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gver10 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was the best off-topic online discussion you have ever observed?

I seed this with a discussion about the Arc on a PL community mailing list (https://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]...)

gver10 | 5 years ago | on: What's the future of Servo?

Could you please clarify on this: how is Brave not giving BAT to content creators?

gver10 | 5 years ago | on: Kicking Off the Repl.it Programming Language Jam

Nothing per se against repl.it, but I'm surprised to see this on #1 of the front page as it's basically a call to free labour. Will there ever be a future when companies innovate themselves again? IMHO all these "hackathons" or "jams" are really just about finding use cases for their product and getting it tested for a very affordable reward ...

gver10 | 5 years ago | on: Face masks are breaking facial recognition algorithms, says new government study

Could you explain what's wrong with disinfecting the fingerprint scanner?

gver10 | 5 years ago | on: Github Is Down

Is it just me or is this happening more and more often recently, i.e. since Microsoft acquired GitHub? It's also very shady that they don't even seem to detect these incidents properly.

gver10 | 5 years ago | on: Mozilla VPN

> Although there are a lot of VPNs out there, we felt like you deserve a VPN with the Mozilla name behind it.

gver10 | 5 years ago | on: The Next Step for Generics

This doesn't explain the obsession with Rust.

Fitting analogy: If there's an article about McDonald's, people would always talk about Wendy's instead. No one would mention BurgerKing (C++), Subway (D), KFC, ...

gver10 | 5 years ago | on: The Next Step for Generics

Not a 100% fit, but we have: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming

> a style of computer programming characterized by the _ritual_ inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose.

gver10 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?

You'll feel different after a winter with barely any sunlight. Norway is great for vacation, but I can't recommend it's dark winters.