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I admire Germany's approach and awareness. At least they try. There's 20-years old saga of linux vs windows battle in the Munich City Council [1]. Great case study.

I'm very curious how this will work for them. It's quite a struggle to adopt OSS where the vast majority of users think "Office suite" == "M$ Office".

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

The inertia of Java projects is huge. IMHO the future of Java depends on the perception that can be created for Java as an attractive ecosystem for greenfield projects.

At our company, most of the greenfield projects (with a high-performance profile) are in Java. So, for what our anecdotal example is worth, I can confirm that Java is used for new projects. IMHO, Java fell a bit behind with the rise of the microservices/lambda paradigm because of its memory footprint and slow start. On the other hand, it's an amazing piece of technology, and I would expect that with ahead-of-time compilation and JVM snapshots, it will become more appealing for these use cases.

Copy of the article without the paywall: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-diamonds-losing-allure-20...

My humble prediction is that with introduction of ahead-of-time compilation and JVM snapshots the adoption of Java based microservices will increase. These upcoming Java features open new interesting doors.

It's funny how this is a common fallacy. I thought exactly the same when Barings Bank was sold for one British Pound back in 1995 [1].

[1] - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/baringsbank.asp

Improvise, adapt, overcome.

Right, enterprises should get rid of Java just the same way as they did with COBOL... Oh, wait...

If football rules allow all body parts except hands then a logical name would be Nohandball.

> The screen is just small enough to be too annoying to do anything really distracting on

I'm a happy user of Jelly 2 for a half year now and I bought it for this single reason. It's fully featured so you can do anything, but the screen is so small that you do it only when there's a real need, so I'm not wasting time staring at the phone for no real reason.

Cons: My co-workers make fun of me :)

Edit: formatting

+1 for that. Especially Zoom LiveTrak L-8 has nice pack of features for its size (nowhere as portable as TX-6, but still) and is also battery powered.

I wonder what would need to happen to convince the management that actually they could run on Linux? I mean, 3 years ago the belief was we couldn't work from home because that would harm productivity.

Not exactly related, but some time ago I realized it's not ok to make fun of people with physical disabilities but somehow it's totally acceptable to make fun of people with lower IQ.

There's also self hosted version on github: https://github.com/headcounter/shabitica

Disclaimer: I'm not a contributor and have never installed it.

Edit: broken link

I find https://got-paper.com/ much better in terms of functionality and UX.

As a current Startup School, Europe-based participant [1], this raises an interesting question: if the whole program can be run virtually in a remote-only fashion, then perhaps it can be open for startups from anywhere in the world?

[1] - https://www.startupschool.org/companies/scanrepeat

As a backend developer that occasionally needs to add a nice looking front-end I can say that the biggest source of divs comes from the bootstrap templates I use in my projects. Not sure why the semantic syntax is not more popular among these template creators.

Hydrogen cars. A long way to go yet.

XaaS has many benefits, but uptime is not one of them anymore. I self-host my repos, had a few downtimes but thanks to this DDoS my local services have better uptime. ( Disclaimer: I know it's not apple to apple comparison as scale is massively different)

The tweet URL: https://twitter.com/CyberpunkGame/status/951091371200466944

I had birthday yesterday. , Statistically by the life expectancy in my country, I'm now closer to death than to the date of birth. And yet, what makes me feel old is the idea of writing games on top of ethereum.

This refers to this: https://ghostbin.com/paste/q2vq2 Also HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15946095

I'm genuinely curious - can you share a link how it works please? I've never heard of it.

Surprisingly, no. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1143010...

This may vary for cheetahs, but a good case study is european bison[1] who was restored after WWII from 12 animals, population now ~4.5k.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bison

I'd love to see how George Carlin decodes this 'war is fun' language.

Habemus papam! :) Congratulations!

[OT] My mind somehow associated "Amanda Wood" with "Jessica Hyde". Where is Jessica Hyde?

As a long term Ubuntu user, I appreciate this much. As a Samsung SmartTV owner, I'm curious how long will it take for Microsoft to bring back Skype for this platform.

+1 And there is another smart kid in the class, ie. Toyota with its Mirai