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sciter.com 2y ago

Sciter.GLX

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old.reddit.com 2y ago

Cloudflare's interesting DMARC DNS record

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www.thedefensepost.com 3y ago

USAF Flight Tests Open Software Stack on F-22

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Which VPS provider will survive the coming winter?

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thoughtinfection.com 4y ago

Capitalism Is a Paperclip Maximizer

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www.cnet.com 5y ago

FBI arrests Texas man with alleged plot to blow up Amazon data center

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www.ecosophia.net 5y ago

Rice and Beans in the Outer Darkness

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blog.jetbrains.com 5y ago

IntelliJ Idea 2020.3.1 Is Out with Apple Silicon Support

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9to5mac.com 5y ago

Apple doubles down on upcoming iOS 14 privacy features

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www.sitepoint.com 5y ago

I’m So Old

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lumiklovstad.wordpress.com 5y ago

Whatever Happened to CryEngine?

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

Why the French Love to Complain

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www.omnigroup.com 6y ago

Omni Roadmap 2020

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eumostwanted.eu 6y ago

Crime Has No Gender

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blackfalconsoftware.wordpress.com 6y ago

Military Siege Theory and the Cloud

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www.phoronix.com 7y ago

You Still Should Have Anti-Virus with Windows Subsystem for Linux

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www.phoronix.com 7y ago

Fedora 30 Might Enable DNF's “Best” Mode by Default

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: how to get photos from my Chinese friend iPhone

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www.anandtech.com 8y ago

Apple Updates MacBook Pro Family for 2018

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oem.bmj.com 8y ago

Effectiveness of face masks used to protect against air pollution

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www.anandtech.com 8y ago

Apple Starts iMac Pro Sales on Dec. 14

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Recommandation for a self hosted chat system

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www.yegor256.com 8y ago

ORM Is an Offensive Anti-Pattern

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scroll.in 8y ago

How Sanskrit came to be considered the most suitable language for computer soft

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www.breakingnews.ie 8y ago

British hiker in Greece 'devoured' by pack of wolves

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hackernoon.com 9y ago

Penetration Testers’ Guide to Windows 10 Privacy and Security

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techcrunch.com 9y ago

Dopamine Labs slings tools to boost and reduce app addiction

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www.oreilly.com 9y ago

Should you containerize your Go code?

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www.anandtech.com 9y ago

Kaby Lake E3-1200 v6 Xeon Specifications Leaked

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www.anandtech.com 9y ago

The Microsoft Surface Studio Review

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You won't find many historical examples of fascists being booted out by the people.

The only successful revolutions are piloted by a small elite with further interests that may not coincide with the people.

I'm thinking of building a long term living app (say an app that I will use the next 30 years).

It has to be a web app so I was thinking of going pure JS. With that requirements in mind would you recommend ember.js?

Meh. I don't get the love Lua gets on HN. At least version 5.1, I didn't try the others.

No first class support for OOP, you got to use tables instead.

No "continue" keyword to go to the next iteration of a loop. So you have to use some ugly elseif.

No try catch!

It's a dynamic language so everything goes. A function will return nil or a number or whatever you wish. A function can also returns any number of variables, so obviously some moron will abuse it: looking at you Blizzard intern (you must have been an intern right?) that thought returning 20 variables on the combat event log was a good idea. Ever heard of tables???

The LSP can't do miracles when there are almost no rules so auto-completion is more miss than hit, which is quite shocking in 2024. The IA is helpful sometimes but create subtle bugs some other times. A simple uncaught typo will create a hard to find bug (yesterday copilot auto-completed myObject.Id instead of myObject.id, there went 20 minutes of my life trying to find why some code that was running solidly for weeks was now failing silently).

So all in all, Lua is fine to write small imperative scripts of a few hundred loc. Anything bigger and more complex you should run away IMHO.

I never realized C# was such a well designed language until I tried Lua.

The Dying Web 2 years ago

As a long time FF user (from v1) I just migrated to Brave for 2 reasons:

- I'm tired of FF sneakily pushing some telemetry / studies / "anonymous ads" whatever even though they already get bilions from Google

- Brave is better at dealing with gdpr popups and ads than FF + ublock

On the other hand, Brave is a joke at managing bookmarks.

I tried Librewolf last year but I had some problems with it (not sure what it was).

For example a reader app where you can't host everything on the server. My ebooks collection is 1TB big, and my videos are something like 20TB.

I get your point, but I'm more on the side of "let those enthusiasts get shocked and see in a few years if this electricity thing is really worth it".

I eschew complexity wherever practical. There's so much complexity in modern life, especially for tech people.

Right now mutable Linux is absolutely fine for me, but I'd like to thank all the people that are alpha testing some of the tech I'll adopt later ;)

IMHO for personal workstations immutable distros are a solution in search of a problem.

In 3 years using Fedora (which hasn't a reputation for being a stable distro) I once had a bad kernel that prevented my Framework laptop from booting (solved by blacklisting said kernel). All my other Fedora machines were fine.

Why would I need an immutable distro if even Fedora is stable enough? Heck i could use Debian or a RHEL clone and never have to worry about stability.

No computers connected to the internet in Swedish hospitals?

If there are, a bridge could be made willingly or not. OFC it's more secure than everything on the internet.

7 days a week

IMHO you're risking a burnout and working on your company 0 day a week.

It would be better to be reasonable now than to kill your company in a few years because you can't stand it anymore.

Take this next week-end off and go do something totally "useless" like walking in nature ;) It will recharge you.

there is a proposal that suggests individuals nearing retirement should work in a social service job for a year

And what about letting people live their lives without constantly micro managing their fate. What happened to freedom?

As long as I pay my taxes, don't infringe on the basic universal sane laws (you know, don't kill, steal etc) leave me the fuck alone.

I don't know for Germany but France, my country, starts to ask too much in exchange for what they're offering. Can't do this, can't do that, pot holes everywhere, prices and taxes skyrocketing, impossible to find a doctor that will receive you the same day and now they want to send us to die in Ukraine?

and leaving the community was the best decision for my mental health in a software development context.

May I ask if it was for technical reason (JS ecosystem breaking constantly) or for people reason?

Thanks, I thought it was some kind of home (house) automation. Do you have an example of what it's useful for? Why would I "manage" my home directory?

I "love" these projects that won't even describe what they do on their front page or even in their manual.

Of course everybody has 30 minutes to spare to try to understand what it is.