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Wait , what ? My comment started by "Thanks" that's a weird interpretation really...
If you have 1000 companies following the course that's like 10% chance of getting funding, regardless of whether or not there is an equity that's the point.
Nonetheless , the API seem to be behind the original. Hence interop with JavaScript seems incredibly messy and time consuming.
>100 companies who complete the course will also receive $10K.
Depending on your location and what position you are in your career , Funding can be a big issue.
This small grant can be a big help to start a business , but 100 companies is quiet limited to be honest.
Well , to be fair Go is becoming a major server side language and I don't see Google abandoning it any time soon.
That being said , Dart is basically on "life support" has of now , there is no SDK what so ever beside Google + Firebase , and I haven't heard anything from AWS / Azure or others vendors to support Dart + Flutter.
I feel like everyone is basically waiting for the language to take off to actually invest in it.
I'm afraid it will end up like Xamarin , a niche tech that will eventually die out because very little people accept the ecosystem that is forced on them by using the framework.
I don't know why , it reminds me of that one time where an engineer applied for a job at Google and had to go through about a dozen interviews.
Ultimately he was rejected by them.
Every-time there is a discussion about Dart , people talk about Flutter... they very rarely talk about Dart on the Server or on the Web...
A while ago I considered using Dart to build a Web API. I was shocked by the non-existent ecosystem around this language.
The Redis package has been un-maintained for almost three years now, and Angular Dart is always a few version behind the TypeScript version and doesn't support SSR.
I was also very surprised that Google during dart conf never commented on using Dart on the server but instead always insisted on using it for their clients (Web and Mobile). I think I'm not lying by saying that a huge part of Google runs on JVM , Go or Python but definitely not on Dart VM.
For me Dart is the language that developer needed , but never wanted to use. It failed miserably when it was introduced few years ago, since then JavaScript took off and has become almost a universal language.
This is very frustrating seeing how much the language is efficient and well structured but it the same times doesn't mean much now seeing how mature JavaScript is becoming.
For me Dart took long to become what is it now , and today the only thing that would make people using this language is really Flutter.
Beside that , I'm afraid they are very little reason to use this language.
Because it's designed entirely for enterprise customers. If you have a startup you have very little reason to choose OpenShift compared to Heroku or AWS honnestly.
I still love Redhat tho.
Doesn't surprise me. Cosmos was too good too be true :
- Serverless - Infinite Scalability - Mongo API or Gremlin API or SQL API
It's obvious that it can't hold up to all it's promises.
Yup , this article is basically similar to the already existing thousands of "Entrepreneurs" stuff existing on Medium.
>How to hire your first workers, or how to manage them
It's really sad these days we cant get things that are actually intellectually honest , people are "ok" to "open" about stuff that has been written about X Million times , but now how about they fail to manage X or Y or choose to hire X instead of Z and turn out wrong.
Really sad.
The reason "Westerners" fear Robots and Japanese do not is definitely cultural , but not in the same way.
Mostly for "Westerner" , it's related to the fear of losing their Job.
Per say , just look at Autonomous Car. Truck driver is of the most occupied job in the US and potentially it's one of the most replaceable by using AI and Robotics.
That's just the tip of the iceberg , what about McDonalds ? Domino's ? Both with their thousands of cashier , delivery guys and cooks ?
That's what people fear , not this gimmick of "Terminator" based on some BS "Christian" culture.
On top of that , when you know the American culture is almost entirely based on "Fast Money" for venture capitals it raise some concerns about the security and the effectiveness of those robots. Especially seeing how much accidents have happened with "Semi Autonomous" cars or the horrible accident that killed a pedestrian at full speed by Uber[0].
Most importantly , Japan is a declining country from a demographic perspective. Robots are needed for them to survive and stay productive and occupy jobs that very little people would accept to do these days in their culture.
This demographic decline is not happening in "Western Civilization" due to important amount of immigration. Either of "Talents" ( Engineers , Doctors...) or Students , who later stay in the country and eventually create a family there. Ultimately having for effect to maintain the demography of "Western Civilization", Japan claimed many times to be hostile to this form of growth , therefore the need for robot and the mindset of not being "scared" by robots as they are key for both their economy and their culture .
Ultimately making those robots a sign a of "hope" and not a "threat".
[0]https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/05/29/...
Serverless computing is an system architecture design that focus emphasis is abstracting the entirety of the infrastructure to let developers focus solely on code.
Per say , with AWS Lamba + API Gateway + S3 developers can create Web Application that usually required EC2 Servers and web framework like Spring , Laravel etc...
Apps hosted on AWS with EC2 requires strong knowledge in system architecture and system design . They also are quiet complex to scale , monitor and manage.
Serverless abstract all this and lets you focus only on code.
AWS Lambda is self healing meaning when a function crash , only that function crash not the entire server , API Gateway is managed by AWS it won't crash ( or very unlikely ) S3 , as i'm concerned , as never let me down.
Meaning I could author an entire application similar to Hacker News without any "Server" logically speaking, technically speaking there is always a server just like NoSQL doesn't mean "NO SQL" but "Not Only SQL" and is not buzzword :)
I'm very curious to know if product come in a generalist box with the company logo on it or if it's sent with the original box that is sold with product ?
Not sure , it's also about sells arguments.
Governement often runs on Oracle because it was the most popular RDBMS at the time with enterprise support. So this is a massive argument technically speaking to convince customer : "We'll migrate your oracle DB and infrastructure for you , we have the tooling for that".
You are talking specifically about the financial and banking industry. Working in the banking industry , compliance regulation prevents banks from communicating about why your funds are frozen so the SEC can investigate and determine whether are not a fraud or suspicious activity were committed.
Such thing does not exist in the IT Industry. Microsoft ran their in house auditing tools , determined the account was suspiscious , set a flag "is_suspicious" as "true" in their database and the next day a batch ran and suspsended their account.
IT Audit for GAFA is 100% automated , there is no human interaction unlike Banking , Insurance and Finance.
Hence, the fact that BFA must communicate after the investigation about what fraud you committed to properly charge you in court and banned you from the services( You can even be banned in an entire country from owning a bank account depending on the severity ) but they must tell you why.
That is not the case for tech, it is completely unregulated which is why it's making me this upset.
This type of behaviour should be banned by the European Union.
You should be provided with the exact reason of why your account is being closed , regardless of who is the provider of the service.
It's unacceptable that companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Airbnb feel entitle to behave like this knowing how critical the service provided by those companies are for some organization. Plus the fact that those suspensions are usually done automatically by an algorithm powered by Machine Learning or something similar.
This type of mechanism could destroy an entire organization if the account of CEOs , CTOs, CFOs are suddenly locked down without possibility to access their emails , their contacts, their meetings and others business critical information.
This is outrageous.
Then we might not speak of the same React. Angular and Vue have very rich documentation which makes tutorial unnecessary.
React doesn't have that, so it's very likely "has to do" with React.
It feels like the community it still struggling with this framework , while it has existed for many many years... Very interesting.
One way or another it usually end up being stored in a completely unsecured manner.
This is even more outrageous knowing how secure Firebase actually is. The documentation even contains a "Securing your Data Model" section .
It's not "Open Core" if the core is not open. In this case a debugger is core part of a language. It's a very clear movement in order to keep C# devs within their ecosystem and guarantee revenue with Azure. They loose money here , they must get it somewhere else.
This guarantee a total monopoly over the .NET ecosystem , Rider is probably one of the only tools that tried to offer an alternative they are stuck with the exact issue of not being able to bring the debugger because of that hostile license policy.
>Even the GitLab everyone's talking about in this context is Open Core.
I never talked about Gitlab and I don't care about them.
Don't be mistaken about MS , almost every move they do as a double intention behind it.
Just to name a few :
One MS engineer is core member to Webpack & Angular , why ? Windows Server dashboard is written in Angular , it's a critical product, they need some controller there.
One MS engineer is core contributor to Electron, why ? VS Code is powered by electron , it's a critical product, they need some control here as well.
One MS engineer is core contributor to Vue.js , why ? Azure is investing hundred of millions in China and Asia due to insane growth over the past 5 years, they need a good image in asia.
If you think MS has changed , you are delusional about the situation.
That's definitely the issue here.
As an engineer , you are usually trained to automate as much as your work as possible , and we create framework for that.
Outsourcer won't , or will not tell you about it because they need to charge you money for it.
At some point , it's very likely that India will suffer the same crisis as China labour from automation.
DotNet Core debugger is proprietary . You can only debug apps within Microsoft environment according to their license.
Same thing for most of the azure tools , you are only allowed to use them within Visual Studio.
I don't really called that "all in open source" .
It's gimmick to give C# devs the illusion of a choice.
Try to build , run & deploy a C# app on AWS with Atom. You're gonna have a bad time.
Not sure it's GA.
MS will integrate Github with MS Ecosystem ( Azure , .NET , VSTS etc.. ) as described in their slides.
From this point there is two possibility
A - They open every single new API they use as well as UI/UX API so other providers can integrate themself to Github
B - They don't open (or partially) those new API and Azure/MS Ecosystem will be the de facto providers for every single stuff that is possible in github. You will end up with a "Open in [Insert Microsoft Products]" buttons and you won't be able to change that , third party providers won't be able to appear here as well. Github would have never done in the first place because they were independant , now every single stuff they do will have to be linked one way or another to MS.
Watch the slides , everything is very well described. https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https://c....
> Finally, we will bring Microsoft’s developer tools and services to new audiences.
Which one is it ? Those statements are just contradictory .
It's obvious that they will bring all their stuff into Github as it has become a central piece for MS Engineers and has become strategic for them , either to optimize engineers productivity or just to better sell their products and Azure/Visual Studio Services Package.
Meaning whether or not you like MS tools , you will get some "Open in Visual Studio" button , send in "Microsoft Team" buttons etc... and probably more stuff like this that most people didn't wanted in the first place.
This is really a terrible day for Open Source.
Shouldn't it be called "Beer Brewery Browser" rather than "Dashboard" ?
Electron is backed up by Github , we are talking about a billion dollar unicorn , and a lot of commits made are coming from outside github ( microsoft engineers for instance)
For this ? I doubt it would go beyond 1 year of surviving .
Also I've been using VS Code for years ,it's incredibly well optimized and doesn't have a problem in terms of memory or CPU .I personally found electron very reliable , it has surprised me on this point.
Ultimately this tech feels a lot like all the 'I hate javascript so here is my alternative' frameworks we had for the past year.