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by fxfan 8y ago
I am having trouble deciding if Google has finally beaten Microsoft on the 'we can do what we want to' front, specially given that Microsoft is running backwards in that race of-late?
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by fxfan 8y ago
> We'll just completely change the commonly understand processing model of fragment identifiers, but it'll be fine since we don't think anyone is using them anyway... That's not true. Truth is: > We'll just co
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by fxfan 8y ago
Why would you upvote me if you didn't agree with me? QT is what i would suggest over electron
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by fxfan 8y ago
Ahem... what is powershell core? (I take exception to your if condition). As someone on Arch- I enjoy it a lot.
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by fxfan 8y ago
Does that kill electron instances too? ;)
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by fxfan 8y ago
How many non-devs (equivalent to the group of RAM < 6GB) use slack?
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by fxfan 8y ago
> snappy enough to run > Electron is a new brainer Not everyone on earth is a dev/gamer/video-editor. For regular people, electron is a cancer that needs to be nipped in the bud. Remember, 91% of the desktop on earth is Wind
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by fxfan 8y ago
Question for hosting and db experts- should one go for ssd or HD when hosting? I'd think HD is better because you can anticipate failure using smart. Ssd has the advantage of being faster to load data. On that note- are database system
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by fxfan 8y ago
Whoa, easy with the personal attack there.
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by fxfan 8y ago
I dabbled in assembly, for a living, at a major software firm. I can still do it after brushing up a bit. And I have no trouble setting up a pg database with web frameworks and writing optimized code. Web isn't some magical beast- its
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by fxfan 8y ago
As per my understanding- sophisticated and expensive medical devices have sophisticated algorithms for processing raw data. I would love it if cheap devices just exposed raw data and I could use my own algorithms, arguably newer and better,
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by fxfan 8y ago
Look you are definitely responding to keyboard warriors who have nothing but finding negativity wherever they can. Don't worry about them. Your statement was fine- you seem annoyed by a certain class of people and its fair for you to n
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by fxfan 8y ago
There is absolutely no shame in using unsafe!
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by fxfan 8y ago
https://www.ageofascent.com/2019/02/04/asp-net-core-saturati... That actix you see appearing in most lists and mostly nearly top is written in Rust btw. Fun fact- frameworks managed by microsoft dominate the
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by fxfan 8y ago
You have to tell us what you were using earlier? Magit people usually compare with stock git.
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by fxfan 8y ago
This is a great title. License should matter more- not the assumed 'open source'ness.
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by fxfan 8y ago
It's absolutely amazing for reading and learning. But if you have a question - then it has to have an objective answer.
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by fxfan 8y ago
This is a contrarian view and I will sound phobic but for this very reason- false sense of security + possibility of malicious check ins- I now place less emphasis on open/closed source and more on repute. I am happier to download exe&
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by fxfan 8y ago
I think the concern shouldn't just be about censorship but also about political interference. First Russia and now China. Foreign ownership of media is a national security concern.
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by fxfan 8y ago
I'm no win10 hater but doesn't ltsb do everything that win7 can?
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by fxfan 8y ago
How does ActiveX absence promote azure? You mean newer version of exchange?
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by fxfan 8y ago
>was ?
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by fxfan 8y ago
Exactly- everyone just wants to be seen as siding with the winner. I specially see it on "hacker" news actually.
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by fxfan 8y ago
It's astounding how people like to paint MS as the bad guy and not monopolies. Every monopoly behaves like this. I'm not favoring MS- I'm asking people to stop letting monopolies become. No .. But google gives me free stuff
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by fxfan 8y ago
I don't usually put myself in debates on HN but I have always thought of you as a very rational guy so I'm surprised you make this comment- Situation A: where none of this happened. Ami reserves the right to publish photos. Perfec
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by fxfan 8y ago
I didn't downvote- can you please elaborate more?
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by fxfan 8y ago
Can anyone actually knowledgeable and not just rooting for one side tell me whether it would be illegal for NE to now go ahead and publish the said pics? As of now, all I read from knowledgeable people is that there is no case- as is shown
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by fxfan 8y ago
I had never known of ggplot2. Those are some slick looking graph (ics). Can somebody tell me if I can call ggplot2 from other programming languages- I could only find python ggplot but that doesn't look nearly as good (unless I just pi
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by fxfan 8y ago
He is a russian- these guys are crazy when it comes to performance lol.
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by fxfan 8y ago
I don't see how you owe any explanation to a non-paying client. Please don't feed the freeloaders. They always set new standards.

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