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Personally, I don't think its possible to even work in your 100% capacity with WFH. Some might think that focusing extra hard on your work while ignoring the noises and family feuds will help but the long term toll it takes on your mental health and the amount of stress it builds is devastating.

The debian benchmarks website. It was called benchmarkgame.alioth.com earlier if I recall correctly.

They had a plan to disrupt the optical fiber scenario too not so long ago, IIRC. What happened to that?

That's exactly what any CEO or "Downsizing Consultant" would say. That may be an OK situation for a corporate company, but for a non-profit foundation like Mozilla, its unhealthy and rings some disaster bells.

There is a fully open source port called VSCodium[1], I believe.

[1] https://vscodium.com/

Opinions vary on that one, does a footprint reduction by 90kb really matters in the day and age where megabytes of bloatware like angular, react, vue, etc. goes unchecked?

If adding 90kb helps me write `$(document.ready()` instead of `window.addEventListener(DOMContentLoaded)`, I'd rather add that because making code more intuitive and readable is what software engineering is about.

Is it worth switching from jquery with all the extra verbose code you must write for DOM manipulation?

Plus the new generation is pampered with much cheaper resources (RAM and CPU), so programming efficiency goes out of the window.

I need a simple seo tool to find keyword rankings and check backlinks without going through the complex routine of google adwords or costly keyword platforms. Will you be able to build such a tool and make it open source?

Not just Java, there is a lot of old Microsoft tech floating around too. VB6 and old versions of .NET and MSSQL are still common in many enterprises.

Off-topic but medium has almost turned into a paywall these days, it won't allow you to read more than 5 articles without subscribing to their paid service. Should HN and Google be promoting such a walled garden, especially when creative commons content is found aplenty on the interwebs?

Can relate to that. I used to work for tech mahindra and they were using vb6 and .NET 2.0 for a major client even as late as 2014 when I quit from there. Its most likely that they are still using that old stack because its typically difficult to justify migration costs to a newer stack.

Flask (python) or even CodeIgniter (php) are my frameworks of choice for this sort of thing. They may be a bit old and organizing a large project could be difficult but nothing can beat them on performance!

Seems to me like a Deja-Vu after I answered this[1] on quora yesterday.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Github-now-allows-unlimited-private-re...

An alternative to putty on windows is to get the entire Git SCM package[1]. You get not just git, ssh and sftp but many other useful command line tools too.

[1]: https://git-scm.com/

In other words, "if we are reducing advertising costs, let's not forget to collect maximum PR benefit out of it".

Have you tried the PHP OpenCart? It may not be perfect but there seems to be a good plugin ecosystem around the project and you can also hire a programmer on upwork, etc. for some quick customization.

>> but increasingly [not] having a facebook account is not an option.

but so is the case for google maps, gmail, linkedin, twitter, uber and a zillion other services. Facebook is just like any other web service at the end of the day.

>> FB's customers are the advertisers.

Even if that's true for arguments sake, I don't see how FB becomes a "monopoly" in that case. There are potentially large # of advertisers buying advertising space from potentially large # of website owners. How does FB have a monopoly on advertiser spending?

But the difference is that "ALL OTHER" monopolies are priced whereas facebook is a free product. Can it be called a monopoly if your product is free? Pretty sure, most lawyers won't have a hard time convincing a jury that it can't be.

Besides, if FB is a monopoly then so are Twitter, Google, Reddit, Quora, etc. Its an oligopoly of sorts with each player dominating a slightly differentiated product and all products are free of cost.

I've found that sometimes fiddling with some wireless settings like operation band, channel, tx power, WMM, etc. helps, provided you know what you are doing. Especially so if you're in an overcrowded wifi zone or in a poor reception area.

Do they seriously expect users to pay to be able to perform searches? Users don't need new platforms, its vice versa.

Most important tech company? Google and Apple are arguably more advanced and important than Jio.

Jio can become more important provided other Reliance web services like JioMart, etc. start seeing an increased usage.

I think one reason why pro abortion is "pro choice" is because it actually involves making a choice. Not aborting and giving "life" to a newborn is the default selection and doesn't involve making choice.