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Not everyone has an email address associated with their account, or want one. Anyway, since such requests are apparently ignored here, my password is "bluewave". Have fun.

Indeed, it's common nowadays to label things (ideas, people, etc.) in order to frame them in a way that's convenient to the labeler and helps him advance his agenda. I think given …

So you're saying he also had to document his code? Maybe make a pull request. Every developer is responsible for what goes into his project, including dependencies. When a develope…

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Yeah, I was a GitHub user in 2008. Though it obviously had a social aspect, it wasn't considered a "social network" type of site. Its ongoing transformation into one is a result of…

I take it you've never read a virus magazine like, say, 40Hex or 29A? What is "malicious code" anyway? Maybe Microsoft Windows is malicious. It does contain code to format your dis…

You are saying "scary", but I think "alarming" is more appropriate. It's an alarm that should be buzzing through sleepy programmer skulls. It should alert them to the fact that it'…

This sounds good, but what about discoverability? There should probably be a way to merge project lists on various forges into a potentially huge index that can be browsed and sear…

1. thaumasiotes is __________. 2. everyone likes being __________, but... 3. ... not everyone likes criticism, even when it's __________. 4. therefore, often HN comments are downvo…

ICANN is a fat American corporate body. At some point ISLANNDs (Internet Small Local Authority for Name and Number Designations) could override it. That way, you could link to http…

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It doesn't mean everyone is making a request to a website every minute. I use http://gwene.org/ for example. To me RSS or Atom are a major success, as the blogs I want to read almo…

Solutions involving companies paying directly to the people whose code they use miss the point. The reason is that software shared with the world is often shared out of passion and…

I could've predicted that. Maybe because I am living in the future (without manipulation).

I clicked "Yes" and it does nothing. Maybe because I have JavaScript disabled.

Maybe businesses should pay a tax that goes into paying a respectable universal basic income. That would make it easier to develop and maintain such software, and it would make it …

You can also write useful software without getting paid. Simply don't share it. Indeed, that's one way to spend your time when you're not seeking employment.

This is very cool stuff, thanks!

Yes, I know. I thought about it after I posted. I wanted to emphasize that "web" can be a small part of Internet use, so a browser's importance is placed in a wider perspective. Th…

The article says that if you care about the web, you should care about Firefox. I disagree, because my "web" is probably not Batsov's "web". What is "the web" for me? Well, I'd say…