I didn't play on-line for years, last time I did regularly, the standard for voice communication was Ventrilo/Teamspeak. When I first used Discord a couple of months ago, I was just shocked. It has a decent webapp. I can create my own server for free. It takes less than a minute to get going. It just works.
As a quite disappointed user of Gitlab (due to issues raised here, e,g, CE vs EE and the Ruby infrastructure), has anyone had experience with both? I understand that Phabricator is a more "complete" solution, but how do they compare in the core features that they both share?
Also, do they pride themselves for writing this in PHP? I consider this an anti-feature, but this might be highly opinionated.
As a consumer, I don't like the direction where streaming services are headed - many small services with limited content (original or not).
I've been a Netflix customer for years now (I also had Hulu Plus, cancelled it due to their then-horrendous interface). While in the past I was very impressed with Netflix's selection, I now find it... meh, despite all the original content. When I pay Netflix, it's not for one, two or ten specific shows, no matter how much I liked House Of Cards or Orange Is The New Black. It's for a big, diverse, easy-to-explore library, in which I can discover new content and I always have something to watch.
And as much as I like HBO programs, there is no chance I'll pay 15$/m for their streaming service, especially after I've already watched most of the content! I understand everybody wants a piece of that streaming revenue pie, but as a consumer, I can't but feel that this situation is bad for me.
Code is read from top to bottom, and finding out that a method uses a block after reading through most of it, is confusing, whereas `&block` in the method signature clarifies that this method will do something with a block.
The performance hit, as bad as it may be, is not something that should be a concern in many programs. After all, you are using Ruby...
The manager might not be incompetent, but they sure are an asshole