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And another data point. https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=19890604&rsv_spt=1&rsv_iqid=0xfd2... No blocking there and it's a Chinese search engine!

To clarify, I actually queried http://www.microsoft.com/19890604 and had it redirected to https://.. . by Microsoft's server. So the URL query was in plaintext. Just, you know, so …

I just tried https://www.microsoft.com/19890604 from inside China (Wuhan, to be specific) on a naked (non-back-doored) connection. I got Microsoft's 404, not any of the GFW behavio…

> Claims that her husband did her work for her could put her in danger from the Chinese government? I doubt it. And I'm sure you're ready to document your years and years of experi…

I'm curious: is this really the hill Stallmanistas have chosen to die on? Really? A not very funny, not very helpful, and to anybody not living in the sphere of Batshitstania (a.k.…

Me. I don't even have an account on it.

There's at least one language (Refal: there may be more!) based on Markov algorithms. Another language (XL: as far as I know this is the only one of its breed thus far) works at it…

Uh... which part of "DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO" is actually unclear here? Is there a word or phrase that you're not grasping? "DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO" clearly includes not…

In today's lesson, wodenokoto learned that real life is infinitely more complicated than San Francisco startups would have you believe.

Well, only game if you're ignorant and unimaginative...

Mercury (1998).

There's only one response for this degree of idiocy: http://goo.gl/mUSwx

Everybody thinks that the identifying characteristic of Erlang is the "Actor"(-like) model. This is untrue. This is also why all the "Actor"(-like) libraries grafted on to other pr…

The guy who wrote Github is responsible for some of the worst coding atrocities in a major piece of F/OSS. (Evidence: the Linguist debacle.) JS for Cats is, in comparison to Lingui…

"Ignoring that every word in programming is in US English: color, gray, program." The parochialism of the wannabe "hacker" (entreprenerd) here used to be cute.

Trigger Warning: HN

Well, I expect that's why so much C++ is misrecognized. Not enough people write valid C++, in Github's narrow world view. :)

You mean like the other source code repository hosts do?

Unfortunately, until this core issue is fixed, users can't really submit further pull requests to fix the other issues which would correct the "inflation" we all know and hate.

"Troll" is like "terrorist" these days. It has absolutely no semantic content beyond "person I disagree with about something".

How 'bout a project-specific property list that looks something like this: .rb=RealBasic .m=Mercury .pl=Prolog .js=SomeCrapOrOther …

This is because you likely think before you code.

"I use Github for the visual flair and cool features." The software crisis spelled out in a single sentence.

Unless they use gist.

Five languages across two decades? Stand back, gents! This one is a champion!