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Though I haven't used it, it seems to radically make firefox into something like Qutebrowser. Not just the key bindings but also the UI which is not possible under new api for Web extensions while Vimium and vimfx only give vim key bindings in the browser (Not the full experience for those who are used to vimperator).

And also makes them look more complicated with more syntax. C++ has all those features that I will never know without adding performance. But people don't use Python for performance but ease of use.

In C++ ease of use is given up for the sake of performance. In python it is the other way.

With things like typescript or mypy in python you fall the other way around with types in dynamic languages. You can do it if you really want (optional but recommended for large projects). So Python and typescript have a nice sweet spot between static and dynamic if you want.

One shouldn't spend 2 minutes blocking elements in a page that you would read hardly 5 minutes. That's counter productive and annoying and should be automated. An extension helps in that.

Higher order functions maybe? Though python has them. Spread operator can be done as unpacking a list. Destructuring assignment can also be done. Map is already there while reduce is in functools stdlib. So are all the other functional stuff. Async is in python 3.

Can't say what python lacked except being able use same language on front end and back end. Except if he still uses python 2 which hasn't any new features in years.

It's just an echo chamber effect. People still use other languages for their daily stuff. It's just that people want to write their hobby projects and new small work stuff in go or rust. Would take some years for main stream adoption that current popular and established languages enjoy. But rust and go have momentum going for them.

Is ngate some kind of let's rain shit on hacker news kind of site? Because it looked like that.

You would have to extend it yourself which others do for me with plugins in vim or emacs.

If you put it like that you only have emacs left. Instead of an editor in a tmux pane you a shell in the editor. But Emacs is hardly lightweight. Compared to Atom though even something as heavy Spacemacs in emacs is much better.

Just use nano if you don't want its shortcuts or even emacs. You don't have to use any predefined shortcuts in emacs. Everything is reconfigurable. The main selling point of vim is its shortcuts and modal editing. If it is not for you there dozens of great text editors that do a good job of just editing text compared to Atom.

Everywhere I see electron apps are being written. Just yesterday saw a file manager that looks like mc which can only display 100 files and no noise support in electron.

Now this. I'm speechless.

Microsoft spends millions for backward compatibility and they charge a fortune for that. This is an open source project with not as much resources and the core protocol of X was never made for GUI. It was made for displaying a cute clock on the screen when there was no concept of GUI. They extended it to do something it was never meant to do.

Youtube talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44

With a load of backwards compatibility for devices that don't make sense for a normal usage and patches for patches that were written fix bugs which were written to extend X. Better to start from scratch IMO.

So this means we really need Wayland. Hope that somebody puts a EOL like Flash on X. Only then will all those projects move to Wayland. Even Python 2 to 3 took well over a decade and we still haven't reached EOL.

Use tor to access the onion domain for scihub (they have one) if you don't already do so.

Less time wasted? I mean regardless of what I do, they will continue collect data about me. It is just a question of how much I personally contribute and how much they acquire from my friends. The real gain is you are less addicted to news feeds with the cursed infinite scrolling. A big gain for me.

Replaced it with whatsapp for communication with friends (not fb friends but Friends). I just have a facebook account cuz everybody else has one but it is filled with notifications and messages that I don't reply to. All the people around me know that I don't respond to.

Viola, I am free of facebook and don't use it though I still have an account and have never deactivated it. Maybe it will not work for you.

P.S HN seems to be a bigger problem than FB for me atleast. Can't stop reading all posts and comments everyday.

They should make sites incompatible with NoScript illegal. Back in my days (lol its just 10+ years) they used plain text for Web pages and used javascript like custom animation in presentations. Now only javascript is there with some html sprinkled in between.

P.S the rest of it was in Flash though. So no back button for you.

Best of luck trying to scale git. Microsoft took 3 years and they didn't add Office and Windows to it. And they nearly rewrote their own version of git.

You would have to give up all the dynamic convienience we take for granted. Menus would be just links. Basically you would have HN like sites for the small ones and the big ones would have images. That's it.

On second thought that wouldn't be so bad considering the bloat we have to deal with nowadays. (1 MB per page for just news from sites like CNN ugh.)

Actually you still own the device just not the stuff making it actually useful. That is still owned by apple. (EULA)

If you are just using bash for everything why don't you just use a tty instead. Jokes aside, Isn't linux a better idea if Bash is all you need? The only difference is that Mac has more proprietary stuff that don't support linux. If that's not an issue linux is much better.(IMO)

(Ir)relevant xkcd.

https://xkcd.com/1508/

The joke's on them because https works just fine like all other https sites.

probably not.

Somehow the author assumes that the native gui has better accessibility features. In a world of bloated frameworks and browser as a gui type apps not every app is accessible. Most of the time it isn't even on their radar because of the tiny user base. One of those things that is just plain wrong when you spectate but when it is your job to do you find it a pain to implement.

Yup. Racket is very slow especially the ide when interpreting simple scripts.

Now this is really interesting and funny.

(Ir)Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/927/

Glad to see FOSS in trouble got a good Samaritan on time. Need more people like this.