etfb

10 ms·

91.
by etfb 13y ago
ObHumility Note: I am Australian, and I suck at geography so much that, had I been born a woman, if I tried this challenge then a man watching me would say "gee, women suck at geography!" (Link for anyone not getting the referenc
92.
by etfb 13y ago
OK, weird. Nobody else has linked to it as far as I can see. Right, it falls to me then, as the official designated representative of nobody in particular: http://xkcd.com/850/
93.
by etfb 13y ago
That's typical, always blaming the paper. The world needs to be skinnier, dammit!
94.
by etfb 13y ago
I mainly came here to see how long it would take for someone to link to the XKCD cartoon, because it's quicker than thinking of a keyword to find it myself.
95.
by etfb 13y ago
Here's why Glass users are assholes, and why that won't always be true: because "iPod" is a verb. "To iPod" is to change a particular technology so much that you create a permanent mark in everyone's cal
96.
by etfb 13y ago
The only solution is to throw money at it until it gets better, isn't it? Or to wait it out. I remember when the word "Slashdot" became a verb, back when "Reddit" was a joke about a frog and a library book and DOS
97.
by etfb 13y ago
Lesson N+1: Hacker News can break your blog's webserver. That's one you only learn through experience. [ETA: which is sad, because I want to read it!]
98.
by etfb 13y ago
Heh - good point! And then there's the "redacted" bits in government PDF that turned out to be nothing more than "Kennedy assassination carried out as requested by Agent F. Castro" followed by "rectangle(colour
99.
by etfb 13y ago
How about: PHP: getting Perl and CGI to work on my web server is too damn hard. Or perhaps: PHP: I can never remember the difference between %, @ and $.
100.
by etfb 13y ago
I suspect the kindest thing one can say about Forth is: Forth: all the other languages were written by somebody else. As they say: if you've seen one version of Forth, you've seen... one version of Forth. And also: standards are
101.
by etfb 13y ago
The camel was rather overloaded with straw by that stage. I had asked the question two or three times over a long period, and received approximately the same response each time. I didn't just develop my contempt for the community all
102.
by etfb 13y ago
Call me a snob, but I couldn't bear to let a computer correct my spelling for me. I love the squiggly underline of the spellcheck (irony note: spellcheck is not in my dictionary) but I want that as a passive feature, not an active one.
103.
by etfb 13y ago
My experience is otherwise. I've found the IRC groups for Python and PHP to be quite friendly. The one for Wordpress suffers a bit from "I don't know you, so I presume you're an idiot" but not to the same degree as
104.
by etfb 13y ago
A cynic's TL;DR: Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime. And if you really hate the man, get RMS to design him a fishing rod.
105.
by etfb 13y ago
Well, not self-absorbed.
106.
by etfb 13y ago
I was asking all the right questions -- is this possible, what hooks should I consider, what should I take into account to make sure that the stuff I add doesn't stamp all over other stuff. I'm a programmer with thirty years expe
107.
by etfb 13y ago
I'm a recovering Emacser, happy enough with less powerful but more modern text editors. It wasn't the program or the UI that finally did me in, but the community: I had a problem with how Emacs worked, I wanted to figure out a so
108.
by etfb 13y ago
To the tune of Tomorrow Belongs To Me from Cabaret : *This Subnet Belongs To Me* The ‘Net is a creature of patches and parts, As free as the hawk on the breeze, With billions of voices and hands and hearts, Ruled o
109.
by etfb 13y ago
One could argue that it's not news, so it's not ironic.
110.
by etfb 13y ago
So much awesome cluelessness in the replies on that post. "It's definitely safe to use your real name," says WHAMM (White Heterosexual Able-bodied Middle-class Male) #1 confidently. "Nobody ever suffers from real-world
111.
by etfb 13y ago
Interesting. Shows OK in Firefox on Linux. Shows as a rectangle in Chrome on my Samsung Android phone with Chrome, and completely blank in the built-in browser on the same phone. I wonder why they're handling fonts so differently whe
112.
by etfb 13y ago
Post something, Wanda. Stop complaining that the people who are doing what you're not doing are more successful at it.
113.
by etfb 13y ago
It really is. This gives me the warm fuzzies. If every free/open source project were like this (ok, ok, like this appears to be ) then we would be rolling in riches. I can't count the number of times I've seen a bug in some
114.
by etfb 13y ago
The browser ponies make it all worthwhile.
115.
by etfb 13y ago
I was hating hipsters before it was cool.
116.
by etfb 13y ago
I don't honestly believe it's possible for someone to ask questions like that without a malicious purpose, so I shall refrain from engaging you henceforth. I pray that the women in your life, if you have any, can see what you are
117.
by etfb 13y ago
They were doing what they were told, and would therefore get whatever benefits obedience brings. Whereas the women now had: - a bunch of male scientists leering at them [1]; - some photos in the hands of those scientists that could be embar
118.
by etfb 13y ago
That women, far from having extra privilege in this area, felt extremely threatened at being made to be naked, knowing that this level of vulnerability had no upside for them. Whereas men had no particular concern, because their photos wou
119.
by etfb 13y ago
A substantials number of HN readers are under 18? Now I really feel old.
120.
by etfb 13y ago
Or you could see it entirely the other way. In fact, I'm rather surprised that you saw it as you do. I guess it takes all sorts to make a world.

More ›