We never quite lost it, just the startup SV culture lost sight of them, https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/ https://www.outsystems.com/ Or in the game industry, https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.2/en-US/blueprints-visual-scripting-in-unreal-engine/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

I want to create graphics easily like found on this website" https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/. Source: about 1 year ago

C# is really easy to learn and has a similar syntax with other languages. Take a look here Learn .NET. Source: about 1 year ago

C# is one of multiple languages for programming with "dotnet" (also spelled ".NET" or ".Net"). The dotnet website should be your main stop for getting started. Source: about 1 year ago

C# is a language designed by Microsoft and is often used in business applications and is supported on many platforms, including mobile and IOT. It can be used on Linux, Apple, IOS, Android and can even run on a raspberry pi (ARM). The dotnet (Framework part is the old windows only version) is just the runtime engine of C# / F# and Visual Basic. So to answer your question, if it is worth it to learn, it's a good... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

You also will find a ton of contemporary (and copyright free) books on https://books.google.com/ in many languages, which I find way more amazing to read today than books looking back on that time with today's mindset and all... A favorite of mine is "Lebenserinnerungen", by Werner von Siemens, 1892: https://www.google.ch/books/edition/Lebenserinnerungen/SkIOAAAAYAAJ It's a lovely topic to dive into and adjust... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

> The fact is that I think that there is not much written word, to actually train a sensible model on. A lot of books don't have OCRed scans, or a digital version. https://books.google.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Searching for "google books" in google leads to https://books.google.com/ which no longer allows you to read any of your books. https://play.google.com/books is the site to read your purchased books now. Google search does not show https://play.google.com/books in its results at all. Thought it was some weird personalization quirk, but seems others have had the same issue:... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Please use google https://google.com , https://groups.google.com , news.google.com/newspapers, books.google.com, scholar.google.com , https://archive.org https://yandex.com (the only image reverse search which actually works, google's got broken). Source: 7 months ago

I have no idea why, but ever since this new update, Chrome has become completely unusable. Every single search I make only retrieves books.google.com links. Nothing near relevant to what I want. I am not sure how to fix this issue. All help is greatly appreciated! Source: 8 months ago