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by pronik 5y ago
I've been using Altavista at that time, every now and then switching to Northern Light. Everything else was abysmal. Google blew them out of the water in terms of speed, quality, simplicity, unclutterdness and everything else. I can&#x
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by pronik 5y ago
Important tidbit: SO's content is CC-licensed and this is probably completely legal (apart from those who fail to add a link to the original). Not that I don't want those sites to burn in hell, but they are not even in a grey zone
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by pronik 5y ago
To be fair, it's a matter of language development and evolution. "Four score and seven years ago" is essentially the same thing, just a couple of hundred years ago, the French just kept it in the language.
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by pronik 5y ago
pyright only does typing and nothing else. You'd have to combine it with another python LSP for syntax and linting.
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by pronik 5y ago
Depends on what you mean by "touch-type". I can type without looking in three keyboard layouts, but that comes through a lot of keyboard time (and a lot of Police Quest I), so that I'm unable to use split keyboards because my
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by pronik 5y ago
Somehow, Microsoft managed to invent LSP for VSCode and then abandon some parts of it just a couple of years later -- e.g. python language server is dead, pylance is there instead, closed source, VSCode-specific and with prohibitive license
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by pronik 5y ago
I can wholeheartedly recommend languages which do not care about original spelling, either by having different alphabets (was it "Хрящ" you wanted to know? Easy-peasy in Cyrillic) or just imposing their own rules (e.g. Latvian: &q
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by pronik 5y ago
Firefox actually had both, you could always search with the "main" bar. That's why having two has been so infuriating over the years, if I ever had to use Firefox, I've removed the search bar immediately. However, one th
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by pronik 5y ago
Just like Android telling me "you haven't used these apps in a while, let's remove them" while the apps are of the use-once-a-year or emergency kind of software.
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by pronik 5y ago
I do agree and do not trust Microsoft one inch. But I've read a lot of "Windows 10 + WSL + VSCode is the ideal dev environment" sentiments on this very site. Along with "Microsoft has changed" vibes.
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by pronik 5y ago
Microsoft maybe, they seem to be the tech bubble darling right now. Google is officially "The Evil(tm)" right now.
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by pronik 5y ago
Just imagine the meltdown if Google or Microsoft built that in. Somehow, Mozilla always get the slack and a couple of months down the road they are the saviour of the privacy world yet again.
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by pronik 5y ago
Since this is just a PR announcement by a third-party posted on an official PostgreSQL page: what is the difference between this and established PostgreSQL operators by Zalando and CrunchyData?
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by pronik 5y ago
Which is extremely easy: you click on the actual patch that has been merged and look under the commit message where all the tags containing this particular commit are shown.
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by pronik 5y ago
I'd like to give a bit of perspective on what "smart voting" actually does and why there's reason to dislike it even if you dislike current Russian government. Let's say there is a niche party or organization, which
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by pronik 5y ago
More like "is it released after all those years". I've been very interested in the concept, but that's the last I've heard from them in the last 3-4 years.
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by pronik 5y ago
There are different kinds of multilingual. English-German, French-Spanish, Italian-Spanish, basically there is no problem when your languages are co-located. However, try leading a proper multilingual life if you are German-Russian. You cou
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by pronik 5y ago
I remember when some Windows code has been leaked, people explicitely skipped reading it to avoid getting sued if they were to work on Linux kernel or Wine in the future. Reading code can most certainly lead to a copyright breach and Micros
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by pronik 5y ago
Speed reading is training your field of view. I would agree that speed reading code is not really useful (even though skimming code looking for interesting stuff is), but what is immensely useful is being able to notice changes on your sc
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by pronik 5y ago
I've used a lot of systems/libraries/etc. which claim to be "simple", but are really anything but. In many cases, "simple" equals to "primitive", which means that as soon as I move beyond the fiv
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by pronik 5y ago
How is this issue about privacy?
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by pronik 5y ago
I have a neighbor living above me, an about 80-year-old man, who needs help with his PC on a regular basis. One of the most regular cries for help is when Firefox changes its UI yet again, which seems to happen about every three months. Thi
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by pronik 6y ago
It's way beyond comical right now. PDF standard document has been available from evil monopolist's Adobe's website for free up until version 1.7. Version 2.0 has been "freed" from Adobe and is now an "open&quot
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by pronik 6y ago
Yeah I did think about it, which boiled down to "NVIDIA has working up-to-date Linux drivers" -- AMD used to be way worse and also there also has been a shortage of AMD-based workstation-class laptops on the market. What I haven&#
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by pronik 6y ago
Not everything is a cloud-based VC-backed startup. As big as AWS is, they still miss out on a giant chunk of companies who don't want or are not allowed to go into the cloud, which is why AWS-on-premise exists.
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by pronik 6y ago
> ES and other companies have a business that sells a managed version of their product. This is how they sustain developers to continue working on Elastic Search. This model has worked for companies long before cloud providers were a thi
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by pronik 6y ago
I'm not surprised, having had the exact same debate about MongoDB a couple of years back. Elastic has iterated over and over, taking years to remove obvious problems with their products, building heavily on the community for input abou
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by pronik 6y ago
For what it's worth: Creative Nomad with 64MB was just the first one. The one with 6GB of storage came out about a year before the iPad. Hence the iconic "No wireless, less space than a Nomad. Lame." by CmdrTaco. iPod hadn&#x
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by pronik 6y ago
It's such a shame that the TrackPoint module is once again a "let's lure those freaks" kind of extension -- an essential feature of any modern TrackPoint is the middle mouse button for scrolling. Anyone creating a Trackp
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by pronik 6y ago
The one thing I find really bizzare about this whole web thing is that while we all pretend to be global, we are in reality even more local than ever. Facebook recommends me people I've never seen in my life just because someone I&#x27

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