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Mobile UI builders can barely generalize over their own domain even when they are just targeting a specific platform. That's not very high praise, to me. Look at all the code you s…

I always thought it was cool that Stross posts on HN.

I thought it was bad form to advertise your own product on somebody else's Show HN. It's like proposing at someone's wedding: yes, it's a relevant time to do it, but it's specifica…

There's nothing you can do to guarantee they are successful. What you can do is expose your kid to a lot of things and help them find something they're passionate about. Ideally so…

Doesn't that simply depend on how often you have to leverage human enforcement? Whether you have to do it It's like chargebacks. 99.9% of my purchases I will never issue a chargeba…

I did the same thing to grind levels in Runescape and I look back with regret, getting My parents didn't even suspect that I'd do such a thing. But they could've trivially stopped …

Agreed. In another comment, someone points out that LoL/Dota2 require a lot of dedication and metagame analysis to be good. Which is true, but doesn't change the fact that I look b…

How is the internet "tipping over" going to change what's fundamentally human? Changing the interpretation of what someone said to fit your argument can be seen on the school playg…

I don't see a righteous battle. You mentioned Emacs as a solution which has a Rust plugin that has problems like most other Rust tooling. Yes, Rust's tooling landscape is immature …

Well, that's always an option, so it isn't really advice. It's already what you have to do when the tooling support is bad. It's the poorest when an editor can instead inline its o…

What about the good qualities that websites have, like the ability to link (and deep link) people to specific parts of it? The re-trending of the local application is a step back i…

You could say this about anything though, so it's not very damning criticism of Kickstarter. Also applies to Hacker News and everything, individually, at the grocery store. And all…

Well, those are GUI toolkits. A lisp doesn't compete with them. Any GUI that you build with a lisp still needs to support that sort of thing. Also, when people praise a feature tha…

Looking at your comment history, it's clear that you're a D-fanatic. But let's not use your enthusiasm for D as a point against any language that D competes with. It's impossible t…

I think I have some lasting trauma for the year I was on call. I still have nightmares that I'm getting woken up into a hellish situation to fix code I've never seen at 3am. Or tha…

Nothing is safe from the HN Dismissal. What's the purpose of such flippant negativity?

Doesn't that stop you from accessing it from local clients like psql and pgAdmin?

I hope you can appreciate how fortunate you are. Though 4 Euros ($4.50) is less than half what I pay for most books I want on Amazon. It would be very expensive for me to feed my b…

The NPM organization could go much further to make these attacks harder. You pitch a really good one: Any time you npm update/install, display ownership changes (especially compare…

Be specific: what exactly would you do in Elm to pwn someone? It would be a much more limited and a much more visible attack. NPM modules don't even have source code on display. So…

If a contributor's end goal is to publish a backdoor, then making them wait 0 or 100 commits to the project before trusting them doesn't change the end result. In fact, if you had …

Then let me ask you, how long should have dominic let right9ctrl contribute to the project before trusting him and giving him publish capabilities? With hindsight, we know that rig…