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rptr_87on Ask HN: What’s your favorite developer tool of all time and why?

Eclipse....

From days of symbian carbide, CDT and Android debugging I always used and loved Eclipse. I always loved its interface and gazillion plugins and tools built around it.

rptr_87on Django 3

I have been learning flask for development. Can someone describe advantages of using Django over flask?

rptr_87on Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

Prof. Kubi, Berkeley univ has a very good course on Advanced OS. May be you will find this useful.

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron/courses/cs194-24-...

rptr_87on Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on Europa

Wasn't this predicted from the times of Carl Sagan. I remember seeing an episode in Cosmos which predicted water vapors evaporating from ice cracks.

rptr_87on WebKit Goals for 2020

Does webkit support Native messaging like chrome...?

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/nativeMessaging

rptr_87on Tor Browser 9.0

Chromium browser has a master bug to track this:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=314403

https://www.chromium.org/developers/testing/isolated-testing...

rptr_87on The Kindle is fine, but could’ve been much more

Why doesn't kindle support epub out of the box. Is there a some reason for it?. It seem to support mobi out of the box though.

Epub seems to be present everywhere and I always need to convert it to mobi/azw3 while uploading...

rptr_87on How a double-free bug in WhatsApp turns to remote code execution

Thanks a lot for explanation. Do you suggest any blog/articles to gain such a deep understanding of security vulnerabilities.. thank you.

rptr_87on Cathay CEO lists self instead of giving names to CCP

Obviously No.

rptr_87on New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity (2016)

This just reminds me of ... "Life always finds a way" and "Life is nothing but an electron looking for a place to rest".

rptr_87on All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward

Document links:

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...

rptr_87on Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE

Is there any official language for ChromeOS?

I believe it supports Most Android and Linux apps now.

rptr_87on The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Agree. All you need to do is just import a project like Chromium or Webkit... and try to navigate files/projects.

Sublime is really good for large projects.

rptr_87on Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?

Don't just bookmark a useful link ... finish reading it.

Unless you finish reading it you will never ever read it again.

Boomark it only if it's relevant and good content.

rptr_87on The Human Brain Is a Time Traveler

I suggest you read this book “On Intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins on similar topic:

https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Understanding-Creation-I...

rptr_87on Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?

Thanks for this.

rptr_87on C++17 constexpr Compile-time Ray Tracer (2017)

Thanks for the article. Seems nobody seems to have asked anything.. i'll start...

Why on earth would you do this?

rptr_87on Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in Python

I’m currently working on a large C++ project... which has layers and layers of indirections...

It’s so hard to even check where the actual implementation is....

There are no comments in code, no documentation whatsoever...