I'm trying to start making games so I am learning graphics programming at the moment, and some physics. Currently work primarily with automation and embedded so it's quite different.
I still use IrfanView to this day, all the way back since mid 90'ies. It's a fantastic piece of software with a great legacy and I wouldn't trade it for any modern photo software. So snappy and functional, works like a charm. With the plugins added to it you can open literally any image.
It's not really hard to see why though. Software which only real saving grace is a better license model than the bigger fish gets bought by another bigger fish to ultimately, most likely, get put in the same license model.
I see this stuff more and more, maybe like four times in the last week just from links I have clicked from the HN frontpage. Other visitors, doing their thing. I really dislike it.
Install NoScript. Makes the web way better. All that cutesy JS crap is disabled by default, and for badly written websites that require JS, you can go whitelist just enough to get the page functional.
Most comments in this thread reminds me of the discussion we had under a discussion about Fortran recently, here's the comment thread regarding Pascal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38966342
It's why I listen to a lot of vinyls. During the day/at work/gaming/coding I generally go for Spotify, but when doing chores, cooking or hanging out with the missus we listen to whole albums a lot.
Dang said it was due to a single user sending lots of emails about the orange icon looking bad on the christmas theme HN uses for the top bar (orange on red).
To add something to the conversation I am reading the expanse right now and I really like it. It's the mix of goofy and dark that gets me.