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I frankly wouldn't want any of my traffic going anywhere that close to China regardless of how well they implement their stuff.

>To me that's definitely in the realm of "fix this if you need to run this program more than once"

Maybe the programmer doesn't need to use this more than once?

I also got the same idea.

I do dislike forums like ArsTechnica where "/s" is prominent, I believe that if you need to write a sarcasm tag to get that across, you likely should not be writing sarcasm at all.

Then again there's people like parent which will miss what I believe to be obvious sarcasm, and I wonder all over again if there's a point to it all.

Sometimes I think we should just not write sarcasm at all on written communications.

>Serverless Code Editor Framework

Library Reactive Functional Composable

Normally you have mapping files which tell your browser which bits correlate to the outputted "compiled" code.

Thus in your browser you see the code you write, you put in breakpoints as desired, and everything generally works.

I don't have much depth as to how it all works behind the scenes though, I'd love to know more.

>systematic screwup of law in the USA" is a pretty good description; another might be "massive market opportunity"

The way Americans have the capacity to acknowledge something intrinsically fucked up about their society, and see it as a business opportunity regardless is something I both admire, and despair over.

Why is this down voted?

I was gonna give the article a skip then I thought "What if they actually engineered a dinosaur into existence", felt I had to click it just in case.

Instead I got an, albeit interesting, article about 3D.

EDIT: I just realized you said "Isn't MPC-HC for Windows, and Brew for macOS?" which threw me off.

I am currently on Windows and use MPV, I don't see why it should be exclusive in any way.

The dotfiles are compatible, and same goes for lua scripts. So there's no trade off at all that I've found. And it's nice to be able to just clone my dotfiles and have it work in OS X, and same for Windows.

Cool. Did you make a PR to do the same on the repo? If not, could you? It would be nice to share the love.

A straight up copy/rehost of https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/bl... with some sections removed.

Why the fork?

If you read the article: It's because they couldn't tell apart Node and JavaScript projects.

However, I do disagree about not including JS.

I like it. I really enjoy the overly dramatic and/or expositional style is something I greatly enjoy in general.

>This is, unfortunately, a familiar scene for everyone, whether you are in Tokyo, Milan or New York.

Damn it, if I'm going to have the song stuck in my head all day so should all of you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5mtclwloEQ

>In general, the easier the code is to read, and the harder it is to write

Do you have any actual basis to back this up? My counterpoint would be Golang, which is designed exactly to be simple, and is usually really easy to read.

As in, I haven't found another language where jumping into a library and reading the internals is easier than in Golang.

EDIT: A counterpoint is JavaScript, a language which I use in my day to day, and similarly has quite simple syntax. But I can have trouble understanding what is going on depending on the tools used in the local environment.

It is actually on Chrome as well: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copyfish-%F0%9F%90...

I started using it a bit ago, the area selection seems a bit wonky, but otherwise works.

This seems cool, I just tried it in chrome and it has support for pop-up dictionaries, so I'll be using this for some beginner reading assistance.

Thanks for making this!

I'd actually be likely to contribute a bit more in Github if it were a bit more gamified. I understand that understanding it's a Skinner's box trap, and then falling for it willingly anyway is not necessarily great. But that kind of visualized fictional progress actually does wonders for my motivation, now I sort of want something of the sort to exist.

The counter side might be that the game aspects may become controversial (similar to the defunct streak) and stress some people out to no end.

What would be a better scenario, though. Do we not die slowly even if we are older, which also requires more caretaking?

What's the difference between having it happen early and late?

I do agree with the Quality of life issue, though. If I'm a highly skilled worker (And thus have prospects to migrate) And some people in say, a country in Europe, live to see 150 years of age, while in my country on average people live to 70 I'm moving out as soon as humanly possible.

Realistically the gap doesn't grow that large, but I'm using hyperbole to make a point. I might be too dumb to articulate it though.

There's a phrase that stood out to me:

>“We are falling behind our competitors in health. That is going to impact our productivity; that’s going to take away our competitive edge when it comes to the economy,” Mokdad said. “What we’re doing right now is not working. We have to regroup.”

What's the logic behind this? Out of curiosity. It's a morbid thing I hesitate to say, but from a purely utilitarian view isn't it better for a country— from a macro perspective— if people die as close as possible as they finish their working life and retire?

I might be completely off base there, and this is mostly a request for more information, not saying people should die early. As far as I'm concerned I hope we all live to 200.

A friend hit me up yesterday asking if I wanted to play a cool new RPG he found, installed, and the custom game lobby was full within 3 minutes.

Warcraft 3 is alive and well, which makes me incredibly happy.

And I think this ties in with the Mod theme of the title very strongly. I don't _love_ RTS games, I can play them but it's not my biggest hit. But the Warcraft III custom games simply blew me away. As a teenager with a fairly limited game budget I have gotten a ludicrous amount of enjoyment out of the countless hours I've put into Warcraft III.

I'd be surprised if you told me I've played the RTS/classical mode of the game over 30 hours over my life. But if you told me I've played over 4000 hours in custom games I wouldn't even bat an eyelid.

Heck, as I said even nowadays I still reinstall and play a couple of fun maps every now and then.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is that modding support is an extremely positive thing, and derivations of your creation can truly breed a life of their own which I can only see as positive for your consumers.

Not shilling: I recommend signing up to the weekly newsletter. I've picked up around 9 very interesting books from it. The best recommendation I got from it (subjectively) was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

I really enjoy the service. Mostly go through all the top books and see if anything calls out to me, and so far the site has done really well at keeping the informal contract of "I give you my email, you don't spam me".

Holy shit

Is anyone here using this for *Nix traditional tools?

Mostly curious about Vim/Tmux, and having serve operations spit out the server into the actual Windows browser?

I did read something about the creator update adding 24 color support.

A key difference would be that I don't pay for Gmail, thus I pay through my data and ads. If I want a paid email solution that doesn't harvest my data, or serves me ads such things exist.

Also, having any OS collect your data is an incredible privacy violation, since, Operating systems, by their very nature have incredibly overarching access to essentially everything you do. And then, on top of it all, they serve ads.

Essentially, so far, software was either "sold", ad supported, or data supported, or both ad and data supported. Windows is trying to triple tap.

And again, the OS has access to absolutely everything. Having a platform have access to a slice of your life feels very different from having a platform have access to everything.

I am going to reply in the most rage inducing way, by providing a tiny counter example.

Really, though. I think you make a great point and are truly on to something here.

That said back to the aforementioned tiny counter example: Windows, for instance is coming up with things such as Game Mode[1] that are incredibly interesting. This is a feature that doesn't really compromise existing behavior, rather amplifies.

It's proof that some degree of continuous iteration can be healthy, it isn't necessarily healthy all the time. But saying development should stall outright is always a hard sell, there's always a way to improve anything.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/03/how-game-mode-will-ma...

I find it a hard sell to say that any — and every — user should learn every platform of choice they use well enough to be able to modify it.

In fact, I might say it is our duty as developers to make sure the default version of our program is good enough that almost no user should have to change it.

And I believe Windows accomplished that, at some point. Then some asshole decided to add ads to it all, just to squeeze a few more cents out of the users.

Most of these seem to be very on the side of "I'm a company", so as a sole developer what I like to do for clients is implementing sockets into their apps.

Adding sockets for, say, the 3 newest logs they get in real time. Or if they have anything that maps to a graph/app-overview just make sure that will always update in real time. It's not a huge time investment for me. Customers usually never request it specifically. But I've found they are blown away when they see how everything is updated in real time. It just makes the whole thing feel 'alive'.

Another thing which I don't personally love, but I do because I understand industries have differences is just exporting whatever can be exported into .csv files or .xls files where applicable.

All in all, I work in consulting. The code I write is meant to make the life of people easier, I want to make sure they get that when possible. A big part of why I'm able to do this is that I have a lot of creative freedom to do whatever I want so long as I'm getting stuff shipped. So huzzah for comprehensive management as well!

There's this phrase, right? "Don't reinvent the wheel". I think it's central to the development experience. Don't re-do work your ancestors have already done, lest you waste your time.

I think there's a very valid exception -- well, there's many, but here's my favorite: "Don't reinvent the wheel unless you are trying to learn how the wheel works."

See I like that phrase. Gives you a lot more creative license to just redo what has been made if you are curious about it. What if at the end of that learning experience you have a nice, fairly polished wheel and you'd like to share it? Maybe for e-cred, maybe for criticism, maybe just searching for praise.

I'd say that the underlying motivation is irrelevant. We as a community should be less skeptical about this stuff, we really need to learn to just be happy for people, maybe even give out some praise.

So on that note. Nice job OP! I really like the font choice, and colors. UI wise this might be the best FTP client I've seen.

Better yet, Microsoft might offer to buy them out.

That frankly sounds like a strong security argument to use MasterCard over Visa. But more research on how MasterCard would handle a similar attack might be necessary.