johnmurray_io

Not sure about VSCode, but I use CLion's remote-development workflow with a local docker container. Works well enough for my purposes.

Checkout the original video introducing Onyx: http://youtu.be/vG47Gui3hYE

He may be a bit interesting, but based on your assumption that he "hates" Scala seems to indicate that he is a very angry person (given that he still prefers Scala to other alternatives). I think he is emotionally invested in Scala and upset that it didn't turn out exactly how he would have like to see it, but "hate" seems like a strong (possibly incorrect) word to use.

He also claims at the end that he's going to keep using Scala on his new venture because it's the best tool he has, at the moment.

I agree. However, I wouldn't say that this is entirely useless as it does offer some suggested alternatives to help build better habits. What I discuss in my post is something that I've seen friends and co-workers struggle with and the newsletters were something largely unknown to some.

I completely agree with you. Way too often to I read articles stating various truths based on their sole experiences. This is just one more thing that devalues HN and warrants curation.

In this particular case, this is not only my experience but the experience of some of my colleagues and friends. That doesn't mean that this applies to everyone and obviously it is an opinion article.

If you read my article, then you'd know how. Curated content. It gives you the best of both worlds. Being able to dig through less news to find "good" content while still keeping up with today's news. With the added bonus that you can choose your content (wide categories / general tech or specific communities like Android, or HTML5).

Curated content still gives you what you want, but with less work. Additionally, you're reading will be consolidated (in theory) into a larger block of time on a less frequent basis, freeing up more time throughout your week.

Exactly. Even a better reason to read curated content. You need to get awareness with what's going on in the tech community without sinking massive amounts of time. Do you really need to know about some lisp-variant someone implemented in 20 lines of Ruby.

Oh definitely. I would just argue that you had to dig through a lot of posts that were less-than-beneficial and that a filter for an "Ask HN" would have been more worth your time. And that is just one form of curated content that I was mentioning.

Sure, but what is the opportunity cost of reading all of those posts and what are you really gaining from reading all of those "new technology of the month" postings?

I wonder what parts of PHP (if any) they're re-writing in C or if it's purely application-code that they've ported to C.

The code-examples look awful in Chrome on Windows... :-[

Here comes another round of Hacker News posts about how you should never host your app in just one availability zone...