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by howinteresting 3y ago
Your proposed norm is ripe for abuse by brilliant jerks. Just keep producing meritorious work and all incidents of you abusing people in your personal life will be excused. (Your proposed norm is how things used to be, and still are to a la
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by howinteresting 3y ago
A serial workplace or school sexual harasser affects many people's livelihoods, their own livelihood is very far down my list of concerns. Beware isolated demands for compassion.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
You can't simply submit a patch to any self-respecting open source project on a decision so consequential. You have to do annoying things that mostly get in the way, like convince other people and build consensus.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Just because this is a very difficult question doesn't mean we can throw our hands up and pretend it doesn't exist. Many things in life are very difficult and yet worth solving anyway.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
I love free speech, but you're going to have to convince me with a lot of evidence that Germany restricting pro-Nazi speech after WW2 was bad.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
I personally know, in real life, somewhere between 2 and 5 people who were raped by Jacob Appelbaum.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
The "continue reading in the app" with a down arrow next to it is one of the darker patterns I've seen today.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Have you ever worked on a large-scale software product used by millions of people across thousands of kinds of devices? Telemetry is always going to be useful.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
For something as committal as a new language to break in, it has to be a quantum leap from existing languages.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Yes, it would have to decide what to do for every previous command. Still less complicated than git rebase -i. edit: there's even prior art. Sapling has undo: https://sapling-scm.com/docs/overview/undo/
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by howinteresting 3y ago
This can all be figured out. The only real requirements are careful discipline and a commitment to getting the user experience right. Having an undo command is likely the most leveraged thing by far the git developers can do to make new use
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Look at the last repository-altering operation you ran and reverse the effects of it. Add a --dry-run to see what it would do, and print out the command it runs as a way to teach people more advanced things about Git. Microsoft Word has und
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by howinteresting 3y ago
No, I mean undoing your last action performed with git. Can be a commit, an amend, a reset. whatever.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Simple question: why is there no git undo command shipped in box? There is absolutely no technical barrier to shipping such a command.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
See, this is the correct take. Using "resources" for people shook me the first time I heard it in a high-level planning meeting. I'm being serious here that it kept me up all night.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
And native English speakers in India also use the phrase.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
I think correct in this context just means standard in at least one dialect of English, which "do the needful" definitely is. As descriptivist as linguistics is, there is a real distinction between standard and non-standard langua
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by howinteresting 3y ago
This is the inevitable consequence of centralized curation and discovery—pressure points that neo-fascist states can use to suppress dissent. Now extend this to apps. This is why the freedom to do what you want on your own devices, without
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Yes, that's the thin veil on top of the IQ test. It's similar to programming puzzles asked at tech cos.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
So basically an IQ test in all but name.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Sounds like you haven't tried it out.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Any comments on the object-level issue at hand? Even a "While the comment you linked to is reprehensible," will do.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Okay, so have you banned them now?
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by howinteresting 3y ago
> No, I don't. I want it to be like pushing or dragging a virtual piece of paper. That's what it is and how it feels the most natural to me. Yes, that's what makes sense for a trackpad. Many people want that behavior for t
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Ah yes, then you download an app for that. And that app has its own updater. Then you realize you want your mouse and trackpad to scroll in reverse directions. So you download an app for that, which comes with its own updater. And then you
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by howinteresting 3y ago
I will take banning these people as evidence that you're sincere about "curiosity over indignation": Strongly implying that trans people have a "delusion": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=368050
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Post histories are the only way to hold people on a pseudonymous website accountable. I think I made it very clear why their opinion should result in a ban. Also, as a general rule, it's impolite to use anything other than "they&q
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Indeed. Maybe also Ritalin.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
This comment series (it's not just one comment, and your downplaying of it and not including eg that they called adults in trans children's lives "pedophiles" borders on the verge of dishonesty) is absolutely extreme on
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Huh, I'd imagine cocaine, Adderall and molly would all be very popular among that crowd.

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