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   by signal11 9y ago

   It's been a long time coming, of course, but when I saw vim[1] ported to Javascript it really hit home. There's no denying it, your web browser is now an OS. Not a mini OS, an actual honest to goodness OS multiple vendors add feat
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   by signal11 9y ago

   Ditto for C#. It's otherwise a fine language, but you're already 12 spaces into a line before you write any executable code (assuming tab = 4 spaces). 80 chars per line just doesn't work :-(
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   by signal11 9y ago

   There's also a massive variation in standards. You'd think price and quality are correlated but one does have to perform due diligence as private hospitals routinely overcharge and prescribe unnecessary tests/procedures. A bi
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   by signal11 9y ago

   Is that a reference to JetBrains and Kotlin? :-)
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   by signal11 9y ago

   I believe these are subsidized (the article does mention economists complaining that these are a drain on the exchequer). A more subtle point is that these subsidized "canteens" are in urban India, which is already much better off
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   by signal11 9y ago

   IIRC Haskell for Mac was created by @tacticalgrace who's an Australian CS professor: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/ No idea if he created the demos though.
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   by signal11 9y ago

   > you have to learn an old and obscure LISP dialect for it As someone who is glancingly familiar with emacs (I have only ever written one elisp function, that too with help) it's a really stupid question, but couldn't emacs hav
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   by signal11 9y ago

   I can see echoes of Bodoni in IBM Plex Serif. Bodoni looks way classier though, and imho doesn't look dated at all.
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   by signal11 9y ago

   I used my iPhone 5 without a case and I have to agree, the 5 was beautiful. The 6S I now have is too slippery to use without a case, though (even ignoring the 'unstable on its back' argument). I would definitely buy a thicker phon
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    by signal11 9y ago

    Not exactly Bollywood, but VFX outsourcing is big in India. From low-cost animation (think animation for kids' TV) to top TV drama like Game of Thrones to Hollywood blockbusters like Interstellar and Doctor Strange -- they all use outs
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    by signal11 9y ago

    Zoroastrian funerals[1] are pretty eco-friendly: > Instead of burying the corpse, Zoroastrians traditionally laid it out on a purpose built tower (dokhma or 'Tower of Silence') to be exposed to the sun and eaten by birds of pre
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    by signal11 9y ago

    I do have a problem with Google Calendar's feature-set, however they did fix one of my problems in the past-- no "month view" in the iOS app.
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    by signal11 9y ago

    > fonts Chrome has a bunch of bugs related to font-rendering on Windows, e.g. https://crbug.com/414307 . I'm not sure why switching to DirectWrite didn't just fix these bugs, but subjectively appearance-wise on
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    by signal11 9y ago

    IANAL, but is it fair to say that using React under MIT doesn't leave you any worse off than using Angular and Vue? (both of which are MIT-licensed) Depending on the patent in question, it is possible to be on the hook even if you don&
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    by signal11 9y ago

    > And let’s not forget that it had support for syncing to many portable audio players, including the iPod. I'm pretty sure you're thinking about Winamp 3 or 5. Winamp 2, upon release (in 1998!) had no such feature IIRC. It didn
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    by signal11 9y ago

    Some day laws will be written as s-expressions to solve just this problem. (hat tip: Charlie Stross, _Accelerando_)
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    by signal11 9y ago

    People who want a fully independent Watch will probably be disappointed, but for the use-case of "I want to leave my iPhone at home while I go out for a jog", the fact that the watch uses the same phone number as your iPhone is
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    by signal11 9y ago

    I have an iTunes receipt from 2013 for 69p paid for a year's worth of Whatsapp service. Their message then was "we charge because we don't want to show you ads". IIRC they were always free in emerging markets like India
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    by signal11 9y ago

    > However, overall it had pretty strong positive impact on economy. Many of the roadside merchants who used to be exclusively cash only, have started accepting dizital payments. The evidence is that it had a strong negative effect. Also,
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    by signal11 9y ago

    For the few times I've needed it, I've found an iPhone + Prompt SSH Client + Bluetooth Keyboard to be pretty effective. I do have a Chromebook these days as a "travel device", but in a pinch an iPhone will work. iPads al
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    by signal11 9y ago

    I would love to know if that's legal (in various jurisdictions). You may have hundreds of dollars worth of games, blocking the entire account in response to one incident seems disproportionate.
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    by signal11 9y ago

    I wasn't really aware that "taupe"[1] was a colour until some Windows theme used that name. Similarly "coral" until it became an HTML colour -- it just wasn't common usage. I suspect a lot of these names origin
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    by signal11 9y ago

    I use 1Password on Windows 10 (and iOS) and "hanging for minutes at a time" has definitely not been my experience anywhere. It works well enough for daily use. The Chrome integration sometimes does stop working (about once a for
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    by signal11 9y ago

    Ironically Google used make a big deal about how their homepage was clean and uncluttered, unlike Yahoo (they especially called out Yahoo's horoscopes).
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    by signal11 9y ago

    There was a story[1] a few days ago about how imgur was becoming more annoying and obtrusive in the face of Reddit's new image hosting features. Ultimately, for image hosting (like everything else) there's no free lunch. [1] http
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    by signal11 9y ago

    In the UK, the older generation of readers are pretty slow. The newer models are pretty fast, I'm not sure if it's also because they have reliable broadband connections but they basically ask you to remove the card almost as soon
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    by signal11 9y ago

    If anyone knows what impact Verizon's ownership will have on Flickr, please could you share? I've been on Flickr for a long time now and it works well for me, should I be worried?
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    by signal11 9y ago

    I don't really care about titles so if calling someone a DevOps Engineer helps them and connects the right engineers to the right roles, great. Fighting against this use of "DevOps" would be like fighting against how the word
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    by signal11 9y ago

    Hitting Ctrl+C still works, it tells you to type ":quit<Enter>".
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    by signal11 9y ago

    Language servers could solve this problem and let editors hook into a deeper source of understanding of what they're editing, without building in the functionality themselves. [1] Intro blog post: https://code.visualstudio.c