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It really rather seems like they achieved a near-perfect library for creating complex web applications, then in order to justify continued work on the project, simply kept making u…

The problem is that people are not statistics. It may sound reasonable on the surface to say that this heuristic minimizes harm on average because she doesn't perform unnecessary i…

> Last month, the main courses offered on meatless Fridays included grilled cheese sandwiches, mac and cheese and mozzarella sticks. February’s Friday entrees, are vegan veggie tac…

This is so weird to me because I'm very much a turbo nerd power user Linux dork and I will still contend that Windows has a significantly easier user experience. I certainly don't …

Exactly. I'm not sure what the person you replied to is talking about. This article is clearly well researched because it covers many classic games on the timeline of roguelike his…

The only thing I don't like about HCL is that there are not enough good libraries for me to use it as the configuration language in all of my projects. I love HCL. HCL 2 anyway.

I've been using Firefox for about as long as a person could possibly have been using Firefox and I think this just happens every time they change the UI.

Ruby's “for … in” is syntax sugar in the sense that is just another way to spell an identical piece of code. This would be like if Python let you write “foreach” instead of “for” i…

Honestly my first thought when I saw the title “why we use Haskell” was “because you have one engineer and they like Haskell?” I suppose I was wrong. It was two.

Very high percentage. At least in my experience, the effect is NOT subtle.

This is definitely true but just fyi by now you should be getting 2% back on everything, more if it's specific categories. If you're only getting 1% and have good credit, you need …

Okay, gotcha. So who are the two sides of this argument, and what are they arguing about exactly? I'm just trying to get clarification on who it is in particular that needs to stop…

I will always be amazed at how many people can type “because this group is a minority, meeting their needs is unimportant and shouldn't impact the majority” and think they've contr…

Old English has the same gender system as German. The reason English doesn't have gendered nouns now isn't because we are so progressive, but because language tends to lose all its…

I think bad faith misrepresentations like this are the primary source of the supposed “impossible discourse” on the “subject.” What “subject” by the way? Who are the specific peopl…

If these “permutations” only exist inside of your own brain, that only proves something about you, not reality. Really, none of the permutations exist. Very few women unironically …

I bet the results were too embarrassing.

They're probably dependencies of dependencies. You depend on some very useful package and somewhere down the line it depends on something written to be platform agnostic in 2012 wh…

Until I heard Visual Studio 2022 was coming out recently, I literally thought Microsoft had ceded the ecosystem in 2019. It's very surprising to hear it's the total opposite. I've …

What you're describing is not actually a problem with async/await. Rather, async/await places a burden of knowledge on the developer to explicitly avoid this problem. Go makes a tr…

You're acting like the athletes got together and demanded enormous contracts so UEFA was begrudgingly forced to make deals with Coca-Cola to appease their entitlement.

I was thinking that this word is not, in fact, below the level of discourse of HN and based on the other replies I don't believe I even have to back this statement up.

I hate the logic that because people have successfully used something, it is good. Having used MongoDB extensively, it is absolutely true that MongoDB is powerful and useful. Howev…

There's webview ( https://github.com/webview/webview ) which has bindings for many different languages, but it's a whole window rather than a UI component you can embed. It's inten…