ank_the_elder

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1. 31.▲
   by ank_the_elder 10y ago

   I don't know where you got the idea that his death was justified. Wouldn't mind a quote, as I never said that.
2. 32.▲
   by ank_the_elder 10y ago

   "And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: wh
3. 33.▲
   by ank_the_elder 10y ago

   We must have seen different videos, then, as it's very clear from it that he was resisting arrest. Is this the one you were talking about? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpGxagKOkv8 PS: Can you tell just how biased yo
4. 34.▲
   by ank_the_elder 10y ago

   According to wikipedia, Garner was not primarily a cigarette salesman: 1. He had been a horticulturist at the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, but quit for health reasons. 2. Garner had been arrested by the NYPD thirty time
5. 35.▲
   by ank_the_elder 11y ago

   I use their tools daily and would happily pay 2-3x more per year easily. They deserve every cent and more.
6. 36.▲
   by ank_the_elder 11y ago

   My thoughts precisely.
7. 37.▲
   by ank_the_elder 11y ago

   Wonder Showzen was so incredibly insulting to everything and everyone, I will forever be amazed that it aired at all.
8. 38.▲
   by ank_the_elder 11y ago

   I think this may be a situation akin to that 9 year old being Mozart, though. Will love to see what she accomplishes once she is older.
9. 39.▲
   by ank_the_elder 11y ago

   Wait for the $1M+ overhaul when they need to open a third lane!
10. 40.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    Whatever happened with mutt-ng? I haven't used mutt in a long, long time.
11. 41.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    You should open this as a question on Quora.
12. 42.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    A more interesting question: What do you think the investors lied to you about? What do you think they kept to themselves?
13. 43.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    Notepad++ uses Scintilla internally.
14. 44.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    I can't decide if this is a stroke of genius or one of the stupidest things Google has ever done.
15. 45.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    And what a beautiful product it was. I moved to Modo shortly after the sale to Autodesk. Autodesk is where a lot of good products go to die nowadays.
16. 46.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10418882 (that's the thread where I first found out about httpie)
17. 47.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    Interesting, but an assertion of this type without evidence only expands the universe of possibilities rather than point to anything being the cause of it.
18. 48.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    So there's no hope for his rehabilitation? I hardly think so. You also seem to believe that prisons exist merely to punish rather than deter and/or rehabilitate - which, incidentally, reveals the most cursory of understandings of
19. 49.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    So many mobile sites implement this same unpleasant UI control where the header follows your scrolling and stubbornly takes a portion of the screen without adding any useful functionality, that I wonder if people know it's possible to
20. 50.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    That Ben cares only about his money and not an iota about the market or other conditions /s
21. 51.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    Cut your losses, get a paid gig right away. Sounds very dodgy to me.
22. 52.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    > "[...] Narcissists also lack empathy. That’s Trump all over. He has no empathy whatsoever. Sure, he says he loves wounded veterans, underemployed Americans, and even the undereducated. But you know all of that is lies." >
23. 53.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    This is precisely why my household got cable, and precisely the reason why years later we stopped having cable.
24. 54.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    Thanks for that
25. 55.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    That's amazing - do you have any info on the underlying implementation?
26. 56.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    Agreed. I'm no fan of Uber, but this is ridiculous.
27. 57.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    I'd buy that for a dollar.
28. 58.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    Thankfully a few very advanced (and possibly telepathic!) robots will ditch the fourth and add the zeroth: "A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm." R. Daneel Olivaw to the rescue.
29. 59.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    I'd say it follows the sad state of science reporting... even reporting in general.
30. 60.▲
    by ank_the_elder 11y ago

    Have you tried the Olimex version as linked in the article? https://www.olimex.com/Products/IoT/MOD-WIFI-ESP8266-DEV/ope... I've purchased a few Olimex boards in the past and I've greatly enjoyed th