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Yes... surely.

Yes, and the choice is embarrassingly simple, especially for multi-million - or billion - companies.

Seems interesting, and I'll probably check it out. Been looking (albeit not very hard) for a neat entry into the blockchain field, this might be it.

Doubtless there are other excellent resources, this timed it pretty well for me.

My biggest gripe so far is that I had to turn off the contnet blocking in Firefox for the e-mail field to show up...

I mainly use light modes, but very rarely use white ones. Similarly, I often find that many dark modes, esp. those emulating old-style terminals and computers, liek to put bright green colors on bright (as it were) black, or similar schemes that to me are more garish than, say, Base16.

I think it's unfair to claim that addressing the problem doesn't require more man hours, though. If you were (or maybe you are, I don't know) unable to program, how would you solve a programming need?

Either by hiring someone to do it for you, obviosuly adding man hours, or by changing your own skill set and the distribution of your focus which either takes time outright (which translates to man hours, as you learn new skills) or changes the distribution of hours, taking effort away from other areas of the game, such as writing.

Direction is usually a continuous process. Freelancers, as he states, are rarely continuous as they move on to other project etc.

I played Pokemon on the GBA, lots of sharp pixels all around

Offices pay rent, developers need salaries, electrical bills need to be paid, contractors need to get paid, as well. Software isn't free to create.

No, but you usually need more than the minimum possible retail value.

Sweden has it, at least for aunts/uncles, and grandparents (and great grandparents, and great-great-grandparents...).

For aunts its faster/moster (portmanteau of father-sister, mother-sister, roughly). For uncles its farbror/morbror (lit. father-brother, mother-brother).

For grandparents its farfar/morfar (father-father, mother-father) and farmor/mormor (father-mother, mother-mother).

A great grandparent could be e.g. a farfarsfar, or father-fathers-father.

Nice - I did a similar thing: https://gitlab.com/svartkonst/match

Yours is pretty clever and explores a few things I thought about, too

I actually made a library for that!

It's published on npm and everything. It's small, a bit unpolished, maybe needs more docs, but it works pretty damn well if you ask me!

https://gitlab.com/svartkonst/match

It's been roughly 10 years since I programmed on a Macbook (Leopard represent), and I did that on a Swedish keyboard so things might be wildly different, but I really really liked mac keyboards for braces and brackets.

Windows requires thumb acrobatics and Alt gr, whereas Macs used shift and option to modify "increasingly".

> Computers have all but destroyed typography, and it's a good thing some of it is coming back

Absolutely agree. Medium.com (as an example) has a bunch of flaws, but some of my favorite articles are their posts about bringing classical typography back to the modern web.

> try playing a roguelike in a console using the Fira Code font with ligatures turned on

But... why? It's obviously not intended for that purpose. You would get awkward results trying to program with a regular serif, too, but that's not a fault of the entire category of serifs.

I've been using Fira Code pretty much since its inception, currently trying out Hasklig.

I never want a programming font without ligatures ever again.

This article, to me, seems like a case where the authors' ire is proportional to a) their understanding of the subject b) how relevant the topic is.

Because really, a) ligatures won't cause catastrophic failures by rendering code illegible and b) it really, really doesn't matter all that much. Non-destructive personal preference.

but that's how programming ligatures work? Or, what is it that you're getting at?

Fonts with ligatures, such as Fira Code or Hasklig, work by replacing characters with a ligature. The actual source code is still "->" or "===" or "|>" or whatever it may be.

No one is "pushing it on the rest of the world"?

Maybe - Unless the bypass circumvents that. NSA did exactly that on Samsung (Tizen) TVs a few years back.

One of their hacks, IIRC, was that they turned off the standby light so it would appear the TV was shut off.

While physical switches would be nice, and I generally am a fan of them, IMO they still require trust in the manufacturer.

If I don't trust their software switches, why would I trust their hardware switches?

I saw a laptop recently (within the year, I think) that had the camera situated under one of the buttons IIRC, so that it was naturally covered when not in use

Sad to hear this. I've begun picking up some Erlang, mostly Elixir over the past few years, and have watched (and watched and watched and re-watched) most of his various (brilliant) talks, all of which are eye-opening.

Aside from his technical skill and knowledge, he seemed like a really gret person with an undying sense of humor and humility.

> on you're sentence would be "gets"

this just gets better and better

A cracked sword without a hilt can't be called a sword, but it can be called art.

A program full of syntax errors may not be a valid program, but it can be valid art.

> When I drink coffee I become at least 20% better solving problems

That's intereseting. Is this something you have measured, logged, and accounted for other factors (e.g. via double-blinding etc)?

Well, how is slaughtering chickens ethical?

For every egg-laying chicken out there, a male chicken is slaughtered, and both egg-laying and dairy milking harm the animals (for instance, compare avg. life span of a dairy cow with their natural life-span).

There's also the factor of number of animals killed - One lamb feeds a lot more people than one chicken, yet both are living animals capable of pain and suffering.

That's not to say that either is particularly ethical, but (as a vegan), I don't think you can easily say that eating eggs is intrinsically more ethical than eating meat.

> On top of all of that it's done by Mozilla

IIRC it's open-source with a fairly wide set of contributors, with Mozilla being a major one, rather than Mozilla being the "owners" of Rust.

Not arguing your point, and there's a chance I'm awfully wrong, but as I recall it, Mozilla are more the champions of the language rather than the owner of it.

Regardless, it's a really neat language

> systematically drowning rats until they aspirate water

We prefer the term "advanced interrogation techniques"

I feel like there should be an option that lies between either "Install a new webview with every app" and "completely trust a previously installed webview".

I guess the downside is that that would be just a new .Net Framework, where an app requires you to install the Whatever Webview 2.5 in order to run, but it'd be neat to dodge Safari, while still having leaner Electron apps.

It could possibly be solved by specifying supported webviews in the application.

Whenever this subject crops up, I'm inclined to just answer "Yeah, it's just you", at the risk of that coming off as too harsh.

I really like CSS and it's where I got my start, and used it for a long time, often to make up for not knowing JavaScript.

I don't think CSS is an art thing. I think CSS is pretty simple, but requires an understanding of how CSS works and how browser layouts wotk.

Without that, you're going to have a hard time, but I can't really think of a language where that isn't true, either.

Sometimes I feel like this is the result of people undervaluing CSS, because they "just want to make a colored box" or whatever, but fail to view it as its own language, with its own ecosystem and considerations, placing undue expectations on its simplicity.

If I were to "just make a program" in C, without any knowledge or consideration for how Windows works, how stacks, heaps, memory, and pointers work, and how C works, then I'm gonna have a bad time, and the same goes for CSS, imo.

> Nixos for easy reproducible operating system configuration

I'm somewhat out of my depth here, but isn't Vagrant suitable for this purpose?