debaserab2

4년 전discuss

Personally I like the idea, it doesn’t need to be fully turn based - there would still be some skill involved in using your orders efficiently. Plus, there would be a new emergent gameplay mechanic to manage: not overflowing your order queue with extraneous commands.

debaserab2

4년 전discuss

I wrote something similar after I moved our fleet to SSM because I didn't want yet another CLI app to memorize flags on. It's ruby based and runs in an interactive mode by default. It doesn't cover the whole set of `aws ssm` featureset but focuses just on things that are needed for debugging sort of tasks. Leaving it here incase it's useful to anyone else: https://github.com/ajbdev/ruby-ssm-ops

debaserab2

5년 전discuss

Just curious - what's a popular non-RPG MMO?

debaserab2

5년 전discuss

> MMOs have been very viable from both a business

Really? Everything that's not named World of Warcraft seems to die out, usually in less than a year. It's a genre that's been a notorious recipe for failure for most companies not named Blizzard.

debaserab2

5년 전discuss

I still prefer sublime text for opening very large files or jotting quick notes.

VSCode load times are heavily correlated to what files I had open last and what extensions I have installed that trigger because of my previously opened files.

When I freshly install VSCode on a machine, it feels blazingly fast. A couple months later when I've loaded up a few linting extensions? Not so much. Of course, the power of these extensions is why I'm using VSCode in the first place. I've yet to see an IDE that can integrate these types of features and not slow-down in some aspect, and VSCode does seem to try to stay as lightweight as possible.

VScode also often has notification prompts when I open it, either from extensions, or as popups generated from the editor itself. This doesn't add load time perse, but it does add to my mental perception of it's load time.

debaserab2

6년 전discuss

Congratulations on finishing the degree and being proud of the effort you put into it.

If you don't mind me asking: what motivated you to pursue it?

debaserab2

7년 전discuss

Yeah, if you consider my arguments to be strawmen, then using a VCS GUI for the narrow use case of tracking down diffs might save you a solid few minutes. That just feels like a drop in the bucket compared to the overall time spent developing. YMMV I guess, depending on what organization/codebase you are working on.

debaserab2

7년 전discuss

I don't think a lot of the steps listed in your first example are as painful as you make them about to be. Most of those steps are just as elementary as clicking a button in a GUI to someone with fluency on the CLI. I also doubt the claims that it's that much faster for someone with a lot of experience doing it.

Perhaps you could be faster with the GUI than on the CLI, but learning a GUI doesn't come with zero overhead: you have to understand it's terminology, how it's configuration works, what its icons and symbols mean. Particularly when it comes to VCS management, GUI's like to simplify sometimes complicated or nuanced VCS behavior and you can't really be sure what is being done to your repo until you've pressed the button and done it. Not to mention you are now investing time learning a program that can be abandoned at any time and leave you without the basic knowledge necessary to manage your repo (not saying this would affect you this way, but it could certainly be a reason to not learn it in the first place).

debaserab2

7년 전discuss

Why would checking out files matter? What exactly do you think the GUI is doing underneath the hood?

debaserab2

7년 전discuss

My 2016 MBP has icon labels for each function you listed right on the F-key, except step debugging. Totally discoverable, just by looking, the exact same as the Touchbar. Those same icons have been in the same spot for the three other MBP's I've owned dating back to 2008.

debaserab2

7년 전discuss

Literally everything you've cited as a QoL improvement exist on most (if not all) laptops with physical F-keys.

debaserab2

7년 전discuss

Agencies have been hiring front end developers in as actual titles since the mid 00's.

debaserab2

7년 전discuss

I wonder what your brand new greenfield project is going to look like in five years when it's been passed through the hands of a few interns and contractors and survived a couple different ownership shuffles.

Think it will look as maintainable as it is today?

Or do you think a new consultant will roll through and easily sell the client on another rewrite-from-scratch project?

debaserab2

7년 전discuss

Not to mention, there is no sleep command (I assume he meant setTimeout, which has very different functionality than a typical language's sleep command) in javascript, which kind of makes me question the credibility of someone insisting on gatekeeping the senior developer title so hard.

debaserab2

7년 전discuss

What exactly is the "sleep" command in javascript?

debaserab2

7년 전discuss

You're always left with an imperfect amount of information after an interview. I don't think that means you should discount how well someone fits into a conversation given how important solid communication is.

debaserab2

9년 전discuss

I'm sorry, but what?

I've had facebook messenger, gchat/hangouts installed on my phone for some time. I don't know if I'd call it great, but I have a hard time arguing that it doesn't immediately solve my instant messaging needs.

What exactly do you want that gchat or facebook messenger doesnt solve?

debaserab2

9년 전discuss

Yikes, Skype is electron based? That explains why it hogs so much memory.

debaserab2

11년 전discuss

I agree, but they are a bit of a phenomenon given the amount of marketshare they actually have. They have something else going for them, and I think it's that they are the default option for most new developers as their centralized repository.

It's interesting because bitbucket still offers free private repos yet doesn't seem to have nearly as much following as github.

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