Gorkys

I asked

> Is a panda or a Clio bigger

Would have thought it was obvious I was talking about cars? Its reply was hilarious:

> A Renault Clio is much bigger than a giant panda. While a panda can be 4 to 6 feet long and 2 to 3 feet tall, a Clio is typically 4.053 meters long and 1.440 meters tall, making it significantly larger in all dimensions, according to Auto Express and CarsGuide.

Is this part of the reason why developer salaries are so much higher in the US? They're being used as tax write-offs, i.e essentially government subsided?

In crypto, there is the concept of the "fictional reserve" which can be used in situations such as this.

Could I suggest you take a look at my project, Perspex?https://github.com/Perspex/Perspex - it sounds like it ticks your boxes and we're always in need of contributors!

Flexbox seems to serve most HTML layouts. Are there any that it doesn't work so well for? What about CSS Grid Layout? I've not heard anything about that for a while. Does that have any advantages over Flexbox?

To my mind, all of the points you listed as an advantage you can also find with C#/VB.net using WinForms. I've also never found WinForms or even WPF (most of the time) to be sluggish on even reasonably modern hardware.

What specifically do you find easier in VB6 than VB.net/C# when writing desktop apps, in particular in relation to WinForms?

You say "inspect and modify a program as it is running in a graphical way" - do you mean that with VB6 you could alter the UI as the application was running? If so, that's something I don't remember but I agree it could be very handy!

I'm always surprised by the people asking "bring VB6 back". I'd like to know why - is it because you're stuck maintaining VB6 applications that can't be/haven't been updated to VB.net or C#? I used VB6 extensively back in the day, and I am very glad indeed that it's now dead.

Not necessarily - in America yes that is the way things work at the moment, but not all over the world. There are may suburbs with good public transport where having a car is less necessary.

Not the OP, but in our product we have very large binaries that are the output of the product itself. Each time a change is made to the program, the output needs to be compared to the existing output first automatically and if the output isn't byte-by-byte identical then manually (visually).

So essentially, without large binaries in source control we'd lose testing.

Any way to automatically apply this to techcrunch.com? I imagine not much would be left.

Could anybody explain what problems this was designed to solve?

Ok, I', not that young but WTF is a "palmtop" and when did such a thing exist?

Are you reading the same HN as me? I'd say 70% of the comments here are disparaging towards the Surface.

Wow! You're the first person I've ever heard of who actually liked CDE. Did you ever actually use it?

Or maybe there are some men who are aware that things aren't always as easy in the tech industry for women as they are for men.

Because they, you know, listen to the majority of women in tech, who say this is in fact the case.

Dude, that's nothing. Romance languages are much worse. Check out Italian: http://italian.about.com/library/verb/blverb_avere.htm