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by dictum 12y ago
A better comparison would be if a Google employee fled to China after leaking the news that Google was intercepting emails from other mail providers and hacking into other companies' servers. (I have no particular opinion about whether
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by dictum 12y ago
> Wikipedia can never be the sum of all human knowledge and anyone who thinks so is seriously deluded. Especially when any article that is not about something widely and globally known is deleted for lack of notability.
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by dictum 12y ago
Okay, let's imagine you're someone who has never contributed to an open source project. How would you know which projects to "shut up and code" for?
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by dictum 12y ago
Conflating "anti-Putin" with "anti-Russian" doesn't help your argument.
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by dictum 12y ago
I wonder what the "grass mud horse" of Russian kitten pic bloggers will be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_mud_horse
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by dictum 12y ago
Here's something that's been bothering me since Chrome dropped the experimental support for `position: sticky` (and CSS Regions before) and I didn't find the right place to ask (nor is a submission about the JS engine an appr
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by dictum 12y ago
They are especially valuable to HN because most HN users have not used Rust for a long time [0]; they're still approaching the language. — I know your question isn't specific to this submission, but Rust is a new language, built t
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by dictum 12y ago
You were shocked, shocked that someone would want to add a little bit of whimsy to an otherwise mundane thing as a CSS framework?
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by dictum 12y ago
1. Don't repackage other people's content. Especially with their trademarks attached. If they had no role in creating the app, don't be a jerk. If you want to make a video app, make a general-purpose video app and teach your
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by dictum 12y ago
Moving fast and breaking the social contract.
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by dictum 12y ago
Well, keeping the trains running on time did work. — The nice thing about mentioning Mussolini is that there's no Godwin Police to immediately point at you.
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by dictum 12y ago
It's interesting that ~15% of OS X users are on Snow Leopard (I have an old iMac that doesn't support Mavericks running 10.6, but I mostly use it as a local server) How many of those users are still using Safari 5.1 (as opposed to
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by dictum 12y ago
Anecdata: I'm a man and I get more defensive when men criticize me than when women do.
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by dictum 12y ago
> Then every time I see a photo of Marissa Mayer, I think, "Damn, she's hot." And then I hate myself for making that my first thought instead of something more equal like, "Damn, she's accomplished and brilliant&
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by dictum 12y ago
Further reading for those who want to be disabused of the concept of human errors : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things
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by dictum 12y ago
> Unless all of your friends are also independently wealthy, you never having to work again isn't going to change the equation all that much. Nice time to play armchair psychoanalyst: some people who wish to retire early may be moti
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by dictum 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...
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by dictum 12y ago
> You see, Mei’s fundamental misconception is that the kind of applications that we haven’t yet automated and modularized constitutes what programming is all about. Please forgive me if I'm making the most heretical question possibl
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by dictum 12y ago
Not sure if that's what the parent reply means, but while there's no baseline to compare growth in consumer usage of bitcoin, you can compare it to the growth in business acceptance of bitcoin.
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by dictum 12y ago
> you mail the paper ballot so it can be verified in the event of a dispute There's the possibility of an attacker intercepting the mailed ballots and replacing them.
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by dictum 12y ago
Amazon's cloud services are a software business in the same way a utility company that wrote software to automate some management tasks is a software business.
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by dictum 12y ago
> it reinforces the idea that you ought to be so awesome that bullies leave you alone — which will never happen. Anecdata: bullies don't leave you alone because you're awesome, they leave you alone because their bullying doesn&
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by dictum 12y ago
> Why would you have both passwords be the same? That makes no sense. All passwords should be different. I'd put good money on the percentage of AT&T customers who use the same password for all their web services being sizable e
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by dictum 12y ago
I disabled the width property (width: 12.5%) for the .icon class and the icons look crisp now.
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by dictum 12y ago
> I really prefer Bootstraps grid over something like Bourboun's Neat grid system[0] where I have to pollute my CSS with include statements. What about creating silent classes for the column sizes you use and `@extend`ing those clas
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by dictum 12y ago
My guess is that the $60,000 is for initial exploratory work, and if they find a way to improve it substantially that requires more development effort a bigger donation will come. And the saying about gift horses' mouths applies to FB&
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by dictum 12y ago
"No subscription. No automatic renewal." As if...
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by dictum 12y ago
Who doesn't? * * * You can only boldly tell what you're going to do if you know what you're going to do. When in Enterprise, write as the middle managers do.
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This is highly subjective, but to me, it's biased to output colors that are more web-safe palette meets pastel colors than pleasing .
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by dictum 12y ago
Recording every sexual encounter doesn't prove that you didn't rape your partner. You could have threatened/forced your partner to appear to be enjoying or giving consent . Or your partner could falsely accuse you of doing t

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