I would be curious to know which things you're referencing. Because I'm looking at it right now and it mostly seems fine. No icons or anything seem overly large.

Try and squeeze discord into a 400x400 window (or something similarly small and out of the way) to put in the corner of your screen. Mission impossible.

Squeeze an IRC client into 400x400, and you'll still have plenty of room to read what's going on.

IRC sample (it's not 400x400, but you should get the idea):

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/smuxi-0...

Discord sample for comparison:

http://static.filehorse.com/screenshots-mac/messaging-and-ch...

I think there's a lot that could be done to make Discord more desktop real estate friendly. It's one semi-dealbreaker for me too. I can't have one single chat app require almost one whole new monitor.

If you're willing to mess with the CSS, there's always things like beautifuldiscord: https://github.com/leovoel/BeautifulDiscord

YES! Awesome thank you. Going to give this a shot.

You should be able to get a more IRC-like message view by changing to the "compact" message view under the appearance settings for Discord.

Thought the same of WCF. Could've sworn Web API was going to replace WCF.

I think Web API was just intended to be a lightweight replacement for RESTful API in WCF. WCF does so much more, the most popular probably being SOAP, but I believe it does much more in the messaging, queue, workflow space as well.

It's the null propagation operator.

Look, if you want to be pedantic it's the null conditional operator[1]. But it is widely called the "Elvis operator"[2].

[1] - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn986595.aspx

[2] - https://www.google.com/#q=c%23+elvis+operator

LinkedIn too, if I remember correctly. Underwriters make a killing off these IPOs.

Which makes me wonder... are there any safeguards in place to make sure that companies don't get ripped off? In would seem like it would be in the underwriters best interest to value the stocks at a very low price so they can make a lot of money from an IPO.

Number 2 is kind of funny:

>>The unfortunate part is: pagination is quite complex, and there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution.

Probably not. But the example he gave is a one size fits most. I've used it on a dozen different projects and have never had performance issue.

Problem is actually any ORDER BY operation on a big table, but often it can be fixed with a bit of index magic... on small enough DB (and that's like 99% of web projects) you don't really need to care about this, ever...

And I think when you do encounter a performance issue with LIMIT ... OFFSET, you have to ask yourself "Is a standard CRUD interface pattern really the best way to work with such a large data set?"

For majority of projects limit offset is fine. Some of the linked advice on alternatives is way more horrible like Cursors WTF? this will not scale well.

I'm stoked they're going to add tabs. When they first launched code, they said they didn't want tabs. I guess they thought the document explorer thing was the best option. But it totally turned me off from using Code.

Personally, I like the document explorer more than tabs. It's very clear which files have been edited. I use IntelliJ IDEA and periodically I have to stop and clear out unused tabs as it gets too crowded.

That's the line that made you think this was satire?

>Are you suggesting that the only remaining options are Alt-Left (a two-hand key combo for that I have to move my mouse hand towards the keyboard, and then back)

I guess no one told this guy that a standard keyboard has two ALT keys.

You are making assumptions that are invalid for a whole lot of keyboard layouts.

Must be why I said standard.

No, that would be because you didn't know what standard keyboard layouts are.

* CAN/CSA Z243.200-92 is a standard keyboard layout. One Alt modifier, one level 3 shift: https://www.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/images/ti/clavier.gif

* DIN 2137-1:2012-06 T3 is a standard keyboard layout. One Alt modifier, one level 3 shift: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:German-T2-Keyboard-Proto...

* ABNT NBR 10346 2 is a standard keyboard layout. One Alt modifier, one level 3 shift: http://www.windowsintegral.com/wp-content/uploads/Teclado_AB...

You're taking what I said too literally. If you go to a store and buy an off the shelf PC, a very common keyboard will come with it that has 2 ALTs.

I've never lived anywhere where that'd be the case.

Incorrect. That is not what happens when I do that.

And which layout would that be?

Because it's not standard in fairly large parts of the world.

I don't know whether or not the presence of a right Alt or Alt Gr instead is most common worldwide, it seems you do. Do you have a source?

Didn't someone prove this to be nonsense?

The author notes at the outset it's embellished to be entertaining, but nothing in the actual big seemed outlandish. The only thing that struck me as unlikely was that someone would actually work out and notice the radius. But I also know people like that, so I'd give the story the benefit of the doubt.

The user in the story is the chairman of statistics dept.

Don't ruin our industry's good anecdotes with reality!!!

That's super unlikely to happen. At least with a product like this. Jacking up the price would just encourage other manufacturers to do the same as Amazon: release a cheaper product. What Amazon has done is best for the consumer.