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I agree that the "there aren't enough programmers for language X" argument is generally flawed. Acceptable cases would be niches like maintenance of seriously legacy or dying platf…

Someone converted those to other digital formats (EPUB, etc.) and uploaded them to The Internet Archive. There's a link to the Archive catalog entry in their reddit post -> https:/…

Yeah, they just restrict you from doing stuff; like browsing large swaths of the Internet, for instance.

> A substitute command is ~~a class~~ an application of regexes. FTFY (Edit: forgot HN markup doesn't do strikethrough; that's what the ~~'s are for above.)

B2C markets with long-tails.

The COO at my last job kept touting the aphorism "Data Trumps Opinion" to the point where he had T-shirts made with that (facepalm!) I'm just glad those just sat on his table and n…

Like I've always said, if there's something to be learned about society, you'll learn it in Star Trek. "Mr. Worf, villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clo…

I'd say that ( https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=frame.work ) covers it. :)

> The push back is culture and practice of "we are all adults here" and that influences the language It's strange that a general idea expressing (assuming?) overarching maturity ha…

Sure, we'll do all that. In the mean time, could you please get started on getting the _rest_ of the community to adopt that as a well established idiom and then also have them ini…

The only explanation I have that makes any sense is that it is a very Application Developer solution to a System Administration that hasn't matured it's abstractions and is now tra…

https://twitter.com/thejoshtorres/status/1389623426688569345 Relevant excerpt from It doesn't have to be Crazy at Work.

I had a feeling someone was eventually going to pull this one out. :)

Really? Not tech that _actually_ works?

> Also, the GitHub sale was 2.5y ago, if things would have gone wrong, we would have already seen the cracks. Let's see... it took them, what, ~7yrs to screw Bungie over and take H…

Well, Intuit showed a little restraint and didn't offer to pay an obscene price for Credit Karma. :)

> Plaid claims to not store this info, and I assume that they don't Think of it as Plaid storing OAuth2 access tokens, sort of; and the tokens do expire (over pretty long periods),…

You get an upvote just for the sheer brashness of that comment! :D

No, they always knew the 500x valuation was BS. It's pretty much like they said, it was a defensive acquisition to prevent the data from going to any of their closest competitors. …

Hubris enables people, especially "smart" people, to do things that look really stupid in hindsight.

> I seem to remember a lot of Windows programs back in the day were webviews (backed by IE of course) Just how far "back in the day are we talking? 'Cause I've see stuff ranging fr…

Originally codenamed Project Blackbox, they were eventually released as the Sun Modular Mobile Data Center (MDC)[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter ]. Famously, …

Here's the [black theme]( https://github.com/widget-/slack-black-theme); and a [Solarized Dark]( https://github.com/widget-/slack-black-theme ) one for good measure.

I'm always surprised people don't mention Orkut more often in such arguments.

> Fedora is quite instrumental to RHEL's existence Could you expand on that? I'm curious.