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by thedz 11y ago
Everyone has their own lines for when a speaker is too objectionable, I honestly don't have a problem with someone protesting some speakers but not others. I mean, isn't that precisely what protesting something is? (That said, the
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IMO, the biggest thing in being happy with renting vs buying isn't the monetary factor, but in how ready someone is with owning. Owning comes with a lot of advantages: home renovations, settling in and making something your own, buildi
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As with many articles on the subject, I think it's important to define what precisely "safe spaces" mean. The Economist attempts to define a "good" version: > Like many bad ideas, the notion of safe spaces at uni
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That I could switch from Vim and still have access to nearly all the vim keybindings and motions that I use in real Vim. I've been using vim + evil (and prior iterations of evil) for probably ~5 years now, and it really is the best of
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by thedz 11y ago
Echoing others, I've been using emacs for close to 10 years now. I've been keeping a close eye on Atom because it's the firs time I've seen a editor start to gain popular appeal that can approach the customizability and
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In contrast, it baffles me that some don't understand the draw—even if not personally appealing—of editors like Sublime or Atom. And I say this as an emacs evil user.
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by thedz 11y ago
> I really want to support open source efforts. That's great. But even if you don't, the beauty is that the code is out there now. > Only if you have found the two or three solutions that the community likes most and you a
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by thedz 11y ago
This presentation is bullshit. You have no evidence, nothing valuable to show, just spurious subjective opinions. You've put up a straw man and now are trying to knock it down assuming we are idiots. I've se
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so keep doing it > it's probably due to the fact that I'm very picky and basically don't hook up with strangers, just people I happen to know already or be introduced to
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thumbor is an on demand service that hosts and responds to image requests. this is a JS based smart cropper. they're not quite the same thing.
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> ++; # An anonymous state variable, for very fast loops Perl, never stop being you
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If you actually read the article, it says that the NY Times' operating costs were $1.48 Billion last year. $80 Million would cover a very minor portion of that.
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As the article mentions, 40% of NY Times' revenue is still provided by advertising.
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This wasn't the PW hashing fucntion. The new method hashes using the bcrypt of the password, which they do have.
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Any startup with a CEO that you're describing (and how he treats people) is a startup that I don't want to support, regardless of product.
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> We now need to think about a backup plan in case Github management gets out of line. This is a distributed source control system. Keep a clone of the repo somewhere. Your source code is now no longer bound to Github.
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> 1. Think of yourself as an investor who has put money into GitHub. Someone drawing a salary using your money is sending out a message telling a developer not to use a potty-mouth word on the Internet. Do you feel they are putting your
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by thedz 11y ago
Can I take a moment to just point out the silliness of worrying about the censoring or suppression of content in a distributed source control system? The very nature of git means you can just clone the repo and do whatever you want to it.
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I think where the confusion comes from is that along with many cries of "censorship", there is often a subtext of "this is illegal" or "this is not allowed".
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1. This isn't censorship of the type that is illegal or not allowed. It is a private company deciding a word was inappropriate. 2. It seems like most in this comment thread agree that this action, as a singular act, is a good thing. T
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Your first three questions/answers, summarized, is that "Github ethically and legally removed an offensive word" Should they? Yes. I feel slippery slope arguments get brought up way too much sometimes. Every issue is turning
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> I don't like tracking scripts either but why can't the ad networks get together and create a shared script instead of so many that seem to be redundant? I've asked that myself many times, and I mostly decided that part o
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There's... a huge gap between not drinking due to religious reasons, and being a "fundie". That's like calling everyone who is vegetarian or vegan or don't eat a specific kind of meat due to religion your feared &q
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After raising $1M, the CST-01 watch won't make it to Kickstarter backers(theverge.com)
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The browser that is rendering the DOM also, ultimately, works that way, with various portions of the browser screen redrawing while others remain static. So it's kinda funny that the modern state of web dev is adding another layer of t
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I've tried that approach a few times in the past. Invariable, I end really liking the company I talked to to get another offer, and just end up taking it!
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Echoing what click170 said, if the only (or only effective way) of making my employer take my raise requests seriously is to come to them with another offer, then chances are I'm just going to take the other offer.
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In the short term, not much
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> The cost of software for startups is so significant that it can lead to bankruptcy. What? Here's the software you listed: Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Windows, Google Apps, Evernote. All of these added together comes to less t
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I don't think so -- feels like just unfortunate timing for when Hacker News discovered this project. They must have seen the increased attention and updated their README to reflect the lack of development (The last commit before today

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