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I think I have read somewhere that it refers to the "leaders" quadrant in Gartner's magic quadrant.

It's 2.5%

For a moment I thought it's something about Caldera Linux [1] :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldera_OpenLinux

I’m not sure what he’s doing today.

He seems to be back working on Stellar [1].

[1] https://github.com/stellar/stellar-core/commits?author=grayd...

It's the only software I miss on Mac :) Using "Commander One" on Mac, but it's simply not on the same level.

While we're at it, what are people using as alternatives on Mac and Linux?

Yes, apparently that's how they're called :)

Norton Commander brings back memories. Started using it in DOS days and still use two-column file managers to this day.

TLDR: mining rewards should pretty much have no effect on BTC price

Miners will want to cover the cost of mining, and to achieve that they will want to sell coins for higher price than they were selling it before for.

With quite a few exceptions you have to be aware of to avoid losing data during migrations.

No.

i5 or i7? How is the temperature? There are reports that Air has issues with overheating.

I was so looking forward to the rumored 14-inch MBP, in which case I would have upgraded my MBP Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015.

Also, having no option for a keyboard with function keys on any MBP model anymore is just disappointing. Why are they so stubborn with that touchbar?!

I'm using VS Code and it does do that. It deletes back to the previous indentation level.

In the case when you move code around you will anyway go for Tab/Shift+Tab in any editor.

"Free stuff sells well!"

-- I can't remember where I've read it.

They’re faster to use.

That's not really an argument. Every code editor can be configured to interpret the tab key as desired number of spaces.

I've started using Typora [1] recently. It's the best of both worlds.

[1] https://typora.io

The company I've founded in 2007 never ever sent out any document in MS Office format, never owned any copy of MS Office, and we survived since then just fine.

It's great that it worked out for you, but that's just not the case in the most business environments I have been dealing with. When a person sends out a document to a customer, and it turns out that customer didn't see the content as intended, alternatives get deleted and MS Office gets reintroduced.

Just to be clear, I'm not a proponent of MS Office. As a matter of fact I run on Mac and Linux and don't have much touching points with Windows, but MS Office is simply a necessity in most business environments.

Exactly. The last coherent release of Windows was 7. From that point on it was only downhill.

_"nah... I don't want any changes, I'd rather keep myself and the world vendorlocked into proprietary software"_

People don't have a problem changing if the change doesn't break their work(flows). The fact that Internet Explorer is pretty much dead proves it - everyone switched to Chrome although is different.

MS Office document format support is simply not good enough on any alternative (of which Libre Office is the only serious contender).

I have tried to switch to Libre Office on multiple occasions over the years, but every time I gave up after couple of weeks of frustration, because I couldn't collaborate on shared documents. Either the stuff I created in Libre Office looked different when others open it in MS Office, or I was breaking the documents for other people.

I don't consider MS Office to be better - it's simply that the alternatives are not compatible.

I'm glad this microservices hype is coming to an end. So many people have jumped on the hype train, introducing so much unnecessary complexity into their environments.

First thing that comes to mind is code completion, which is unmatched in any other tool in the space.

I have tried to give pgAdmin4 a chance three times, and every time it was an exercise in frustration. It is unstable and awful from the UX perspective.

Since then I'm sticking with psql for administration and with DataGrip for more involved DB development, and that works very well.

DataGrip is a bit intimidating at first, but much more powerful.

- Qur'an

- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

How did you make HN use that font? :)

assuming you are open to being locked into the .NET family

Which is not different than being locked into e.g. JVM family, or even being locked into OCaml itself.

In short, macOS and hardware/software synergy.

What are you doing with 100 cores in your garage?

Is that really true, or is it just a myth?

Welt am Sonntag also quoted an unidentified German government source as saying Trump was trying to secure the scientists’ work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, “but only for the United States.”

Why?