Arcaire's comments

Arcaire | 9 years ago | on: Go Web Examples

Care to explain why it's overused in comparison to other toolkits/frameworks/libraries? Taking in to account, of course, the target use-cases.

Arcaire | 9 years ago | on: National Broadband Network CEO says Australians don't want super-fast broadband

There's a six-hour old reddit thread[0] on this article with comments from (mostly) Australians in /r/australia, for the interested. It may provide additional context and opinions, although I'm sure you can imagine what the overwhelming opinion is going to be.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/5t3arf/nbn_ceo_s...

Arcaire | 9 years ago | on: Software vendor argues that it has copyright in output of its CAD software

I believe the parent meant that it's not a bad idea to reevaluate the usage of any software that is business-critical and may have similar repercussions should your license to use it expire.

Arcaire | 9 years ago | on: Standard Notes – A notes app with a focus on longevity, portability, and privacy

I don't / wouldn't do that simply because my handwriting pushes the boundaries of the word 'atrocious'. I'd imagine others who spend the majority of their time using computers are in the same boat.

Arcaire | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the best Linux distro for a development laptop?

> Yes I know you can mitigate this with LTS but that's a big compromise.

Genuine question as a Ubuntu user, where do you win using Debian on a laptop? I totally understand using it on servers, as it is the definition of 'rock solid' and you can ensure that it will work 100% of the time.

Admittedly I don't pay a huge amount of attention to the differences, but isn't using Ubuntu LTS compromising in the same way as Debian stable? Specifically, packages are oriented for stability. Consequently, you don't get improvements to the kernel, or other packages you may use frequently. On my laptop, I don't want to use Kernel 3.6 that doesn't have the latest improvements to work with Intel processors, direct rendering management, and power saving. I don't particularly want to use quite outdated versions of GNOME either. Six months, to me, is a solid amount of time to sit on a release.

Some people suggest (misguidedly, according to Debian volunteers) using Unstable on a workstation / laptop, which caused my system to outright break entirely because I was using a Nvidia graphics card, so I just installed Ubuntu and it worked from first boot.

Using testing is sworn against by almost everybody, as it's the worst of both worlds - it's not stable and it's not fixed quickly.

Stable plus backports, suggested elsewhere in these comments, sounds nice only if you consider ensuring that water drains out of each hole in a colander equally an adequate use of your time. You then have what I'm fairly sure it's explicitly listed as "don't do this" on the DontBreakDebian[0] page.

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

Arcaire | 9 years ago | on: Renewing Medium’s focus

Do you happen to have a link to that? I'm interested to hear it.

Arcaire | 9 years ago | on: Linux 4.9 is out

DRM there refers to Direct Rendering Manager[0].

A few days ago the author those changes are listed under (Dave Airlie) was on the HN frontpage for his comments on an AMD RFC[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13136426

Arcaire | 9 years ago | on: Visual Studio for Mac

Really? They seem to be opening up quite a bit more with regards to Linux (.NET Core, WSL, etc).

Arcaire | 9 years ago | on: Beyond 10,000 Lines: Lessons Learned from a Large Phoenix Project

The idea is to limit exposed routes to the standard CRUD routes: create (/new), read (/show), update (/edit), delete (/destroy).

Arcaire | 9 years ago | on: Go’s alias proposal and all my concerns of Google controlling Go

This was linked previously, and the single comment therein linked to a discussion on reddit[0] about the issue.

Of note, this change has been reverted now[1].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/5alxa3/gos_alias_pr...

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16339#issuecomment-25852...

Arcaire | 9 years ago | on: Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers

> 5. No Excel? Microsoft appear to disagree. [2]

In my considerable experience using Office on Mac in tandem with Office on Windows, the Mac experience is severely, severely degraded in comparison.

Extreme slowdowns in large documents, odd crashes, and difficulties handling macros are pretty much the defining experience for Office 365 on Mac for me.