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Veteran Linux user here. After 10 years on a MacBook (great hardware, deteriorating OS), I’m done. macOS has drifted too far into locked-down mediocrity. I’m selling the Mac and going full Linux again. Here’s what I…

I'm working with a new small team (less than 8) and converting them to Git. It's been awhile since I started with a green field when it comes to branching strategy. What do you follow in 2023, and why?

I've accomplished many things throughout my career, and yet I still find it very painful and overwhelming at times to learn new subjects. When I'm reading a book on a difficult subject, I have a nagging little voice…

I'm a long time Linux user who recently switched home and work to macOS for the use of various communication tools our company uses which aren't supported on Linux. On Linux, I used i3 and was absolutely in love with…

While the project points to various ways to use it (https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/server-overview.html), the list of projects on that page actually using it server-side is very short (Idea and an open source…

And what drawbacks have you run into and why? Would you go down that path again in late 2018, or choose a different path? I'm considering Dart for a project, but Google's focus for it is now "client" and comments like…

Hi HN. I'm a CIO by day, entrepreneur by night. I used to write a lot of code, but the last few years have been dealing with coordination of many projects post-acquisition and haven't kept my hands as dirty as before. I…

I run Linux. I despise Windows. It started many years ago, where mild irritation turned to frustration, then frustration to anger, and anger to resolve to never use it again if I could help it. That said, I am now using…

It'd be interesting to know what books have had the greatest effect on how you structure your code and projects?

I noticed this job posting yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10810547) stating that TrueVault is looking for a Java engineer to completely rewrite their platform in java instead of python. As many of us…

I'm dabbling in real estate investments, especially in vacation destinations. I'd love to be able to do some targeted analysis on these markets, like average appreciation in value over a period of years and so on.…

Guys, For awhile now, I've been crafting some software at home to keep track of my family's spending. I've tried Mint, Quicken, etc in the past, and none of them do it in exactly the way I'd like. They're either…

I'm an accomplished coder and techie. I have developed large, intricate systems that I consider beautiful when gazed upon from afar. I've developed successful software, both on the desktop and on the interwebs. I have…

The below text went out to the mailing list this morning. A sad day for Rails...I've always felt theNetbeans support was top notch. -------------- Dear NetBeans Community: After thorough consideration, we have taken the…

After all the discussion here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2116437), it appears T-Mobile is manning up, admitting they caused the delay, and releasing (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376045,00.asp) Froyo…

I used to be able to sometime after hitting 200 karma. However, in the past few months, the capability disappeared. I've looked through the FAQ for a support email address but didn't find one, and I don't think emailing…

Guys, Long time Java and Ruby guy here. Most recently have spent much of my time with Rails, which I really enjoy...most of the time. However, I find it infuriating at times to read through some of the code of the…