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I don't exactly understand how you're hurt by this, but fair enough. Utilitarianism is a philosophical framework. It's not for me, but based on your comments you might be into it: …

You keep complaining about indulging! What's wrong with indulging in something every once in while?

Your first bullet is an argument against this change as being suboptimal. That there's a more optimally utilitarian use of the resources, which I get. The thing I don't get about t…

>Austerity? Monks in cells? You're complaining about indulgence! You're saying that this change won't help people as much as something else. This is a fair criticism. Changing some…

Github inherited it from git, which inherited it from bitkeeper, the DVCS that Linux originally used and the one that inspired git. Bitkeeper used a master/slave architecture that …

Serious question: you're not the only person in this thread who feels this, and I genuinely don't understand it. Why is this so upsetting?

Props to you for committing to your austerity, but we're not all monks in cells.

The terminology of master/slave architecture is a direct reference to the working relationships between people on an antebellum plantation. Names should help you understand what th…

>I think for the political arena it would do us good to try to emulate the US House of Representatives where representatives are given equal time to address the floor. This is a we…

>Once you start fact checking where does it end? With all the facts being checked?

>I think one element of writing ASM by hand is the programmer subliminally changes the algorithm to be 'simpler' to write. It's not subliminal. It's packing a backpack that someone…

I think of the BLAS algos as being very Fortran friendly, and the Fortran references never _out_perform the C implementations. (The asm implementations are of course the best.) Be …

This is real, but also not new (as you can tell from the name check on Flash, Silverlight and IE). They used to be called "supercookies", but that term has come to mean something e…

Before rust, I would incrementally evolve an incomplete design into a complete design (building a tree by building leaves, branches, and a trunk and then assembling them.) In rust,…

I live in the US and have a local US IP. A year or so ago, I made a site for a side project using vanilla HTML. No frameworks, no JS. Every word on the page was in English and coul…

They work, but there's much more friction and many more gotchas than node. The requirements file for example, doesn't distinguish between direct and ancestor dependencies, it has t…

This is the way I feel too. Python is both redundant and inconsistent at a basic level. The APIs for `map`, `filter` and `reduce`, the inversion between `split` and `join`, `sort` …