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califield
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Comment #13509549
Probably just some dirty politicians who needed to clean up their pizza before Trump comes to drain the swamp. Seth Rich Memorial Border Wall will start construction in 2017. #maga…
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Comment #9047603
Women did not serve in combat roles during World War 2. There was about ten times as many men in the military than women at that time.
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Comment #9019990
Perhaps this is because um is closer to the mystical sound om/aum[1]? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om
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Comment #8964792
This is why I'm excited for VR. Now that equipment like Oculus Rift is going mainstream, there's an opportunity to move beyond managing "windows" to managing "objects", e.g. taking…
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Comment #8920337
You could make it a redirect service for npm modules. e.g. https://js.org/express 301 redirects to https://www.npmjs.com/package/express Another idea is a blog. One of my favorite …
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Comment #8912630
If moving the project to a new server is not feasible, then how does the client backup their data? I refuse to work on projects that cannot be installed from scratch in a local VM.…
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Comment #8883153
Modern browsers don't actually let you redefine `undefined`.
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Comment #8883056
Check out this excerpt from his 2001 semi-autobiographical film, "Confessions of a Sociopath": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-tHqOz5zTo More information on the film: http://crea…
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Comment #8881531
I would set up a free Heroku application and provide SSL and caching by redirecting it through CloudFlare. I host a lot of static websites like this.
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Comment #8876889
The article is missing an important piece of information: can you buy a drink at the bar with it?
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Comment #8875063
Perhaps this is too far outside of your existing scope of functionality but I'll throw it out there: I would really love a "Hacker News Alerts" feature. I make the same searches ev…
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Comment #8863504
I make really delicious slow cooker black beans every Sunday, following this recipe I found online: http://cafejohnsonia.com/2013/02/how-to-slow-cooker-black-be... She recommends s…
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Comment #8859902
Another great resource for free, permissively licensed music and sound effects is OpenGameArt.org[1], although they mostly focus on assets for retro games. [1] http://opengameart.o…
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Comment #8845844
Big payment processors like Stripe are storing your full credit card number forever whether you choose to "Remember me" or not. The checkbox is whether you want to be able to pay a…
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Comment #8820254
They're going to trade Bitcoin under the NASDAQ symbol COIN. I love it!
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Comment #8818446
I use the `dotenv`[1] package with Node.js and it does exactly the same thing: environment variable definitions that you can store elsewhere in a dead-simple format. To be fair, I …
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Comment #8798078
It would be a little more clear if they compared it to L20n[1] (their internal Mozilla browser localization API) and how this is going to bring those open standards to browsers. Le…
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Comment #8790259
I would title this article, "Infinite recursion considered harmful".
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Comment #8789751
This article reads like a mind dump lacking a cohesive narrative... I mean look at how the author closes the article: > This article isn't really about callbacks and it isn't even …
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Comment #8789465
#bbg on Freenode is a channel for HTML5 canvas game hacking. I try to poke my head in and listen once in a while.
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Comment #8769787
Yeah, but typically you have a certain level of trust in your project dependencies. Adding a library to your project often means granting access to your system anyway (if the depen…
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Comment #8769736
I was wondering who found this vulnerability. You have to click through to the Git mailing list announcement[1]: > A big "thanks!" for bringing this issue to us goes to our friends…
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Comment #8753904
> The code comes back to us, and we have to redo it -- there's nothing good about this. Implement code review and start rejecting their pull requests with constructive criticism an…
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Comment #8727025
`f` in your example is a global function that cannot be redefined.
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Comment #8722296
The author doesn't mention the go-to option in this scenario: write a data mapper[1] to dehydrate your object. While I'm a huge proponent of PostgreSQL and the hstore[2]/JSON colum…