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Re:The Best Textbooks on Every Subject on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:07PM (#17618522)
Not that I have specific issues with the recommendations there, but from a conceptual standpoint, why should I trust recommendations on every subjects from a centralized non-specialized site when I can search for sites specialized in each subjects and take their recommendations on their own subjects instead.
Re:Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:28AM (#17615932)
Modern front-end dev is all about over-engineering things with MVC libraries and whatnots, but for the love of God one shall not use jQuery.
Re:Show HN: Lambda speech on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @09:17AM (#17600703)
martyalain is saying that (s)he won't go through the hurdle of scaling a website for a 2-days buzz.
I didn't know that Soyuz flights are scheduled to stop in 2019. I'm not optimistic at all about all that. Manned missions are a whole new level, a level where a single failure could mean the end the road either for SpaceX or Boeing's space department. If I were to put my tinfoil hat on, I would even suggest that Russia managed to deal the end of the Soyuz contracts for when USA is ready to launch their own manned flights, but not reliably so, therefore increasing the probability of them having an accident and looking weak.
Re:Simple, correct, fast: in that order on Monday July 09, 2018 @10:57AM (#17490617)
That was my first thought as well but then I realized that by correctness the author means "no bug", which is quite more ambitious than just making it "work".

I think the author implicitly assumes the software basically works right from the beginning of the article.

Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos on Thursday July 05, 2018 @10:34AM (#17463541)
`youtube-dl -g` will output the final URL it has resolved, which you can then pipe to any video player that supports streaming from an URL.
Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos on Thursday July 05, 2018 @10:30AM (#17463503)
The only way to make the content move elsewhere is to have enough people move elsewhere so that the content needs to move to meet an audience.