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You might want to look at Palm Phone — https://palm.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwhOD0BRAQEiwAK7JHmGrU18EVG1ha...

Why does default build process matter? Once you haven figured it out and automated it (say, using a makefile), it doesn’t matter whether you’re using a default build process or not…

C, C++, D, Nim, Haskell, OCaml, Rust, Swift, Objective-C, Crystal..... the list goes on. Many of the languages have a native code implementation in addition to an interpreter or a …

Doesn’t LastPass Authenticator suffer from the same problem? If I understand correctly, they store the MFA secret in the same account — meaning if your LastPass vault is breached s…

Certain password managers like 1Password offer the ability to generate MFA tokens within the same app. While that is certainly convenient, doesn’t it defeat the purpose of MFA alto…

https://swift.org/download/#releases

The last I checked, Swift is not supported on Windows — and Linux support is tentative at beat. I mean, only Ubuntu is officially supported.

That — and I am not a big fan of browsers getting more and more access to the hardware/OS over time.

Download and run code written by strangers without understanding what it does — what could possibly go wrong? https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-malicious-python-libraries... Ironic…

Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20029966

Do you really want to compare Photoshop with VSCode?

> At #5, you have code that is as fast as it gets. It is nowhere near as fast as native code (any benchmarks you think of are synthetic and designed to show JavaScript as fast—it d…

> Advantage of web app is cross platform uniformity. Write once, run everywhere. In theory -- yes. But in practice, it is write once, debug anywhere. Remember a certain electron ap…

> fast featureless editors like Sublime Text, Gedit, Notepad++, Vim/Emacs etc. How do you count any of these editors — especially Sublime, Vim and Emacs — as featureless? If anythi…

Because Venus’ atmosphere is full of Sulphuric Acid and various greenhouse gases which wouldn’t allow life as we know it to exist.

Rust? I know a lot of people evangelise rust — to the point of annoyance of others — but as we move into an era where the entire world is run on computers, it is just not acceptabl…

What a lot of people don’t get is that it’s not pointers or manual memory management or even lack of language level support for “modern features” like object oriented programming, …

Well, a lot of aluminium cans are left un-recycled — especially in developing countries.

On one hand, this seems like a terrible waste of metal. But at the same time, it reduces the amount of plastic bottles. Depends on how cans are recycled, I guess. Also, a plastic b…

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