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"later this year".. please don't be shy Steve- just say it out loud - "when await arrives"- you'd be the last person to be blamed for circle jerk

I need a rust interpreter yesterday. Sometimes you just want to see quick feedback. rustic doesn't work and excvr (or something similar) is bloody slow

Not debating on what the US govt should do- I think Mr Gates should seek funding elsewhere if the govt is not going to be a cooperative player. EU is both interested in reducing th…

questions: 1) Is it legal? 2) WHere's the PDF?

Umm, which has even worse hardware support than Linux and if you want to buy supported hardware you pay a sheeepppreimum

Is there anybody here who doesn't install apps on their phones? I just use it for browsing and email.

Unpopular opinion here but _excessive_ VC funding and valuation are against free-market and hurt the economy and most regular people in the long run.

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How does it handle calls to map api?

I'm no protectionist but let's face it- if tomorrow US stops funding NATO, the entire Europe will speak Russian (in as much time as yesterday's MIT study concludes it will take the…

runaway success of oss Linux on the desktop? I'm a full time user but I can't tell you how much I hate he constant hardware issues. it's 2019 and I cannot hibernate or sleep my lap…

When does CoreRT ship?

"hacker" news. Thanks.

It's an incredibly shitty thing to malign someone when they have no opportunity to respond. You only bring up issues a small number of decisions which do not make or break a compan…

Nobody should be using a tool that doesn't make money for google without too many indirections.

fossil from the creator of SQLite

If you don't like Saudi's I'm guessing you don't use twitter or Citibank?

Reminds me of the time there was a comment wondering what the OS on Microsoft watch was- someone responded with a speculation - an erlang vm with js for gui

Why not just ship alacritty?

I just want to put something out there since yesterday somebody mentioned that the password manager isn't portable if it's Windows only. I'd argue that portability is defined by ho…

Wow, I'm totallly not on the x company awesome today- x company terrible tomorrow with x = cloudflare but I'm impressed that you guys are doing due diligence!

I will leave an old subthread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19785487 which discusses how PDF has a major shortcoming which makes it non-portable for any kind of interna…