sheer_horror's comments

It is a misconception that mainstay Linux distributions have any sort of hardware or software incompatibility (aside from Mac- or Windows-only targeted software). That said, you are correct that people use OSX because it's literally 0 set up and configuration.

I managed to break the tool by inputting some infeasible inputs and then changing them again several times, and then refreshing the page.

Don't bother with hybrids if all of the shortcomings are covered with gasoline. A good EV or a good gasoline car are both better than a hybrid, so what is the point? Who wants to buy a car that is heavier and slower than their full gas and full electric counterparts?

It's always too late to push for something that is just a bad product.

They include scripts to check code quality. Perhaps those should be set up with a pre-commit git hook to ensure they get used.

This is not splitting hairs! These are basic facts. The whole idea behind Tesla and Solar City is to have solar power generation and electric cars. 100% clean and renewable, and that's the long term goal. You cannot criticize the means to get there -- powering Teslas with current electricity generation -- when that's so much better than Fossil Fuels already.

People like the cars because they are better than what the other car makers are making. Model S is the safest, fastest, and most efficient sedan on the market. That's a fact!

Cars are minuscule contributors? The EPA site says 14% Co2 is from cars, which is substantial. That's also a fact!

If Tesla keeps going, it will replace generation and consumption of fossil fuels with a fully renewable cycle. How is that not the best thing ever? That's fantastic! We might be cutting more than 30% of our CO2 emissions.

You need to re-evaluate your standpoint. Also, when you're struggling with cognitive dissonance after reading this, consider this: Your brain's attempts to discredit my argument, and paint Elon backers as mindless followers/disciples, is the real example of psychological trickery, not Elon exploiting some prejudice.

Well, it shouldn't drive you nuts. That implies that the truth drives you nuts. WW2 didn't look great before the USA stepped in. World wide innovation has been driven by the USA in almost every frontier. And you cannot expect a CEO to regard his product as anything but the best.

The thing that drives me nuts is the lengths people such as yourself will go to in order to rationalize their dislike of him. Calling people who like him and the car 'disciples' is also pretty terrible.

Despite your erroneous reply, you still hit 4th most upvoted comment thanks to the pro-open source sentiment here.

Facebook, Google, Amazon, and every other huge company are huge because of their monopolies. Tesla would be making a massive mistake to not start walling in their garden.

To prove that Vim is faster than a graphical editor as well, I might make a WebM where I edit two identical files, one with notepad++ and one with Vim. Would you appreciate that? I will do that if you respond to this.

Because yes, Vim ultimately will be faster.

I have replied to the other commenting wondering about Vim but I will say it here as well: Learning to get fast with Vim is incredibly rewarding. It is tough to memorize everything, sure. But it's all in pursuit of speed and efficiency that become huge multipliers over your career. You use so much less hand effort, and it runs straight from the terminal which means you need fewer running applications.

> it just doesn't make sense to me.

Here's how to think of Vim that will make sense.

Suppose you have two identical codebases that each need to have the same 200 lines changed. Functions need to be added, comments to be removed, templates need modifying, and so forth. In one of the two codebases, you use Nano to apply those changes. In the second codebase, you use Vim. Assuming the Vim user was proficient at Vim, you can be sure that he/she used 1/3 -> 1/2 as much hand and wrist effort than the nano user to make the same changes. It could be that the effective Vim user ended up using less than 1/2 the hand effort than the nano user.

If you extrapolate this over these two coder's careers, you realize that the Vim user is going to be glad he spent the time learning Vim.

Learning how to use Vim has been so rewarding for me. I love coding in Vim and I love learning new ways of doing things.

During development, I have to check the browser's inspector periodically to see what my console.log()'s are saying. This leads to having two browser windows open: The browser and the inspector. And in the inspector, I usually only need to see the console. With these desktop notifications, I can develop and debug web apps with just two open windows: A single browser window and a terminal. And it's only adding ~100 lines to your project.

> what is it that I could say that you would listen to?

I am looking to build a single-page app that communicates with a server several times per second. The idea is to have some python code created interactively in the browser through some click-and-drag process. That python code is sent to the server and ran alongside other similar python scripts; the scripts are actually competing game AI's. So you build it in the browser, and run it on the server with the game state being sent back to the browser to be viewed.

If you have a picture of the fundamental architecture this requires, would you kindly explain the major components and their functionality? I could use something like Django/flask on the server, but how do I keep my front end updated? It's hard for me to imagine the full stack, so if you could paint the picture and explain the parts that would be useful.

Thank you

For you to have such a strong opinion on so many topics, you must know the in's and out's of Systems Administration. Would you consider writing tutorials or a blog about best practices, and why we should avoid complex systems built on Node?

For what it's worth, this comment is toxic. I am probably the kind of dev that would get lumped in to the group you're calling out, but I edit my own nginx files, I am interested in being close to the metal, and I'm focused on having strong fundamentals. So why not help out instead of being pessimistic? The eternal september thing is everywhere on the web. Everyone loves to talk about how much better it was 'back then'. It's very easy to look back and say that the past was better. You just strap on your rose tinted glasses and sense of superiority, and excuse yourself from any logical, productive discussion.

What I would like to see from experienced devs like yourself is some help with merging the best of both worlds. When should I be close to the metal? When should I work high up the stack? If you offer some real help, you could save us days or weeks or months, but if you take the easy route and point the finger then we all lose.

It is important that tech growth continues for a long time. I am very concerned that ad-based revenue will not sustain forever. We need more physical goods and more faith in technology, as every other industry is stagnant. No generation will ever have it as good as those who thrived in the last half of the 20th century and it upsets me greatly.

> it's sold as a camera on your face

Exactly why comparisons to google glass miss the point. Totally different products and userbases

Yeah and you know what userbase that is? Product hungry 15 year olds whose identity is tied to superficial shit just like this. Apple should have taught us something: People do not care about what they're buying, they just care that it's the 'cool' thing.

You say 'realistically' but you're speculating that they are losing appeal and that they won't try and sell another product.

The only thing to realize is they have a $100+ device that is compelling to their 150M user base. That's a great sign. I think that the manufacturing chain for 'cheap shit electronics toys' is developed enough in 2016 to make good margins.

If Snapchat is able to sell this product to only 5% of their 150M userbase that's 7.5M * $130 = 1B in revenue. Then they diversify their future product line somehow and keep selling to the other 95% of their users. Forget a re-monetization strategy for ads - ads make a product worse and it is refreshing that there may be another way for VC-backed companies to monetize.

These glasses are going to be a huge hit thanks to their style. The main userbase of snapchat are product-hungy 12-25 year olds without much conviction; they'll jump at the chance to get a product that looks cool and represents their favourite timesink. I am very impressed with this move because it gives Snapchat a supplement to ad-based revenue. I hope this makes them a lot of money.