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I like nano and prefer how it navigates text to vim. If vim works for you then great but... nano is just fine for me!

>I'm not shivering in a cave drinking water, sitting in the dark, and wondering if I'll get lucky and catch a squirrel to eat tomorrow. That is, if I can walk on my broken ankle. S…

I actually know that intersection (3rd/Pike) quite well and think the issue is more the 7/11, cigar shop, and major bus transfer point than the McDonalds in attracting loiterers/cr…

I'm curious... how is it possible for mall/retail employees to work there but not engineering teams?

If you want to feel old: 2020 - 2006 = 14. 2006 - 14 = 1992. When the 'World Wide Web' first launched....

I once heard that Meetup is "one night stand for friends"

> I promise, it wont be overnight, but it will be FAST. you will feel better, youll make friends without even trying. Its impossible to go through an hour of physical suffering eve…

batchid=363777811 status=Done dateandtime=09/18/2007 09:53:10 PDT activateditems=335 numberofwarnings=0 itemsnotacivated=17 Philosophically speaking, is this any different than 'sy…

Perhaps I'm missing something here, or may be an arrogant internet neckbeard, but I'm always confused as to why people are often so eager/excited by dark mode (e.g. Slack around a …

Feel free to follow the below instructions if you're brave enough to see your total lifetime spend on Uber Eats (while keeping your Gmail inbox and Uber account private) 1.) Get yo…

I would prefer a university structure where B.S. + M.S. is earned in four years by focusing on core major requirements to then have humanities courses offered at no cost via the al…

I was pretty unimpressed by Zoom as I used to think along the lines of "bro just open up a WebRTC connection. You can use socket.io it's super simple" Then... I attended a "Zoom Ni…

UberEats is a real head-scratcher as almost all of the key players, from my perspective, have expressed dissatisfaction to some extent: 1. Restaurants as UberEats charges a fee oft…

>Assets tend to be very large (double digits gigabytes), so having fast connectivity is expected in many situations, and slower home connections are rather painful for that. If tha…

>Maybe this was just that night or just this one restaurant, but it kinda shocked me. This may be a "German thing"; I remember being a bit surprised when I ate lunch with a vendor …

pluto.tv and coursera are great free alternatives that can entertain and educate :)

>Yet it's been shown multiple times that the games running on Stadia are running at less than promised quality, with techniques like upscaling being used for 4K instead of native 4…

Boom de yada. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16732664

"Bro, I'll just get some other nerd to do it. Instagram was built by 12 guys and WhatsApp was acquired for $19B with only 50 engineers. Can't ship if you whine; so shape up and sto…

This is an extremely provocative title which I hope the mods will swiftly change and/or censure. I often find myself thinking "Stallman was right!" when it comes to FOSS/privacy bu…

Hey, thanks for your response! Great article and you guys are definitely in a good place now (yay Dark mode!) Your iterative approach to course-correction was absolutely the way to…

>In 2016, Slack was two years old and already used by millions of people. Our codebase had grown rapidly, and like many companies that focused on product/market fit, our code was b…

I visited the Amazon Go store on Market St. in SF. I really enjoyed the convenience of not waiting in line. With that said, the Richard Stallman in me still regrets giving Amazon t…

I totally understand Waterfall vs Agile. Story points, grooming, estimates, continuous release, potentially shippable product, etc. I actually agree with the Scrum Guide [0], so my…