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what is stopping hackernews from following closely behind?

Mainly agree, but defining "open format" seems problematic, and isn't always practical if you have some feature that the competition doesn't have

> You'd think ... people would be just a wee bit less credulous. Like the Crypto scams - irrelevant. As long as the publicity is bringing in users, investors WILL throw in more mon…

feels like a very clever marketing ploy any publicity… and just following some major feature releases premium service has been v slow since the news began. suggesting a massive inf…

feedback: - I want to repeat just the word, lots of times, without waiting, so a "rapid repeat" button would be nice. - Context is good, but the player keeps going, well beyond the…

someone at msft has way too much time on their hands

why

You're looking at the wrong metrics. The risk of using a solo-dev product is them losing interest and stopping support (or as someone else pointed out, not being able to deliver th…

Are you allowed to look at it? Yes. Are you allowed to remember it? Yes. Are you allowed to use similar patterns / naming conventions / algorithms when your are trying to solve you…

I take it you write all of your code in notepad with no linting, formatting, or any of the other cheater plugins that incompetent devs use?

At worst, it helps me type fast by finishing my lines of code for me, as pressing `tab` is faster than typing boilerplate. At best, it is scary in it's ability to pre-emptively sug…

> this is, after all, a zero sum game. No it isn't. Lost me here.

> currently federal law enforcement can hack online accounts, remove, add, or modify data Terrifying -- we are trusting officers who are incentivised to make convictions with the p…

>You can type anything in the terminal, and it displays all the matching commands (with help snippets) in real-time Like when you start typing something and press tab for autocompl…

Anything you want to, do it Want to change the world? There's nothing to it

Next week is Fix-Hack-Learn week at Microsoft. Basically a whole week where you can work on whatever you want on any product across the whole company. Want to add some new feature …

Our online video editor has been acquired by a big tech co. The ~80 org will need to start doing things a bit differently as a tsunami of new users comes. Surely a lot has been wri…

> the author wants to paint this as essentially the arrogance of the tech elites. Clearly you didn't read the second paragraph of the article: > In fairness, this particular proble…

Isolde?

similar origins https://app.clipchamp.com/

Complete crap. Anyone who makes statements about solar energy costing 2c a kwhr is either a fool or a liar. I'd suggest the latter in this case. There's nothing independent about t…