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Re:Social Cooling (2017) on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:13PM (#24629613)
Regardless of the content I really don't like this website. I don't appreciate having to scroll so much and PgUp/PgDown don't move between the blocks smoothly.
Re:Social Cooling (2017) on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:10PM (#24629574)
The US was largely founded on white supremacy and it has been part of the state institutions for two hundred years. It didn't disappear at the end of the civil war, or in the 1960s, or in 2008.
Re:CDC declares a federal moratorium on evictions [pdf] on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @06:30PM (#24572896)
> if they want to prevent evictions they need to pay the landlords what they’re owed. Reparations.

Why should the government back up somebody's risky investment?

Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:37PM (#24571004)
Cool, instead of having Wikipedia zoomed in to 150% I have to have this one zoomed at 170%.
Re:The Era of Visual Studio Code on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:22PM (#24561197)
IntelliJ Ultimate with the plugins does this but it's not quite as smooth as the individual IDEs.
Re:A Picture of Java in 2020 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @12:17PM (#24556319)
> Go's mediocrity is a feature

Removing complexity from the language just moves it onto the developer and end-user code, it doesn't eliminate it. Go's mediocrity is a ticking timebomb.

Re:A Picture of Java in 2020 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @12:14PM (#24556278)
Language server protocols are just re-inventing IDEs, but instead of using shared memory and interacting with the compiler directly you have to use an inefficient JSON pipeline.
Re:A Picture of Java in 2020 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @12:11PM (#24556249)
Every sufficiently complicated text editor and CI setup re-invents half of a good IDE, but worse.
Re:A Picture of Java in 2020 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @06:01AM (#24552743)
A lot of problems with modern programming can be traced to the "pipe compiler" like model, where your development environment is nothing more than a file editor with a shortcut to run the compiler. It doesn't understand the code, and it can't really help you, and the compiler only really outputs errors.
Re:A Picture of Java in 2020 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @05:59AM (#24552728)
The software world is driven by hype, not by objective quality. See Go, Git (vs Mercurial), every project put out then subsequently abandoned by $PUPPYKILLER_CO after being depended on.