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by h2s 13y ago
From http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-tech/en... : "Many geologists suspect that gas hydrates play an important role in stabilizing the seafloor. Drilling in these oceanic deposits could destabilize the seabed, causing
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by h2s 13y ago
I'm planning to do exactly this, myself. Not so much because of any perceived danger to the open web posed by Google, but because I've come to realise that I simply have too many eggs in their basket. Tellingly, my list of products that I w
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by h2s 13y ago
I agree really strongly with 99% of this. I make a fairly niche command-line application, and I'm convinced that it would have exactly zero users if I didn't put as much time into documenting it as I do. I think the GitHub stats make this p
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by h2s 13y ago
From the article: close port 80 on your API host
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by h2s 13y ago
People use each other's employers to beat each other into submission. When that PyCon 2013 shitstorm went down, the Righteous Male Anger crew were very vocal about their plans to end all their business relationships with SendGrid in retalia
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by h2s 13y ago
> I've never had to do "maintenance", write CRUD apps, > had horrible bosses or worked with bad developers or > unpleasant people. I wondered what you have been doing, so I checked your profile. > I
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by h2s 13y ago
My point was that Unicode is newer than ASCII, and that we can't hope to deal with Unicode (Ö) properly if we can't even cope with ASCII (') yet. Nothing to do with anglocentrism at all. I agree that there are lots of annoying computing pro
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by h2s 13y ago
While disappointing, it's perhaps not surprising that the umlaut in "Schrödinger's Cat" caused trouble. The fact that the apostrophe was ruled too risky as well, however, is an indictment on software engineering as a profession. If people a
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by h2s 14y ago
That announcement should have clarified whether the communication they sent to Hetzner explicitly requested confidentiality. If not, the incident is as much Efnets's fuckup as Hetzner's. Why did it even need to contain such sensitive person
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by h2s 14y ago
I respectfully disagree. If you don't treat test code with the same respect as production code, rot sets in. Rot in the test suite discourages programmers from trusting, augmenting and maintaining it, until it eventually stops being used al
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by h2s 14y ago
> PSR-1 and PSR-2 are controversial > Much of both standards are an amalgam of individual > practices produced via an internal survey of PHP-FIG > member projects. Those member projects include codebase
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by h2s 14y ago
Sadly this is not complete protection. Many Linux distributions configure sudo to prompt for the password only once every 15 minutes or so. If you have successfully executed sudo in your terminal within the last 15 minutes, any malicious co
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by h2s 14y ago
I'm a Vim user and this is the only Sublime feature that I think I'd like to see in a future version of core Vim. Another comment called it "syntactic sugar for macros"[1] and that's true. Multicursor functionality allows you to avoid repet
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by h2s 14y ago
I've always been surprised that people bother installing Ubuntu on anything other than a personal laptop or desktop computer. Genuine question: what does Ubuntu offer as a server OS that isn't available in plain Debian?
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by h2s 14y ago
I see. Now I feel bad for overreacting. In my defense, these pages look a lot more like receipts than purchase pages. I would normally expect a purchase page to have some visually emphasised call to action. I still genuinely feel a little g
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by h2s 14y ago
Do you have any links that go into detail on this? I was intrigued by your comment and I want to read more about it but ironically I couldn't find anything on Google!
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by h2s 14y ago
Jesus H Christ, this is quite a fuck up. Over on /r/bitcoin there's a comment linking to a transaction involving 229BTC worth of "Avalance Spa Powder", which is one of those synthetic drugs of ambiguous legality. That's quite a violation of
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by h2s 14y ago
Does anybody else feel that the current proliferation of P2P cryptocurrencies looks symptomatic of a pyramid scheme that has proven its viability (in the form of BTC) and is now being repeated by unscrupulous copycats who smell a quick buck
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by h2s 14y ago
There's a strong entrepreneurial spirit on HN and that's why a lot of people are telling you that "It's okay to make money". Personally, I think it would cheapen the whole thing. Websites that contain nothing but affiliate links to "Product
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by h2s 14y ago
> Tasks > Consistent exercise of independent judgment and > discretion in matters of significance. This one literally stipulates that you will be expected to think for yourself on a regular basis. Why on earth
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by h2s 14y ago
> they thought for some reason they owned everything > I created, at any time, ever (sorry, no) How common is this? I have yet to encounter it, but if I did I'd consider it an enormous red flag. It sends some very st
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by h2s 14y ago
For a time, I was working on gathering some good data on keyboard layouts. I wanted to work out which keys were commonly available, which weren't, and so on. I wanted to work out which characters were the most "i18n-friendly" for developers
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by h2s 14y ago
You can always tell if something is garbage on here by looking at the average length of the comments. Almost every single comment on this link is an inane one-liner that adds nothing to any meaningful discussion. And lo and behold, it's the
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by h2s 14y ago
> They'll see untargeted ads, which will look like spam That's your loss, not mine, asshole.
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by h2s 14y ago
> Eben Upton, one of the creators of the Raspberry Pi, > shared with us the brilliant insight that many young > people used to have to “choose not to program” when > they turned their computers on, in orde
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by h2s 14y ago
I wasn't talking about what Adria did. I agree with the consensus that she fucked up. I was talking about the fact that it's possible to be blinded by privilege and accidentally make remarks that really undermine the sense of belonging and
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by h2s 14y ago
Just FYI: There are those of us reading this who understand your comments and agree wholeheartedly. The difficulty I think you're facing here in getting this point across is that people are angry right now. Angry mob mode is very much enabl
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by h2s 14y ago
My apologies, I remember in the original post you asked us to hold off on providing feedback unless the issues were present in recent Firefox versions. On the plus side, this motivated me to switch to Firefox Aurora just now and I must say,
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by h2s 14y ago
The right-hand-side docking looks absolutely amazing ( http://i.imgur.com/duQOXq7.png ). I have another bit of feedback. The web console has three positions available: Above, Below, and Window. With Firebug, I like to have the console open

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