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Aside from marketing, which you mentioned, the quality McDonald's pays for is standardization. Standardization is why chain restaurants exist at all. They give people a way to get …

Please stop flaming with irrelevant comments.

Please stop disrupting conversations.

OK, this goes from DNS, to email, to... something which is not Usenet, which surprised me, because Usenet fulfills most of the goals of being a social network much better than eith…

Near as I can figure, the goal is to build your own Linux distro to run as a guest in a virtual machine (hypervisor virtual machine, not bytecode virtual machine). If you want to m…

I think the usual rule is that the size of a variable's name should be a function of the size of the scope in which it's visible: If it's a global, it should have a long, descripti…

Historically, i wasn't even an abbreviation: It was the first variable name which would be assumed to be integer by FORTRAN compilers which implicitly assigned types to variables b…

Everyone forgets about ltrace: Like strace, but for calls to dynamic libraries. It gets you something closer to what the program looks like at the source code level: You get calls …

JANET, which routed email to Czechoslovakia, as the legend goes... Back then mainly the Computer Science departments had email, so they'd have domain names beginning with a cs. in …

You're the one spoiling HN with your insults and disruption.

This is how atheists define atheism.

> I can be productive in bash, but I think we all agree "stringly typed" is not as good as most other approaches to programming language design. That depends on the language, and h…

And now you're disagreeing by downvoting.

> The problem is, most of the dynamic proponents know next to nothing about the PL theory anyway. This is either a "triumph" of theory over reality, or an insult of a whole group o…

This kind of moderatorial bickering does not belong on HN.

This post is exactly what I come to HN to avoid: Moderators abusing users for no reason, disrupting discussions in the process.

> I haven't seen enough of the universe to feel confident that I'm correct in my atheism That's what atheism means: Lack of dogmatism. You're an atheist.

If you're going to make a distinction, make it between individuals, not groups. Grouping people is harmful and breeds stereotypes.

Frankly, I'm kind of interested in the prospect of specialized hardware coming back. The trend since the mid-1980s, when the Intel 80386 was introduced, has been for specialized ch…

> Atheists frequently evangelize. It is a religious belief. It isn't, and it's insulting to say so: You're imposing a category on people based on deliberately misunderstanding thei…

Atheists are atheists. If you're going to make a distinction, make it between individuals, not groups.

FidoNet was and is an interesting system, but it relies on a system which is a public utility and/or publicly subsidized in most of the world: the telephone network. Dial-up networ…

> He actually tries to justify (or deflect) stealing the Let's Encrypt trademark by claiming LE stole the concept of a 90-day cycle. Ridiculous. You can patent business methods, bu…

> "Intellectual copyrights", wtf is that? Either someone who doesn't know the law trying to look smart, or someone who does know the law trying to bullshit their way into being abl…

> Why do you think other networks wouldn't have grown global? Because privately-run networks have to turn a profit by the end of the fiscal year, if not sooner. It's too easy for a…