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I'll be also trying this on xorg, see if that helps any.

Gnome-shell keeps crashing due to a libgobject segfault. About 4 times a day. No idea where the fault is, and even more amusingly, my other laptop works fine on the same settings.

Price of complex software, I suppose.

How did Slack and Hipchat beat (in the short term at least) Basecamp? Basecamp costs flat $100 per month and has several other tools besides just chatting.

https://basecamp.com/

As an aside, I'd like to see more tools with less predatory scaled pricing.

Well, yes. My dislike of PHP took a steep dive right around the time I didn't have to use it anymore. It's obviously way easier to dislike something you use, and even more easy if it's something you have to use.

If you mean software developers and not UX designers, that's silly. You get crisp text on 640x480 if you use bitmap fonts.

Gnome 3 seems quite fine, at least how it is in Fedora 27. It's rather pretty by default, and with Wayland, it handles things like multi-monitor DPI better than anything else I've seen. And not only in Linux side, but also versus Windows and Mac OS.

I've been a rabid tiling WM user several years before. I'm liking the other benefits enough that I'm willing to let that go. Gnome developers are working on some sort of tiling support, so we might be able to enjoy that as well in the future.

FWIW, many OpenBSD tools use a configuration language that's not too far from HCL. I'm much more confused by the industry using the difficult to parse (for both humans and computers) YAML for everything.

Zookeeper is industry standard? I guess that explains why it's such a mess.

https://github.com/metosin/compojure-api this library uses clojure.spec with Swagger APIs to check data validity.

Perhaps some current or upcoming EU regulation (GDPR anyone?) will stop them from milking their users.

Is it the whole Europe though, or just the smaller countries?

Do they lock out also paying customers, i.e. those with a gsuite account?

>Don’t expect too much, GNOME considers proper HiDPI out of scope and only supports 96dpi and 192dpi (and other integer multiples)

Argh. That's depressing. But still, Gnome with Wayland is the only DE I've seen that gracefully handles multiple monitors with different DPIs.

No, not joking. I have some French courses under my belt from my childhood, but I never got very fluent with it because I never had any use for it. Having an actual need to use the language would be great.

Yeah, I know people are working on cloning i3. Perhaps these attempts will be successful some day, but so far, they are very lacking compared to what Gnome gives.

Oddly, I'm more fascinated that I'll be able to learn French reading through the materials of that course. Perhaps Smalltalk will follow on the side :)

I'm so ready to jump from my i3 setup to Gnome if they get the tiling even half as good as i3's is. Why? Because of Wayland (which gives me proper (Hi)DPI support for multiple monitors) and integration that I don't have to tweak myself in order to work.

So quite excited about this.

It's an fun point that Capitalism, the system that internally requires competition to work, also externally requires competition to work.

>Swift has no quality high-level concurrency primitives - until those arrive, Swift is a complete non-starter as a server language.

That's just false. Server-side projects that require concurrency are a tiny minority.

>after being encrypted using argon2.

Nitpick: s/encrypted/hashed/

> Now we have Slack, Discord, Gitter, Microsoft Teams, and Atlassian Stride.

I'm looking forward to Matrix eating all of their lunches. There absolutely no reason to have competing standards in this space. A horrible duplication of effort.

Indeed. I realize the guy I answered to was probably just trolling, but it was very effective. To suggest that Rasmus should get academic praise for PHP is highly insulting.

No, but should we give it the Nobel Prize for it?

Or perhaps he should be in prison for being partially responsible for some of the worst security breaches in the industry.

>Does choosing C++14 over C++11 mean the resulting game is more fun?

Even though I agree with the main point of the article, I have to point out that when a game doesn't crash every hour, it's definitely more fun.

Few examples of games that do crash: many games in the Elder Scrolls series, Fallout 3 (and New Vegas), Dwarf Fortress. Games that are undeniably complex and emergent in such ways that the coders have no way of testing everything.

It will be so great that people will be able to make even more complex games, and have them not crash.

Check out Chef's https://habitat.sh for one fresher take on all this. It moves the containerization approach closer to something that feels like Arch Linux packaging, with a pinch of Nix-style reproducibility. Looks very promising at this point, even if a bit rough on the edges still.

PHP in general is easy to write. Philosophically, it's all over the map due to mostly historical reasons. People say that the current development team are making it better and I don't disagree. There's just so much you cannot do when the core is so shakingly built.

Still, most of the uglies of the languages can be learned and then circumvented in action or by using proper tooling.

PHP 7 followed the general trend of bringing stronger types into dynamic languages. You can now annotate function arguments with types. I believe that makes it possible to write a static type checker, but I haven't seen one yet.

Why people hate it? I cannot speak for the whole public, but I dislike the language because it let me down. My first experience with PHP is from 1998ish, when I saw it as a way superior option to Perl, and ported a web application to PHP.

After that, I learned about programming. I didn't touch PHP again until 2013, when I got a job in a PHP shop. I went there with an open mind, thinking that the programming language is one of the least important things when building products. But every step of the way, PHP somehow got in my way. It hadn't gotten better in ways I would've liked. It let me down.

Now, of course, I don't work there anymore, so the amount of fucks I give at the language is slowly declining. Soon, I'll be able to not care at all.

Is there a PHP modding squad in Hacker News? Legitimate, non-offensive anecdotes are getting downvoted in this thread while all positive comments are being upvoted.

I think I've seen such a trend rising in the past few years, but I wasn't sure: every thread covering PHP in some way gathered a crowd that defended "how PHP is much better since 5.x" or referred to PHP being hated by people without any good reason.

And yes. This very comment got downvoted to 0 in less than a minute from its submission.

That place makes me feel like there's some hope in this industry.

Also, incidentally, I'd happily pay a bit of premium for a TV / Monitor that has good image quality but no other features. Perhaps not 2x as much, but 20% might be doable.

What is less clear, however, is the capability of the traditional payment networks to improve. Before bitcoin et al, they might have had no reason to. I don't find it very likely that the 60 days transaction speed, for instance, is unfixable.

Some people just needs to get off their asses and dive deep into some horrific legacy code and/or processes and fix or rewrite them. If they are pushed hard enough, they'll do it.