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All the code examples on this page are doubling any brackets ([], {}, ()). How have they managed that? Not a fantastic first impression of its capabilities...

There was, for a little while, the idea that a mobile device could seamlessly plug into an external display, with external input devices, and swap between a "desktop" and mobile mode. I believe Mozilla tried to invest in this pretty heavily.

But it went nowhere. I suppose the technical challenges of the time were too great, and the mobile devices that won the space were locked down like the iPhone, where it was better to have the ecosystem that let you sync your mobile device to something more powerful if you really wanted.

But given the power inside mobile devices these days, Apple silicon especially, I think it is sad that this vision never really came to fruitition. It seems like the perfect sort of device for most modern users. Something that is open and unlocked, and you can plug it into bigger things to solve the problems many other commentors are talking about around difficulty programming on small screens, etc.

But that's the whole of modern computing history, I suppose.

I'm working for a smaller US company (hitting 100 people across the whole organisation soon), as a remote employee in the UK.

The arangement is a third party hires me as an employee in the UK, where I receive all the British employment rights (holidays, etc), and I just work for the US company. This is a fairly new thing for them, previously they had only taken on non-US persons through contracting companies.

I would guess that if larger companies were going to hire abroad, they would either have a local setup to manage payroll or do something similar to where I am now. No idea how many are really offering something like that.

I've had my taskbar in Windows at the top of the screen since 2005. Admittedly, there was no particular reason to move it there, but having done so I'm now used to it. Having to re-learn how to use my computer because the taskbar is at the bottom now sounds extremely offputting to me.

Read a lot of content like it, really the same as any sort of writing.

Then practice.

You could additionally look to use a memorisation tool (something like Anki perhaps) to store new words and phrases that you like, so they are in your head, ready to be retrieved as you're hammering away at the keys.

Yes, it does. Though in Firefox it spawns 20 at a time and every time you click on the original tab it spawns another 20.

To perhaps go against the grain a little here, I appreciate a focus on customisation from the start.

I am beginning to use Vim more, mostly because I was introduced to the keybindings with Vim emulation from other apps, and I appreciate how it works. I had previously attempted to learn Vim through the normal ways, but it just was impossible; by default, Vim for me is barely readable and none of the included colour schemes ever made it any better. Plus, of course, some of the other things like size of tabs, line numbers, often even syntax highlighting. But finding out how to deal with plugins, themes, settings, etc. is difficult when you aren't already introduced to Vim, precisely because most people make the assumption that you've learned Vim "as is" already.

I think some concession has to be made to modernity. Vim is very old and "as is" it often just doesn't function very well for everyday use. Grinding through that until you know it well enough to be given the knowledge of how to make it nicer to use isn't worth it to most people. It certainly wasn't to me.

I think the article has missed something about what Rockstar could consider piracy here: the revenue they get from selling GTA:O microtransactions. If people are opting out of the GTA:O experience for a different online one, that is users Rockstar no longer have to potentially sell microtransactions to.

If Rockstar's plan is to focus on GTA:O as a revenue source, then it makes sense to shut down any potential competition, especially if that competition is in their own game.

Of course, one could argue that Rockstar may sell more copies of the game for the sake of playing alternative online modes, but I think that this won't be true. If the potential gains from new 'boxed' copies of the game were greater than the potential gains from microtransactions, I think we'd see Rockstar focusing on bringing out more content similar to the two expansions they released for GTA4, rather than the online content they are focusing on now.

As someone who casually browses 4chan (at least some of the less major boards, certainly not /b/) I've got to say that I've never really seen any particularly awful content. Either it's not as ubiquitous as people think or the janitors are really, really good at their jobs.

It's all very silly, of course. But the anonymous thing is fun and I've had some interesting debates where I can just test ideas and say whatever for the hell of it without worrying about any kind of repercussion in terms of my reputation. It's easier to go in guns blazing being wrong and learn something without feeling that it's personal when no one has a name.

I'm getting this issue as well. Using Firefox 39 on OS X.