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Most people are entirely unaware of how much data Facebook is collecting about them. Raising awareness about that is a noble goal, but it's not mutually exclusive with stopping Fac…

Yes, but the post mentions assignment expressions as a bad thing, and says Python "gets it right" in this regard, which would no longer be true.

I tried to love Zig but the lack of destructors are killing me! They're such a useful tool for resource management, and apparently they weren't added in order to make all control f…

What's wrong with module systems?

Minor nits: 1. "Single return and out parameters" should have a special mention for Haskell, since Haskell doesn't even have multiple input parameters! 2. Python has assignment exp…

I still don't understand - you can still have a standalone executable if you want, nothing's stopping you! Package managers just streamline the common case of "I just want to insta…

JavaScript is a god language. Changing Array.prototype is very much considered an antipattern, except in the case of shims, where it's really useful. JavaScript is reinventing itse…

Linux is a headache for two reasons: (1) because it's basically packaging your app for half a dozen different app stores, so you need tools that make that easier for you, and (2) l…

Huh? Binaries downloaded off the Internet work just as fine on Linux as they do on Windows! Package managers just give you very convenient updating and a chain of trust to greatly …

Krita has been much nicer than Gimp in my experience, although they fulfil slightly different niches.

You pay for Windows, but Linux is free. Windows is filled with ads; Linux has none. Windows is slow; Linux is less slow. Windows tried to pull some weird tablet hybrid nonsense; Li…

Yes, for anyine who wants to do further research it's called Proton. Valve has tried several times in the past to make gaming on Linux more attractive, but this has by far been the…

OCaml is a very fun language in my experience. Apparently they were going to add ad-hoc polymorphism in the form of modular implicits, but I have no idea what happened to that.

I want to live without a search engine. What are my options for discovering new websites? Link aggregators (HN and Reddit) and recommendations from other websites are the two most …

If the business objectives lead to a design so bad that it hurts the business, surely the people who came up with these objectives didn't do a very good job?

But... Wire has both! With generics, you introduce complexity into the language that everyone has to understand, but that's obviously not true when it comes to having accounts that…

How hard is it to explain to people that their vote only goes to #2 if #1 is already out of the running?

What do you mean by "higher value"? Getting IE11 to work will net you an extra 2.85% of the market, but adding a very minor feature that's only usable by Safari users doesn't seem …

Their name is honestly fine - it's memorable, has a good domain, and is super, super search-friendly. Also, personally, it reminds me of "replete" more than "reptile", but that's n…

And, additionally, was a host on the YouTube series PBS Infinite Series, shortly before it was cancelled.

No, he's saying that Thanos just delayed overpopulation for a constant amount of time, and didn't really solve anything.

To be fair, tab helps you discover commands about as well as a dictionary helps you discover words. I'm personally looking for something like apropos, but much more powerful.

Armies are to protect people and national interests, not currency. I'd love to here more about your vision of a future without military, though.

And advertisements steal dollars worth of my time for fractions of a cent. I personally find this more justifiable.

I was expecting something much more sinister (that this man had a Fitbit and they used it to track his location). This is a much more positive use of the technology, but as a layma…