/any logger

Google Play is some android app store, that offers also other media. Its quite terrible. I wanted to know how it works, whether the music and movies are DRM-free or their is some client or what. I even read the help which I never do. I just don’t know. You can’t wonder why Google+ didn’t succeed when the same company can’t even properly sell you a shop.

KDE is linux desktop and its flawed but has most configure options (both via GUI and text files I think).

Sometimes you shoot yourself to leg. For me it was general rule that applied to some programms (running with windows but initialized with shell script). It opened it in 2nd activity (another KDE speciality). But when I removed the 2nd activity, I could find anyhow the program window or use it.

I haven’t played A+ games for a while (5 years+). Sometimes I’ve fired up some indie game like Hotline Miami.

But as I came to Linux OS, I had to but Nvidia graphics because its better supported than Intel’s. One of the reasons I was hesitating to switch from Windows was lack of specialized software like games (even that I played only indie games). Now on linux as a paradox, I play more than before.

Steam as a vendor of Steam OS, alternative to Windows has most of their games available on Linux. So I’ve played Half-Life 2 for the first time. I liked it a lot. But then I played Bioshock.

The Bioshock infinite was released in March this year. What a game. Absolutely incredible. I was so overwhelmed that we are capable of making such a great gaming experience now. I love it. Its the reason I always played games. Its has great story, atmosphere, great gameplay and gameflow. Its has no dull moments.

What makes gameplay so good is the feel from the combat. It matters whether you fire from shotgun or revolver, you just feel it. Similarly its a difference where you shoot your enemies. It has great physics. Shooting is very enjoyable, the best I’ve experienced. You will never enjoy static camera and static zombies in Left 4 Dead 2.

I see a lot of enthusiastic posts about Vim. But Vim has also a dark sides. Its not perfect. Here comes list whats wrong with Vim. Its not bad enough to not use it but still, if you recommend Vim to unexperienced user, s-he should be warned.

textual interface - slow reflow, limiting colour, color scheme interfering with terminal scheme, slower performance with text modification; GVim or MacVim solves this only from part

no sensible defaults for web development; in Atom if you install plugin of your favorite language, you’re done; in Vim you must use some dotvim with hundreds lines of configuration just to get something comperable

insert mode - it should work like any modern text editor - simply mark text with shift key and place surroundings easily

I use Perl and CoffeeScript. I like theirs expressiveness. For Perl I don't like lack of function signature and syntax overall. In case of CoffeeScript, which syntax is perfect, the JavaScript is limitation. Its just web language, not general purpose, even that some tries that (and I use atom). I want to learn general purpose language to stick with. 

Thanks to scripting languages (Ruby, Python, Javascript) the need for better syntax and features impacted to new languages such as Scala, Clojure, Go. I didn't like time spent in Java, C++ or similar.

So the requirements on new language to learn are:

optional object oriented

functional

rich available information (so I can learn from its community, ...)

existing libraries (so I don’t have to DIY)

kind of conservative (so I dont switch in a week)

statically typed and compiled (no thoughts on speed vs code maintainability, less stupid errors, sane refactoring)

First I tried Go. Its language build in Google for Google (software engineering). Even it says its like scripting languages, its not the priority. The build time and simplicity usually both for programmers and compiler is.

Basically Go is C/C++ for Google purposes. As its similar to C, I must say it has the best C-like syntax. Its modern and more less consistent.

What I like about Go:

fucking explicitness everywhere

optional OOP

multiple returns and function syntax

declare and assign shortcut, variable := 'string' (explicit and concise)

best C-like syntax (no unnecessary semicolons, nice switch, parentheses in if, for)

What I don't like:

2 main testing fw are BDD, which is such a buzzword for me, and it doesn't fit into Go's conservative world

has not functional features (like JavaScript)

Don't know what to think about:

explicit error handling vs "index out of bound"

Note: If you want to try it, learn how to use packages on docs, its not intuitive at first.

Scala over Go

Java standard library

any Java library :)

object oriented (mutable strings, ...)

immutability

I don't know how to name it, but I like when one technology leads to many others.

In Linux its like this: tmux > byobu | tmuxinator

There is a lot movement in database systems, a lot of them are quite innovative and novel. Most of them are so-called NOSQL databases trying to solve Big Data problems or are just for analytics. I think the misuse of MongoDB for primary data shows there is something missing - structured DBS as primary storage.

I use PostgreSQL whenever I can. But for any of my applications it didnt scale much. I mean after few tables the repetition was enormous. Its perfect relational database system, or just right abstraction for SQL: domain types, good procedural support, JSON for structured data fetching, check constraint, sensible defaults...

What I really want for most of my apps is a database system that is as reliable (consistent from CAP) as any relational DBS, but is made to store structured data. You could store structures, that has attributes which can be are another structures. The supported types could be just the ones that are now in PostgreSQL. It could even store it underneath as relational tables, the implementation doesn’t matter.

This is opionated post about Vim cons and Sublime Text pros. I like to use both. I am using now almost exlusively Sublime Text and I am content. Vim motions are zen, but the editor itself is not.

Vim cons

very limiting insert mode

colorschemes

not intended as IDE, doesn’t work with directories very well

defaults are only good for configuration files editing

with lot of plugins simulating e.g. Sublime Text behaviour its rather slower

plugins cant work async IMHO, terrible for linting, formatting, etc.

Sublime Text pros

a lot of great plugins including Vim motions, Git and Markdown with outline, colorscheme chooser with immediate preview, find and replace all occurences in new file view

has outline, fuzzy file opener and more as default

clever by default (closing tags, parenthesis etd, clever deletion, formatting)

understandable directory / project management and configuration

text file configuration, that is optional

multiple cursors, can’t be really reproduced in Vim because of its limiting insert mode

nice details (rounded selection, beautiful selection and cursor)

nice font rendering

simpler to create colorscheme, there is a lot of them (quite important for me)

quickest startup and good overall performance

async linting

Vim pros

has good plugins like nerdtree (the best thing for file management)

How to know what ubuntu version your distro is based on? I don’t know!

lsb_release -a

- info about your distro version

uname -a

What technology complicates to make it sometimes easier

Angular (concepts tightly coupled only to the framework, not front-end)

Backbone (…)

Ruby On Rails (changes Ruby, must know internal framework working)

Object-oriented programming (inheritance, overabstraction)

Perl (duplicate constructs, explicit references)

PHP (duplicate constructs, autoloading)

SQL (standalone standard is only good for simple queries)

UML (unclear specification, confuses people)

What technology is a win

React (learned quickly, simple concepts)

Go (no formatting hispering, rich but still low-level standard library, simple constructs, simple syntax)

https://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings/Input_Devices/en

Expect(longBook.CategoryByLength()).To(Equal("NOVEL"))

So(thing1, ShouldEqual, thing2)

I have chosen goconvey as testing framework for Go. There are other solutions, that explicitly where you must explicitly use testing* t structure. Thats misunderstanding. They think you use standard API, but this it’s rather standard, stable building block for creating higher-level libraries.

Criticism

So on JavaScript Weekly there appered positive article about Backbone.js. Wow. I thought in 2015 we all use React or similar libraries for UI or just DOM wrappers. I must react.

I have used Backbone for about 6 months for my pet project that should became bachelor thesis. I didn’t do almost nothing. Some say (as the article does) that Backbone has straight learning curve and great documentation. I say this: it has neither! This frameworky library has probably steepest learning curve comparing all the technologies, frameworks and tools I’ve used. I’ve never learnt it, actually.

Using it with Backbone Marionette made it the most black-magic experience I’ve seen. I couldn’t be sure what I’m doing, even when I spend a lot of time reading documentation. You can’t start simply and build on top of that like in React. You must learn everything and then be very responsible for every decision you make.

Solution

For interactivity on webpages use Web Components or DOM (its very low level for sure). Standards are important. In hipster JavaScript world there are essential.

If you have complicated single-page app, use React or React-like library. It does a lot for you to keep you DRY. There are a must for complex apps. They can be learned quickly as they only adds slight layer of abstraction for rendering built on top of something standard (HTML, DOM, Web Components).

I don’t believe in best 10, 20, 50 whatever list, so there is no filling. Only the useful and time-proven extensions.

Vimium

This extension will enable your keyboard for browsing. The key shortcuts are inspired by Vim, the text editor. Do you like to browse posts on facebook, 9gag with j or k keys? Vimium lets you use this on any website and it has a lot features. I don’t use to select text and I don’t think its possible. 

See Wikipedia to see extensions for Firefox.

Better Bookmark

This is what I use for saving pages into actual bookmarks. It looks good and is fast. With ctrl+b shortcut you can save a page into flatten searchable folder list.

Con: it blocks ctrl+b effectively on any page.

Checker Plus for Gmail

I use it, so I don’t have to open my gmail manually. But I don’t get many emails, so its not disrupting. It has plenty of options, so it can be customized for anyone needs.

Session Buddy

Saves your massively opened tabs and stores them under session name. Great postpone tool.

Speed Dial 2

New page with categories, customizable themes. It just works.

More / Evaluating

View Later - save links in a stack - slow

Raindrop.io - Smart Bookmarks - webapp dependency

Dewey Bookmarks - add views of your bookmarks, slow, not great UX.

No YouTube Comments - I don’t get youtube comments, its such a waste