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meijer··on Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
Definitely simpler. You could just "View source" and understand everything.
meijer··on Telegram is asking German users when to share information with law enforcement
I believe Telegram requires a phone number, too.
meijer··on Facebook's timeline just shows random things for some users
You can switch to "Latest Tweets" with that "stars" button on the top.
meijer··on Programming breakthroughs we need
That sounds a lot like logic programming. For some reason, it did not take off.
meijer··on “No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels
Book recommendation: "How to Change Your Mind" (Michael Pollan)
meijer··on .NET 7 introduces Native AOT
There has always been compilation to byte code in .NET.
meijer··on Leaving The Qt Company
I wonder if he himself uses Firefox. That would be a nice irony.
meijer··on Leaving The Qt Company
Haavard Nord, one of the Trolltech founders, has a startup named "Conclude".
meijer··on What's my place in the world population?
I always enter slightly wrong data into sites like this.
meijer··on Understanding the War in Ukraine
Russia is not some third world country.

There is at least a good chance it will have a better leader after Putin. Because Putin has become a terrible leader.

meijer··on Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
Not true.

What Putin does is far out of the conventional doctrine.

He is attacking Russia's sister nation. He is not defending Russia's interests.

meijer··on Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
I hope all Russians reading this are aware how serious the situation is.

The world now looks at Russia similar to how it looked at Nazi Germany in 1939.

You've got to get rid of Putin.

meijer··on Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without an account
Why do these companies enforce accounts?

I thought they could track you and advertise to you just as easily without an account, using cookies.

meijer··on Left Alive And Unchanged: The Heaven’s Gate Website
The German translations are pretty bad.

For example: "for starters" is translated as "für Starter" which does not make any sense.

meijer··on It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to (2020)
Among other things, F# shepherds you into avoiding cyclic dependencies which is really nice both for readibility and proper module design.
meijer··on Microsoft Edge’s new ‘Buy now, pay later’ feature is the definition of bloatware
Also, is there no oversight? Does nobody supervise the product managers?

Maybe it should be Nadella's job to keep on top of stuff like this.

meijer··on Ask HN: Coping with cancer in the family
This was common in the West, too, as late as in the 90s.

I don't like it, though. I want to be able to prepare for my death.

meijer··on GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim
Same for me.
meijer··on GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim
I wonder when it will become generally available. Feels like it has been around for quite a while now.
meijer··on Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
Probably just "View Source".
meijer··on Facebook is an addiction treadmill most may never be able to quit
Wait... you could see who looks at your page?
meijer··on What will programming look like in 2020? (2012)
> There's literally no point coding without it.

Except maybe that it is still not generally available.

meijer··on Windows 11: Just say no
I hope we will be able to wait for Windows 12.

It's possible that MS will just force-update everyone to Windows 11.

meijer··on The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make
> we'll only ever get to see a small fraction of it

True, but on the other hand, due to relativistic time dilation, a very fast traveller could visit very far away destinations if they get closer and closer to the speed of light.

meijer··on The Big Sleep: The most baffling film ever made?
The young Lauren Bacall somehow looks very contemporary. No idea why...
meijer··on Fasm, a F# to Jitted ASM/IL disassembler as a dotnet tool
Looks a bit too much like "fascism" for my taste.
meijer··on How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application
Pretty great. This is how I would like to work, too.

Of course, it would be nice to know how much money the author makes with this product...

meijer··on Show HN: A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations
This feels a bit like C#'s "Linq to Objects". Could actually be useful!
meijer··on Resources For Novel Coronavirus Covid-19
Ok, that makes this website completely worthless at the moment.
meijer··on Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to the entire country
Also, many of the politician are old themselves. Being in public all the same, the are really vulnerable.
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