TheWiseOne

Joined 11 years ago

Karma

Submissions

Member since

Aug 28

View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 7 years ago

Restic also works on Windows, whereas Borg doesn't (yet), if that's a consideration.

Comment · 7 years ago

> What happened is that _software_ stopped bloating and inflating like a balloon, as was the norm through the '80s, '90s and early '00s.

Is that true though?

Windows might have gotten more efficient but I think overall most software has gotten worse from a performance perspective. With the prevalence of Electron everywhere, performance doesn't even seem to be a priority anymore. And "native" apps using WPF, etc. aren't as optimized as old school WinForms, MFC style apps (though there are other benefits to be had).

Comment · 8 years ago

So the web is now going to be even more Chrome-centric than it is...

I wonder if they thought about picking Gecko instead.

Comment · 8 years ago

I believe it was the MS Research project Singularity which grew into Midori.

Comment · 8 years ago

I am not sure if that'll be the case. The Multi Account Container (https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers) seems like it's dead. No new commits since end of March and according to https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3..., it's only going to get bug fixes and maintenance patches. No new development.

I have a feeling that they are relying on extension developers to add features/functionality.

Comment · 8 years ago

I use Bvckup 2 (https://bvckup2.com/) to backup on to a 4 TB external drive. I also have Duplicati (https://www.duplicati.com/) running to backup those backups onto OneDrive and Backblaze.

Comment · 8 years ago

Genuine question - how is Bing a good investment? Isn't it essentially a non-factor in the search market?

Comment · 8 years ago

F# got mentioned already but I would like to add another vote to it. C# is the first choice for most people when building desktop apps for Windows but F# works exceptionally well too. There is a small but robust community and there are a ton of libraries/tools that you can hook into via .NET.

Comment · 8 years ago

Look into Cmder (http://cmder.net/) for an alternative to iTerm/zsh. You can also try Babun (https://babun.github.io/).

Try Wox (http://www.wox.one/) as a replacement for Alfred.

And Chocolately (https://chocolatey.org/) and Scoop (https://scoop.sh/) to replace Homebrew.

Comment · 8 years ago

Netflix actually had a feature on the original Xbox that allowed you to create a group with your friends and watch videos together. Unfortunately, they removed this feature a while ago.

Comment · 8 years ago

There isn't a single link to a commit, file or repo that shows the similarities between the two code bases, let alone alleged plagiarism. It is conceivable that they truly are two different projects that happen to be developed around the same time. It's not the first time that has happened.