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Re:Ask HN: Best Windows/Linux developer laptop in 2025
on Saturday March 15, 2025 @10:39AM (#43372833)
A laptop with Ada 5000 or 3500 seems pretty good in terms of value/price ratio for this use case. Dell and Lenovo have decent offerings.
I was just researching this for my own use.
Re:A Year Using Matrix and Riot
on Monday May 14, 2018 @06:20PM (#17069965)
Please initiate creation of a plugin for Pidgin... (it feels most of the issues would be easier to solve that way as well)
Re:Ask HN: What abandoned OSS project would you like to see revived?
on Sunday March 25, 2018 @12:34AM (#16670780)
Exactly. Moreover, Pidgin is not only extremely useful already, but could also solve some further issues such as usability, customizability, and security in everyday communication.
Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plugin developer
on Saturday February 24, 2018 @12:51AM (#16451954)
I don't understand what exactly is the reason people don't like Eclipse. The features and the overall feeling of using the IDE is great, that's why I am still using Eclipse (mostly Java and Scala development), so are many of my colleagues. I guess there are some downsides, like slower leading times and a bit clunky compilation process, but other than that, it's a solid IDE.
Re:Ask HN: What software is so good you are surprised it is free?
on Monday February 19, 2018 @01:32PM (#16414647)
Eclipse -- one of the best and most versatile IDEs, especially for JVM languages
Re:Eelo: A Google-less Android alternative emerges
on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @08:27AM (#16167678)
"I don't feel spied" -- good for you! The point is, it's great that you're in love with Google and you don't mind being spied upon, however, there are a lot of other people who cannot wait for something like this and indeed care about privacy of their information.
Re:Facebook News Feed change hides news, hurts nation
on Monday January 15, 2018 @12:19PM (#16151832)
Even though I like RSS and use it daily, I think it cannot act as a replacement, since Facebook, as a platform, allows two-way communication between parties (e.g. when someone or some group shares a post, people can give feedback on it).
Re:Facebook News Feed change hides news, hurts nation
on Monday January 15, 2018 @12:15PM (#16151809)
I have to say that this is almost completely the opposite of what I want from Facebook, given that "cringe memes and clickbait" is an orthogonal issue. To me, great value lies in the opportunity for people to organize into smaller communities and post various things about those communities, be they political or not, and at the same time being able to receive feedback (in the form of comments). Unfortunately, the sad truth is that this is the only platform for such an activity for most of those communities.
Re:Socialism, Capitalism Seen in New Light by Younger Americans
on Thursday December 07, 2017 @10:16AM (#15870700)
Can you put that card back in the deck please? Socialism is not equal to Soviet Union, who cares who have parents where.
Re:Socialism, Capitalism Seen in New Light by Younger Americans
on Thursday December 07, 2017 @10:14AM (#15870675)
It seems to me you presented zero arguments why socialism is bad and capitalism is good (and why people should keep believing in it).
Re:Universities are also to blame for the GOP’s ‘grad student tax’
on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:13PM (#15808581)
I have to say that I stopped reading after the first point, which does not make any sense to me at all. Phd is so much different from undergrad, in terms of responsibilities and overall role at the university, aside from comparing doing research and courses.
Re:If you tax the rich, they won't leave
on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @11:53AM (#15808327)
If we think about this as a wealth pyramid (a quite narrow one), then perhaps the answer is taxing progressively up the pyramid until the very top is reached. Otherwise, I agree, there's no clear solution to this, unfortunately.
Re:If you tax the rich, they won't leave
on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @11:49AM (#15808284)
So the city of New York should free Wall St from paying any taxes whatsoever as a sign of gratitude for not letting the place to implode. Moreover, people should be thankful and donate money from their pockets to them to prevent some major implosions.
Re:Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:52PM (#15718761)
Wow, the reason you would think that the fact that all the companies you've worked for have been doing the same as a positive thing, as well as that it might support any argument for collecting this type of information (or "aggregating") is beyond me. If you don't care about privacy and you don't mind giving away information about your behavior, that's fine, that's your thing, but please refrain yourself from spreading these false claims and arguments.
Re:Freedom of Information Release on Nikola Tesla (2011)
on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @01:38AM (#15641464)
there's no conflict there (not that it's too relevant, but his ancestry is quite clear)... I guess there will always be people who like creating conflicts :)
Re:Go vs. Rust? Choose Go
on Sunday September 17, 2017 @12:14AM (#15268199)
yeah... no...
Re:Eclipse Ceylon
on Friday August 25, 2017 @09:48PM (#15103629)
Good news. Moreover, it would be great if Eclipse would take over Eclipse IDEs for Haskell and Rust...
Re:Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism
on Monday August 21, 2017 @08:26PM (#15068856)
What are you talking about? Where did you find the connection between China and this article? I would guess the word "socialism"? China is more capitalistic than you would think; people should read more about it before spreading such stereotypes.
Re:Amazon paid just £15m in tax on European revenues of £19.5bn
on Thursday August 17, 2017 @09:09AM (#15036392)
Why would you make such an assumption? Did the headline suggest that the (relatively small) tax was based on revenue? No, it did not. Please stop making such hasty, strong, and destructive comments. As we all already know, we have issues with weak (and disinformative) headlines; at least we can strive to have better comments and discussions.
Re:Venezuela Is Collapsing. Could a civil war be next?
on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @11:45AM (#15019285)
What are you talking about? What myth? There is no myth whatsoever. As the previous comment noted, the plunge in oil price was going to cause disaster and a crisis of legitimacy, regardless of who was in power. Please stop making such senseless, irresponsible, and even downright dangerous connections.
Re:GNU Ring 1.0 released
on Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:51AM (#14920054)
Will this be available in Pidgin?
Re:Buying time promotes happiness
on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @06:47AM (#14899355)
Non sequitur. Your whole conclusion is based on an non-existing premise, or one that has little sense.
It's not clear why you think this article suggests precluding a healthy system in which people have the ability to afford time-saving services (in exchange of their service to others, which is arguably a foundation of any sane such system). Moreover, it's not clear what does consumption have anything to do with the point of the article; it seems rather orthogonal.
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your day to day work logs?
on Monday July 31, 2017 @07:27PM (#14896747)
This is interesting, since there are so many tools out there designed to make these things easier -- e.g. I use taskwarrior with Gnome pomodoro... (Not to mention giving away personal data to the "cloud".)
Re:Twitter Fails to Grow Its Audience Again
on Sunday July 30, 2017 @10:00PM (#14889018)
yes, me... please refrain yourself from starting your replies like that...
Re:Ask HN: Software licensing excluding military use?
on Sunday July 30, 2017 @06:20AM (#14885320)
be constructive, and save us all the fluff and drama next time please...
Re:Ask HN: Software licensing excluding military use?
on Sunday July 30, 2017 @06:18AM (#14885317)
he/she actually can, if he/she chooses to... some licenses discriminate against people that don't have money for buying them, so there should be nothing unfair about this...
Re:Show HN: Thoughtwriter – a digital whiteboard for your thoughts
on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @08:09PM (#14852898)
another web-based JS-heavy solution... thanks, but no thanks...
Re:Pentagon study declares American Empire is 'collapsing'
on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @05:26AM (#14846347)
potentially undermining trust in incumbent governments for the foreseeable future
Even better. Trusting government is a fool's errand.
wow, great... what do you suggest -- remove governments and go back to clan wars? or perhaps we should be asking the question of how did we end up with governments that cannot be trusted...
Re:Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail...
on Sunday July 23, 2017 @07:16PM (#14834879)
I appreciate all these new clients with some interesting twists, but I would appreciate more if people spent at least a relatively small portion of their time contributing to existing (very good and solid) messengers like Pidgin, instead of re-inventing the wheel. Every now and then, someone hacks a new client, which begs the question about the value of that effort.
Re:Are You Ready to Consider That Capitalism Is the Real Problem?
on Friday July 21, 2017 @06:10PM (#14824075)
Wow, you really have a lot of things mixed up here. How can you make such strong claims about socialism when there are so many factors involved, e.g. we did not see socialism implemented without a dictatorship. Also, why didn't you try to compare deaths caused by capitalism.
> Meanwhile one of the United State's biggest problem is obesity due to being so prosperous. This blows my mind. You think that obesity is due to prosperity, when all those poor people who cannot afford decent food and physical exercise are the ones who are getting obese.
Please, consider refraining from posting before trying to understand correlations and connections between multiple factors from which you draw such strong (and very misleading) conclusions.