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Re:JavaScript Temporal Is Coming on Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:49PM (#42884301)
it'll work with Intl.DateTimeFormat
Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:10PM (#13190780)
don't they already attempt to do that though? i don't consider $7/month a large fee. (granted, they could probably get more subscribers at $3-5, but i'm assuming they landed on $7 for a reason)
Re:Show HN: Poor man's Google Docs on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @03:44PM (#12393255)
Firefox has the option to save to PDF (on macOS at least). http://imgur.com/a/pKOPU
Re:Google Cast is now built-in to Chrome on Monday August 29, 2016 @02:14PM (#12383888)
Google Cast is the technology, Chromecast is the device. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re:Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage on Thursday June 02, 2016 @08:32PM (#11827468)
Twitter = realtime news/sports, one-to-many jokes/announcements or whatever

Snapchat = catch up on friends & families days, one-to-one connection

It's OK that they each have their purpose, and I wish both services's stated goals would embrace that. And maybe I use those services different than other people, but I just think it's strange that two wildly different services are competing for the same eyeballs in the same verticals. Obviously the shareholders disagree with me.

But that's not what the article is talking about, it's talking about male-dominated fields that were once female-dominated and vice versa.
Except when you consider that wages rise and fall in fields depending on the gender makeup of those positions [0].

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over-...

The good news is that part of Let's Encrypt's mission is to make it easier for all CA's to offer similar services through things like the ACME protocol. The ISRG's ultimate goal (right now) is for https to be the default, not the exception. I don't get the impression they care much which CA has the biggest piece of the pie.
Re:Visual Studio Code 1.0 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @05:14PM (#11500399)
For me, it's a robust extension API, because then I can have any feature I want given enough time. Atom definitely has an edge there imo. Performance is also a plus (I have no complaints there with Atom). VSCode looks promising, though.
Re:Atom text editor 1.7.0 released on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @10:34PM (#11493951)
Am I the only one who has no performance issues with Atom, except on insanely big files? I don't like my files to be 1000+ lines anyways (where possible) because it severely impacts readability/skimability.

ST3 might win me back when Package Control is integrated, but until then, Atom is more than fine. IntelliSense on VS Code looks really powerful, but it's personally a feature I do not enjoy.

Re:Content is dead on Friday April 08, 2016 @07:55PM (#11459077)
I'm in the US beta, and it really is a great service. Could use more publications and the price point seems a little too high (lots more $0.49 articles than $0.19, in my experience). That said, it has proved to be popular in NL/GE and I trust that they will attract more US pubs & prices will lower as (or if) adoption grows.
Re:Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders on Friday April 08, 2016 @05:10AM (#11453471)
It's more akin to a used car lot deciding to manufacture cars, and removing Ford & Chevys from their lot. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it is interesting that they only removed those two items and not Rokus and other streaming options.
Re:Why I don’t use CSS preprocessors on Saturday April 02, 2016 @07:01AM (#11411072)
Performance for Sass has not been an issue since libsass. Not once have I been able to switch to the browser faster than my Sass has compiled. Most of the time I even miss the browser-sync reload.
Re:Why I don’t use CSS preprocessors on Saturday April 02, 2016 @06:52AM (#11411049)
Sass is nearly 10 years old. LESS first appeared in 2009. This is beyond shiny; these are mature, well-supported tools.