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Facebook and Microsoft Partner on Remote Development

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Re: Facebook and Microsoft Partner on Remote Development

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post #130

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Ok, so it seems like Pycharm is still the only tool which can do that

... you're using pycharm as a cluster management tool? I'm not sure if I'm impressed or horrified :P

Not a cluster, just three independent GPU servers. Each one has a remote interpreter configured in Pycharm.

Re: Facebook and Microsoft Partner on Remote Development

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post #80

I teach underprivileged adults how to code. Most of them use old computers so I had them ssh into my server when they code so they don't have to install anything. When they learn about web development, whatever they built would be immediately available online under their subdomains that they could show off immediately to their friends and try on their phones. The only drawback is that they had to learn and use vim to…

If you have your projects on GitHub then you can use Gitpod (www.gitpod.io) It allows to define dev environment in code, and then spawn remote env in Google Cloud with access via the browser with VS Code like editor. Only GitHub authentication is required and it is free for open source projects up to 100 hours a month.

Disclaimer: I'm working on Gitpod.

Re: Facebook and Microsoft Partner on Remote Development

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post #25

The trend seems to be the IDE and development environment will move to the cloud for larger companies. This is what Facebook and Google are already doing. It makes ramp up easier, environments more consistent and tooling more predictable. Also you can spin up multiple development branches of the same codebase without having to switch branches or stash changes (a big deal when you have one giant monorepo). And probabl…

Is the recent move to Visual Studio Code by all Facebook developers also part of this strategy?

Re: Facebook and Microsoft Partner on Remote Development

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post #120

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Out of interest, have you ever used Jetbrains products like IntelliJ IDEA and friends? Even back when I was writing C#, years ago, Visual Studio was way less productive without their ReSharper plugin.

I'm sure it's a "too each their own" feeling. Personally, I've never seen Visual Studio so unproductive as with ReSharper installed. The number of colleagues over the years I've had to work to convince them to remove or disable ReSharper to get any work done on projects has been too many. ("I hate Visual Studio because it is too slow." "Do you have ReSharper installed? What happens when you disable it?" "Wow, Visual…

It may just be that my experience was a good while back and VS has improved since then. At the time the built-in static analysis really wasn't up to scratch.

Re: Facebook and Microsoft Partner on Remote Development

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post #128

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> As an employee working on a corporate device everything will be tracked anyways Note that that isn't true in most (all?) European countries. It is illegal to eavesdrop on employees without a strong and particular reason.

You're telling me that in the EU things that happen on company assets are not tracked? I think any company could easily come up with a 'strong' reason (IP theft?)

Yes, believe it or not: things that happen on company assets are not tracked.
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