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Re:Fish shell 3.0 on Friday December 28, 2018 @11:51AM (#18777841)
I loved Fish while I used it. I recently stopped using it because I'm writing a lot of documentation. I prefer to do thing using bash or zsh now so I can be sure it will work for others.
Re:JIRA is an antipattern on Monday December 10, 2018 @06:22AM (#18647046)
I've literally always felt that Scrum and the Agile Manifesto were at odds due to Scrum's focus on process. I always have trouble communicating this though.
Re:State of web browsers in 2018 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:34PM (#18620716)
I don't prefer one over the other. They both serve my purposes well enough. Generally, I've found that people who don't like Firefox's dev tools just haven't used them much.
Re:State of web browsers in 2018 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @11:00AM (#18619108)
I'm a developer and a Firefox user. I'm always a little sad when I pair with another developer, and they ask why I'm not using Chrome.

Mozilla is one of the few tech companies that care about the well-being of its users. In my opinion that is very special.

Re:Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012) on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:29AM (#18618284)
Give Spacemacs a shot. Here is why it's an easier transition than VS Code to vanilla emacs or Vim:

- It's already 99% configured

- The keyboard shortcuts are mnemonic

- There is a UI display of all the shortcuts within one keystroke at any given time

- You can still function with your mouse -- if you need to

Re:Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012) on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:26AM (#18618264)
I did not have any experience with emacs and only the most basic knowledge of Vim. I had some guidance from my company's CTO though.
Re:Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012) on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:17AM (#18599132)
About four months ago I moved from VS Code to Spacemacs and it has been an extremely rewarding experience. Anyone who is afraid of Emacs or Vim should give it a try. I've heard good things about Doom and Prelude as well.