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bitt

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    I have a friend who I consider to be tech savvy and very smart. He couldn't get "coding". Dropped the class and switched major (I know this is anecdotal). It's not for everyone [0]…

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    Looks very interesting. How does it compare against sonic https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic

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    Comment #19550921

    There are certainly a few legitimate use cases. There should be an enable desktop notifications button or something similar in those cases.

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    Comment #19550860

    Websites should not ask users for permission notifications. It only annoys the people using it. It is a bad idea! If users are interested enough in your content, they will find a w…

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    PHP is doing great! I like the direction it is going in. PHP 7.4 also introduced nice features to improve static typing. The FFI is pretty cool too. You also get free performance i…

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    This is interesting! I am looking forward to the open source release. Some of the projects built with V also appear to be quite nice. The author has put a lot of effort into this i…

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    Comment #19527370

    > the language itself is essentially a transpilation (a direct rule based conversion without an AST) to x86 so no other platforms can be supported. Hmmm I'm not sure if this is tru…

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    Blocking IP addresses can be very problematic though. If I understand it correctly, I think that countries might start to block ESNI altogether. If it is not widely implemented, we…

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    Duckduckgo seem to have a good way to make money without compromising privacy [0]. I'm certainly not an expert on this subject but monetizing based on relevant content is reasonabl…

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    Comment #19277156

    > it’s time to fresh it up a little? Get rid of gradients, dirty washed-out colors, unnecessary separators, add a little more air. Something like this: I'm not sure I agree with th…

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    This sounds really fun! It is one of those ideas that when you first hear it doesn't make a lot of sense. I'm not sure how it will handle transaction costs though. It might be bett…

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    I'm not sure of all the valid use cases for macros, but I think they are useful when you need to do something simple. For example, a debug flag to run some code like verbose loggin…