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by rplnt 9y ago
But they are a major player in smartphone market that they use to leverage themselves into this market. Similar to Microsoft (majority in OS) bundling browsers and media players.
842.
by rplnt 9y ago
> Why is (x=1, y=2) more practical than nt(x=1, y=2)? It was outlined in the linked article. Order of named arguments should not matter so new syntax would be better.
843.
by rplnt 9y ago
Steam is not just a storefront, it's also service provider (or a platform). That's why many games are locked to Steam. I don't see any parallel like that with movies/tv.
844.
by rplnt 9y ago
Yeah, I see, I didn't mean to say it was intentional.
845.
by rplnt 9y ago
You are not supporting the software but bad practices resulting in fines and fees. But there's hoping a lesson was learned. It would be a shame if something like this damaged the product.
846.
by rplnt 9y ago
But that's just users viewing content there, not interacting with the site at all. I'm sure imageshack had those numbers, easily. Until something better (read not monetized) came along to replace it for a while.
847.
by rplnt 9y ago
FB did over a $5/year on a monthly active user in 2016. But they (and Google) are much better positioned at selling ads than a funny gifs engine ever could be.
848.
by rplnt 9y ago
Old Opera simply used to load cache. So if you opened a tab, it was there.. for days, weeks, months, through restarts and all. I loved that. Now everything I open to "check out later" is getting lost.
849.
by rplnt 9y ago
I thought the Worm was a Maggot.
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by rplnt 9y ago
I think Synergy does that as well.
851.
by rplnt 9y ago
Could they still sell ads in those countries? Or other services?
852.
by rplnt 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14638000 :)
853.
by rplnt 9y ago
Also, the list of puzzles on the site goes to March 2011. I think this is a nice case of taking something interesting and making it more approachable, perhaps even fun.
854.
by rplnt 9y ago
I like how it is in Sublime (2) - it shows whitespace characters on highlight.
855.
by rplnt 9y ago
It did in some cases - same operators across borders, or some neighboring country specials. But nothing global.
856.
by rplnt 9y ago
Firefox searches through open tabs by default when you type in the address bar.
857.
by rplnt 9y ago
Tell that to ex-bitcoin owners when it reached $1, $10, $100, $1000, ....
858.
by rplnt 9y ago
Do you directly open the file? It used to ask during import.
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Russian malware communicates by leaving comments in Britney Spears's Instagram(boingboing.net)
26 points by rplnt 9y ago|3 comments
860.
by rplnt 9y ago
Here's the full benchmark suite from speed.python.org showing what is faster and what is slower in 3.6 as compared to 2.7: https://speed.python.org/comparison/?exe=12%2BL%2B3.6%2C12%2... It would be very hard for
861.
by rplnt 9y ago
More reading linked at the end of the slides: https://faster-cpython.readthedocs.io/
862.
by rplnt 9y ago
If they don't need to fill the position immediately it makes sense for them to wait for an ideal candidate. It doesn't necessarily make you "really, really bad".
863.
by rplnt 9y ago
Sometimes it doesn't have to be the same Country, but rather timezone.
864.
by rplnt 9y ago
I mean, you should have done that when many (most?)of the core staff left. Or the lead dev before that.
865.
by rplnt 9y ago
I don't do this with everything, it depends on what the project is and what my use of it would be. But with libraries or anything that would be a part of something you might find it won't work with your next OS update, browser upd
866.
by rplnt 9y ago
I have to say that if I see last update in changelog from few years ago I assume the project is dead and one should not use it.
867.
by rplnt 10y ago
It would be nice if everyone did this, with any independent software that is no longer sold/supported. Independent as in major parts of it are not used in newer products.
868.
by rplnt 10y ago
I wonder if next week's Ludum Dare would be a great time to test this engine out (with a few hours prep of course). The promise of C# has been keeping me away from trying it out, but it must be at least a year now since I've heard
869.
by rplnt 10y ago
Five really, at least.
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by rplnt 10y ago
Well the missing functionality comes and go, hard to keep track. One current that I know of is Google Maps (the Earth mode). Also virtually every tech demo they did over the years. One might argue that makes sense, but it really doesn'

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