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vtesucks··on Why Not to Use Quora
If you're okay with pointing out that statistically Indians are much more likely to make stupid answers, what's wrong with saying statistically blacks are much more likely to commit crimes.

Choose both or none.

vtesucks··on Cross-Platform Language Design [pdf]
You don't execute all the paths all the time.

The framework is basically the entire Scala runtime. You need a list - you execute that code. Not a biggy

vtesucks··on Why Not to Use Quora
I did, once. But after that one entirely new sessions, they automatically "click" the sign in to google button behind the scenes and log me in with the token.

Very creepy

vtesucks··on Why Not to Use Quora
Quora logs you in automatically if you're logged in to google.

Also makes it extremely hard to log out.

Not to mention they have no respect for users.

vtesucks··on Cross-Platform Language Design [pdf]
I want something very simple. Scala.rx + scalatags.
vtesucks··on Cross-Platform Language Design [pdf]
For those that don't know- scalatags is an amazing html-ish library that allows you to write html once and render both from server and from client. SSR and SPA in one for you cool kids out there.

Not to mention no more misspellings of attributes with strong typed html

vtesucks··on Cross-Platform Language Design [pdf]
Then lightbend should buy Scala.js and scalatags and add a virtual Dom based reactive renderer. (currently string and Dom are available)
vtesucks··on Why I'm Switching from Mac to Windows (2009-2018)
Microsoft if you're reading this this is your fault for not marketing enough.

WSL is windows subsystem for Linux. Think of it like this- say you have an 'ls' binary from UNIX machine. You have WSL enabled on your machine in Windows. Windows will start the ls process and the UNIX calls will be handles in windows. (the kernel has mappings).

It's possible, and actually its wonderful experience, to run full "linux" environment right from windows at native speed.

It's not perfect and one of the biggest issues has been file system speed but besides that and some other smaller issues its the absolute best of both worlds- OneNote + excel + outlook + i3

vtesucks··on Cross-Platform Language Design [pdf]
I hope lightbend will spend some marketing dollars when it reaches 1.0!
vtesucks··on Why I'm Switching from Mac to Windows (2009-2018)
And OneNote which was hands down the only thing keeping me on windows until wsl came along.
vtesucks··on Why I'm Switching from Mac to Windows (2009-2018)
I'm a very satisfied WSL user after having made a switch 3 months back and I cannot imagine going back.
vtesucks··on The Game Engine Black Book: Doom
I don't understand the point of selling a DRM free eBook. It's going to be pirated, wouldn't it? What could be some reasons behind him doing so?
vtesucks··on Scripting API now in public beta
I like your list but its missing the one language that I feel is most suited- Lua.
vtesucks··on Get the Font
I mean slender, less width. The latter. I saw that in the Mozilla post about goodbye edgehtml, the headline was in wide font.
vtesucks··on Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
Looks pretty similar. Thanks!
vtesucks··on Get the Font
Is there a crash course in typography I can get somewhere? I have trouble deciding whether slim fonts are better or wide fonts are for legibility. And what other factors matter more.
vtesucks··on Ask HN: What's your advice for raising a smaller ($10k-$100k) seed round?
You need to explain your situation.

If I were to guess, you don't need to add employees and only need money for resources marketing in which case- it makes absolute sense. The general advice is to raise money only if you need it.

vtesucks··on Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
Roadrash

Airfix dogfighter

vtesucks··on AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371
I am not very good at article positioning. Care to share more?
vtesucks··on AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371
Umm Microsoft?
vtesucks··on AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371
I agree with you but would somebody care to enumerate all the ways in which switching is difficult?

All i can think is

* Intel amt (all enterprises use)

* avx-512 (nobody uses)

vtesucks··on Molten – A minimal framework for building HTTP APIs with Python 3.6+
You want to know what's really amazing tech and underappreciated?

Scala.js- full power of both JavaScript and java/scala libs in a strongly typed well designed language.

vtesucks··on AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371
All providers. Including azure
vtesucks··on Ask HN: I might have invented a new protocol. What now?
Go ask on academia.stackexchange.com
vtesucks··on Goodbye, EdgeHTML
I don't want to digress from the discussion but can a typographical expert comment on what are the legibility benefits of wide vs slender fonts? How much or how little does the width matter? What other factors are there?

I ask because the "goodbye" headline uses a wide font.

vtesucks··on Ask HN: As programmers, why are we still going to the office?
Compared to?
vtesucks··on The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Because it is indeed an electron app
vtesucks··on Goodbye, EdgeHTML
What happens to chakra?
vtesucks··on Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration
On that note- what is the engine used by outlook, word et al.? I seem to recall outlook used something different from trident back when ie was the main browser.
vtesucks··on How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
Thanks, fair point. But then again that's democracy right? And riots aren't your weekend party- people are on streets because they are fed up of something.
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