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Time has passed and more importantly Electron based apps lowered the expectations of desktop users.

I use dbeaver (https://dbeaver.io/) as my go-to database tool and it's absolutely fine. Not as snappy as native apps for sure, but between Spotify, Slack and VSCode I can't really complain. I used to... but not anymore.

Well frontend devs love marking their territory you know.

> but biggest part of all, its PHP based, written to a very high standard through & through

What?! Holy shit. Is that considered a positive thing these days?! I must be quite out of the damn loop.

How do you even enforce such a policy? And who the hell is IDA run by? The Soup Nazi?

> To me, this is a little weird. One of the downsides of Webview based apps is that it's harder to align with the native OS look and feel.

I'd agree with that in 2014 but this has been much less of a problem since the last few years. The fast pace of mobile OS's have slowed down to a halt. IOS has pretty much the same looks since version 7, Android since version 5.

The metro/material/flat design fashion has been the best thing for cross platforms apps, be it desktop or mobile, any platform or any framework.

Flutter seems to be at the right place at the right time.

No way. Time traveling UX designers are the ones designing Linux DE's today.

Although I use Python extensively and started to forget about Pascal (ex Delphi guy here), Pascal is a much better beginner language IMO.

Start with Python and you're most likely to be stuck with dynamic typing/runtime mindset and it'll distance you too far away from OS level native land.

OTOH starting with Pascal, you'll learn a great deal of low level (well, relatively) stuff and that will make you appreciate the higher level languages when the time comes and will let you leverage them more efficiently. Also as a bonus, a big bonus I think, Pascal will let you feel at home if you ever need C/C++/D in your career.

Mozilla the foundation did deserve this.

This is what you get when you force a perfectly technical CEO out and let the MBA types steer the ship. A browser is a forever bleeding edge tech; you need engineers all the way to the top. They chose political correctness over technical prowess and the product has lost the edge.

EU and NATO have always been abusive partners to Turkey, that's why he's pulling out.

Actually calling them allies from Turkey's pov is outright a foolish thing to do, a better word would be "frenemies".

> because they get paid for it

promised to get paid for it. Yet to see a dime.

For a similar experience in Django, one should better start with https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django instead of the default generated project.

You can achieve a primitive workspace switching scenario via libinput, xdotool and similar bandaids in any distro. What they boil down to is... once a certain 3/4 finger gesture threshold is crossed, it switches to the next/prev workspace in an instant. I'm not talking about that. The instant switch flashing the whole screen makes my head turn. It does not feel natural.

What I'm talking about it the exact MacOS behaviour, that is workspace switching occurs simultaneously while tracking my wrist motion, cancelable in the midst of the transition. That feels natural and allows you quick peeks.

ps. I guess you cannot have the MacOS way via the tools above because those tools should work hand in hand with the window manager, which they don't. Probably, this is a feature that would better be handled within the window manager itself.

- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: Make trackpads great again! Bring on gestures by default.

- DESCRIPTION: Trackpad config situation is a mess. Pretty much every Ubuntu derivative has its own simplified (reads severely lacking) interface. What's worse is the gestures configuration. It's mostly done via some dude's one off scripts found on some forum post 2 years ago.

Give me a MacOS like experience on the trackpad (especially the 3/4 finger workspace switching) and I'd never look back on MacOS again.

That's one hell of a pessimistic view if I've ever seen one.

What I see is an brilliantly managed company despite having a globally distributed team, which has a great pace of development, which is carving a nice market share in an extremely tough market (developers) and against a fierce competitor (Github), let alone the other multibillion company backed Bitbucket.

And their radical transparency, as you put it, is a fascinating thing in and of itself. If anything it makes me feel intimate with the company. Hard to put it in words, maybe because I was a rather early adopter but if you follow them closely it's a like you're there on their board with spectator mode on. That's some invaluable experience for HN crowd.

Are we even talking about the same company?!

An HN with longer attention span and without the haste. Come to think of it that would be really sweet.

LOL. I, too, sometimes forget HN is an American majority community and get enraged by the occasional foolishly bold comment like parent's. But then the reality sets in... I am on American soil here on HN! What was I expecting?

On a tangent with this topic, you guys should treat yourselves with a short sci-fi story named "The road not taken".

That's exactly why I've been flagging. The discussions are almost identical with some conspiracy theories, how Turkey is going backwards and how much Erdogan sucks. This is just r/WorldNews level stuff right there.

I am flagging down all Turkey related threads these days. I don't see how political debates about the failed coup is a subject to be discussed on HN.

In addition to that, parent's advice is also crucial for the team's motivation.

If the project is boring and you choose a boring tech stack to go, the team morale will only be harder to keep up as the time flies by.

> pointless the Yemen war, the support of ISIS and other unsavoury organisations

Not pointless if you follow the politics of the region. Those are all done for breaking Iran's expanding sphere of terror.

JS scene desperately needs a moratorium on tooling just like Python did on language features 5-6 years ago.

Actually the language also needs a total freeze in features. ES5, ES6, transpilers, this and that and bla bla. I used to love language geekery, not so much after a few years of JS exposure. And now there is WebAssembly which is supposed to be a "game changer". Fuck that. I don't want the game to change anymore, I just wanna play.

Or perhaps, I'm just getting old.

> "Clean your weapon" ... "But it is the will of Allah that it is rusting"

Oh :)

Not a cultural/religious phenomena. That is just a sarcastic way to ignore someone. This way of passive resistance is kinder (and safer in context) than to outright say "piss off". Everything is considered will of God in Islam anyways - from someone moving a finger to celestial events.

When an Arab tells you "if it's the will of God" or "tomorrow" you are most likely on your own, nothing is going to get done. True for most of the muslims; more true for most of the Arabs. Source: a muslim.

The upside of this story is once after this kind of weaponry is fired off anywhere on earth there will be one hell of an economic vacuum and a lot of startup opportunities. Considering, of course, you're one of the lucky few million left alive on this planet :-).

I'm speculating, rather sooner than later, the foundation will let people (read Chinese) clone Pi Zero at will ala Arduino way.

They can't even have a profit margin with that price point. So why not open-source it anyway to let go of the burden of manufacturing? That would be a great boost for the Raspberry platform.

You could also check out r/islam and post there for a wider audience.

We're discussing international politics on HN. Gotta take it easy. Beside that, in the face of the morbid reality and impending doom in Middle-east one has the need to laugh some times.

I am afraid the answer to all of those questions is NOPE. ISIS did grow and will continue to grow as long as there is foreign military existence on Middle-east soil. It is extremely easy to recruit people to do anything while their national/religious pride is being pissed on by their historical enemy.

Of course, ISIS is not a one variable function.

I think the point you and @chappi42 miss is that being a jobless individual with no prospects in a war torn country with no end in sight is a whole different psychology than just being a jobless guy. Add this mix some religious agitation and you have the easiest job of all times as the HR manager of ISIS. I think this is the biggest contributing factor. Not the religion itself.

Hate to dwell on topics not suited on HN, but I'll just ask you one thing: how would the French troops on the Syrian ground even remotely help securing France?

USA can pull off its invasive politics via a) pouring insane amount of resources both militarily and politically b) by getting along pretty good with other Muslims while bombing some (like Saudis, Turks, etc.) c) by being an ocean distance away from the very people they drop bombs on.

How will France do all of that with a) much more limited resources b) while being uniformly disliked by almost all Muslim nations due to historical reasons and c) while being a boat ride away from tens of millions of agitated Muslims?

I believe, with this attack, France is pulled into this already extremely messy situation by the powers that be. And I am afraid things will escalate to a much worse situation.