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Congratulations for being the last straw. I'm getting out of this site for good.

Nice alternative to Spotify is Apple Music. They recently opened up their API ( https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi ) which has been used to create a nice web i…

I wasn't trying to be helpful. I was trying to discourage stupidity ("very weird") by ridiculing it.

>A strict type > would be very weird because besides returning TRUE and FALSE it'd need to throw a TypeError, I guess? Yes, which would make it behave exactly like probably every l…

What's the equivalent of === for in PHP?

Yet another reason not to use Spotify. Their IPO was a huge red flag, of course.

At this point, the 7 won't probably get updates nearly as long as the XR will.

Note that Dendrite is doing a bit more fancy architecture. https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/blob/master/DESIGN.md -- there's a bunch of readers and writers, with Kafka in-bet…

>who needs $10,000/month to live Those who have a monthly mortgage payment of $9000. Substract $500 (or more if the government doesn't help you with their costs) for each child in …

You've done great work as a whole, as you probably know. Try not let the lowlifes get to you.

Yes! And I’d like to add that a lack of such criticism just feels wrong. Like I’m researching into a cult instead of a tool.

Haha, ok. I'm even lower on that scale: not even a hobbyist game programmer. I thought they actually just use structs and whatever data structure works.

Game programmers use entity systems, not OO... or do they?

Here’s a few guesses: 1. It’s not 100x (or even 2x) faster or significantly more stable than Apple Music 2. It’s always easier to make a nice app when starting from scratch versus …

Why take it personally? We complain about the language and to some extent the original creators of the language -- not its users. Complaining (at its best) makes things happen. I w…

Of course they can. Check out Ansible. It's quite comparable to these systems, even if less pure and lacking some of the features.

I didn't find SICP good or bad, but utterly boring. In fact, so boring that I couldn't bring myself to finish even half of it in 3 separate tries. Perhaps I should've read it as my…

Well, if a person is producing below a living wage, then it's difficult to pay that person a living wage.

Man, this is so weird. I used Linux from 1996ish to 2017 and then just moved almost everything to Apple. I don’t remember the exact reason, but probably it had something to do with…

Nah, the headphone jack can move to the history books already. They oughta replace it with something standard, though, like USB-C. Bluetooth isn't an acceptable total replacement a…

Well, as many futurologists say... a self-driving car (or drive-assisting) doesn't have to be perfect. It merely needs to be better than a human driver. Data seems to suggest that …

> I don't have time to research whether or not they are going to abuse my privacy or have some horrendous TOS. Do you think that web apps are better in that regard?