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I feel the same way. Also, the integration between Apple hardware is great. I have Macs, an iPhone and an iPad and everything works ridiculously well together.
I’ve contemplated switching to Linux for a while, and keep a laptop with Fedora installed, but every time I seriously consider it I picture losing those key applications and the tight integration with my other devices and I can’t justify it.
Hey, Fedora mag also has a post detailing the major changes in F28 workstation, here: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-28-workstation/
Hope you find this helpful.
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Your analogy is ridiculous. In what way is polluting a river like hosting a social network on your own servers?
It's an analogy for the "age old personal responsibility argument", but if you want to get metaphorical then maybe society is the river, Facebook the pollutant?
I mean come on man, it doesn't take a creative genius to connect the dots here, and it's certainly not ridiculous.
I have 2 blogs, both on WordPress. My web development blog is on a DO droplet and uses the Roots stack, Trellis, Bedrock and Sage. https://roots.io
I've done a lot of WordPress development, custom themes mostly. I can't always use Bedrock and Trellis due to hosting constraints, but I would never choose anything other than Sage for a theme development project.
The Roots projects have always been ahead of the curve as far as WordPress development goes. Whether it's things as simple as name spacing, or actually taking advantage of PHP 7 features, to using Composer to manage dependencies, gulp to automate build processes, Ansible for automated provisioning and deployment....
I could go on and on, but I'm loyal to these tools because they've consistently pushed me to learn new things. I also enjoy the workflow.
My personal blog is hosted by Automattic, on WordPress.com, strictly out of convenience.
I'm looking around at other options however. I've thinking it might be time for me to move on from WordPress. Partly from the Roots stuff constantly driving my curiosity, and partly from being unhappy with the direction the WordPress project as a whole is taking.
I've been looking specifically at Ghost, Craft, various flat file solutions, and have even been considering taking a crack at building my own blog with Python. (Python because I've been learning it and have really been enjoying it)
people who get offended for others and have no actual personal connection with the word and thus have no real negative thoughts.
That could better be described as a capacity for empathy, particularly in the context of genocide. "No real negative thoughts" is your assumption.
I think the intent is clear, it’s the word choice which some may find tasteless.
For example, a person who survived an actual genocide may find your analogy to be shallow because where you’ve lost some extensions due to a browser upgrade, they’ve lost everyone they love due to them having been hacked to death with machetes, or gassed, or worked to death in forced labor camps.
I don’t know, maybe they just need to get over it?
This whole article boils down to "new hires require training".
There were also the parts about needless bickering in the PHP community, the responsibility of senior developers to guide junior developers, and the importance of keeping an open mind.
Great read, thanks for sharing it.
But there’s no mistaking the large trend...
You didn’t say that, you said “server side rendering is basically dead”.
Believe it or not, lots of people are still building things without JavaScript front ends.
I have a UX305FA and I wouldn’t recommend it.
I love the form factor and overall feel. I really like the keyboard, though I don’t care for the trackpad.
My real issue with this laptop is the screen. It’s hard on my eyes to the point that I don’t use it. I’ve had the laptop for around a year now and have had at least 5 different Linux distros on it, I’ve calibrated the display, and nothing has helped.
I wish I had bought a Thinkpad.
I got mine for $650 with IPS 1080p (Zenbook UX305CA).
@franciscop - which distro are you running? I'm primarily a mac user but picked up a UX305FA about 8 months ago to start poking around with Linux.
I've had Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, OpenSUSE, Fedora 25 & 26, and most recently Ubuntu Studio.
In every case I have the same issues that end up turning me away - first and foremost is the screen. I hear it's a nice screen under Windows but no matter what I can't seem to get it to not strain my eyes. I've tried calibrating the screen, different resolutions, and Redshift but no matter what it ends up straining my eyes. Maybe my eyes are too used to Apples retina displays?
The other issue is the jumping cursor. No matter what I do, or how careful I am to keep my palm clear of the track pad, inevitably while typing the cursor jumps up to the top of the screen while I'm mid line. Drives me nuts.
Sorry, not trying to thread jack but seeing how you have a similar machine and seem to like it, I thought I'd throw it out there.
I really want to like this computer, over than those 2 issues it's a great little laptop.
There must be a pithy term in German for what I'm trying to point at.
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But even though a wall of knobs and wires looks like the last word in musical openness, it actually puts some very rigid limits on the complexity and sophistication of what you can do. And worse (IMO) it trains you to think inside those limits instead of encouraging you to explore beyond them.
To me, this statement implies that you either don't understand what a modular synthesizer system is or you haven't kept up with the times. I mean, you literally build your own system by choosing your own components and patching them together however you want. You're free at any time to pull the patch cables and start over. Add one new module changes the entire system.
Other than the fact that you need to be able to plug it into something, I can't imagine anything being much further from the definitions of rigid and limiting. It would be like calling Pure Data limiting because it's a visual programming language. I don't know, it just seems silly to me.
There's a ton of small outfits in the Eurorack space doing really great stuff. To any one who is curious I'd suggest checking out some manufacturers like Make Noise, Mutable Instruments, ADDAC System, Modcan, and there's just too many to name.
So, if we adopted a true single payer system, by this math, the total spend in the US healthcare system would drop by 3%. US healthcare costs have recently been growing by 6% per year, so this would bring our costs all the way down to where they were on election day, 2016.
But with the "true single payer" system you mentioned, everyone would be covered, and have equal access to care?
Including the ~28 million Americans without care?[1]
For the same costs as Election Day, 2016?
That sounds like a pretty good start to me.
$1/day is not an insignificant amount
Especially considering nearly everything has a monthly fee attached these days.
$3 here, $5 there, $9.99 over there. Of course businesses should be paid for the services they offer, but as a consumer those numbers add up quickly, and in that context a subscription in the $30/$40 range is non-trivial, even for someone with a first world salary.
I can't imagine they provide that level of value, but that's just my opinion.
I agree, I've read The Silmarillion multiple times.
The Bible reference makes sense but I've always thought of it as similar to reading a history book. That's essentially what it is, a history of the beginning and the first 2 ages. Whereas The Hobbit & the trilogy are narrative accounts of a very small portion of the third age.
I don't know if it's appropriate to say or not, but I feel this is kind of weird.
This project was not maintained for a while despite multiple offers to help. (for example, https://github.com/scotch-io/scotch-box/issues/273#issuecomm...)
Today the box was finally updated with a "Pro" version that offers "generally higher versions of things".
I no longer use this box but have been following the project out of interest. I feel like this is a weird move. Is it weird?
I'm curious as to why some people refer to Vue as "the new hotness".
I understand the concept but Vue was realeased in February 2014, which seems pretty ancient in JavaScript years.
Wasn't React released only a year prior? Well, it's been around since 2011 but it was open sourced in 2013.
Either way, Vue has been around and in use for a little while now.
Aside - Jeffrey Way, who runs a popular tutorial site called Laracasts, maintains a free Learning Vue series. It's worth checking out, Jeffrey is a great teacher.
Thanks for the clarification.
I'd just smash my laptop with a hammer, microwave the HDD, and go live a simple life on a mountain somewhere raising alpacas.
Linux isn't really there yet. On my 3200x1800 XPS13 running Fedora, it took quite a bit of tweaking to get a usable desktop.
That's odd. I've got an Asus ZenBook (UX305FA) running Fedora 25 with Gnome. I'm using my BenQ BL2710PT at its regular 2560 x 1440 resolution and it looks great. Other than adjusting the brightness a little I didn't have to do any tweaks.
I hear you, but a simple folder system sure would be nice. Not organizations, just: Client/Project
Nice and simple.
No, of course not. Some guy at Forbes just decided to wake up one morning and extol the virtues of WordPress.
In spite of your sarcasm you pretty much nailed it, except the guy doesn't work for Forbes. He's part of the contributor network, which is essentially a few thousand bloggers that get paid based on how much traffic they generate for the site.
Do your homework next time.
It's difficult to migrate, have multiple environments, deploy, and so much more.
Sorry, that's kind of silly. WordPress can be incredibly frustrating, for sure, but there's a multitude of migration, deployment, and local development options.
We use Roots tools exclusively -
It's definitely not something from Automattic, smart people work there.
If I remember correctly being part of the Forbes "contributor network" is a small step up (or a few steps down) from saying "Hey, I have my own blog".
"According to WordPress..." what does that even mean? According to the foundation? Automattic?
I'm surprised this article is even posted here, my guess is the author posted it himself.
More than anything it was just a terrible interface.
The interface that is shown on the website is not the actual interface, it's a Flash app and looks like it hasn't been updated for about 10 years.
They have been working on a new version, but it seems like they have been working on it for quite some time now. Some features of the "Platinum" (non-flash) app were slowly being rolled out when we left, but the bulk of the app was still Flash. We stayed with it for about 6 months, and finally moved away from it about 3 or 4 months ago, this year.
I'm sorry, I know that's not very specific or concrete, I only tracked time to projects and couldn't stand it, but it was collectively hated throughout the company, especially by the PM's.
I'd suggest staying clear, or definitely do the trial before committing. Asana has been a breath of fresh air for us.
There's some things about Asana that annoy me but I was kind of surprised to hear some of these comments. Then I remembered that our team just switched to Asana from Workamajig.