++alternate Virtual Machine

This document give me tinglings. Something about how the hooks just click with me and I can see how the web changes with WebAssembly and multiple compile targets (native, desktop, etc.), this will make our lives easier.

There are lots of errors when it comes to reproducing the build on other machines. Pip install -r requirements.txt does not guarantee that you will install the same version of packages on a new machine, and in fact, you will typically not.

Get Off My Lawn!

ETL tools just can't compete with a tool that forces code to do anything. It might seem backwards, but we've abandoned all non-code environments and force pure-code for configuration for all of our pipelines.

Learn from Javascript. As a full stack dev who came to python only recently, I think Python could really learn from what's happening in the js ecosystem.

The author is wrong that Google and Microsoft don't do this level of illustration - they do and have for a while. They just do it on their home search screens, not on their App Stores

You can run this on pre-commit. While you can set PyCharm to run on file save, it is not guaranteed to run on all files. By using a command line tool, you can enforce that all files across your project are formatted this specific way and never let someone check in something that doesn't conform to it. If you have newbie developers, it can be a lifesaver.

How does this compare to yapf?

maybe give it a try. I felt the same way about prettier, but then I realized how much time I save by no longer having to worry about formatting. As I type, I just type it all on one line and then do a keyboard shortcut and it magically gets reformatted and looks pretty.

If only this had offline support for non-NodeJS GraphQL

Another reason is that productivity has very specific integration, security, and deployment requirements before it is used. You would never look at a financial terminal that wasn't secured. A video game on the other hand? Sure, why not?

For us to consider it, it has to be a web app. I don't have time to manage installs on laptops. Also, it's a cool idea to create a virtual cloud engineer, but you're asking people to take on the pain of managing desktop apps for a benefit they don't even see right now.