Using a reasonable OS (Linux etc), 4GB is absolutely fine for browsing and basic tasks, and indeed is often fine for development and other more-than-basic tasks as well, depending on how exactly you work (Emacs/Vim instead of an IDE, for instance).
Is 4GB considered too little under Windows these days?
This particular "viewpoint" is widely known, period, because there's no shortage of douchebros that freely advocate it, and more to the point, there's nothing to be gained from "suppressing" it.
Rather, more publicity of exactly this sort, is desirable, to make it clear that this type of thing is (1) nonsensical, and (2) (more importantly from fire-your-ass-from-google point of view), unacceptable.
That, presumably, is one reason supply is restricted ("fixed"), along with other restrictive laws, like height or density limits, forced parking minimums, etc.
Another contributor is poor transportation infrastructure, which limits peoples' flexibility, creating more pressure on housing near train lines and stations, etc.
I tend to use Google Keep (https://keep.google.com/) for this sort of thing, which is similarly pretty lightweight and doesn't impose much structure on anything, but is also permanently backed up and synced between all platforms, with nice mobile apps, and a simple URL you can just type for the web.
It also has some extra support for lists, which is handy for many of the sorts of things that it gets used for, and can handle images to some extent too.
[The one thing I wish it did was some sort of background version control, so when I accidentally delete something important I can get it back...]
The notable thing about "Irish" bars, I think, is that there are so many of them in non-Irish places, compared to other types of "nation-branded drinking establishment."
Mild snarkiness aside, is the quote really inaccurate?
"Getting used to" [something] has a pejorative sense, but it also just means "becoming familiar with," and really understanding something is, in a way, simply being so familiar with it that reasoning about it is second nature... at some point, things just sort of start to make sense...
The education correlation is also supported actual voting results, by seeing how voting results correlated with education levels in each voting region.
So it doesn't seem to be just an artifact of polling behavior.
I suspect another reason that politicians are so eager to stomp on H1B workers is because they're an easy target: most people don't care, and the H1B workers themselves can't vote, so pandering to anti-foreigner hysteria is a good bet for a politician...
I'm sure there are some tech workers who support Trump, but education seems to be one of the best predictors for who voted against Trump, and tech workers are probably on average better educated than the general populace...
Also, AFAIA, the addictiveness of alcohol varies a lot amongst the population, whereas pretty much everybody who smokes is addicted.
This means that using alcohol like you mention, as an occasional social lubricant, is a very viable strategy for many people. Once somebody starts smoking though, most of them can't just stop at will, they're probably doomed to spending all their breaks standing outside in the carpark, every day...
The most obvious difference is that alcohol isn't directly harmful to other people, whereas smoking is...
This attribute basically makes it very difficult for people to adopt a "well it's their choice, I'll let them dig their own grave" attitude in regard to smoking.
> The trouble with @Wikileaks obsessively and indiscriminately tweeting anti-Hillary leaks
It also reduces peoples' trust in Wikileaks and the veracity of the information they release.
Wikileaks' reputation as a (mostly) "impartial" actor was one of their greatest assets, and they seem to be throwing that away simply to sate Assange's desire for revenge...
Seriously, that wording is bizarre, like they started with "often," and then later made a "use more convincing language" pass without really paying much attention...
I think most people would agree that it's not the money that's the issue, it's that you need to somehow register with apple to compile and develop and app (presuming that's what this means).
Also what does this imply about non-apple toolsets? If I decide I want to try out gcc 6 on my mac, could I then not run programs compiled with it?
Huh? I'm not referring to setjmp at all... (why would you think I'm referring to setjmp?)
The PNG format has lots of variations and optional bits that would be quite annoying if you needed to handle them all yourself. I'm referring to the many various flags, options, and little helper functions in libpng that make handling all these format variations quite painless for the user of libpng.
[Some libraries, e.g. libtiff, provide mechanisms to abstract out the low-level details, but still expect the application to explicitly handle many format variations, and this is quite annoying.]
libpng is hardly perfect; it's old, and that certainly shows in various ways (e.g. the use of setjmp). But to call it the "worst API ever" is just wrong.
Some other image libraries are hard because they force you to write many code-paths to handle various different cases, but libpng provides many different helpers that make it pretty simple.
Is 4GB considered too little under Windows these days?