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You might want to check out the Firefox add-on (extension) store for Android before posting such uninformed comments.

If you think "app store spam" is a real thing, you've spent way too much time on app store. I install apps that I need -- news, banking, podcast, email, Uber etc, usually from well…

Reading many of the sibling comments just makes me laugh. Android has allowed everything from the beginning, and overall it looks... fine? Of course there are all kinds of maliciou…

Reading many of the sibling comments just makes me laugh. Android has allowed everything from the beginning, and overall it looks... fine? Of course there are all kinds of maliciou…

I'm pretty sure there is no such "guarantee". You can definitely Apple has a track record of supporting 7 years and I have absolutely no problem with that. Samsung and Google actua…

I do myself a favor by not doing this, install ohmyzsh and start working. Seeing what other people have done with shell, vim and all sorts of things, I know this is a rabbit hole a…

That's a bold statement and I have so many questions. Let me pick a simple one: do people regularly drive half an hour or more to send their kids to school?

Looks like "...validate UTF-8 strings in Node.js" is a more accurate title, as valid8 runs on Node.js and the other uses a Node.js std library function. The TextDecoder method shou…

My guess: Flash required installing a native host and browser plugins, while this runs in the browser sandbox which is generally considered very safe (much safer than Flash)

Serious question: how far can you go with base model's 8GB RAM? Doing VM workflows is one reason I didn't bother with recent Macbooks, as nice as they are. It is simply much cheape…

Curious how many Apple TV+ users are out there. Despite all the noises, I don't personally know anyone who used the service, or often, even heard of shows on that platform. They ne…

Nah If I am waiting for code to compile and I'm tired, the most interesting thing happens on my phone not what I need to do next, regardless of what that is

Yes. For I long time I thought Microsoft is based in Seattle, which is not correct (Redmond) but not completely wrong either

I have been "taking" the MIT 6.824 (6.5840) distributed systems course, and the course is insanely good. (it is not in this article because this is a very advanced CS course.) You …

Very strange. If it's a layoff, just say it's a layoff and follow the standard procedure. It's bad but nothing fundamentally wrong if it has to happen. If it's about performance, l…

Don't know what your definition of "world" is, but people in China (that's 1.3b people) don't have access to WhatsApp, and the "default" chat app WeChat is monitored by the police …

"substantial" needs to be put in context. At my company with thousands of employees, informal polls (where every employee can participate anonymously) show that people who are in f…

What else do you want to leave out? It is an endless list, and nobody out there will actually enforce it -- even if someone follows that voluntarily, another company is going to ig…

That's not the point of the comment, but is there anything wrong with it? I have adblock (uBlock Origin) installed, and I don't remember the last time I saw ads on Google or almost…

Go to levels.fyi, search Apple, then look for salary that is for a similar position and has a similar base. That's a starting point. The base does have a quite wide range, I assume…

Because that's Apple. Just like how they forces everyone to come in office three days a week. Not every company does that -- some big companies are still quite flexible with full r…

Correction: most PhDs in scientific fields don't know what unit tests are. Nobody ever taught/told them to write unit tests, and they have never heard of them, have never seen one,…

So it does not provide good development experience as with Python, as said in that comment. Seems consistent to me? Nobody's comparing Fortran with C here.

Just one data point -- my company with over 5,000 developers is completely rewriting nearly all (decades-old) Perl code in Go.

Well, I guess it won't be too long before someone completely rewrites that thing in another language. Or hope. (My guess is that people don't normally compile latex locally these d…