polymeris

> They should just offer cheap Xeon D VMs

They do, they call them "Workload Intensive", and they start at 25 euros for 6 cores and 8^H [edit: 15] gigs of RAM. https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ That said, I have no idea how they perform in practice.

> Is there some primitive or primate instinct in all of us?

I think so. An instinct exacerbated by marketing.

Most of us who aren't wealthy also spend a decent chunk of our incomes on unnecessary things. They might not be luxuries as extravagant as the ones described in the article, but they would still pay for plenty of shirts in India -- or my country. Why do we do this? Why do we eat at restaurants, go on vacations abroad or buy nice clothes instead of spending that money in a humanitarian way?

After that, it's just a matter of scale and of getting used to a lifestyle that includes 100s of ugly bags and tackily framed works of art.

I really need to give Reagent+React native another shot. Last I tried there where still some apparently minor, but annoying issues.

That said, even as a clojurescript fan, I wouldn't call this a solution, more like a practical workaround for a deeply flawed dev experience.

If you are OK with running a >3 year old version of Postgres, that is.

Other than that, openshift is nice, though, I agree.

Would dead code elimination be an option, if you are not using all of Qt?

> Eh? Reagent does not require any metadata, ever.

I am no expert in reagent, but I think it requires it to access Reacts component lifecycle callbacks like `component-did-mount` and such.

> I do not like sublime as it isn't FOSS

VS Code is not FOSS, either, I believe? [EDIT: Wait... it is open source. Must have missed that announcement]

I do like it a lot, though. KomodoEdit is pretty neat, as well. Even though it's closer to a full IDE, it feels very responsive. If either VS Code or KomodoEdit added something like paredit, I'd switch to them.

Am super frustrated with how buggy Evernote is, and would be interested in an alternative, but...

"We currently only support your browser in read-only mode. Read more."

You don't support firefox!? It's not like it's some obscure browser.

Also the demo canvas on the landing page being slightly tilted to the left freaks me out.

That's what they'll spend on therapy after having Python inflicted on them!

Curious, since you seem to have experience with both graph and relational databases (and I have not really worked much with the former)... if I had a graph where I just want to compute the shortest weighted path between two nodes, which model would suit better and how much difference would it make in terms of performance?

That's depressing... poor kids.

More than the presence of other people, I find the noise, the chatter, distracting. OTOH, there is some truth to the "collaboration" argument, IMO.

So, what we have done at our office is to just have to more or less equally size open spaces: one library-silent, one meeting-room-noisy. It's not perfect, but cheaper than individual offices, while still allowing you to concentrate when you most need to.

Alternatively, a keyboard shortcut would be great.

That was about 6 months ago. Apparently, she later changed her mind. (I can't find any good sources, though)

Just curious, why do you consider the T440s unusable? I have had mine for years and, while it's not perfect, I don't have any big complaints about it.

At least on mine, you can use Fn-Esc to engage "FnLk" and use the F keys as default. Also, somewhat related you can swap Ctrl and Fn in the BIOS if you prefer your Ctrl key to be in the bottom left, like me.

If I understand it correctly:

>What's the other kind of design that isn't like those eastern european apps?

According to the author, the dominant Californian minimalism (Google Material Design & Apple's flatter IOS7 compared to previous versions). This eastern european style would be based on this, but add definitely non-minimalist gradients and shadows and glows and stuff...

>What's dribbbbblization?

Looks over function: https://blog.intercom.io/the-dribbblisation-of-design/

A (very basic) version in Lua/LPEG I did a while ago:

https://gist.github.com/polymeris/857a7ae31db0d240ef3f

Lua, thanks to Metalua, works pretty well as a meta language, so you could easily add static typing, while keeping the benefits of its interpreter.

OTOH, the same is true for Scheme.

> Or are there other similar projects?

There are at least half a dozen somewhat related projects: nginx_lua, tir2, luajit.io, luanode, tarantool, lusty, plus a bunch of libuv bindings.

And yeah, a single lua 'killer app' could do a lot for the language's popularity (elua comes close, but is a bit niche).