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godot

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Message from the Godot Foundation Board

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Godot definitely has sponsors which while not directly being "customers" are still very important when it comes to financing the development of the engine

Having said that I want to believe current sponsors won't have issues with the Godot Foundation here

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French PM to resign after government falls while Macron seeks solution to crisis

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  • "far-right" gains lots of seats during european deputy elections
  • people shocked
  • Macron somehow figures this means people have new priorities and dissolves the general assembly
  • new elections
  • expected a swing victory for "far-right"
  • they actually lose seats
  • left coalition comes out on top, but with relative majority of seats only (<50%)
  • unexpected but welcome turn of events
  • issue: since no one has absolute majority it's difficult to vote stuff
  • budget
  • Macron wants (NEEDS) to fix the debt issue
  • they'll cut expenses in public services, mass layoffs
  • left coalition wants to find the missing money not by cutting but by taxing places where money accumulated (i.e. The Rich™)
  • left lands amends in the budget plan
  • prime minister overrules the plan using "49.3" and approves the initial Fuck The People <3 Budget Plan™
  • this unlocks the prime minister's ejection seat button
  • prime minister is ejected
  • Macron needs to pick yet another prime minister, hopefully this time he won't put one of his cronies to overrule the elected majority's priorities

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Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript

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[...] it was decided that the language would be called “ECMAScript” instead. (Microsoft happily offered up “JScript”, but no-one else wanted that.) Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and a co-signatory of this letter, wrote in 2006 that “ECMAScript was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease.”

I tend to agree with these sentiments