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he's never going to move on to anything meaningful, he's fully cooked

When GNOME 3 came out, it felt like they had this vision of a Better way to Do Things and didn't see why all their users wouldn't be excited to change their workflow. How they resp…

This. How much lost time, panic, and rage did carelessly deleting these folders cause? It was a dire mistake.

Well, there's a tension between the right to collect/collate/record naturally public things and being concerned about how that info’s being used by others. Does it seem reasonable …

The expanded scale raises concerns - avoiding secure locations that scan your face is less burdensome than refraining from public air travel, and a homeland security-curated travel…

Whether it's a revenue source or not, fb still owns the biometric data and is using it for god knows what (and asking "evidence?" like this comes off as a way of avoiding the point…

It lets you quickly see which search results you're walking toward and want to check the details on. You could get the same info from reading a result list, but if this takes less …

It sounds like rebasing this way ensures branches will not overlap at merge time. This presumably pushes the "combination of changes" into the rebased-before-merging branch, which …

Their Polari bible translation has "unto the homie" == "to the man", so Polari for "man" is "homie"! I think the modern slang homie comes from "homeboy", so that'd be convergent et…

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The fun images may have seemed like a way to lighten things up, but here they're a distraction from the content.. even as still images, every section break doesn't need a happy mon…

Discussion from Jan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13528599