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The majority of the control panel is metro now.

So a "modern Blazing Saddles" would probably be a super-hero movie then

I'm not sure what you mean "data fields within markdown".

You could definitely use markdown within fields of a recfile. There would be some multi-line syntax you wouldn't be able to use, because it would conflict (e.g. '+' unordered lists), but other than that you could mark up text with Markdown, no worries.

If they make that argument, it shouldn't be much of a stretch to say that the 2nd amendment should apply to this technology then.

The simplest board game I can think of is Snakes and Ladders, which is based on an ancient Indian game.

It definitely seems like the kind of thing that could be independently invented. It's so based in random chance.

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I think it really comes down to the kinds of games you play, and the way you like to play them.

If you tend towards single-player, story-based games, like Red Dead etc., then maybe playing through it once and moving on is enough for you. Then again, maybe you'll want to come back to it in 3, 4, 5 years, and hopefully you'll be able to with Stadia, but with a disc/download you definitely should be able to.

On the other hand, if you play multiplayer, "live-service" games, as many are pushing to be these days, then you're already at the mercy of the dev/publisher to keep supporting the game so you can play it in the future. In that case, it become a question of who will give up support first, Google or the developer?

In either case, I think the Xbox Pass-style "all-you-can-eat" model is a better solution. No big, upfront cost for any single game, and you can still go back to something older, as long as it remains supported.

In the case of the DS at least, the big differentiator is that the second screen is touch, and is positioned in a more touch-friendly place.

If your one-and-only screen is touch, you have to lift your arms up away from your buttons to press anything. No matter how much of an impost it is to have to look down a little, I'd say it's still less than having to lift your hand away from the buttons into your eyeline.

I think you've hit on a good compromise: videos with a transcript (including code examples).

That way, people who want a video have a video (with the bonus of something to read-along to), and people who want text have text.

> it would take legislation to force US companies to build backdoors to encryption, not an international accord

Such a law already exists in Australia, so I don't think it's out of the question.

Looks line no, unfortunately

> To be clear, the Windows Desktop component is only supported and included on Windows.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotne...

Conversly, I'm surpised that Slack made the list for similar reasons. I would've thought the would definitely want an open-source solution.

As far as I understand it, that only applies to Windows-based containers running on Win 10 Pro/Enterprise or Win Server 2016.

I have been using Firefox Developer for about 6 months, but after two incidents of week-long bugs that caused my browser to crash after a variable number of minutes, no matter what I had open, I've decided to swap back to the release version.

Yeah, you get a few cool features a bit early, but I just can't stand the instability anymore. Pluis, I'm not actually using any of the "Developer" features, so there's really no reason for me to not just run release.

One of the scariest parts of this to me is that the vast majority of Aussie developers don't seem to even be aware that such a law was proposed, let along already passed.

This is the line the Australian anti-encryption bill that past last year was trying to walk with its "no systemic backdoors" clause. The idea/claim was that the bill only allowed targeted spying, and systemic/bulk spying, so it's okay. But that's really only only a small part of it.

> If you hack and then publish embarrassing material to the whole world it's a public service.

By that definition, hacking a celebrity's iCloud account and leaking their nudes is a public service. I think that's a bit of a stretch.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15676737

Same thing happened to Daria. All the official releases have had all the then-current songs replaced with sound-alikes, placeholder music, or silence.

Fair and true.

I've always been a bit scattered across multiple cloud service, for various reasons, so I opted to use software that could sync with multiple and avoid installing so many clients.

That said, Dropbox's other maybe-not-quite "killer feature" is that it's exclusively intergrated into a number of applications for settings and data backup/syncing. In those cases, Dropbox's purpose is interchangable, but in practice it's not.

I mainly use Dropbox as a way of syncing a bunch of textfiles between my PC and phone, so I use GoodSync[1] on my PC and FolderSync[2] on my phone. That said, I've recently started using Resilio for some other stuff, so I could probably do away with Dropbox for this use case, and just use that instead.

The other time I use Dropbox is for apps that use it as an intergrated way of syncing or backing up settings, such as MoneyDance[3].

[1] https://www.goodsync.com/

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.andro...

[3] https://infinitekind.tenderapp.com/kb/syncing-and-sharing-da...

It's worth noting that only devices (PCs, mobiles) using the official Dropbox app count as devices.

I've never used the official app to connect to Dropbox, so now I guess I never will.

Except most of the unique features of Edge are gone. Maybe not all, but plenty of users will notice a difference in Edge when the Chromium version rolls out.

Plus, word on the street is Microsoft's motivation to move to Chromium was totally different to that: it was a performance decision. Too many apps were using Electron, and the only way to improve their performance was to intregrate it into the OS.

Yeah, so if you set 'xpinstall.signatures.required = false' in the about:config it'll let you use your extensions, but this is just a workaround.

When a fix is fully rolled out (which should include Developer edition), then you won't need that (and probably should re-enable signature checking).

I switched to the Dev build[1] with 'xpinstall.signatures.required = false', and now that it's fixed I don't know if I'll go back. There seems to be a bunch of new features in Dev that I assume will arrive in Firefox eventually, but everything else being equal, I think I'll stick with it.

I'll probably turn 'xpinstall.signatures.required' back to true though.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

Even if I agreed with customs officers rifling through my devices, I would only ever want them to have read-only access. Like, you'd hope they're not malicious, but can you really trust some in-a-hurry agent with little to no training in this area to not accidently wipe half your hard drive?

`action [number] movement` also works, and makes more sense to my brain.

Unless I've misunderstood, you can use splits to show multiple buffers in Vim without any plugins.

Link to the Github issue about folders in the API: https://github.com/spotify/web-api/issues/38#issuecomment-39...

To me, Handsontable's position is much more understandable than Elastic's, because Elastic could (and do) monetize as a service. That's not really practical for Handsontable.

The only way I see to get money out of someone for a product like Handsontable, while maintaining an open souruce version is by withholding some features + extended support. That's what they've been doing and they've said it hasn't been bringing in the return they need.

In Elastic's case, they have a product that is easy to monetize while keeping an open source version: you offer your product as a (hosted) service + extended support, so if people don't want to deal with setting it up themselves, they pay you. Docker seems to be a good example of this. The open source version is still fully availiable and can be used however you like, but comes without that extra support (and maybe a few features).

Instead, Elastic has stuck a bunch of proprietary code on Github, seemingly to bait people into use it, when they're not allowed to. Handsontable aren't doing anything like that. Once they go proprietary, they're archiving the repo. It's still there if people want to use it, but it's not being maintained. That's really no different to any other random piece of abandoned code on Github (of which there is plenty).