"Good enough" would be fine, but Apple hardware is no longer worth the premium price. After owning Apple laptops since 2003 (my Powerbook still runs great) when my wife's 13" MBP finally kicked the bucket last week I gave her my 15" i7 MBP (totally good enough) and bought a Dell 9570 for $1000 less than a "good enough" 15" Mac.

Apple is flat-footed in this space. Good enough is fine but the prices should reflect that. All they care about is the phone ecosystem.

Wow the reverse FUD machine is really roaring along. haven't seen this much sabre rattling and gnashing of teeth in a decade!.Very entertaining!

( longtime bitbucket user, taking a wait-and-see approach w/r/t github )

Take it back - hpe.com .....

HP-UX and the 9000s don't even seem to be available via hp.com. Haven't seen them there in a long, long time.

I like functional composition, it certainly has its uses (at least as middleware). I disagree with the notion that it makes code more readable though, in general. It only makes code more readable if you're familiar with it (functional programming).

Meh. Pymssql works pretty well. Am I missing something?

... the 50,000 Accenture employees that are actually paying attention just shat their pants...

Ive become convinced the best developer environment is 100% remote. Corporate IT is so out of touch with network/application development they can't possibly help or do anything but hinder...

Fix the problem, promptly.

Golang has been like a breath of fresh air. Just saying. Great for server side work.

Once again a question is asked about a golang IDE and LiteIDE is not mentioned. I personally think it rocks for go dev work.

https://github.com/visualfc/liteide

Gentlemen,

I've really enjoyed Mark Summerfield's book (http://www.qtrac.eu/gobook.html). I keep it with me. I am seriously considering purchasing yours as well.

Should I?

Thanks.

Sorry, was late last night. LiteIDE is a go-centric ide with lots of great hooks for that language. I run it on Linux, OSX and Win10.

https://code.google.com/p/liteide/

Check out LiteIDE.

I have to say it: I've been running Win7 Pro in a VM for 3 years now and it is, indeed, a stable desktop. I wish MS (Ballmer, prick) didn't screw it up and leave it behind. Our POS requires a Windows backend and Win7 is fine.

Running on a Debian host, of course. Still, not a bad desktop OS at all.