neilsimp1

Am I happy guns are off the streets? Hell yes. Would I be happier with sane drug laws so as to not necessitate a black market? Double hell yes.

I just searched, apparently you can get the "updated" version from the MS Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/esheep-64bit/9mx2v0tqt6rm?...

I have come across several but used none (not really a Node developer so no reason to try any). Are they all just not up to snuff or something?

Same. Wondering if it is a regional thing? Never in my life have I heard of or seen a Microsoft store.

Off topic, but I used to run a website that had Google Analytics. This site and domain are now 100% down and have been for over a year.

I still get monthly emails from Google about the analytics for this website. Apparently it's getting 200-300 visitors per month still. I have replied back to Google vie email about this several times but never heard any reply. I wonder what site they are tracking?

This is so pointless and I love every bit of it. Perfect Easter egg for the Chrome dinosaur game or something similar.

> but filter out anyone whose social media indicates them as being left-ish.

Hiring based on political beliefs, or in this case, presumed political beliefs, sounds like a dangerous road to go down. And I am saying this as a young, STEM-educated person who skews left.

I have been happy with Gandi for a number of years. Namecheap is also good from what I hear.

GoDaddy has done a number of lousy business practices in the past so while they do work well and do offer a lot, I cannot recommend them.

> WSL hooks coming in 9..8..7.. Sure.

> Developers flocking to WSL in 6..5..4.. Maybe some, sure.

> Linux dead in 3..2..1.. What? Linux on the server won't see any change. Linux on the desktop, maybe, but I doubt most people using Linux on the desktop are going to even consider switching because Windows has a new UI framework.

The only big advantage that I see is one UI framework for Windows and multiple different ones for Linux.

In a perfect world, it would be more hybrid (probably either 3 or 4 days at the office, the rest at home).

But, given the choice to stay at home or go back? I am having trouble saying that I miss the office. I never worked remote before this. I'm not sure our team's productivity is hurt, I'm saving tons of money on gas, and saving all the travel time as well. There is also a personal component - I just plain don't miss the office.

I too would love statics for this. However, I use Linux at home and Windows at work, and I generally read HN from my work PC in the mornings. If others are like me then this data wouldn't really be accurate.

I am a huge fan of "Learn X in Y Minutes". If you already have a good technical background, these articles are a great intro to a lot of technologies.

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/make/

I only see make here, though, not automake or autoconf.

I am a developer. My go-to answer for "What is your weakness" type interview questions is that I am bad at estimates.

My desktop PC, same that I spend the rest of my day in front of. I connect to my works network through VMWare horizon View Client, and from a virtual desktop, I RDP into my work machine.

Look at the address bar. now click inside of it and notice how it gets bigger. I kinda hate it, but at the same time I barely notice it so whatever.

This comment might come of as apathetic or dismissive or something, but I actually think there's a beautiful golden nugget of truth in what you just said.

It's so many things.

- We just moved, so I'd rather be unpacking and organizing our stuff.

- I'm sitting at my home PC, where I normally work on fun projects that I care about, or play games, etc. There are two projects I am itching to do right now that I could be doing at my computer, but instead, I'm reading work emails.

- I am admittedly a bit burnout from my actual job right now.

- Three cats who want to climb all over me and my computer desk all day, and a dog who wants to play and go outside all provide excellent distractions.

Motivation.My wife and one of our friends says the same thing. It is very difficult to stay focused and actually do work. It's difficult to care.

This is cool, but I can't help but think that running a VM on an iPad or iPhone would be horrendously slow.

Same. I used to like it when their site header had a line about "No bullshit web hosting" but they removed that sometime in the last year or two.

My current phone (Samsung Note 5) is too old to receive updates and I'm still on Android 7. I hardly use Bluetooth but I'm still a little upset.

People's views on politics (I am no exception) are often so deeply rooted in emotion that political topics often hit people more in the lizard brain and brings out the, um, "discouraged comments", than it encourages actual, polite discussion.

I've never understood why people don't prefer desktop email clients. Thunderbird is really great.

I remember growing up, we used Outlook with our ISP-provided email addresses. The first time I ever saw webmail (it was probably Yahoo or Hotmail at the time) I was just confused. To me, web browsers are for browsing the web, and email clients are for accessing email. Eh, but what do I know. The article was interesting though.

I'll bite. Define "better" here.

I'm definitely not saying that guy is wrong about anything he is saying, but take it with a grain of salt. A lot of what he says in his interviews are based on 1+ year old info since he no longer works there and a lot of it sounds like hearsay.

> But then there are little things like no ability to pull down a web page on Firefox mobile to refresh.

This works for me with Firefox on Android. Not sure about Firefox Preview but definitely works on the normal FF app.

I've always been a FF user so there's nothing that would make me switch from Chrome. Extension support, speed, etc. are all exactly where I'd want them compared to Chrome, so really I don't feel like one has much of a leg up on the other.

How would you know?

PWAs can do push notifications though. And then it's one codebase and not one for Android, one for iOS.

I saw a video on Youtube yesterday that dug into this ad campaign a bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82N5SiOvStI&t=791s. I like the guy - he's a bit long-winded at times but I don't think he was incorrect about any of his points.

I watched his interview with Sean Carroll the other day and they touched on this. Joe said he vastly prefers face-to-face, and only really does OTA interviews when the person can't actually come to his studio.