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lonk··on Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
Title says tech stack but content is about css
lonk··on Next Generation KDE Plasma Notifications
Over-engineered notifications
lonk··on Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982)
Real programmers don't use any programming language, they use other programmers.
lonk··on 24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today
I suggest you to have a look visual studio pricing: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/

$5999 first year, $2569/yr renewal

lonk··on 1991 – a server-side web framework written in Forth
GORTH!
lonk··on Ride the Serverless Wave with DigitalOcean's One-Click Droplet
There are shipload of "one-clicks" while doing this.
lonk··on Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)
Next achievement is selling the operating system to Micros~1
lonk··on Firefox 64 Released
Firefox is in a major version number race status with minor fixes.
lonk··on DigitalOcean launches its container service
There is not any innovation here. It should be: "Linode fails to start cloning amazon, yet.."
lonk··on DigitalOcean launches its container service
But you started to compete with your customers. Good luck.

-DigitalOcean ex-customer

lonk··on DigitalOcean launches its container service
Digitalocean also should produce and sell chairs, sofas, yoghurt, car tires etc...
lonk··on Firefox 60 released
Scrolling is still jerky and sluggish on android.
lonk··on Structured Procrastination (1995)
Bookmarked to complete reading later.
lonk··on A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
You can give a chance to Slax: http://www.slax.org/
lonk··on What I learned by living without artificial light
TL;DR; Article is very long, 4,744 words. Last paragraph is summary: "It’s ridiculously simple. But spending more time outdoors during the daytime and dimming the lights in the evening really could be a recipe for better sleep and health. "
lonk··on Electric scooter “mayhem” sounds like when cars were introduced
In this click bait only 6 short paragraphs are about scooters. Remanining 8 are about cars history.
lonk··on A rundown of the new Gmail
A few unnecessary features here or there.
lonk··on Reducing the attack surface with static sites
You can easily reduce the attack surface by shutting down computer.
lonk··on BUILD2 Demo and Tools
>Here are some new features of BUILD2 over the classic Build Engine:

Native Windows, 32-bit color, 6 degrees of freedom, pure CPU rendering Native support for sector over sector (SOS). Advanced lighting system with true dynamic shadows, colors, spotlights. Multi-user editing with client-side prediction. Powerful scripting compiler in EVALDRAW. Full RGB color mapping. Voxel sprite support. Skybox support. No sector/wall/sprite count limits.

lonk··on MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010)
The article is written in almost white on a white background. Very web 2.0. Not safe for eyes.
lonk··on How to buy a Dell laptop with the Intel ME disabled from the factory
Interestingly lack of feature becoming the reason for the choice in this time.
lonk··on Firefox 57.0 Released
Scrolling is still laggy and jerky on android.
lonk··on Intel to Develop Discrete GPUs, Hires AMD's Raja Koduri as Chief Architect
Nvidia and ATI should develop x86 cpus for the balance's sake.
lonk··on Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?
VPS,PaaS, Cloud servers are also shared hosting, difference is providing os/container level isolation instead of user account type isolation. So, yes everybody still using "shared" hosting.
lonk··on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark released
The time, labor and money spent for unity in the end went to waste.
lonk··on Why we switched from Python to Go
Because title starts with "Why". Psychological effect.
lonk··on Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional programming principles?
No. You need to understand monads before learning FP and you need to learn FP for understanding monads. This is chicken/egg problem. Functional programming is overrated.
lonk··on Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
So is this means I can patent React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js? Or they are still patented and only license changed?
lonk··on VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries
Also Ethereum (ETH)
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