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by Nicksil 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Law_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Conservancy
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by Nicksil 4y ago
This is just a JavaScript thing, right? Why phone home?
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>Python maintainers would think twice before adding a new dependency lest they cause "dependency hell" for their users. So there was an intrinsic sort of resistance – some pain is involved in adding new dependencies. Well, no,
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by Nicksil 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_Constructor
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https://daisydiskapp.com/
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by Nicksil 5y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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>Qt is not nearly as easy to use as Electron, especially if you're a small company and need to hire front end devs for cheap. Sure it is. >Also Qt GUIs look like garbage, but it's hard to quantify why. No more garbage-like t
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>I know there's a lot of hate in here for Electron, but it truly makes cross-platform desktop app development achievable for small companies and indies. So does Qt
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No. Why would this be an April Fools prank?
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>Is AdBlockPro needed with uBlock Nope >does uBlock do everything ABP does and more? Yep
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>Ads are fine You work for Google; of course you find them fine.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNILS_(Russia)
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>Why are they paying american programmers 6 figure salaries then? Because those companies are making an outsized profit from the relatively new and unregulated online advertising/marketing industry.
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>as you can see, humor is not tolerated on HN (, unfortunately) It is if it's funny.
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> Which email client would you recommend? Thunderbird https://www.thunderbird.net
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>You go to do what you go to do to promote your side hustle :) No, not here.
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>And yet Facebook still manages to hire good engineers. How do we know they aren't just average or mediocre software developers?
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>Those are called explicit and not offensive. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
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>The title of this post and point of the twitter thread is: >"For some searches literally the whole screen!! on google is now ads." And that's what you see in the screenshots. What's the problem?
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> Can you eat it, can you drink it, can you breath it? Yes. > Does it actively destroy/damage other living things that come with in proximity of it knowingly or not? No. > Does it pollute when used? Now we can have a similar d
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>Why black out the company name? Confidentiality notices at the bottom of emails aren't legally binding, especially when it's an unsolicited email from a company you have no relationship with. It's explained in the article
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by Nicksil 5y ago
- FTP - Syndication feed (RSS/ATOM) "sniffer" (or whatever the hell it was called). I know that's 2 things but I couldn't choose between the two in enough time.
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>Again, there’s probably some important conversation to be had around politics in the workplace but it’s really challenging to have a constructive conversation or debate when you plant your flag on one end of the political spectrum and t
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>The author paints it as some kind of conspiracy, but the simple truth is that RSS waned in popularity once push notifications became popular and widespread. Every user's RSS reader polling every website for changes every few minute
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>Last time I checked they forced you into a shady VPN subscription to be able to watch movies. Nah. It advertises a VPN when you start a movie/show, but there is no requirement to use it.
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>flagged as duplicate The only other submissions I see are links to Twitter. Did I miss it?
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International https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/about/index.html
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Why not?
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>Would be nice if the blog post included screenshots big enough to actually see what it looks like. There's pictures and video: https://pop.system76.com/
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>Seriously? You are going to call the hyperbole in this thread "legitimate criticism"? The overwhelming majority of it? Yes. >In this case you have a literal webapp that they also want to bundle as a desktop application. Tur

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