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I gave up battling with half-baked GPU drivers, buggy desktop environments, zero backward compatibility in 2012, when I switched from Linux to Mac, and all my problems vanished at once. Remarkably, MacOS is POSIX-compliant, so basically a well-designed desktop environment over Unix derivative, something that Linux failed to reach in 30 years.

In the same time, I develop server-side software for Linux for the last 15 years, and feel like it's just on the right place - on the server.

Not to talk about a bunch of virtual machines, especially if virtual machines is what you develop.

EPAM culture of working with authoritarian and totalitarian states pays back

Russia is on the way to turn into North Korea, they will block YouTube sooner or later.

RT is the synonym of misinformation

When you work for fascist regime, don't be surprised being swallowed by it one nice morning.

$17278 inflation-adjusted, compared to 1975 (not sure what year this ad was published)

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

I can easily name several usecases, when increased code size leads to better performance (compile-time evaluation, architecture-specific optimizations)

There are plenty of people who choose to work from office, around 20% of total staff of major software companies as far as I remember. I worked from home about 5 years (remote-only company), long before COVID, and I strongly disliked it. I'm just tired to live in the office, not having private space and private time, and surprisingly, having fewer and fewer time for my family. After COVID I took a firm decision not to work from home anymore, even I like the project and other conditions.

For discussing his article and disproving his claims.

If you don't like it, you can use Protonmail instead of Gmail, and Mega instead of Google Drive, and still being able use Android device. But I totally understand frustration of users, whose smartphone suddenly turned into spyware.

So we should sit still and wait while CCTV in every room would be a normal preventive measure against child abuse? No thanks, we will tear down this initiative, and will keep doing that in future. However, you can keep sending your private footage to the police station, if you like doing so.

Don't see any difference. In both cases your private property forcibly accessed without any reason to suspect you, but rather out of preventive reasons.

You can volunteer installing CCTV in all your rooms, including toilet, and regularly send the footage to the police station. However, let us, normal people, to be excluded from this dystopian madness.

Brave is well-know unethical crypto-enterprise, practicing totally scammer techniques, which seems twice as absurd given their fake "pro-privacy" image. For me, nothing could save their reputation anymore. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/nvz9tl/brav...

I would say, it's rather primitive than just simple language. Lack of absolutely necessary features like generics, not to tell about memory and thread unsafety by design. There's zero sense to start a new project in C in 2021

Totalitarian regimes can't work with computers properly

How it "doesn't have developers"? Who develop Windows itself and all products for Windows, aliens?

I totally hate Facebook, never had an account and will never have.

However, why the first media resource administrator of banned page reached, was Russian propagandist outlet Sputnik? Their style is disgusting Goebbels-style propaganda, coordinated attacks on social media using resources of St.Petersburg troll factory, and for sure they use Facebook for their propagandist purposes.

I can assure, in Russian jurisdiction any resource like Wikileaks would be shut down, and founders will soon have tea with Novichok.

I just want to say, siding with one evil against another could not be justified.

Hate to see how easily monopolistic services like YouTube give up basic human rights, in order to please tyrants, who's in solo charge of accessing to the market, which YouTube does not want to lose.

I witnessed multiple shutdowns of accounts, criticizing Russian regime. No explanation was provided, like Google always does. Selling ads is more important, than life and freedom of people.

Sad to say, but HN is also targeted by government-sponsored troll factories, at least from Russia and China. I can assume, they have "guidelines" to support "in a phony mode" anti-Western authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, including Iran, Turkey, and North Korea

It is. Hope, after new administration takes office, "hell sanctions" package would be approved, as well as closing Russian embassies and increasing military pressure to its borders. Sanctions already work, and Russian regime does not enjoy a variety of options to oppose it.

Chinese (Russian, Venezuelan) constitution does not worth paper it has been printed on. Authoritarian regime has any tools to override any statement of constitution, and face no consequences. Rights are for party bosses, responsibilities for the people.

Needless to say, the code itself should be beautiful.

Anti-stalling software system was an artificial patch of an outdated planer, which could not cope with changes in aerodynamics with new engines. Boeing basically made a terribly unsafe plane and put a watchdog to prevent it from crashing too often to make it embarrassing. I will refuse flying 737 MAX even if they implement 100 watchdogs and give every passenger a parachute. Such an outrageous contempt to human's life out of corporate greed could not be justified.

Study in countries where it's free. Concept of paying for the education seems crazy to me, if you have brain, you won't spend for your education a cent. I have two master degrees, graduated in different countries and never knew what is student debt.

Mostly they ask you to study their language first, and then you can work on your degree, for free. Investing in educated citizen (including potential) is a right thing.

"Git submodule". Did not even read further, author does not have an idea how to manage VCS

Rule of law is great, until you find yourself an outlaw just by the fact of being alive.

I use both code generation, and backward automated modeling from code, which is possible only on EA to my knowledge. Overall usability was worse, maybe because of old Java SWT interface (last time I used VP in 2011)

No, I mean exactly what I said