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This has been seen in a mainstream lisp before! (sort of) Wolfram Language uses almost this exact syntax—function application looks like f[x,y], but in all other respects, it works…

Replace "text editor" with "IDE," and that 700mb figure doesn't seem so extravagant.

I feel that this isn't quite a fair comparison. Take any other language with a web framework---Ruby with Rails, Java with Play/Spring, any web server which exposes a CGI interface,…

I wouldn't agree with that---media players are often fed untrusted content from the Internet, so a security issue in a shared media player API can be critical. See the Android Stag…

Isn't it better to crash than to fail silently, possibly storing malformed data?

I'm a student, mainly using GCP for hobby/hackathon projects, and to teach myself. I am massively excited about Cloud Run's free tier---for someone with a budget of zero, being abl…

Basically, that sounds like a union for app developers. That might end up being a positive thing.

I mean really, what's the difference? They can access that file at any time they want anyhow---as long as they only send it to their server after user consent, I'm really failing t…

I'd say that the massive investment is necessary because of how uncomplicated this particular system is. Without a large, sprawling, and well-funded project backing it, a simple (a…

Iirc, you can buy Lightroom 6 perpetually, no creative cloud needed. Might be worth looking into.

You might want to do that soon-ish, just because of the flakiness of most hard drives. Take a solid backup of the files and put it somewhere reliable. Although it's hard to look th…

Although raising kids without access to TV/social media may seem like a great way to avoid their downsides, like ad targeting, it ultimately only serves to cut them off from their …

Create-react-app is the way to go for beginners. It gets you up and running with the full toolchain with 0 setup or configuration - you can get right into learning React itself. Al…