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mb720

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    Comment #42460429

    The extension withExEditor[1] can open the editor of your choice in its own window, optionally with a different editor config file. Your editor writes to a file in /tmp and on each…

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    Show HN: File carver in the browser (Rust and WebAssembly)

    An experimental file carver [1], currently extracting only JPGs, written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly. Files that the user provides are searched inside the browser, there's …

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    Comment #26901465

    I used to like Windows 7 when it came out and Windows was the only OS I'd used. It's hard for me now to love an OS that * blatantly spies on its users[0] * has an update mechanism …

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    Comment #26896673

    >scars from the 90s/00s hegemony Honestly curious, are you referring to Microsoft's illegal[0] tactics to destroy Netscape? [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000…

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    Comment #26192304

    cURL is one of the greatest pieces of software I ever used. Thank you, Daniel, for creating it and all the volunteers who maintain and improve it. I donated some time ago to the pr…

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    Comment #23822812

    Funny it categorizes Big Buck Bunny as XXX.

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    Comment #22287328

    Similar to 'gf' there's 'gx' that opens a URL in your browser. I use this every day. https://github.com/tyru/open-browser.vim Here's my config from the vimrc: " Disable netrw's gx …

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    Comment #20333141

    There's an error in the presentation's slides: The type of returnIO is "a → IO a" and not "IO a → IO a".

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    Comment #17976917

    The title is misleading. The class was there all along, the NoClassDefFoundError was thrown because the class loader was closed when trying to load a class.

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    Comment #14951030

    The comment you refer to was about how programmers getting yelled at on the mailing list of the Linux kernel and how that's not OK. The comment you refer to wasn't at all about Qt …

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    Comment #14947109

    When I provide code for free I want to be treated with respect. There's evidence that this is not always the case when working on the Linux Kernel. Of course, when somebody introdu…

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    Comment #14946830

    I get that the author is frustrated with false claims about Qt, but calling people working on open source software "hippie coders" is just an insulting misrepresentation harming an…

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    Comment #14872657

    > Germany is today a country where foreign journalists are chased through the street by communist activists Source?

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    Comment #14218476

    You can use Scala.js[1] to transpile your Scala code to JavaScript and have type safety between client and server. You don't need to use any frameworks if you use Scala's features …

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    Comment #13918338

    Because of that I moved from Vimperator to VimFx[1] which is a great plugin. Additionally, I use It's All Text[2] to write comments like these using Vim. [1] https://addons.mozilla…