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by eitland 4y ago
PHP used to have amazing documentation back in the days. Everything spelled out. No "you must read the whole thing or have worked with it for years to understand page 5". Plenty of inline examples and even more user submitted ones
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by eitland 4y ago
1704C 801C (or 1978K 1074K)
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by eitland 4y ago
"Above" typically means above in thread, i.e. "parent", i.e. the post/comment one replies to.
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by eitland 4y ago
There still are a few of us who prefer other tools. I'm actually delighted everytime I can use NetBeans, but I am still a paying Jetbrains user because I work on projects who use Kotlin (wonderful language even if I dislike that it is
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by eitland 4y ago
> If the user is tricked, then the loss is catastrophic, exposing potentially all of the user's data, perhaps silently/undetectably for considerable future time. For offline users we also have malware detection and firewalls. S
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by eitland 4y ago
Good points on both sides. But I am absolutely still in the camp that trusts Gimp way more than uploading photos to a random website.
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by eitland 4y ago
I don't know. I don't like Visual Studio and haven't touched it since I realized VS Code worked fine. (I'm more of an Eclipse/NetBeans/VS Code kind of person.)
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by eitland 4y ago
.Net has run better on Linux (edit: better than on Windows) machines since at least before the pandemic. I'm a Java dev, but I have also developed on .Net and running modern .Net on Linux is about as simple as it get.
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by eitland 4y ago
In 2007 or 2008 I remember I spent 4 hours installing one supposedly preconfigured Windows OEM machine. Meanwhile Linux had live installers. Driver hunting was still part of a normal Windows installation, meanwhile for many standard configu
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by eitland 4y ago
Linux has worked much better out of the box than Windows for a number of applications since at least a 2006. Don't confuse Windows, - slipstreamed and supported by a competent IT department - with what a user gets out of the box from a
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by eitland 4y ago
You can trivially create as many emails as you want, anonymously and for free. In many countries, registering phone numbers anonymously is illegal and/or impossible.
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by eitland 4y ago
I'm just totally amazed that a one man project absolutely can compete with Google on providing an enjoyable search experience, and can even compete with Google on search results in some areas.
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by eitland 4y ago
Tell me what plugin I use to get tree style tabs on Chrome? Tell me when did Google stop sending my every single keystroke to Googleplex? And when did it stop eating all my RAM? Google is closer to Firefox than before, but mostly because of
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by eitland 4y ago
Note that I write "for now".
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by eitland 4y ago
I tried to mention it above, so yes, I absolutely agree.
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by eitland 4y ago
For now it is actually a good thing. But it should probably be looked into the moment the Chrome monopoly is dealt with.
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by eitland 4y ago
Really happy to see someone actually caring about performance in tooling, even if the conclusion for now is that it has gotten worse over time until now!
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by eitland 4y ago
Good. Still wait for Google to be punished for abusing it market position to push its browser in a much worse manner than Microsoft pushed IE back in the days. For those who are new to this game: Microsoft was basically punished for bundlin
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by eitland 4y ago
For me DDG was as useless as Google: they both ignore my keywords whenever they feel like it. I've sponsored search.marginalia.nu a few months (it is awesome for what it is and sometimes gave me better results than Google/Bing&#x2
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by eitland 4y ago
I absolutely understand what I am talking about. I only don't remember exactly.
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by eitland 4y ago
But aren't they sending the message to Facebook first before sending it end-to-end encrypted? To make sure it isn't anything harmful /s Or was that feature scrapped or did I misremember?
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by eitland 4y ago
Telegram, widely hated on HN, years ago I think published how to verify their builds. Yes, on iOS you'll need a jailbroken device to do it but it was doable. (Writing in past tense since I haven't checked lately.) Edit: unlike Wha
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by eitland 4y ago
For sane, modern languages like C# and Java, autocomplete has worked somewhere between adequate and amazingly well for a long time already. I think it used to be kind of usable also in VB6 also, at least that is how I remember it. Golang an
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by eitland 4y ago
> This content is not available in your country/region. Seriously. What kind of century are those people from?
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by eitland 4y ago
Ancient Greeks did not send representatives to my country at least. The Church did however and brought with it a lot of knowledge.
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by eitland 4y ago
The most interesting part of the article after already having read the comments here was this: > Switzerland’s parliament approved the project in December 2021 and no referendum was launched against it. Sounds like an interesting way to
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by eitland 4y ago
Archiving stopped working months ago and no one answers the support mail.
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by eitland 4y ago
Archival hasn't been working for months for me and nobody answers the mails (I've tried three times over the last year or so) so as much as I like pinboard.in at the moment I am looking for something else
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Ah. And then I'll ask the_gipsy how this is different from every other browser under the sun except Safari and Firefox being just repackaged versions of Chrome?
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by eitland 4y ago
Typing from Firefox: Mozillas problem is 1.) thinking they are a activism group that luckily sits on a gold mine of dumb users like me who keeps using Firefox, while in reality they were supposed to continue to provide the worlds best brows

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