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AlexeyBrin
11,535karma·1,345submissions·January 25, 2013
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It is astounding how many people don't read the license. You can legally use VS Community in your company for paid software as long as you have less than 5 employees or make less than one million…
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You can legally use the Community edition for paid software, as long as your company has less than 5 employees and makes less than one million $/year or something like that (read the license care…
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To be fair, it depends on your usage, here are two problems that I found: * Swift runs natively on Ubuntu, however on WSL only the compiler works. If you try to run the REPL it will crash. * Emacs, sl…
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Now I start to understand the reference to 1984 and Brave New World from the beginning of the keynote.
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When you install WSL, it seems to grab the Ubuntu image from Windows Store. I didn't actually tried WSL on Windows 10 S, but I think it should work.
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Maybe you meant every young, as in under 40, educated person in Europe speaks English. Plenty of educated people in Eastern Europe speak/read French and Russian. Until the '90s French was t…
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I assume you know or realize that in certain European countries the medium monthly salary is 300 - 500 euros. Do you really think that say more than 10% of people from such a country could afford to b…
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You should try to live for a few years in different European countries like Hungary, Romania and Germany. Most importantly see how each of these people see each other and their neighbours. I bet that …
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> As bad as EU is, eventually they will get along just fine...or a least just as United Sates of America do. The difference is that in USA they speak the same language and even this way they are no…
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You can upgrade Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Pro for $50 or something like that.
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Not really, Surface laptop is clearly an Apple MacBook competitor and not some MS version of Chromebook.
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My point is that until a language is proven, as in used on a large scale it is just a nice idea. Let's wait until Jai is released and used by different teams for different tasks until we proclaim…
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> So far Jai seems to be the most serious competitor in this regard. 1. Jai is not even released. 2. Jai is a programming language, not a game engine. Unity is slow because they are using an outdat…
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> but if the moral argument for entering WW-II for the purpose of liberating those in the concentration camps Hugh? Sorry, but who told you that someone entered the WW2 to liberate someone from the…
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Not the guy, maybe he was rude, but the point remains. This is a service that charges you before you benefit from it. All Freelancer cares is to get their fee. They take your money and that's it.…
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Without portability there will be no GuileEmacs to replace the official Emacs implementation. AFAIK, Guile doesn't work on Windows. Until Guile will work natively on all major operating systems, …
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pm2 will restart the app on crash if I understood correctly how if works.
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All I want from them is tabs in Explorer and Terminal (the Windows console). This could boost productivity.
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> why no mention of python? seems strange than any modern programmer to leave it out. Maybe because Andy Hunt was more into Ruby than into Python. Not every modern programmer uses Python. From pr…