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Why won’t they use my browser for downloads, for example through TestCafe? That would also allow downloading premium quality (for subscribers) and so on.

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Is London City a busy airport?

Remember the days when most people who were on the internet could build their own websites? And those were rather unique, sometimes quaint and sincere? And you didn’t need a help f…

Web MiniDisc: https://github.com/asivery/webminidisc

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Consume less = exclude myself from certain kinds of social relationships with other people, show less appreciation to the labor of inventors, engineers and people who make stuff wi…

Should consumers start pushing back against subscription-based pricing models more actively at this point?

That got downvoted fast! A price one pays in modern society for having an opinion different from that of a crowd.

I hope that after they’ll be forced to use USB-C port there will be people who convert them back to lightning.

So has the Japanese government indeed been struggling (I doubt there are that many things that would make such an organization struggle) or was it just avoiding running after every…

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I recommend having a look at WebStorm as well. I’ve been using it or IDEA Ultimate (which also includes it) for last 5 years at least if not more. While it has some bugs and rough …

That got downvoted fast. Typical Hacker News. (ᵔ◡ᵔ)

There’s not that much wrong with Facebook or Instagram. They are what we make them. You won’t have a new kind of community unless you somehow create a new kind of human. Or unless …

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Reader mode in mobile Safari is basically one of the two things that keep me on iOS (the other one is dictation).

I would not necessarily call it “pointless” as in “totally pointless”. The benefits could be: 1) “Trickling down” of new technologies. Development of new production and operation m…

The Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman

That’s when the smart people exited the field. Because they felt that computers will soon stop being fun (that’s what happened in the early nineties indeed). And now we are stuck i…