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Spotify's first post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19377322 Active discussion on this post from Apple https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19396966

Don't Xiaomi sell their brand to other manufacturers? So devices are designed by Xiaomi with decent quality, while others fall short?

why remove the incentive for businesses to optimize their energy usage? They have as much if not more external costs as a residential home.

Nuclear would be ridiculously expensive for Australia. Renewables and gas would be achievable in under 10 years.

(a) didn't take that long https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/tesla-fulfills-...

Can't resize columns in 'network' tab Step, Step Into, Resume.. use different function keys than I'm used to on Linux. Edit + Resend doesn't work for me on Linux. It works on Windo…

I thought that's what the official language extensions are.

Changing the language specifically requires experience reports. If that's not real world evidence i'm not sure what is. The problem with the wider go community is they are usually …

I use it constantly. I like how the charging plug is at the front compared to the Revolution which requires you to cradle the mouse. I use both the receiver and the Bluetooth suppo…

it feel a bit biased when you say that IRC could have a protocol bump, but you wouldn't make the same modifications to hide pictures in Mattermost. Additionally not being able to s…

Depends on the quality of your SPICE models. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE ) When you model by hand you typically use ideal models. SPICE models can be vastly more complex.…

LG Prada? Don't get me wrong - the iPhone was ground breaking. It's the hundred little details that made it special. But would someone else have done it? Yes. Is this relevant? No

Firefly have a range of devices (Rockchip): http://www.t-firefly.com/

> But specifically on simplicity of implementation I'd suggest a simple language requires a simpler implementation. > It wasn't enough to just add features to existing programming …

> They're called tags, not annotations, per the spec ( https://golang.org/ref/spec ). I don't know what you're trying to say there, but it's using wrong terminology. My mistake > H…

> Speaking of magic, json tags are weird stringy magic only used at runtime via reflection. Annotations are used at run-time via reflections. JSON marshaling is a common use for an…

I think one of the reasons Go is so good at being simple (relatively) - is that each feature required no other option available in order to make it into the language. I forget the …

At the same time critiquing without understanding the problem the engineer was trying to solve is equally easy. Go is far from perfect, I just don't agree that lumping things in a …