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Some will say that it’s necessary to balance privacy against security, and that it’s important to find the right compromise between the two. Even if you believe that, a good negoti…

You're being downvoted because of your tone and because you dismiss him by comparing him to authority figures.

Huh. I was basing my comment on the knowledge that Mozilla feared IE would become the way to browse the web. I should have double checked.

> How can open source software be in competition with anything? Market share is power. Popular open-source projects can, and do, shape the industry. If you believe your trajectory …

Can now be found here: http://quantum-os.github.io/blog/2014/11/introduction-and-in...

From the article: > The function is short enough to paste below. It is pretty unique to Neovim, as it was wrought for its brand new event-oriented nature:

I didn't take your use of “documentation” to be so loose, but I agree that it should have an explanation for the use of “magical” in the title. The author has since added an explan…

There are 61 commits and only one contributor. This isn't a good complaint, and the snark makes it worse.

The point of TL;DR is to summarize a longer piece. It literally means “Too long; didn't read”

The name is temporary, and discussion about the name has been temporarily halted because there are more important concerns. https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/272#issuecomment…

That's a good reason to downvote or stop reading, but I question whether attacking the author for having the audacity to publish the post is a good move.

People don't need to be experts to recognize flaws in tools aimed at consumers.

Writing bad articles is a great way to move toward writing good articles. Writing in the public view is a great way to get feedback on your writing and the subjects you discuss—e.g…

It's a single file. It works with or without the ruby-dependent parallel plugin installations and upgrades. It allows for plugins to be loaded only when they're needed (e.g. only f…

I switched to vim-plug from Vundle a couple of weeks ago, and I'm in love. Lazy initialization and, if your vim is built with ruby, threaded plugin installations and upgrades. As a…

It would be a shame for man-millennia of work to be lost, but it would also be a shame for advancement to be stalled by these kinds of concerns. Experimenting with new approaches a…

It's possible to use Qt from Python, so I would think Rust could do it in one way or another.

As a novice, it took several hours to wade through the configuration files when setting up an IRCd, and additional time to configure services daemons. I also continually run into i…

I assume the the people choosing the methods of communication for startups are capable of learning to use irssi or weechat, but both of those clients take quite a bit time to learn…

I wonder which title attracts a larger audience. Maybe confident developers would assume “five things every competent Javascript developer must know” would contain nothing new to t…

Improving education involves improving the approaches used by teachers, whether teachers already employed or new teachers. These kinds of things don't change overnight, but they ca…

yarou's comment is in response to a presentation about unrelated features, and his/her response suggests knowledge that Mozilla isn't focusing on memory and performance problems. M…

Mozilla is comprised of a lot of different people working on a lot of different things. There are people focusing on various memory and speed issues, but they can't (and shouldn't)…

Kiwi seems promising, but I've experienced a number of frustrating bugs