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Re:That Time I Recreated Photoshop in C++ on Sunday March 16, 2025 @02:56PM (#43381250)
Is there a book or site documenting these best practices somewhere? I'm getting into windows dev and am curious about them.
Re:The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment on Friday March 14, 2025 @03:10PM (#43366114)
I guess this is what they call American Exceptionalism?
Re:A 10x Faster TypeScript on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @05:25PM (#43337167)
Few things are more Microsofty than a team reaching over to a competitor's language instead of using their own and to boot none of the reasons given so far seem credible, good job to the team nonetheless.
I used to struggle with git until I started to use a GUI, now it just works but I get far less hacker cred therefor, which is regrettable.
Re:Why Canada should join the EU on Friday January 03, 2025 @05:55PM (#42590360)
It's a joke guys.
I'm sure they can find a jury of 12 CEOs/(m/b)illionaires who are far removed from such downstair people things as being denied insurance.
I'm superlatively surprised Google has followed through on what it has promised to do over and over again.
Re:Ask HN: Next best to incorporate other than Delaware? on Saturday December 07, 2024 @02:18PM (#42352084)
A judge might take your $50 billion options package if you incorporate there, a real risk to most of us.
Ironic, given that the apostrophe is dying out in English.
Re:X capitulates to Brazil's Supreme Court on Saturday September 21, 2024 @04:11PM (#41612384)
And to Turkey, India and...
Re:Twitter/X migrated to Cloudflare, bypassing Brazilian block on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @06:20PM (#41586216)
I know, but I want Cloudflare to go down in a burst of flames, it makes web scraping such a pain, please do it Baldy.
Re:Twitter/X migrated to Cloudflare, bypassing Brazilian block on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @06:18PM (#41586202)
I dunno, still down to me.
Re:Artificial intelligence is losing hype on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @10:56PM (#41316394)
If your productivity is near-null, LLMs can make you 100x more productive.
Re:Ask HN: Front-End Bait and Switch? on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @05:20PM (#41185664)
In the grim dorkness of the near future, there is only JavaScript and front-end work.
A few techies hither and thither will but not many.
Just download the latest visual studio, no need for gimmicks or trying to reproduce the unix dev experience on windows, just embrace the platform, warts and all, and call it a day.
The equity offering was nearing and then the board just fired Altman out of nowhere and had no credible reasons or a narrative to sell to the employees, then they quickly caught on that their comp would go to smokes with this clueless lot at the helm who can't even justify a firing without making a pig's breakfast of the whole affair and demanded the reinstatement of the CEO for their pocket's sake, simple as that.
Re:Window Returns on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @08:02PM (#40435793)
I held the 'upgrade' from 7 to 10 for more than a decade, when I did I had to remove a lot of stuff to get back my baseline usability, so once more unto the breach when I get around doing that methinks.
Most people are so bombarded with ads on the web that they scarcely think it weird that their OS does the same, anyone who cares about this has been able to do something about it a long time ago, I have never seen an ad on my windows 10 installation.
This is tangentially related at best but I always found it amusing that a forum for founders and populated mainly by pampered white-collar workers happens to be one of the hot-spots of revolutionary sentiment in the interweb, very ironic.
The lead years of XML as the hammer to every nail and the subsequent adoption of json as the data format to be used have led many to feel that XML is the data format equivalent of COBOL and just as pretty.
That's funny but Microsoft really shot itself on the foot with the TPM requirement, 11 isn't really any worse than 10 for the vast majority of the users but with that roadblock in the way even those who would upgrade won't be able to, alas.
Re:Unix on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @04:21PM (#39983807)
The Emacs-vi war is ancient geek lore, nowadays usage statistics are probably 67% VSCode, 30% unassorted IDEs, 2% vi/m, 1% Emacs.