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spatzon Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu

How about instead of a passive-aggressive ad try not showing me ads at all on my PC? It’s bad enough that it comes pre-installed and is the default.

spatzon Nginx 1.15.9

That would work for one file but there's no way to atomically rename two.

spatzon Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

Looks awesome! Any plans for mobile apps?

spatzon Valve creates new revenue sharing tiers to give big sellers a break

> for bandwidth + servers + store handling credit card info + credit card fees + technicians + support staff

You're forgetting exposure and huge player base. That's got to add some revenue...

spatzon D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler

Why are the results in a video instead of a table? I don't want to wait for dmd to know how much faster you made it.

spatzon Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public

So is this an example of a company handling it gracefully? They couldn't tell what the impact was but kept it a secret for 6 months.

spatzon The last patent on AC-3 (Dolby Digital) expires at midnight

Any quotes newer than 19th century?

spatzon Stop using tail -f (mostly)

The problem is that less +F polls every second while tail -f uses inotify, which is both more efficient and responds faster to change.

spatzon EBay to Spin Off PayPal

So when are they adding Google Wallet?

spatzon Why Google is Hurrying the Web to Kill SHA-1

When a collision is produced it will be too late. The time to act is before that happens.

spatzon Ask HN: What programming font do you use?

Fira Mono is really beautiful, but the problem I have with it is the vertical spacing. The lines are so far apart, almost nothing fits in the screen.

spatzon 64-Bit Chrome for Windows

As the blog post says, the linux version has been 64-bit since 2009. So the problem must be windows API, not type sizes.

spatzon Show HN: God mode in production code – a new way to debug in Scala

From the FAQ:

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  We plan to support more software VMs such as CPython and Ruby MRI in the future.