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Never heard of Bun or Jarred before today I enjoyed his blog post about the migration to rust, it is an impressive feat if real ! I didnt see anything bad about Zig in the post, on the contrary it shows respect and that big projects can be done in Zig

Next, I read Andrew's post, and the thing I see is: Jarred looks like an achiever, Andrew more like a butthurt childish whiner I also can see why Jarred made the migration, it is not only technical, and it was a great call IMHO

You are missing the big picture here The AI literally was able to do a year's work of a top notch developer team in just 11 days (mainly because of a lot of human intervention, otherwise it would have been faster) Why do you think its cant or wont be able to replace the lead developer and/or designer's 11 day job !

and btw, if it can write code, it can write tests and test suite

Ai has come a long way, 2 years ago, this task would be impossible ! 1 year ago, it would hit a dead-end in the first hours of the execution

This blog post is nothing short of an amazing and fascinating tale, yet in some aspect very very scary ...

I have a similar generic receiver, with some "not genuine" hardware ID. I just force select & install the signed microsoft drivers. The trick works in all versions of windows that I tried.

Ive been using Openwith on firefox and chrome, and it works flawlessly

It needs a launcher (aka native host client) to start the 3rd party app, in this case mpv with the correct arguments.

The launcher is technically only started (then immediatly terminates) when you trigger the openwith action, so no memory/cpu overhead.

The official openwith solution is a python script (requires python), for windows there is a native and lightweight launcher: owclauncher

With this setup, you can launch any action with a simple right click: play in mpv, play in low resolution in mpv, download video/audio with youtube-dl, play in 2nd screen ...

The main reason I want to jailbreak my ipad

-sideload apps that cant get to the app store, not just for piracy,example :file manager, adblocker, firewall ...

Sure its doable without a jailbreak, but its restricted and require paying apple a yearly $100 developer fee

And some few extra cydia tweaks can be really usefull

I actually tested gnome and didnt like it.(I cant recall the exact reasons) I also spent considerable time with other DMs (kde5, lxde and unity), and ended up liking xfce

I think its a shame that the linux desktop software is so fragmented.

Sometime, I fantasize about a parallel world, with a parallel linux trovalds working solely and maintaining THE linux desktop manager

I tried multiple desktop managers. Everyone had its own perks.

Coming from windows, xfce felt the most natural for me.

I also considered implementing the feature, but it was out of my skill set(probably doable with enough effort and time).

Never said it was useless, it was a feeling of using an unpolished product.

Sure !

I see it as very basic feature for a modern desktop/window manager.

I used the default window manager that comes with xfce.

I tried setting up other window managers in xfce, and come to the conclusion it is not straightfoward, and the integration with the rest of the system is not perfect.

Also it was a feeling of imperfection that pushed me back (I am sure you can setup the linux desktop for your liking if you tried enough)

I've tried using linux desktop for daily use multiple times. Xfce was usually my choice for its simplicity and snappiness.

But, there was this 1 simple thing that made me lose faith in the linux desktop:

For xfce's default folder viewer: Thunar, there was no possibility to adjust a per-folder view settings. At first I did not beleive it, but there were multiple discussion complaining about the same issue, including a 12-years old bug report(https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3521 )

For a desktop manager endorsed by major distrubitions, I find this to be mind blowing and enraging.

It gave me the feeling that linux desktop is an un-finisehd, unpolished, hacky piece of software

There is much direct and easier way to pass a link or the current page's URL to an external program using "open with" browser addon + owclauncher (https ://github.com/mbooga/owclauncher)

On firefox/chrome/opera for windows, you can do this easily with "open with" addon +/- owclauncher

Just my 2 cents:

I've been using a combination of firefox/chrome with youtube-dl/mpv+youtube-dl for a while

This comes very handy for playing high quality youtube videos on low end machines or downloading audio+/-video directly from youtube.

On the pre-webextension era of firefox/chrome , "open with" addon was the perfect fit.

Now, a special native messaging app needs to be installed to launch mpv/youtube-dl

"Open with" addon solved this by a python script (that obviously required installing python, and few other steps)

I decided to create a new tool to make this step easier and faster on windows: owclauncher[1]

Basically a lightweight native messaging host for "open with" addon: it is not running on the background, and only started (and immediatly terminated) by the browser when passing a command to any other program

You can check and compile the source code or the .bat windows installer/uninstaller

[1] https://github.com/mbooga/owclauncher

Tunisian here. The part about the goverment failing on mutiple fronts and trying to get popularity is mostly true.

Comparing to Venezuela on the other hand is ... an overstretch at best.

Hy

Being an old RAC then vWorker freelancer, I totally share weland's view.

Lately, I restarted on freelancer.com, and the amount of WTF moments that I faced are quite substantial. Let me give you a summary (and why I decided to move to elance):

-- The worker being constantly extorted in every corner of the site:

-Pay $5 in order to take a test.

-Pay more $ to get your bid in the first row/highlighted

-Pay some $ to unlock more BidsPerMonth and Skills

-Pay upfront 10% of every job you are awarded, even if the employer is determined to scam you and never pay

-What about a constant Ad to remind you that you can always choose to pay more. ...

-- Milestone payment is not defaulted, if the employer didnt made a milestone payment, we couldn't care less, we wont give you back the initial 10% fee (even if both agree to cancel), and you'll have a permanent "Work in Progress" job in your profile (until you decide to constantly harass the support team and wait few weeks)

--The website is a hassle:

- Everything is dynamically processed, slow loading, excessively simplified, and most pages cant be bookmarked

- Forced facebook-like communication!! seriously!!

- Using game mechanism to motivate workers is interesting(levels, badges, XP points ...), but most of it is actually useless/funny (Exp: 78000 credit point to have a 20min call with the CEO)

I'm sure this is not the perfect answer since hotspotshield redirect somehow google search pages and force ads on every page. But you can get the ads away with a simple rule in .hosts file. Privoxy can add another layer of ad protection.

I have been using RAC sporadically for 2 years now, but didnt even manage to make the tenth of that number ! Do you have a suggestion/advice on how to boost my business ?

It seems that everyone here started programming at the age of 7, reverse-engineering at 12 and hacking banks by High school

Anybody who started late, and still like it?

and how do you know about this ? I use the very same trick with youtube and many other flash based sites. And flash ALWAYS use the browser's settings (at least in opera and firefox) both in Windows and Ubuntu

Please, anyone can recommend a good tutorial to understand C++ functions arguments ? I'm starting coding in C++ and seeing this article makes me more confused.

well you can simply type "w" then your search in the address bar

>My wife and I decided that for our anniversary this year we'd >both get $100 to spend on whatever we want.

No offense, but do you have to wait for a year to get to spend 100$ for whatever you want ? Man, you make me feel bad.

This is some old news. I think it has been previously mentioned on HN. I wanted to use courgette, but I found that: 1- It is a part of the chormium project, it needs the rest of the project's source in order to build. 2- Even if it should support Linux x86 binaries, this algorithm works only with windows binaries.

Wow, really nice looking (much better then shapado or even stackoverflow)! I think you've done an amazing job.

chrome is taking the good path but its hard to stop some of the opera habits, including F4, F12, "/", past&go, direct search in Wikipedia/ebay

I'm a long time user of Opera. Always surprised why it is very underrated.

Just for the record : * Opera is and was the fastest browser on limited memory/cpu machines * Opera is the most user friendly browser, it has always been so. (tabs, sync, speed dials, quick preferences, full zoom, email client, irc, skins, notes, downloader (btw, opera has the best "builtin" browser downloader ever, you can actually open files while downloading), history search (yes, opera's history search is the best), debugger and countless of small other useful details & features)

This browser is simply a treasure, yes I have tested every other browser and I keep a copy of FF with a bunch of plugins.

I don't see any reason why you shouldn't enjoy your summer. My point is that your first priority should be "to get the most complete medical education". This doesn't mean you have to forget about programming/IT.

A piece of advice from a med student: focus on your studies ! Since you have a good computer experience, there is little chance that you lose your IT/Programming knowledge if you just focus on your medecine. BUT, there are much higher risks that you end up with a poor medecine knowledge if you try to mix it with computing.

So, try to be a good or a very good doctor for the next 8 years, then you can try to mix.