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scriptproofon Apple is patenting Swift features

The future of Apple seems uncertain. Some says it is the beginning of the end.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenmcbride1/2019/01/21/the-...

Maybe the rescue plan is to become a patent troll?

scriptproofon GIMP receives a $100K donation

Paint.net and Krita both have a simple and intuitive UI. Gimp could get inspiration from them, even for the basic operations.

scriptproofon Show HN: SVG 3D Builder – Build 3D Models with SVG

> It's really a sad story that HTML5 has been evangelized so strongly

SVG is not a part of HTML 5, it is older, while Canvas actually is, and Canvas is as fast as the now defunct Flash. Maybe applying the right technology to a problem would solve the speed issue...

scriptproofon PC Monitors: The Evolution of LED Backlights

Or course sun'rays are damaging, and it is why sunglasses exist. But if you are in front of a computer screen for 7/8 hours a day, you are exposed to blue LEDs which, unlike green and red LEDs are also damging for the eyes.

scriptproofon PC Monitors: The Evolution of LED Backlights

It is not blue light but blue LCD. They triggers reactions in retinal molecules that destroy photosensors in the eye.

scriptproofon Introducing Electron Fiddle

Opening a white window is like a full headlight in my eyes. Many scientific studies said that blue led (and then white RGB pixels) deteriorate the sight over time, by destructing photosensors in the eyes and they never recover. I would encourage black themes in all apps.

scriptproofon What I Learned Working for Steve Ballmer

I did not say he was wrong for trying to attract developers. I said chanting to attract them is ridiculous.

And about compilers, Visual Studio has never been cheap. The express version was added only to counter Turbo C++ and other free tools like MingW.

scriptproofon What I Learned Working for Steve Ballmer

I am not impressed by this exploit, because there are some chance he had studied the document before the presentation, or even asked someone to verify it. He was flawed on many aspects, for example trying to attract developers by dancing and chanting "developers, dev...". His successors put Linux in Windows, open sourced .NET and this seems more efficient... without even harming Windows market share.

scriptproofon Post Office owes $3.5M for using wrong Statue of Liberty on a stamp

The one on the right seems tired to hold her torch.

scriptproofon Harlan Ellison has died

Asimov's own biography.

scriptproofon Harlan Ellison has died

He said, "Are you Isaac Asimov?" And in his voice was awe and wonder and amazement.

I was rather pleased, but I struggled hard to retain a modest demeanor. "Yes, I am," I said.

"You're not kidding? You're really Isaac Asimov?" The words have not yet been invented that would describe the ardor and reverence with which his tongue caressed the syllables of my name.

"Well, I think you're—" he began, still in the same tone of voice, and for a split second he paused, while I listened and the audience held its breath. "—a nothing!"

scriptproofon How I Came to Write D (2014)

And Visual Basic is above JavaScript! You can forget Tiobe.

scriptproofon John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories

Different story. I once asked a question to the author of 7-Zip to include it in a software and received in return a link to the FAQ!

scriptproofon Say yes to the progressive web

> Hybrid/PWA apps are not in the interest of Apple nor Google

Not in the interest of Apple, of course, because bye tax on apps, but promoted by Google. Surely in its interest.

scriptproofon France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994

https://www.icann.org/resources/country-territory-names

I have read the entire judgement and beside the fact you can not register the name of a country, he had not also the right to register a trademark from the beginning.

scriptproofon GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere

WebAssembly is a tool in work, supported by Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc... Currently it lacks a garbage collector, but this is planned. I would bet on wasm to be the holly graal in the future, more than anything else.

scriptproofon Eve: Programming designed for humans

"Excited, we presented our prototype to a small number of non-programmers and sat back to watch the magic. To our horror, not a single one of them could figure out what the simple example program did or how it worked, nor could they produce any useful programs themselves." (From the article linked above).

As a programmer, I had the same reaction, actually.

scriptproofon At My Lai: The Photographer Who Captured the Massacre

From Wikipedia:

"The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam. They viewed the conflict as a colonial war and a continuation of the First Indochina War against forces from France and later on the United States. The U.S. government viewed its involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam."

scriptproofon Clang runs in the browser and compiles C++ to WebAssembly

It is a VM, stack-based like the JVM. It is called a "WebAssembly VM" in the document.

scriptproofon How Long Before Sodium Batteries Are Worth Their Salt?

It is hard to compete with a new technology against an older that was optimized for decades (see electric cars). But in the present case, resources in lithium are not unlimited so we expect its cost to rise in the future.

scriptproofon OVH Incident in Strasbourg

It was a power outage. Their own generators did not work. This explain why all is down, but there is surely something bad in their architecture.

scriptproofon Freelancer.com has ruined my life

Maybe the OP was expecting something else than a string of blames and moral lessons in his situation. You are definitively an asshole.

scriptproofon Ken Thompson quotes

I am more thinking to Steve Ballmer. But I should have been more explicit.

scriptproofon Ken Thompson quotes

> I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

scriptproofon Why we moved from Angular 2 to Vue.js and why we didn’t choose React

I have used Google's beta products for years (Gmail for example). You remark is valid for an alpha version, but a beta version should be the final product with maybe bugs to be fixed.

scriptproofon The Marketing Behind MongoDB

I tried to add SQLite to the graph and it is at the bottom. We could question the relevance of this tool!

scriptproofon Where Tcl and Tk Went Wrong (2010)

This seems to have evolved in Little. http://www.little-lang.org/ Or is it a different language? The original name of Little is L.

scriptproofon Where Tcl and Tk Went Wrong (2010)

And now WebAssembly is made of s-expressions (in textual form). If you are right, I am curious of what will be the future of the web.

scriptproofon Web Assembly Working Group Charter Approved

No, in no way. WebAssembly is more a tool to create a library for JavaScript and it is standard unlike ActiveX. It is possible for example to put wasm functions in IndexedDB to use them with multiples apps.