But I also need the horizontal space! I very often tile windows side by side to allow developing while seeing the results, or while reading documentation.
Maybe I'm just picky. I don't know. Chrome does the job pretty well though, even with the bookmarks bar turned on.
A vertical tabs bar would make it impossible to use many sites, like GitHub.
I guess it's just Linux then. Ah well, I hope you enjoy it anyway. I'm still going to donate to Mozilla at the end of the year. If nothing else, competition is great and their documentation is amazing.
Maybe these are silly things to complain about with fellow techies, but the things that prevent me from switching to Firefox:
The menu bars are enormous even on a compact theme. Bigger than on Chrome. I only have so much vertical space to spare.
When opening a new window, the address bar isn't the first thing to receive focus, unlike on Chrome. With Chrome, I just bang out WINKEY + C + H + R + ENTER + part of query + ENTER and I'm pretty much there
Now if only people would stop using `@here` for every little thing, it'd be easier to separate "blue" notifications from "red" and Slack would actually be the perfect model of async communication. I could prioritize whether to pull myself from my current task to look or not.
Doesn't work when people just write "@here, making nachoes" all day.
`@here` should really be yellow. Only direct communications red. Or something other than the current system.
This new flavor of conservatism is so strange in light of how bound to free market ideals most flavors of conservatism are.
In general, I really quite dislike Conservative/Liberal labels as political stances are not two-dimensional, but rather multidimensional. Parties are loose alliances of disparate groups. And somehow there's this rising contingent of neocons, who also happen to dislike SpaceX.
Does anyone understand this?
Edit: I want to clarify that the alternative to private enterprise competing for government contracts (usually military, again usually a conservative delight) is direct government sponsorship, i.e. NASA.
SpaceX is one of those cases where the free market actually has been more effective. So why not seize on it?
I've done development with all the databases, languages and packages installed on the host machine, as well as with vagrant. With the VM, I have to ssh in, or switch windows to run tests, whereas before I could just run the tests in vim. How do people achieve fluency with these?
I suppose I could install some more of my tools on the VM, but if you take that to its absurd conclusion, I'm just running a clone of my host on the VM.
It seems more useful, maybe, to just run databases and other services in the VM. Those are the more difficult bits to manage usually. A good programming language already has version and package management facilities.
Or perhaps am I missing something? Anyone have another workflow?
I've always liked essay writing. I mean, not so much as an assignment, but they're satisfying to bring together; from perfecting the construction of individual sentences, to structuring the flow of paragraphs.
To that end, I quite like writing documentation, especially after finishing a large milestone. It's a good break from just coding, while also being very helpful for the team as a whole.
I find it curious how one can implant code like this into existing codebases. It takes us a while to code review and deploy, and when we deploy we overwrite what's already on production