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> It’s not a trivial Hello World app at all, yet it’s a standalone self-contained binary that clocks in at only one megabyte. In contrast, “Hello World” in Go generates a binary that is 1.1mb in size, despite doing much less.
I disagree. The name is the developer's way of telling you whether the software should be considered ready for general use. As long as it's called "beta", I'm not going to second guess the developer's judgement; I'll wait until the release version of ST3 before upgrading from ST2.
So maybe that's a flaw in the whole exercise: it's only taking into account remarkable/unusual language switches, the ones people think are worth writing articles about.
The author was talking about hand-cranked dispensers for paper towels, not cloth ones.
The author seems unconcerned about a particular company having so much control. Note that he compares not having a Github account to not having email or a cellphone in general, rather than to not having e.g. Gmail or an iPhone in particular, which would be a more apt analogy. It's a disheartening reminder of the trend of the internet moving away from decentralized protocols to centralized services.
(courtesy of Lisa Simpson)
Meanwhile, they did nothing to end the long wait for desktop users yearning for an upgrade. I was expecting at least a cursory spec bump for their Mac Mini and iMac lines. I was hoping to replace my 6-year old Mac Mini sometime soon, but I don't want to do so with a 1-2 year old product.
public class Complex {
public double I { get; private set; }
public double J { get; private set; }
public Complex(double i, double j) {
I = i;
J = j;
}
}