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by spb 12y ago
> I also take offense at the libelous implication that Amelia (author) makes of the sexual nature of Wadhwa's offer to talk to people who disagree with him at his private office at Stanford. I don't really think it's like
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by spb 12y ago
"Costco warehouses in the United States currently accept only American Express cards." This is incorrect. Costco warehouses only accept American Express credit cards. Visa and MasterCard debit cards are fine.
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by spb 12y ago
Please change the link to http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/12/american-express-c... , which is direct from the source and doesn't have auto-playing video.
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by spb 12y ago
So here's the thing I've always been a little fuzzy on. bnoodhuis' reversion said (to isaacs) "All patches have to be signed off by either me or Bert." The reaction would seem to indicate that this is like telling L
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by spb 12y ago
> that time Ben Noordhuis was forced out of the Node community because of a SJW hate mob enraged over a pronoun bcantrill commented on this above, with more authority than I could address this with: https://news.ycombinator.co
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by spb 12y ago
> it is atrocious since the linked study arrives at the completely opposite result Wikipedia claims. Wikipedia allows public editing. Did you amend the incorrect claim?
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by spb 12y ago
So, basically, you lived in Trainspotting ?
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by spb 12y ago
The problem is designing an experiment to confirm the hypothesis rather than to test it.
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by spb 12y ago
Whenever the Noordhuis incident comes up, I'm always quick to point out that `git push -f master`ing a non-fast-forward commit without prior warning is already halfway to a firing offense. EDIT: No, wait, it was a revert commit, this j
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by spb 12y ago
This is actually from the book, which is worth reading (also required reading, in some American high schools).
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by spb 12y ago
> I could argue that those that participate in this sort of public shaming have a lack of self-respect and seek the thrill of dragging everyone else down to their level. I think this idea is well-reflected in the movie Precious , when P
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by spb 12y ago
Sometimes I wish I could give Reddit Gold for comments on Hacker News.
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by spb 12y ago
Pretty sure there's a pg essay on this. "Unpopular speech is not necessarily bad and wrong" is pretty much, like, the Official Opinion of Hacker News.
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by spb 12y ago
> People form a kind of super-being in a mob, a near God-like entity, which can perform powerful acts - go to the moon, solve humanitarian crises, and so on. I'd hardly call NASA or UNICEF a mob .
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by spb 12y ago
[McMurphy:] "Is this the usual pro-cedure for these Group Ther'py shindigs? Bunch of chickens at a peckin' party?" […] [Harding:]"A 'pecking party'? I fear your quaint down-home speech is wasted on me, my
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by spb 12y ago
> The ex-Mozilla CEO knows this well. An online bullying campaign was launched against him and he was forced to quit. It's kind of weird to think that Brendan Eich is still active in the web standards community, even though he'
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by spb 12y ago
Pass port .
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by spb 12y ago
A couple nights ago, I said "OK Google" and activated the prompt on my girlfriend's phone, across the room. Voices don't even have to be similar.
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by spb 12y ago
Before I read the page to find that this is an actual project from the Phillipines, I thought the ".ph" was just a clever domain hack.
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by spb 12y ago
Because each platform has its own wildly different threading semantics? (I don't actually know if this is necessarily true.)
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by spb 12y ago
> It's very rare to meet somebody who will initiate conversation, and keep it going. And, of the people who do both of these things, most-to-all of them are selling something.
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by spb 12y ago
Blocking of tethering was already banned, it just isn't enforced that carriers must provide tethering.
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by spb 12y ago
I knew I'd seen something like this before - the "NO AD" app that replaces advertisements with art: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/this-augmented-reali...
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by spb 12y ago
Somebody didn't replace the default Yeoman favicon...
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by spb 12y ago
Just recommended the author check out Ryan North's comics: https://twitter.com/ryanqnorth Ryan North's the guy who does Dinosaur Comics ( http://www.qwantz.com ), and has since been hired to write the Ad
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by spb 12y ago
The only factor on what registrar you use for buying a domain should be their renewal rank on http://domcomp.com .
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by spb 12y ago
I'd like to see more of Mongo's would-be usurpers make compatibility layers like this, letting people switch to a more performant and reliable implementation without having to overhaul their code.
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by spb 12y ago
Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/154/
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by spb 12y ago
To hit the most important point of what you mean by "change based on the request", this doesn't mean "changing your request changing the resource you get" (which wouldn't make any sense). It means that the act
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by spb 12y ago
Yes... Wikipedia.

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