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Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by base »

fragsworth wrote: post #66
jozan wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't virtual machine basically do the same thing? I've taken some classes where teacher gave us an image where everything was already installed and configured. Everything went smoothly. However, Cloud9 is much more convenient since it runs entirely on browser but VM solution could work in case C9 discontinues its free tier.

One of these days we'll have fast enough Internet speeds in the U.S. that remote VMs will work (nicely). We're definitely not there yet.

In my university we have been using remote VMs with a GUI (e.g. Windows) for more than 10 years. We need to this with several softwares due to license restrictions.

Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by ecesena »

preek wrote: post #64
jswny wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. In a lot of my college courses, the professors provide a VM which is completely set up for development. That means that anyone who just wants to start programming can use the VM while everyone else who wants to setup their local environment can do that. I think it's a great solution.

I'm a lecturer myself and am curious: How do your lecturers deal with the situation that students have at least three different operating systems (LINUX, Mac, Windows)? Setting up a VM will make 2/3rds cringe in my experience - setting up three VMs is a lot of work.

I'd recommend Vagrant or Docker, both multi platform.

Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by sytse »

jozan wrote: post #34
hyperdeficit wrote: post #18

I really hope that the Cloud9 service keeps running, and maintains the free version that it currently provides. I have been using Cloud9 with the Michael Hartl Rails Tutorial to teach new programmers the basics of programming with Ruby and Rails and it has greatly reduced the friction for them to start learning. In previous classes we had the students setup a Ruby and Rails environment on their own systems and not on…

Wouldn't virtual machine basically do the same thing? I've taken some classes where teacher gave us an image where everything was already installed and configured. Everything went smoothly. However, Cloud9 is much more convenient since it runs entirely on browser but VM solution could work in case C9 discontinues its free tier.

I think that the future is having not one but many workspaces. If you review a MR? Start that workspace. Help someone with a question? Login to their workspace. In GitLab we want every issue and every commit to have an IDE button https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12759

BTW congrats to the Cloud9 team. They made a great product and selling to Amazon will ensure it lives on.

Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by pibefision »

I've discovered C9 while viewing coders working via Livecoding.tv.

It's highly interesting how very young developers are using C9, naturally, to code.

Something great is happening behind this behavior, it's much more than an online IDE. It feels friction less to develop a website totally online for this kind of developers.

Also, for example, I can think many people using PC's on cybercafes prefering C9 to develop.

I really recommend to watch it live to understand it.

Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by mevile »

adamors wrote: post #33

I thought for a second Amazon is getting into the esports business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud9_(eSports)

I don't understand e-sports teams. They're not representative of a geographical region and a "team" can actually have players on multiple games. It's like if the New York Yankees were just the Yankees and also played football, soccer and basketball. I don't understand the convention for how spectators are intended to root for a team. I get that this thing in regular sports for rooting for the team closes to you is arbitrary, but at least it's clear fun way to be a part of it.

Also in esports a lot of the event hype feels manufactured and forced.

I do like watching esports though, I just think there's so much room for improvement in the whole way the thing is presented.

Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by projectramo »

hyperdeficit wrote: post #18

I really hope that the Cloud9 service keeps running, and maintains the free version that it currently provides. I have been using Cloud9 with the Michael Hartl Rails Tutorial to teach new programmers the basics of programming with Ruby and Rails and it has greatly reduced the friction for them to start learning. In previous classes we had the students setup a Ruby and Rails environment on their own systems and not on…

Although it is hard to use for data science because you can't just display graphs.

They claim to have workarounds which never worked for me.

Re: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

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Post by projectramo »

maxaf wrote: post #7
petercooper wrote: post #3

Once fully integrated with AWS, this could offer a rather exciting, low friction way to work on the platform. Using Cloud9 to build, test, and deploy Lambda functions from a single interface with all the auth stuff dealt with automatically.. you could have some powerful APIs running in the cloud very quickly. (Maybe there's even a play for getting this stuff into the hands of non-engineering employees. Build the "Exc…

The last thing this world needs is mission-critical software edited willy-nilly through a "convenient" web browser interface. We as an industry can barely put our pants on in the morning on the best of days, and now this.

Wait, why is the web browser interface a worse way of editing it ("willy-nilly" no less!) than any other way of editing it?

You're still supposed to migrate the code to staging and then production.

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