kakuri

I do front-end development on Windows, and yes, it is a liability (though I'm also not a fan of command-line apps, regardless of platform, which is another liability, since it's much easier to build powerful tools that only expose the crappy, but efficient UI of the command line than it is to develop robust and efficient GUIs).

- Git on Windows is (finally) not bad. You've got Git Bash, Git GUI, TortoiseGit.

- I don't see why the author thinks the CLI is vital for these:

* ssh - Putty

* scp - WinSCP

* ack, grep, find - I like IDEs, when they fit the job, but while I haven't found any suitable for web dev, most handle this task easily. I use Notepad++, which has a decent selection of plug-ins, including one to quickly find and open files in a project.

I do frequently see Windows support as an afterthought, or a non-thought, in the fast-paced world of web dev tools - code linters, compressors, languages/compilers (Coffeescript), build tools. With a decently powered workstation VirtualBox and a Linux VM help ease the pain a bit.

As it stands, I only see codeacademy being useful for programmers who are new to Javascript. If you're completely new to programming, there are too many problems, like the article mentions, that are difficult to get past without knowing... programming!

SRWare distributes a Chromium build called Iron that strips out privacy problems.

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

It sounds like in this case, this guy might be a good candidate - look at all the effort he put in and his ability to remember things, think critically, and learn.

On the other hand, there are plenty of competent programmers not willing to put up with this nonsense, and the companies are going to miss out on them.

Similar experience here. Been watching HN's hiring posts for 6 months or so, replied to many, received about 3 responses. I know I'm no John Carmack, but I've had a $100K+ offer (for a telecommuting position), and have a $100K offer (again, telecommuting) on the table. All these poor companies so desperately trying to hire have never even bothered to investigate if I'm a good candidate.

I'm not too bitter as my opportunities are fine, but it really makes me wonder - are these companies insane? Do they actually want to hire? Do they really think they are amazing enough that nothing less than John Carmack himself is acceptable for them?

I can't switch away from Notepad++ to any editor that lacks instantaneous, no-hassle (no extra key presses), buttery smooth current buffer word auto-complete.

In related news, AdBlock Works Really, Really Well.

Clearly Google's single usability expert was too busy to be involved in this project.

If you don't mind working alone, work with whatever you like. If it's important to your business to attract the best talent, you need to use the best tools. I'm leaving my job largely because of tools & tech, and passed on a lucrative offer to pursue a different job with better tech.

I applaud your enthusiasm, and while I look forward to a future where some degree of logical reasoning and programming skills are commonplace, looking around at a world where it's rare to find a human who is literate with their own spoken and written language, I have no fear of my programming skills becoming common.

Learning a few basics of syntax is one thing, but learning to actually develop software is a skill that is not entirely common even within the subset of mathematically and logically inclined people who are currently programmers.

Click link, see blank page, unblock Flash applet, struggle through reading a single paragraph with eye-gougingly atrocious font and mouse-crushingly stupid scroll functionality... then my head simply explodes from the irony of what I am experiencing and what I am reading. Close window.

> Chrome is absolutely unusable for the amount of windows I have open

Odd, that's the exact reason I switched from FF to Chrome. I generally have about 20-40 tabs open, and FF is terrible for me with more than just a few open, while Chrome flies along gracefully.

I wonder what the cause for the widely varying performance experiences is?

It is very easy to build a form and some views in Lotus Notes.

The result is armies of people not qualified to write programs starting creating Notes "crapplications". Now everyone hates Notes.

That really pisses me off.

I played through the whole (mediocre) game without sound.

The sounds MAKE this game! They could have mentioned they only did a half-assed HTML5 implementation and used Flash for audio.

Why is it disappointing?

Microsoft has become a company that produces technological advances as a side-effect of their primary goal, which is making money. They are not really interested in sharing, or promoting innovation - they are interested in generating lock-in, collecting licensing fees, and stamping out the competition.

What I find truly disappointing is that there are so many brilliant, creative people letting their work be owned and controlled by companies like Microsoft.

Open source projects get admiration and passion because they are OPEN. The top priority is to share the discovery or creation and promote productivity and innovation among others.

I use Stylish for HN (A Dark Hacker News) and reddit (The Dark Reddit).

I live in a big city where they have a local warehouse and they consistently ship movies to me really fast. I'm on the cheapest plan ($8/mo) and when I send a movie back, they get it the next day, and in the same day send out a new one. At that level of service it was already easily worth $8, but now they have an awesomely expanding offering of HD streaming content which makes it tremendously more valuable to me.

I've only talked to them once (I was annoyed that there was no option for communication except phone), but the guy I talked to was very helpful, friendly, receptive, and did indeed seem empowered.

Have you been paying attention to the sorts of people at the top of our capitalistic society? There are precious few who are notable for not being charlatans and con men.

Ethics are for the poor, and laws can be circumvented, re-written, or present only minor speedbumps (profit for law-breaking = $100; fine = $10 => BREAKIN' THE LAW!)

I think tying language design to IDE design is absolutely brilliant. Languages are just a tool, IDEs are just a tool, we're missing brilliant opportunities if we neglect to design them synergistically.

As the world of programming grows, I think it's natural that programmers become more specialized. I think the value provided by sophisticated, complex tools (the language and core API) is worth the additional complexity. I don't think you can avoid complexity by sticking with simple tools - you simply offload the complexity into the application code and end up in the same situation where in order for new programmers to understand the code, they have to have extensive knowledge of the application codebase.

It may even be that concentrating the complexity in the language allows programmers to more easily switch between projects and get up to speed on new projects since they're already familiar with the language complexity and thus have less application-specific complexity to learn.

It took several years, but eventually someone posted a sensible comment below the article - "ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer."

The lecturer, a person in a position of trust, starts with a query coming from a place of deception. The students trusted the teacher to be asking them something relevant and they gave it their best shot. Sure, it's great to always keep a sharp mind and not make assumptions, but it's also a waste of time to question each and every pre-supposition, which is what's required to get to the correct answer of "because you rigged it."