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On average, we are definitely significantly smarter. The advent of ubiquitous literacy itself would be enough.

Have a reasonable and fair process for hellbanning and repealing of hellbans for people who have contributed to your community over the years.

I just heard of Unicorn / Rainbow as a way to get more out of Heroku workers/dynos. I wonder if this is also compatible, or a better alternative? I'm new to this whole concept, so …

Perhaps in order to resolve this ethical quandry, he should include customizable limiting features when notifications are implemented, much like HN has. This would be unusual in a …

If you want to create a new framework, why create it in PHP instead of switching to a language that is not deeply flawed? Any decision to use PHP on a green project seems to me the…

While I like the general idea.... "If you have a website, we'll send you sample alert code to get working in advance. The next time there's an emergency, we'll tell you and send ne…

I'm not familiar enough with the consequences of this change, however it seems likely such a major transition of a fundamental network layer could hardly occur as smoothly as expec…

Excuse me for having an emotional response. I will try to behave more drone like in the future in order to avoid causing distress to sensitive humans.

I'm not sure what attitude you are referring to. You may be reading a bit too much into this. I was simply trying to draw some perspective - "really pathetic" is a bit of an overst…

Thank you. I'd like to agree :) Nothing personal about it.

As an employee, you certainly take a "risk" that your job will not last forever. You may be fired, downsized, or the company may go bankrupt. Fortunately, since we live somewhere w…

"really pathetic"? I'm going to assume you've never done anything so pathetic in your life as to leave a web page with something less than the latest, greatest, most open sourcey, …

Who the hell cares? Take a deep breath of chill the fuck out and don't read so much into things. I doubt they spent much time debating which browsers to add here, or that this came…

Tips can't both be discretionary and an entitlement. That's a contradiction, and I think where the discomfort arises. Either they are an entitlement - in which case they should be …

Not really. The 10% is required and disclosed, so it is no difference than raising the prices. Tips on the other hand are an imposition since they are both expected and discretiona…

I agree. Treat trolls and snappy shitheads like they didn't do anything offensive or annoying. Reward their good behavior and don't respond to their bad. Most will quickly realize …

Regardless of anything else, it's wrong that servers are paid less per hour just because tips are common. This places an unfair burden on customers, and took tips from being part o…

> "because of the demographic of people who use rails right now" What do you see as the problem with the demographic? While I know historically Rails had a heavy conceited, dickhea…

I occasionally venture into the IRC rooms for Rails, node.js, or some other technology when I need a quick answer that can't be found elsewhere. I'm always shocked at how stereotyp…

Redis is far more feature-ful, and can serve the purpose as memcache. Why have two parts when you only need one? Redis offers persistence, set operations, namespacing, you can dele…

I'd say Backbone is a library. Ember is more of a framework. For example, create 100 todos in their demo app, then check the select all button. Notice the instance response. This i…

Yes, the Iraq war had much to do with protecting the world oil supply. While the oil and gas industry is heavily subsidized, that war did not give the US a better deal on oil than …

I generally agree that this process doesn't sound all that terrible for code that controls a large, live manufacturing line. Try changing the code that runs a pacemaker - you'll le…