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Neither the Institution of Civil Engineers :)

That was LA.

some potential buyers were dubious of anything that wasn’t Microsoft Windows. They wanted students to learn an interface they’d be using for the rest of their lives

Haven’t found a screenshot of Sugar OS in the article, but I assume it’s not that different conceptually? Still files, apps, windows?

Any particular APIs you have in mind? I find App Engine’s ‘getting started’ examples quite sane while they are ‘hello world’.

Source on your claim? It was about 50% on last year’s State of JS: https://2018.stateofjs.com/javascript-flavors/overview/

But that's about copyright, not trademarks.

Source on your claim? The best I was able to find is this:

Go attempts to combine the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++.

https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/10/google-go-language/

What’s wrong with either of those?

Have you also tried non-qwerty layouts, e.g. Norman? They may help with RSI as well.

Thanks for the references! I see that all three of the above favor split-hand design alongside with vertical staggering.

There used to be notebooks with slightly curved keyboards, can’t recall the vendor (HP? Dell?). I really wish Microsoft (and Apple) would re-set this trend.

Is vertical staggered the same as ortholinear? Haven’t encountered the term before.

Agree that default physical layout + qwerty as status quo is disappointing, though.

Given that decolonization ended more than 40 years ago, "the Europeans who have been plundering the continent for centuries" are either dead or retired. How is African countries reaching an agreement would be horrible to anyone, including them?

Otherwise you are subjective to survivorship bias: if people were silently quitting social media the ones who remain wouldn’t be aware there’s anything wrong with those social media.

That’s the point. Advertise the hazards of smoking in the places where people smoke.

‘We’ being?

Valid point, thank you. I wonder who would govern a truly international TLD then. UN? New body?

What’s wrong with .com/.net/.org?

I wondered the same. From the article (conversion to metric mine):

this one was only — “only” — about 10 feet (3 m) long: a juvenile, in a species that can grow to nearly 40 feet (12 m)

Just enough to buy the monitor stand.

The title is a mock of “Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know”[0], although these are (a) limited to a popular, yet not exclusive platform, (b) subjective to change at any moment.

[0] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_l...

Joel’s conclusions were based on a single data point. There were successful rewrites as well: https://medium.com/@herbcaudill/lessons-from-6-software-rewr...

In particular, Basecamp successful rewrite seems more applicable here, since both are web services. They never sunset previous two versions though.

Edit: typo.

Arguably May is the best time of the year to visit Kyiv. This chestnut bloom!

What you create today creates a liability for tomorrow. Maybe they wouldn’t have to do this if Windows 7/10 were free updates with a smooth upgrade experience?

Not trying to defense the writing style, but is says 'opinion' right on top.

Even after 30 years in industry I still fall back on this formula with great results.

Isn't this Parkinson's law in action, i.e. work expands to fill the time available for its completion? That would mean you overestimate up to 2.4x each time.

Edit: math.

Wow, what a horribly designed website.

Here’s the direct link to the pdf: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02089889/document

I didn’t think about segregation on planning phase, thanks for the insight.

Answering your question: yes, I believe not being able to afford housing categorizes a person as poor.

“Provide everyone fairly” is a touchy subject and depends on how limited do you want your goverment to be. I’d rather choose where to live myself, based on my own means.

they’d no longer segregate rich from poor

Should people who want to spend more on housing be automatically labeled “rich”?

(2017), please.

Update: previous discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14861886