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I downloaded Firefox from mozilla.org and configured a ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop file so that it appears in the GNOME Shell menu. It auto-updates and works great.…

I've been running Stretch for 6 months and can't remember a single crash or issue. Amazingly stable release, kudos and thanks to everyone involved.

Great to see custom derive landing in stable. Big thanks to Mozilla and everyone else working on improving Rust!

I love everything about this project. I know a lot of developers that have been using i3 for years, and because of this project when it's time for them to upgrade to Wayland, they …

> this is still better than "no SSL whatsoever" This breaks the expectation that if a website is using HTTPS the connection is encrypted from source to destination. I'm not sure it…

Agreed, Rust's way of error handling with Result and try! (or ?) is far superior.

The Bold Roboto [1] just looks awful on my machine. Arial [2] looked much better, and if they want to use the system font, Ubuntu [3] also looks much better. [1] http://i.imgur.com…

At least C++ has a stack to re-invent. With C you're missing Vector and Map before you even start.

Yeah, it's hard for Python to compete with languages like Go and Erlang that multiplex IO in the runtime.

I'm pretty sure both Node and Tornado have the same mental model of async. Both have callbacks and both have async/await functionality that makes it look more like blocking code. T…

If you're interested in KDE on Fedora 23, I haven't tried it but I've seen this [1] which may persuade you to find another distro for KDE. [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/piper…

You can paste the XML on the Debian Fonts wiki page to get nicer (IMO) looking fonts. https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts#Subpixel-hinting_and_Font-smoo... Paste it into ~/.config/fontco…

nosurf [1] is a pretty popular CSRF protection package for Go. You need to realize that Go's built in "web framework" is extremely minimal unlike Django. It's more comparable to so…

Those stats are very unreliable. Most Linux web browsers (including Chrome) do not send the specific distro they're being used on. Ubuntu patches Firefox to include Ubuntu in its U…

> Mint is famous for it's volume icon that includes album art for what's playing, various other info, and controls to let you pause/skip tracks. GNOME and Unity also have that, pro…

Installing Ubuntu GNOME and then installing Cinnamon would give you a nearly identical setup. Cinnamon is basically just a replacement for GNOME Shell. You could also install Nemo …

> Go is not general purpose Can you explain?

I don't use GitLab but after browsing the source code on their official site[1] I couldn't help but notice how slow it is. [1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master

Go is such a simple language that I believe any decent developer could be productive with it within a week. I'm not sure the hiring argument is all that great.

Assuming this [1] is the main source repository for webapp2, it hasn't had any serious development since early 2012 and there's probably no reason to use it. [1] https://code.googl…