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IPad Air 9.7". Notification centre on lock screen used to have two columns. I used to fill the screen with widgets and have it as a dashboard. Now due to various updates I'm stuck …

Most likely some kind of signalling behaviour. Status signalling is what a particular kind of "rich" person does to indicate they are rich or high value. Often also used to bolster…

I work in devops. So I can easily have quiet developer time and operational issues appearing out of nowhere. We're used to this mixture. "Crunch time" is only for short term thinki…

What is dark energy?

My free advice is : Pack your parachute before you need it - at least two years income saved to call yourself "financially secure". Contentment is important. Figure it out. Learn a…

Creepy. But then again if you make analogies for most web sites/services they get creepy real fast. This is how far things have moved since the previous "analog" days.

No, but you demonstrated the religious zeal of such a comment quite nicely.

I'd agree with you except that any language that requires the "let" keyword is absurd and indefensible. And this is one of many religious-like language wars out there.

Such polite people. WTF has different meaning for the other kids in the playground.

Protobuffers always seemed like an interesting approach but every time I've tried to use in a prototype I've ended up deciding against the added overhead of including them. And the…

Agreed. Games aren't the only thing people do with lots of cores / HEDT. Give me a 128 core machine and I'll happily keep them busy all day with work. No need for a heater either.

Does Intel really think this approach is good for them? As a technical person, all I see is a company in trouble with products they need to lie about. This goes beyond market speak…

Looks good. Time to brush up on my websockets and glue this into something.

Another submission about cobol. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17979417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18110054

Guru meditation error.

When you write "modern" how long ago would that have been installed? /me trying to get a handle on optical development.