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I can't. Atom has given me electron trauma (older versions about a couple of years back).

KeepassXC does not support the latest kdbx 4 format which was recently released with Argon2 support. (which is supposed to be more secure). It will be supported in the next release 2.3.0. So for now I use Keepass until it supports kdbx 4 then I will move back. It has no plugins though compared to keepass.

Other than that it has better gui if that is your thing (Keepass is ugly). It is mostly a fork of keepassx which is still usable but KeepassXC merged all pull requests and fixed a load of bugs in keepassx after the maintainer stopped maintaining. Try it. It works. It also has mutilple releases (snap, appimage etc.).

Deterministic password managers (stateless) are not necessarily more secure than the normal database password managers. I have linked a HN discussion and blog post about this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016132

Keepass and its various forks are open source. Keepass itself uses dotNet so Linux guys need mono which not all people like. Those people use KeepassXC (a fork of KeepassX which is Keepass in C++ and is unmaintained).

I use Keepass. Reasonable security but ugly gui in linux due to mono. Has plugins. Completely offline.

Okay so instead of two competing products we now have one.

The fun part is about the list not the languages themselves. Benchmarks, reviews and rankings are just the perfect time killers for me but job oriented lists have nothing new to say for now.

No fun in that. Every list has Java at the top followed by C, C++ and Javascript. Maybe Python or C# next (cuz Microsoft). Every Job oriented programming language list for the last few years.

"So what are the Top Ten Languages for the typical Spectrum reader?"

This is survey on top programming languages among spectrum readers. So maybe spectrum readers are not into Kotlin.

Couldn't something like micro python and Cython replace Zerynth? Reads like the marketing post that it is. Starts off with interesting stuff and ends with promo. It also looks very proprietary to me. Just add more FOSS and I will definitely be interested.

Thanks for explaining the License. Though this needs more attention.

Or Haskell if you want to go the FP route while CL or Clojure for the Lisp. Or python for dynamic (atleast more popular than Ruby which is more concentrated on Rails ecosystem).

It's not so much as trouble with pointers as trouble with visualizing algorithms and data structures. Try implementing some moderately complex one in C. It reads like a monster. A dynamic language like Python would have a simpler implementation but at the cost of performance (Why do beginners need performance).

Python would be nice if everybody uses Python 3. Simple dynamic and most of the Open source stuff is scriptable using python. So daily automation is a real possibility. Atleast that's what I am doing.

This needs more attention but sadly none seems to be given.

Some Google services don't work properly on Firefox or show annoying banners. It is just a pain. I just moved to chromium.

Numpy, Scipy and a lot of other numerical libraries use Fortran for the underlying operations along with C. Because Fortran is just faster for such operations and will continue to be. Numba is still very much alpha. Julia is still immature for production (Good language from what I hear but still very much in development).

Don't know if C++ can ever be as fast as Fortran because all fortran compilers are optimized for the architecture on which they run. (Best fortran compiler for intel cpus is by intel). As for ViennaCL I don't know much about GPU programming and its performance. Never done it. (My only exp is with Cython and Scipy stuff)

Never heard about PSP before. Looks like another corner of the computer world in total lockdown and relies on security through obscurity. Not gonna work forever but keeps all but the talented people out. Problem is there are many talented people out there.

Another article that talks about the scalability and benefits for wikipedia and facebook when the websites that most people create will never be either. You are not going to save millions on server costs and just doesn't make sense for some personal blog on wordpress. For most cases something like php7 might make as much sense.

But the author believes that what solved facebook and wikipedia's problems will solve everybody's. If HHVM and Hack are really the tools that solve your probably use it but don't go that route if you absolutely need it. Don't get burned by hype because every use case is unique. What fixes facebook's problems probably will not fix yours. But php 7 is another viable option and from what I read it performs pretty well compare to HHVM for the most common things you would use it for. Also the language got a lost of fixes for its warts (I'm not a php expert but looks like it did).

tl;dr - don't blindly use tools where they are not needed and use the right tool for the job.

I have been using vim/neovim for 6 months now and thought that I was making a good use of the editor (I came from Atom and what a good decision that was). Now this just opened new ways of using the editor that I never knew. (I have only used %s/ command).

Must read for any vim user who has completed the beginner stage and wants more to learn. (Pure gold).

I guess you should not eat candy received from strangers and a one solution to all problems product from a salesman. Hope this stops people from destroying their bodies because of chronic diarrhoea.

My main gripe with gitlab navigation is I can't see the languages split up (chart) quickly like in Github. Other than that since I am not a heavy user of the website (more on time on git than on website) I find no other problems. Also the redesign looks better than before. Hope they also introduce a dark theme. (would love to have this one)

So it compiles your code into a bundle with ruby interpreter so that you don't need one during execution? It sounds like what youtube-dl does in Windows by adding the interpreter to the executable. Useful but not in speeding things up but in packaging without dependencies.

They should probably mention that in the README because it is ambiguous and I thought it was a bytecode or binary compiler for Ruby at first.

React hasn't been relicensed.(Maybe it will soon) This one is also fairly recent. I may be wrong but many FB projects seem to be using this license. It is just that React is popular enough to cause problems orgs using it.

Looks promising. First neovim and now this. Even if it doesn't replace emacs (which it won't) if it can enrich the community and maybe bring more users while fixing archaic code bases of hard to find errors and UBs then it is still a win. Neovim pushed vim (Vim suddenly became more active around the time neovim gained traction atleast according to github graphs and releases). So I hope this project brings new life to the core C code in emacs and fixes the problems that it never had (according to the core dev knowledge). When I tried emacs I found it to be a bit like atom at startups. Couldn't get into the keybindings coming from vim.

If it gets faster, I might give it a try again (in evil ofcourse, gotta have them keys).

I came here thinking here is another situation or anecdote and this time about kindness and being screwed over because of it or something. Instead it is about workplace professionalism being called kindness and a recruitment pitch disguised as click bait. (Click baits are increasing in HN) my .02$

The first one was really to the point in its abstract while another tells stories in it. Made me grin incessantly when I saw it.

Its nice but an index would be cool. I mean its so long and an index would help navigation greatly.

Nice set of scripts. Is it available in AUR?

What about the free ones like Dive into python, LPTHW and others. People won't buy as much as the non free ones so the ratings may not be as accurate.

Go 9gag yourself. Though 9 out of 10 posts are bad the tenth one always makes my day.