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So, your definition of “different” is someone who uses Big Tech social networks?
If your quality of life depends on big tech then I suspect your life is of low quality in the first place.
Re:Prologue: A web framework written in Nim on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:10AM (#24848028)
It seems nothing groundbreaking. A router, some middleware and websockets.

Also, nim is a mess. Very poorly designed language. I tried it a couple of years ago and was repelled by its syntax and attempts to solve every single problem for you.

Re:KeePassXC 2.6.1 on Friday August 21, 2020 @01:13AM (#24232175)
If you’re concerned about security, you wouldn’t use Dropbox in the first place. Use mega.nz instead.
Re:Nim – Python-like statically-typed compiled language on Sunday August 16, 2020 @12:36PM (#24179146)
Nim is just right down ugly and borrowed the worst from Pascal and Python. The multi-paradigm concept is a mess. Tried it a couple of years ago and moved on to better, more simple tools.
Exactly my thoughts on this as well. The brain and skill drain has reached levels of completely unethical. If someone did the same to America during the great depression 1920-1930, the U.S. would be a shithole country today.
Re:Blur Tools for Signal on Thursday June 04, 2020 @09:16AM (#23416148)
They probably had worked on this feature for some time and are using the current times as an opportunity to introduce it. It's hard to believe they had the capacity to react to the traffic increase and develop a sharp new feature in less than a week.
Re:The Atlantic lays off almost 20% of staff on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:28PM (#23264669)
I will completely disagree with the above statement and claim that The Atlantic were biased and lacking real statistical data in their reporting.
Got excited for a moment, then I read the "About" section and closed my browser tab at "crypto decentralized".
Great effort, though these kind of tools are useless unless you can include senators’ spouses and family </sarcasm>
Like most Hollywood productions, TikTok wants to show the healthy and the beautiful over the sickly and the ugly. This is purely driven by customer demand. The good news is that 1) TikTok a private enterprise and it can set its own rules and 2) it's in China so it won't be vulnerable to public shaming and social pressure to bend its business decisions to please fringe groups.
How is this building $89k and not $8.9M?
Re:Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020? on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:26AM (#21803179)
“craftsperson” <rolls eyes>
Re:Predicting Next Recession on Sunday November 24, 2019 @02:07AM (#21618913)
Yes. As it already did in 2016.
Re:Predicting Next Recession on Saturday November 23, 2019 @12:35PM (#21615262)
Most modern recessions are caused by investor fear and panic. In March 2020, if Elizabeth Warren gets the democratic nomination, you can expect a medium to deep recession caused by her high tax plan and business-hostile policies. You can gauge this by the high number of put option contracts with March expiration being purchased, compared to all other months.
Re:Red Programming Language 0.5.4 released on Sunday June 14, 2015 @11:22AM (#9715177)
Red seems like a very ambitious project to be completed by a single developer. I've only briefly looked at the syntax, but it seemed to me that it's not very clear. The excess use of brackets is visually confusing.
Re:Crystal Language on Saturday June 06, 2015 @10:07AM (#9670847)
Julia's 1-based array indexing is counter-intuitive and a turn off.
Re:Crystal Language on Saturday June 06, 2015 @12:06AM (#9669612)
Just curious, why Crystal? It looks just like Ruby. What problem(s) are you addressing with Crystal?
Re:Man Lives In A Boeing 727 In The Middle Of The Woods on Sunday July 13, 2014 @12:35AM (#8026662)
I would love to live in an airplane in the middle of the woods, but unlike Bruce, I am married and that's just not going to happen.
I develop web apps and have very little to no experience with mobile. Yes, her perspective on what I do changed dramatically. And that's just the beginning. Now she has to support it.
Yes, she is. It's almost done. I set up a site for her at http://www.duckfacebooth.com. The iOS app will be linked there once it's done.
Re:Slackware 14.1 is released on Thursday November 07, 2013 @07:26PM (#6693570)
Slackware is irrelevant and outdated. No package manager. No net install. Give me one reason to use it instead of Arch or Debian.
It doesn't seem that I can change the post to include a URL and no text, but I followed your advice and added a one line description of the service on the home page.

Show HN: Code pastes in local storage, shared via Web Sockets

I thought it would be great to share code snippets without saving them on a server, so I created http://mem.peIt allows you to paste code and save it in your browser's local storage. When you share the URL of the pasted code, other people will connect to it via web sockets. For example, this http://mem.pe/#sge/5 you will be pulling from my browser. I'll keep it open for a while.If you close the...

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Re: on Friday August 16, 2013 @06:54PM (#6227205)
Los Angeles - DOWN
Re:Why I Use Perl: Reliability on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @03:44PM (#4039343)
The favorite argument of the weak programmer. Some people act like if it's not spelled out for them letter by letter it's not readable. Perl is no less readable then HTML5, given that there is proper indentation. Get over it.

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