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Yeah auto format solves a lot of the syntax problems. Dangling else for instance is not at all ambiguous when you have automatic indentation.

Don't they? Isn't that axis just "how much they like the candidate"?

"How Ranked-Choice Voting elects extremists" https://psephomancy.medium.com/how-ranked-choice-voting-elec... This article recommends instead a STAR voting system which is still sim…

https://arc.io/product#how-does-arc's-cdn-work-technically

Air pollution causes 4.2 million deaths a year.[1] From the data in this link, we can infer that historically this adds up to 467 times nuclear. [1] https://www.who.int/gho/phe/out…

Thinking about this decision just as a performance one disregards the fact that the code is substantially different. It does seems likely that one way is more intuitive / easier to…

It seems a bit premature to claim high performance without having a story for memory. I'm sure ocaml, swift, and basically all languages that do any type of runtime garbage collect…

Does npm even allow you to use projects that don't allow you to make changes to their code?

I used Pony and bindings to opengl to write the (very) start of a graphics engine. http://www.charlesetc.com/stars-game-7.html It was surprisingly easy to learn - I found the capab…

Code generation is one way to get around generics. Go also stores all the type data at runtime so you can inspect the arguments passed to any function, which gives the same kind of…

There's replication, but I mean that all the data is in one pg instance, whereas there isn't a single mysql instance with all the data.

This is missing one huge point of the [uber engineer post]( https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/ ). They did not switch from a postgres instance to put all their data in a mysql i…

I use konsole which is better than I found gnome-terminal to be and less klunky than I was expecting

There have been many times when vim starts glitching out or something because of the terminal emulator I'm using. Even well tested ones like X-term and gnome-terminal. I never had …

I used st for a good year and it worked really well! I've switched recently for features like the ability to change the font size without recompiling, etc. Despite its spartan feat…

> Using Bitcoin for cybercriminal activities is becoming increasingly commonplace, as tracing payments is much harder due to the way the cryptocurrency works "Cryptocurrency" is a …

You could easily prefix your special environment variable with 'lambdoku_' so you don't have to fear that people could use it..

Keep in mind this was written 8 years ago and last updated 4 years ago.

This is so awesome! I now am a lover of islands :D

I found this super interesting and great 'hacker news' - any idea why it was flagged?

People might be interested in this one too - got a weird name, and it's still under development, but it seems pretty good http://www.vim.org/

Spoiler: There's no difference