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by bzbz 7y ago
That was a great one-sentence reality check.
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by bzbz 7y ago
I strongly doubt this API is external.
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by bzbz 7y ago
Not just visual studio. There are definitely _tons_ of users who moved from Atom, Sublime, Brackets, or even Emacs/Vim to VS Code. I know all of the above. Don’t know any VS users other than former professor, and he definitely hasn’t s
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by bzbz 8y ago
Completely agreed. Libspotify/libcspotify was one of the most promising parts of Spotify’s API, and it was left to die in a hole, with promises of revival, but no actual intent.
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by bzbz 8y ago
I haven’t read the source code, but I assume that it just looks at the timings of the request. After all, it’s just one user, no need to worry about 50 concurrent requests.
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by bzbz 8y ago
True, but very different. That’s not the highly-targeted, audience-segmented approach to advertising that parent commenter (and most people on the internet) is referring to by saying “ads”.
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by bzbz 8y ago
Not to be pessimistic, but you’ve been hoodwinked if you think this is a “personal site” without financial incentive. This looks like just the type of website that people make to cash out with referral codes to amazon (or in this case, bang
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by bzbz 8y ago
That’s not a bad way of phrasing it
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by bzbz 8y ago
Angular has been out for much longer than 2 years. I remember using Angular 2 in 2016.
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by bzbz 8y ago
Wow. Now _that_ really puts the cost of non-enterprise cloud computing into perspective. That doesn’t sound bad.