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Under the assumption that the story is true, thing that I cannot assume from a blog post, this should be notified to the authorities more than be posted on HN. Also notice that bef…

As I once discussed with a friend of mine, once you remove semicolons, and give spacing a syntactic and semantic value, you almost have FORTRAN... this is just the icing on the cak…

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Yes, they did not get what the world "hide" means in English...

But that's an advantage too. As a non English-native user, I like when companies care about my language and culture and they do not stick dates to the MM-DD-YYYY format that is use…

You can share your Excel files and macros with other people too. Python notebooks are kind of cool but if you need something quickly to sift through the data to have an idea, Excel…

From the text ``With at least 12 major Indian languages supported, Indus OS has tapped into what the market needs, not what a government wants. That's powerful because it means the…

You should not really judge a tool by the bad use the people make of it. Hammers are perfectly fine with nail but they are horrible at cutting bread

Well, when St. Linus Torvalds said those words, (1) g++ was not as good as many other C++ compilers, (2) the world was still full of very bad examples of C++: if you were lucky, ba…

Most probably yes. Linux desktop in general has been killed by OS X and -- on a very minor extend -- by Chromium OS and, honestly, that was easy to kill. Kde is probably the first …