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If you're a visual learner, one of the biggest instances can be seen at: http://lambdaplusjs35padjaiz4jw2fugdoeutse262phqr72uf634s2wd... It's usually SWF. Some features include: - …

Well said. The company is actually more focused on earth moving, but the same arguments you make apply there, if not even more. Earth moving is a very exhausting job that most woul…

When someone uses an odd number of indentation! That really grinds my gears for some reason.

Tunnel-visioned article, honestly. I mean, why does he gloss over the fact that scalpers don't care about captchas - they can just outsource solving them to other humans. Giving yo…

That just reminded me of original 128MB MP3 players, loaded straight from Napster. Ironically, I still struggle to fill an average sized modern equivalent with 512GB, even with FLA…

Just the fact that I can use it without a website is a game changer.

Why is nobody talking about the standards development? They (OS, image formats) could just say all stuff by default assumes SDR and if a media file explicitly calls for HDR even th…

Yes, this is the whole issue with these kinds of systems. The message gets lost in translation to the user. An OG java applet would say "this app is signed, do you want to continue…

Not going to lie, that's a pretty out of touch opinion in the current decade, where most software feels an order of magnitude slower and less reactive than a mechanical device made…

Be wary of building a website without a framework to abstract stuff like DOM usage and page generation. Raw webdev is hard , due to lots of compatibility issues at every level (CSS…

Ah, I love when I'm a software engineer sitting for coffee in the morning, and I open up my tech newspaper to read some extremely overly verbose way of explaining to me like I was …

Having a @Stable annotation which the standard library can use to signal things to the compiler like that is very smart. I wonder how many standard libraries are missing out on opt…

That's right up my alley. I've been thinking about writing something in this style but with a jazz biome twist (kind of like steampunk but with a jazz-centric world instead of stea…

Nah, I'm young and even to me the author's just on the extreme side of "digital native". The first thing I saw in the article was this and knew it was fake, too: "Considering the s…

> doom-scrolling Just wait 'til you find out about imageboard doom-scrolling.