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I have. And the poster is right: Adam Curry's other podcast (No Agenda) can accurately be described as right-wing propaganda. If you don't believe me, I challenge you to listen to the show for a week and find anything positive they might say about anyone who isn't a Republican in Trump's orbit.

Hahah, yes! I was obsessed with THREED.VBX, but because I was learning C at the time ended up writing a whole library of Windows custom-drawn controls that looked exactly the same. I guess it was only later that I learned there was nothing special about VBX libraries and that you could (with some boilerplate) make them work from C.

Kids nowadays have it so easy with their Electrons and QTs...

I had the same issue with LibreOffice choking with big datasets so I've started using SoftMaker PlanMaker for loading anything with more than a few hundred records. It's works just fine with documents with tens of thousands of rows and it allows me to do the - admittedly very simple - calculations and charting I need.

The whole SoftMaker Office suite is pretty nice. Not sure where it's on feature parity with Microsoft Office, but the price isn't terrible (something like $20 a year for the paid version, or free if you don't care about the paid features) and it does a great job of reading Office files.

As I understand it, they are essentially very different technologies. GraphQL focuses on providing a DSL for requesting subsets of data from a web endpoint that "talks" JSON. gRPC-Web is just a wrapper around gRPC so that you can expose your RPC endpoints in a front-end friendly manner.

In other words: GraphQL is akin to SQL, while gRPC-Web would be closer to a serialization/exchange format like XML/SOAP.

A quick description of the modern Linux boot sequence:

1) Press power 2) Get motherboard/manufacturer logo 3) Switch to a text-based Grub interface 4) Actual Linux kernel starts booting, sometimes flashing some text, sometimes setting a video mode directly 5) Plymouth loads a graphic screen showing an Ubuntu/Fedora/whatever logo, hiding the rest of the kernel loading output 6) The login manager (GDM or something similar) loads, displaying a different background from the previous logo.

Each one of those steps introduces a somewhat jarring "flicker". The new process looks like this:

1) Press power 2) Get motherboard/manufacturer logo 3) Login manager shows up

Personally, I don't care that much about something that only happens during boot. What does bug the crap out of me is how scaling for HiDPI displays is still all kinds of broken and you still get tiny cursors every now and then. Or how some applications decide to ignore which audio sink is currently setup in PulseAudio. Or how battery life is still better in Windows.

I've only used Ubiquiti in professional settings (offices) so I don't speak for their "home" solutions, but having used Google WiFi since it came out the advantages over other solutions is one word: simplicity.

I used to have a Netgear setup with a Nighthawk router and repeaters. It took hours of tweaking until the damn thing worked properly. Even after properly setup, performance on the main bedroom was terrible (~6Mbps down, when the living room was doing 120Mbps down consistently.) Handover between APs was terrible too: going from the living room to the bedroom there was a 50/50 chance your device would get "stuck" on the wrong AP. After installing some custom firmware for the router, I managed to improve that (there's a setting for kicking devices once the signal is below a certain threshold) but that was far from trivial. Going from bedroom to living room was even worse, as the repeater was dumb and wouldn't force a disconnect even with super low-signal. I usually had to turn wi-fi off/on on the device to force a reconnect. Let alone the amount of times the repeater would just stop repeating and needed to be unplugged from the wall to come back to life.

Installing 3 Google WiFi APs took me all of ten minutes, performance is excellent across the apartment and I don't have to deal with AP handover. It just works. And it cost about the same money as the original setup cost, with 0 of the aggravation.

Oh man, yeah... we have literal Nazis rallying with the tacit approval of the president (BTW, using the same anti-Semitic rhetoric you mention), but Antifa are the Nazis now.

WOW, the cognitive dissonance is so strong, you'll blow a gasket when you finally decide to be honest with yourself and admit you are part of the problem.

Sure. That's exactly what's happening right now (in the Fox News/Breitbart/The_Donald parallel universe)

But somehow you don't consider being "anti-Islam" (read: anti-Muslim, because people with that set of prejudices is not going to be threading too thin) racist?

Would you say being "anti-Jewish" is racist or bigoted?

Please point me to posts on those subreddits calling for a bloody revolution and the killing of the bourgeoisie? There's been this new meme circulating on right-wing circles that if you are not a card-carrying alt-righter then you must be - by necessity - Che Guevara's second coming. It's pretty disingenuous, and quite silly to be honest.

The post was on the front page of r/t_d, so I'm assuming it was fairly upvoted, and had plenty of comments from people supporting the spirit of the message. I remember linking it somewhere else on Reddit, to show just how vile the subreddit was (it was during one of the many discussions like this that try to portray r/t_d as a "high energy subreddit for fans only!")

This has some examples: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/53d5xb/what-is-rt...

Every time I've been to that subreddit, it only takes perusing the comments for 5 minutes to find way worse stuff. From people being openly racist, to people calling for Hillary Clinton to be raped, etc. Bunch of great people, really :\

r/the_donald is not just about "disagreeing" it's literally the worst kind of ecochamber of conspiracy theories, veiled (and sometimes not-so-veiled) racism and constant calls to action against "the left". They are such an ecochamber that 90% of the time they speak on memes that nobody else understands (or cares to understand.)

Maybe, just maybe, it's because the "far left" subreddit doesn't have content calling for ethnic cleansing?

Just saying.

Erm... am I the only one that's a little thrown off by the "mascot" in this project?

Yeah, this whole "Nazi flags == rainbow flag" or "this is a slippery slope" thing the right-wing has been pushing is ludicrous. There's nothing controversial in saying that Nazi ideals are really fucked up. Porn and LGBT people don't kill other people, Nazis did and would do again if given the chance.

> The concerted effort by the pro-censorship crowd to exploit nazis to promote censorship is rather worrying.

This, right here, is a straw-man that I've seen repeated countless times. I am not pro-censorship, but I'm sure as hell not for forcing companies to provide services to Nazis and other scum.

There's a huge, gaping difference between those two things and I'd appreciate it if you stopped conflating them.

Net neutrality has nothing to do with this issue. You could have net neutrality ("free circulation for bits" if you will) and as long as no hosting providers want to take your content, you won't be able to publish them.

Heeeeell no!

The wedding cake case didn't have anything to do with free speech, and a lot to do with discrimination: http://aclu-co.org/court-rules-bakery-illegally-discriminate....

Do not conflate a bunch of causes just because you feel they are related. It doesn't do your argument any favors.

I guess you haven't had a chance to go check their website. Maybe you should, before you spend too much time trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. These people are self-declared Nazis, and they do fantasize about killing all kinds of minorities.

I had a pretty good chuckle at this comment. I couldn't agree more. While I loved Delphi, VB, TurboPascal, ASIC and DJCPP back when they were in vogue, I feel like starting new projects in a decaying ecosystem is a bad idea. Soon enough you'll find stuff there aren't any libraries for, outdated database drivers, or hit a wall when trying to do something most modern runtimes make incredibly easy (something as simple as making an HTTPS request.) At that point you hit a diminishing ROI from using the language you love and it becomes a matter of productivity.

I love the idea of Flexport. It's one of the few startups in the latest batches that I can see as positively changing the world and has a great chance of being the next $1bn+ company.

Damn, I downvoted by accident. Also count on my vote for a black bar.

The problem with such terms as "creepy" is that they could apply to anyone, depending on circumstances.

- Did the hot date you were kind of into try to touch your boob without asking you? Creepy! (acceptable)

- Did the ugly guy two tables over compliment you on your looks when you were both trying to get a drink at the bar? Creepy! (not so acceptable.)

- Did the guy you were dating for a few months ask you for a 5' in-person conversation after you decided to break up out of the blue over SMS? Creepy! (that one happened to me and I felt personally threatened by this woman's implicit threat of slander)

It's also interesting how prevalent the notion of "creepyness" is in the US. Whereas in other cultures the same guy would be considered annoying, inconvenient, misguided or justifiedly threatening, here a blanket term is applied and everyone accepts it. The same principle applies to a lot of emotional stuff, where Americans apply very coarse "pattern matching" to behaviors that other cultures are way more nuanced about.

Linus is one of the nicest people you'll ever see. He's just a massive troll/flamethrower when it comes to online discussions. He acknowledges so himself. I don't mind it, Linux is his baby and if you don't like interacting with him you can just fork it and go your own way. Nothing stopping you.

I think nobody takes Linus's insults at face value anymore. I'd actually laugh my ass off if I was a kernel developer and got told off by Linus.

You are so right, it's not even funny :)