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   by zerr 5y ago

   What are the reasons to switch from Winamp to something else?
2. 872.▲
   by zerr 5y ago

   With the advent of Windows PC "consoles" in the near future, I guess the need for traditional consoles will demiss.
3. 873.▲
   by zerr 5y ago

   > are asking for them to break it again on VS vNext. Why?
4. 874.▲
   by zerr 5y ago

   Not the Debug versions though.
5. 875.▲
   by zerr 5y ago

   They have mistaken it with DCOM I believe.
6. 876.▲
   by zerr 5y ago

   Any reasons to code in Forth these days, besides intellectual exercise?
7. 877.▲
   by zerr 5y ago

   I know the context/reference, but still do not get it. It anyway assumes that Dropbox came up with something new, but it didn't - there were already such seamlessly integrated cloud storage providers with user friendly access, e.g
8. 878.▲
   by zerr 5y ago

   What's Win10/11 story on m1 macs?
9. 879.▲
   by zerr 5y ago

   Could you please link the reference?
10. 880.▲
    by zerr 5y ago

    Not sure if I'm the only one - I loathe games and gaming in general, think that it is a lifewasting activity mostly... But I love game development, engine development to be precise.
11. 881.▲
    by zerr 5y ago

    EDIT.EXE is pretty intuitive. Pity that it was removed from Windows eventually.
12. 882.▲
    by zerr 5y ago

    First Pascal compiler was written in Pascal and hand-compiled to machine code.
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    Second Life as a Platform for Augmented Reality (2008)(youtube.com)

    1 points by zerr 5y ago|0 comments
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    by zerr 5y ago

    Neurodiversity is a thing. Companies compete with each other on how good diversity stats they have, only taking in count visual appearance while on the behavioral side it is expected that everyone is the same corporate employee archetype.
15. 885.▲
    by zerr 5y ago

    Exactly. Even Google backed Go became popular only after adding Windows support.
16. 886.▲
    by zerr 5y ago

    As a someone who worked on Chromium, I think it is a gigantic pile of s̶h̶i̶t̶ complexity.
17. 887.▲
    by zerr 5y ago

    Is it that hard for Microsoft to hire a proper (native) desktop dev team(s)?
18. 888.▲
    by zerr 5y ago

    Not sure about being better though - outside London/Finance sector/FG, six-figure is quite rare, isn't it?
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    by zerr 5y ago

    Most important distinction - out of all Lisps, only in Clojure it is encouraged to use primitive types directly. Higher level abstractions, "inventing your own languages" are considered as a bad style.
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    Life at 50C: Keeping cool in India's heatwaves(bbc.com)

    3 points by zerr 5y ago|0 comments
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    Ask HN: Middle/High-school Computer Science/Informatics curriculum/materials?

    4 points by zerr 5y ago|3 comments
22. 892.▲
    by zerr 5y ago

    Go will loose significant market share as soon as Java and .NET have a mature and usable AOT compiler.
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    by zerr 5y ago

    Besides Algol-like syntax, LISP 2 was meant to be compiled, fast and statically typed.
24. 894.▲
    by zerr 5y ago

    I wish LISP 2 was never abandoned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISP_2
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    The Sahara: Mauritania's Dark Side(youtube.com)

    3 points by zerr 5y ago|0 comments
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    by zerr 5y ago

    I hope orgs without managers will become more and more popular.
27. 897.▲
    by zerr 5y ago

    Employment != Sole proprietorship. Employer != Client.
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    by zerr 5y ago

    Unless you work with interns or very junior devs [1], manager deciding whom to give what, also favoring some subset group, giving them interesting tasks and financial rewards, while keeping "boring" stuff for the rest of the team
29. 899.▲
    by zerr 5y ago

    This also assumes that one has already won the lottery of birth.
30. 900.▲
    by zerr 5y ago

    That's called ageism. It is a discrimination and is illegal, but usually overlooked.