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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Mozilla should be focusing on RSS within Thunderbird, because that was the original location for RSS functionality, and is a much better fit anyways (due to the expected presence of an almost always open left hand sidebar. Unfortunately Moz
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
I’ve never heard of any company that has fired someone (which usually implies that it was with cause, as opposed to a lay-off, which does not imply a cause, but rather that the company needed to do cost cutting) giving them a severance pack
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Because casual users are exploring Github looking for new UI patterns for file manager apps? The audience is clearly not casual users. And why does the README have to be a pitch?
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Yes, Trump did something about China. He got rid of the most effective global efforts to contain China’s growth through the TPP. I know HN hates the TPP because of amorphous claims about IP, but flouting IP norms forms the entire basis of t
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Not having a lockdown would not have avoided economic devastation. As pretty much every data point shows, in the US, the drastic drop off of economic activity happened well before the actual lockdowns. States saw drops in economic activity
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
To be fair, JavaScript is also an extremely bad OOP language. And I’m not complaining about its prototypical inheritance either (I actually like it), but the fact that it tries to hide its prototypical nature under a Java like veneer.
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
It’s hardly JS developers who think functional programming is cool. Scala became huge in the JVM world because of its functional nature. Kotlin includes a lot of functional programming, and Java itself continues to add functional capabiliti
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
This was my favorite part about Ember, and what I miss the most. The Ember team is one of the least dogmatic teams that I have come across, and has been willing to change their entire strategy when presented with a better idea (while provid
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
I don’t think that’s what he is talking about here though. And note, his point about the multiple files isnt even a complaint. As someone who worked with Ember in the past (our company inherited a new product with an acquisition so we were
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
I dislike convention over configuration big time. It’s the reason I could never do RoR as much as I tried to learn it when moving from C/C++ dev to more web dev. But it’s definitely not the worst idea. People who like that approach see
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Having interacted with Core Ember devs I would be very surprised if the author didn’t know anything about React. I’d wager that he indeed knows a lot about React. At least the ones I interacted with did not only know React, they knew it wel
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Trying to pass off CPAP machines as ventilators, promising that there will be no cases in middle April, and promoting conspiracy theories that the number of deaths have been inflated, when they are almost certainly understated. Yeah, Musk i
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Is Elon Musk gonna be working in the factory and traveling to and from it possibly using public transport, or even just a regular car, but having to pick up coffee from the drive thru on the way? It’s not civil disobedience if you’re gettin
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
“Why doesn’t everyone who is putting information out there for free not cater to exactly my needs”. What an utter load of bollocks. These are people who are creating something that they enjoy doing and giving you information you apparently
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
So the whole 5 eyes report has basically been exposed as likely a fabrication at best, and they are coming up with some other nonsense now. It’s clear FUD. And all this does not change the fact that whether it escaped a lab or not is comple
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
How is there no substance to it? I heard people say the same stuff about Apple slowing down performance on iOS. People complained about it for months and years, and Apple fans and “Geniuses” gaslighted everybody by saying they were just ima
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
It makes a difference though. The fact that Chromium is Electron’s backend is why MS picked Chromium to base Edge off. It’s likely they would have chosen something else if that wasn’t the case (or maybe continued with their own web tech).
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
For a more or less static website, what’s probably the best bet, and has been the standard for many years, largely because it allows the non technical restaurant owner to easily update and make changes, is Wordpress. In which case you’re ba
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Juul is a huge opportunity for big tobacco. It’s a way to get the kids hooked and make them life long customers.
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
A lot of people feel similarly. And almost all those people are people whose lives will not be affected negatively by 4 more years of the terrible administration, so they get to enjoy moral outrage while others bear the burden of feeding th
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Yeah, and this isn’t even an equivalent situation. A more comparable situation is if Ford had requested his supplier send him a certain type of screw but the supplier sent him a completely different type of screw because it was “better”. It
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
The difference between systemd and snap is that systemd has been validated by almost all the major distro makers. The exceptions are largely people who don’t want systemd precisely because of systemd’s popularity, and they want to retain so
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Without commenting on the quality of snaps, I find Canonical replacing the App Store that supported all 3 distribution methods, with one that drops support for flatpak, and prioritizes snaps over .deb to the extent it will display a snap re
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
If someone is able to create something that is half as good as systemd then distros will switch time it. The thing is that systemd solves a lot of problems for distros in a good enough way (frankly, currently in a way that is better than an
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Individual bankruptcies are not bad. Mass bankruptcies are terrible.
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
The vast majority of successful tech companies definitely treat their code as assets. I think you’re confusing 2 things. The technical and developmental side, where code is a liability that needs to be maintained, and the business/usag
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
The whole thing is clearly an attempt at a graceful exit. The original strategy was herd immunity. The argument being made was that Sweden was gonna get infected anyways, so better to get it out of the way sooner rather than later, while pr
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
Every single human being has preexisting conditions.
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
There’s a lot of confidence there for lack of hiring blacklists when Google, Apple, etc are known to have shared hiring data with each other to underpay new hires.
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by thawaway1837 6y ago
The US, today, has a whole horde of influential people (including the President, probably) who are attacking Dr Fauci. At a time where the virus and its lethality is undeniable, and Fauci isn’t even just a random doctor, but probably one of

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