nipinium's comments

On: The biggest threat to Rust's sustainability

[nipinium]

If only Crystal has full windows support, then I can confidently recommend it to you.

Building cli tools in crystal is fairly easy thank to the standard OptionParser library. `colorize` is almost perfect, too, in case you want to print some ascii colors. And just like ruby, invoking some shell command is simply wrapping the command with backticks. and FileUtils has ton of features.

Too bad Crystal now only works in POSIX.

On: Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slow...

[nipinium]

>throttling

This is silly, the internet at night is slow simply because there are too many people are using it at the same time. Bandwidth is not limitless, and they are shared for the same neighborhood.

Also, having a 100Mbps internet plan doesn't mean you will be guaranteed to have 100Mbps download/upload all the time. There are reason why in VN companies like netnam and cms are selling 50Mbps leased line for 1000+ dollars.

[missedthecue → nipinium]

Higher traffic might take speeds from 100mpbs to 70mpbs. Not 100mpbs to kpbs.

[nipinium → missedthecue]

You will get 70mbps for accessing domestic websites. Again, this is just bandwidth issue.

Try to download some highly seeded torrents at the "throttled hours" to see for yourself.

On: An alternative to using Google Analytics on your w...

[nipinium]

Correct me if I'm wrong but cloudflare only provides analytics for "proxied" records.

And for my experience proxied websites (in free plan) are way slower compare to bare websites, like 300ms latency vs 50ms latency.

On: Crystal 0.33

[nipinium]

Actually it's more than just syntax, elixir and crystal borrow a lot of ruby's stdlib api design, which in my opinion is way more pleasant than other languages'.

On: Actix project postmortem

[nipinium]

Gentoo is just a meme spread by some 4chan /g/ board's members. Maybe you meant Arch?

[yjftsjthsd-h → nipinium]

... Gentoo predates 4chan's existence by 3 years, is one of the older and more respected distros still around, and is the basis of Chrome OS and Container Linux. Don't assume that 4chan somehow defines the things they happen to be interested in.

[mratsim → nipinium]

"btw I use Arch" is a meme as well

On: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” op...

[nipinium]

> I've used chocolataey (ugh)

use scoop instead.

[GordonS → nipinium]

Chocolatey had so much promise, but it just doesn't deliver. At least in my experience, software tends to be outdated, and the packaging often of dubious quality. There are also multiple packages available for a lot of software, so you don't know which one to choose. Oh, and the Chocolatey website is pretty awful too.

I do like scoop, but of course the selection available is much smaller than Chocolatey, at least for now.

Come to think of it, it's kind of strange that Microsoft never created a packaging system for Windows (aside from the Store; I mean for non-UWP apps).