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juststeve··on iTunes Expected to Be Retired After over 18 Years
more comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20065153
juststeve··on Switch from Chrome to Firefox
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/24/github_is_independe...
juststeve··on Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author
more comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430
juststeve··on Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
40+ tabs on Linux running nightly Firefox. No issues.
juststeve··on Go is Google's language, not ours
The governance stuff is interesting; are there any programming languages that are structured in between "community driven" and corporate oligarchy? ie. non-profit with dedicated Finance/HR teams?
juststeve··on Go is Google's language, not ours
Free as in, beer.
juststeve··on Has the Python GIL Been Slain? Subinterpreters in Python 3.8
> Go/Rust/Java

And there's also Kotlin.

juststeve··on JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016)
I think it's possible to skip the .md to JSON step?

Example is below where an application could either extract values at startup, or is extracted when code is built and deployed?

  # My App

  ## Intro about My App

  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.

  ## Prod Server Settings

  | Host                     | Port          |Operating System| Type   |
  | -------------------------|:-------------:|:--------------:|--------|
  | webserver1@myapp.com     | 80            | Debian         |Web     |
  | webserver2@myapp.com     | 80            | Debian         |Web     |
  | db@cloud.com             | 1433          | aws            |Database|
  | webservice.com/api       | 80            | aws            |Database|
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------

  ## Support Information

  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.

  ## Application Roles

  |Name                   | Active Directory Group |Description                              |
  |-----------------------|------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
  |System Administrator   | MyApp.SysAdmins        | Details who should be assigned the role.|
  |Finance Administrator  | MyApp.FinAdmin         | "         "                             |
  |Finance Delegate       | MyApp.FinDelegate      | "         "                             |
  |Finance Analyst        | MyApp.FinAnalyst       | "         "                             |
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
juststeve··on I miss Facebook
I actually haven't been to one, but I should go and see what it's like. Apparently the sound is much better?

Wearing a suit feels a bit pompous, but it would be interesting to hear what the musicians and conductors think about the audiance's attire. I assume most don't care.

juststeve··on I miss Facebook
So you just turn up in jeans/t-shirt to listen to some Rachmaninoff?
juststeve··on JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016)
It would be interesting to try Markdown files for configuration data. Documentation and settings in the one file: structured data like arrays can be stored in md tables.
juststeve··on Emacs 26.2 Released
What language do you write now?
juststeve··on Ask HN: Which Recent Programming Languages Do You Recommend to Have a Look At?
Rust or Kotlin
juststeve··on Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
it is absolutely worse.
juststeve··on Ask HN: Is software engineering a big deal?
What type of apps do you build? What languages?
juststeve··on Ask HN: How Did You Setup Your Windows Machine to Do Linux Related Development?
An alternative: Use a dedicated Linux machine as your main OS, and then run windows on a separate device when you need it.
juststeve··on Tech’s long hours are discriminatory and counter-productive
No, the discrimination could be directed at people who refuse to work the additional overtime, or it could be the reverse; employees are given an infinite amount of work or short deadlines to complete tasks.
juststeve··on Ask HN: Alternative HN-Like Communities?
Time to build one
juststeve··on Ask HN: What company environment has enabled your best work?
A 26 hour sleep cycle sounds extreme.
juststeve··on WTF is JAMstack?
rube goldberg stack
juststeve··on Ask HN: What cool videos have you been watching?
awesome, thanks!
juststeve··on Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL
So, google would become an authoritative source of all websites if this goal is achieved?

are they proposing that DNS standard is "updated" so that every request at runtime must verify that a website is legit?

juststeve··on MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced
sounds like VBA
juststeve··on What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?
and clients
juststeve··on VirtualBox 6.0 released
from memory boxes has limited networking functionality though?
juststeve··on Reasons Python Sucks
Rust has a REPL under development on github: https://github.com/murarth/rusti

Seems to be active up until around July-August

juststeve··on Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
trackmania is not the same...
juststeve··on A new look for rust-lang.org
less is more for me
juststeve··on A new look for rust-lang.org
sorry, too much happening on the page for me. not wild about the colour scheme.

it looks fresh, but it's a lot of colours all at once sorry.

juststeve··on Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
> lots of MS-specific fields with poor documentation

It's too easy to write a backhanded comment regarding this issue, but it's just really annoying.

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