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After the leader of a substantial project disappears, in the ~20 minutes of incidental contact you have with the issue after having only just been introduced to it having not stumb…

Did you fabricate a quote? (And if so, why?) Neither "innovation" nor any derivatives of "innovate" appear in this post.

That's a strong claim. What led you to conclude that nobody asked any of those things?

What's with all the legal bluster in your comments here? Not only do the liabilities you're trying to conjure up not exist, but this is not even the first occurrence of something l…

> I believe Clang et al are fast enough. This is a genuine case of survivorship bias in action. I guarantee you that there are people not using Clang or writing, let's say, C++ bec…

From Yegge's "The Pinocchio Problem": > Great systems also have advice . There's no universally accepted name for this feature. Sometimes it's called hooks, or filters, or aspect-o…

A "Have you considered..." question asks for a "yes" or "no". A "Why[...]" question asks for why. Assuming that "Why didn't you just do X?" isn't really just a disingenuous way to …

Do you actually know this, or like most commenters here, was your introduction to this case the Washington Post that everyone else read?

You could do secret splitting: http://www.moserware.com/2011/11/life-death-and-splitting-se... It's vulnerable in that whichever threshold N that you choose allows for N participan…

The first link[1] in that post (for "searchable database") is a 404. 1. https://opentimestamps.org/internet-archive/

How does the Glitch project-to-app mapping actually work? This is writt.glitch.me, so I'd expect it to be accessible at https://glitch.com/~writt and https://glitch.com/edit/#!/wri…

Specifically? I don't think there were specifics. Just the familiar general anti-JS sentiment. I spent a few seconds looking through my feed of past Planet Gnome posts. It looks li…

Looks like this thing is derived from the work by Kinoma[1], who has/had a $25 micro with networking. The link to their retailer is dead, though. 1. http://kinoma.com/buy/

GTK already has JS bindings. If you're running Gnome, then substantial parts of what you're seeing and interacting with on your desktop is JS. The Gnome folks tried anointing JS as…

(2016) Previously discussed here on HN back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12768425 The author has made some minor revisions since then. Here are the main differences t…

That's people doing margins wrong. They see a CSS property called 'margin' and go for that, which ends up only working well for displays and window sizes comparable to their own. W…