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uk.reuters.com 6y ago

Volkswagen to invest 60B euro in e-mobility, digital tech by 2024

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www.reuters.com 6y ago

Apple warns of risks from German law to open up mobile payments

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

Child Abusers Run Rampant as Tech Companies Look the Other Way

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medium.com 6y ago

Announcing Dart 2.5: Super-charged development

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github.com 6y ago

Kaist CS492: Design and Analysis of Concurrent Programs

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

How Apple's Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls

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www.boox.com 6y ago

Onyx Boox Max3: 13.3“ E-ink tablet

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www.theguardian.com 6y ago

Tesla Model 3 was UK's third bestselling car in August

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www.cnbc.com 6y ago

Porsche debuts Tesla’s newest competition with the all-electric Taycan

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github.com 7y ago

Stabilizing async / await

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www.zdnet.com 7y ago

Russian military moves closer to replacing Windows with Astra Linux

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blog.jetbrains.com 7y ago

JetBrains Supports the Apache Software Foundation

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blogs.apache.org 7y ago

The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes JetBrains as Its Newest Targeted Sponsor

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www.theverge.com 7y ago

The Asus ZenBook Pro Duo is an extravagant laptop with two 4K screens

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www.ssi.gouv.fr 7y ago

Clip OS – Open-Source Secured Operating System

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www.theverge.com 7y ago

VW opens preorders for the ID.3, its first long-range electric car

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www.snoyman.com 7y ago

The Rust crash course

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www.autoexpress.co.uk 7y ago

2019 VW ID. hatch to be world's first carbon neutral production car

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www.reuters.com 7y ago

Daimler to buy $23B of battery cells for electric car drive

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www.audiusa.com 7y ago

Audi e-tron

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beta.audi.co.uk 7y ago

Audi e-tron reveal

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github.com 7y ago

Show HN: Nip – search for and download BBC iplayer tv programmes

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medium.com 8y ago

Announcing Flutter Release Preview 1

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developers.googleblog.com 8y ago

Ready for Production Apps: Flutter Beta 3

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code.visualstudio.com 8y ago

Visual Studio Code 1.22 released

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uk.reuters.com 8y ago

VW assigns 20B euros in battery orders in electric car drive

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medium.com 8y ago

Why Flutter doesn't use OEM widgets

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developers.googleblog.com 8y ago

Making the Google Developers documentation style guide public

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medium.com 8y ago

Developer UX at Google

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www.telegraph.co.uk 9y ago

Driver ends up stranded on ski slope after relying on his satnav

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It seems like most of the times, the result is a higher price for the customer, at least when things go well.

Can you substantiate this claim?

With the vast majority of goods the price is set by the market, i.e. higher wages would indeed result in a smaller profit margin and not in a higher price.

Firefox 68.0 7 years ago

No, I'm using gnome-shell which uses mutter as wm.

But using gnome tweaks you can enable Emacs Input, which if you are used to emacs key bindings, is really handy navigating in gnome-terminal or, as mentioned web browser address bars.

Firefox 68.0 7 years ago

There are two things keeping me using Chrome.

1) Videostreams are way smoother using Chrome, at least on Linux.

2) I've enabled Emacs Input in Gnome. When I enter something in the address bar, both Firefox and Chrome show suggestions for websites below. In Chrome I can type Ctrl+n / Ctrl+p to navigate between the suggestions, because it respects my keyboard schema.

In Firefox this opens new browser windows :( and I've found absolutely no way to change this behaviour.

What happens to the small sites that don't track users, but display some ads to keep the servers running? Hope that they get "rewarded with BAT's accordingly to the users attention" ?

Btw, I'm guessing you are a Brave employee, that many Buzzwords in one comment would otherwise be quite astonishing, how does Brave guarantee a users privacy? I assume brave "phones home" in order to replace ads with ads Brave gets compensated for.

Also, I read a lot about a transparent way funds are distributed among publishers, where is the code?

The first time I heard of Brave, I thought Oh cool, a privacy focused, chromium based browser. But I must say I'm honestly appalled by its parasitic business model.

Content creators are strong armed into becoming verified publishers, while users have to trust Brave that their data is handled properly and carefully.

it is my understanding that the bad C++ compilation speed is one of the reasons behind Go's inception.

Go has a GC because its creators thought they needed one to support concurrency.

Disregarding all critique of a language as "personal opinion" as long as you can "build cool stuff" with it.

GP said it's more valuable to evaluate a programming language by the projects people make with it, than by reading the 417th piece of perceived strengths and weaknesses of it. I think GP has a point.

Go is a GCed language, so you can't really compare it to C++.

That's a very strange thing to say.

If everyone followed this approach, we would never have ended up with amazing languages like Rust.

What approach would that be?

Why try to improve C++ if you can build cool stuff with it, right?

Go improves on C++ in at least one regard, compile time. And there they succeeded spectacularly. While I like Rust, imagine how great it would be with Go's compile speed..

Learning Rust 8 years ago

No, I mean that every chapter ends with exercises testing your knowledge about the chapter's contents.

This is not specific to this github site. I've recently read the O'reilly Programming Rust Book, not a single exercise in it, and the official The Rust Programming Language Book also doesn't have any.

Learning Rust 8 years ago

Exercises, I want Exercises, no I need Exercises.

In order for me to learn anything, I need some form of "homework". If you want to teach me a new language, a new framework, I need to "get my hands dirty".

Working through exercises makes sure I actually understand what I am reading, and sometimes it even shows me I don't understand what I thought I did.