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   by hnbad 6y ago

   Oh, I'm not saying what they did wasn't illegal (tho IANAL, so I can't say whether this would indeed be considered copyright infringement and warrant damages in Germany). I'm just saying that forgetting that your autofor
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   by hnbad 6y ago

   I think the generic term for this feature is "code intelligence". Autocompletion often just means that the editor provides suggestions of other symbols in the same file, which is a far call from the language-aware and context-awar
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   by hnbad 6y ago

   Personally I prefer Hack ( https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ ) but I used Ubuntu Mono ( https://design.ubuntu.com/font/ ) before. I find the harsh serifs in many monospace fonts too jarring but this com
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   by hnbad 6y ago

   To put it differently: social media is competitive and encourages antagonistic behavior (because people are more likely to "engage" something snappy they disagree with, than something nuanced they agree with). Cyberbullying is jus
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   by hnbad 6y ago

   Social media encourages dogpiling. "Engagement" measures shares, reactions and comments. Shares get more eyeballs on a post and "the algorithm" further promotes posts already garnering a lot of "engagement", cr
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   by hnbad 6y ago

   That is true, but I feel like we should apply different levels of scrutiny to some small project and an app developed by people with close ties to government officials who received literally millions of Euros in public funding to develop an