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by nocman 7y ago
I guess that depends on what your threshold is for being "a contender". All of this is a bit subjective, but if I asked 10 friends and 10 relatives whether they thought Windows Phone was a failure, I'd expect close to 10 frie
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by nocman 7y ago
I didn't "insist". I offered a suggestion. In my understanding that's one of the reasons people put up "Show HN" posts. It was intended as entirely constructive, and I still think it is a good suggestion. C
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by nocman 7y ago
I would like to suggest that in your "About" suggestion you provide a short description what a "CAN bus" is (with links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus - or whatever you feel is appropriate
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by nocman 7y ago
>> Isn't the whole idea behind showing HN something to get criticism? >Let me categorically say: Hell no. It seemed obvious to me that the GP was referring to constructive criticism (which can be very valuable). I would not
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by nocman 7y ago
"too many script kiddies... playin' injection games." :-D
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by nocman 7y ago
As the previous replies stated, the "1" is the section of the manual the page you are requesting occurs in. If you have trouble remembering what the sections are, I recommend running "man man" in the terminal. The sec
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by nocman 7y ago
Well, if the buzz I've heard recently (and the article below) are correct. A native Linux "Microsoft Teams" client is coming (pretty sure I heard mid-December) https://www.windowscentral.com/its-official-micr
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by nocman 7y ago
"Having an appetite for risky things is dumb." Well, I guess that depends on how big an appetite we're talking about. I think perhaps older more experienced people might tend to take less stupid risks. But if you don&#x27
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by nocman 7y ago
Sorry, just got back to this. I guess that depends on whether you consider an obviously tongue-in-cheek backronym to be "the official name". We obviously disagree on this point.
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by nocman 7y ago
And a C-ism, and a C++-ism, and a Java-ism, and probably at least one other I'm not thinking of at the moment. There are a variety of things that Perl programmers would consider idiomatic (depending, I would say, on the background of t
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by nocman 7y ago
It seems like you are arguing that because it is in the official docs, that is where the name 'Perl' came from, but that is not accurate. autarch is right, "Practical Extraction and Report Language" is a backronym --th
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by nocman 7y ago
Yes, but it may be important to some folks to have the node runtime available for an application they would like to be desktop based. I agree, though, that it would be important to decide if the built-in Javascript support fills the need be
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by nocman 7y ago
According to the docs ( https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/whatsnew512.html ): "The JavaScript engine now supports ECMAScript 7. This includes an upgrade to ECMAScript 6" and: "ECMAScript modules can now be loaded dir
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by nocman 7y ago
In my opinion, there is nothing FUD or BS about the statements made about privacy concerns related to Google and Chromium. He didn't say he absolutely knows that Chromium is phoning home "in some way shape or form". He just
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by nocman 7y ago
That's not entirely true. Electron's target is desktop apps written in Javascript. While it is true that the GUI is not written in HTML, you are still writing the logic of the application in Javascript, so there is still a large
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by nocman 7y ago
The point, in my estimation, would be to have all of the Javascript libraries you have accessible in node (which you use already on other projects, and are very familiar with) accessible while also having access to a full desktop GUI in tha
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by nocman 7y ago
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of that. :-D
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by nocman 7y ago
I suspect I am more wary of Facebook than most. However, unless there is something in that linked discussion that I'm just not seeing, I don't get it. Or perhaps your idea of "proof" and mine are just vastly different.
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by nocman 7y ago
That's all great until interruptions in the service you are depending on interferes with your business getting done (and you can't fix or mitigate the problem yourself). Don't get me wrong, if you choose your partners careful
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by nocman 7y ago
I realize you are likely using hyperbole, but in my experience managing my own mail server is trivial compared to the complexity of building your own electric car.
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by nocman 7y ago
"But the ROI of doing this in-house is insanely terrible." ^ this is far too much of a blanket statement. I've done it, in house, for both personal and work purposes. The cost in my time was not very high, and the ROI was v
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by nocman 7y ago
"When you eat home grown vegetables, the experience isn’t objectively worse. When you run your own mail server it is." ^ I both run my own mail server and use someone else's service for another purpose. My experience running
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by nocman 7y ago
True, and I use offlineimap for a different scenario where I do not have control of the mail server. However, it is still not the same level of control as managing the mail server yourself. I understand why some people don't want to
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by nocman 7y ago
Because it is not the same result. Yes, it is a similar result, but not the same. You give up a lot of control even using a smaller email service provider -- not the least of which is direct control of your own email data. Obviously, si
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by nocman 7y ago
Interesting. I spent some time looking for information about what makes oh-my-zsh so great, and was unable to find anything of substance. Do you personally use oh-my-zsh, or you just see others using it? I'd be interested to hear fro
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by nocman 7y ago
This is probably accurate. I personally use this subset all of the time (for reasons that will be obvious to Perl programmers): $_, @_, $@, $!, $? I have occasion to use $$, but not too often. I tend not to use much else, and like others
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by nocman 7y ago
bash losing market share to zsh/fish? That seems like a pretty huge stretch to me. Yeah there may be a few people here and there that change their default shell to zsh or fish, but I don't see it happening in large swaths. Is the
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by nocman 7y ago
I don't think you should place too much emphasis/concern/whatever on most of the special variables available in Perl 5. I would wager that most Perl programmers never use about 95% of them (that is, the short 2-3 character o
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by nocman 7y ago
Yeah, won't repeat it here, but see my response to "UnFleshedOne" in this thread.
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by nocman 7y ago
Yeah, I knew that TB overall was deadly - but the post I was referring to implied that this particular strain was not deadly. As I said, I don't know if the implication about this strain is correct, but if it is then referring to

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