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short answer: yes it's recognition from the individual's perspective. think love languages. one person's recognition might be salary because they make $35,000/yr and another's isn'…

> Dropbox is also harvesting your data for various purposes. I hope your code isn't valuable, because it could be leaked or stolen by employees of Dropbox. I always thought the enc…

> although I suppose it should let you know whether you could hope to change anything by changing human activity This is the discussion. As I understand "climate change deniers" ar…

I've found worktrees[1] are a great tool for this use case. "oh. i should fix this, but it doesn't have anything to do with what i'm currently solving." cd ../worktree-checkout, ma…

I think the preference to squash and rebase instead of merge is because of Github, honestly. It flattens the history out when the history is not flat at all. If Github's UI showed …

If you find commit messages useless, it's because you're making them useless. It seems like the workflow where you get 20 "stuff" commits in a PR is to: git commit -am "stuff", tes…

Conflict: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29170375

people who don't want to watch the video: it's a pomodoro timer, but your "win" (with confetti) if you do the task in less time.

Like the other comments, the risk of losing data/access/etc is not enough. The article even actively suggesting you DO NOT make backups of things. Now you’re ready to generate a ne…

> This effectively makes paying consumer debts basically optional in the United States, contingent on one being sufficiently organized and informed. That is likely a surprising res…

That's the joke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect

It is picking the adventure over playing it safe. "You only live once so you just as well pick the once in a lifetime, most exciting, or whatever experience." What an author finds …

This post is more than a month old. Twitter announced pricing tiers yesterday (March 29). From the first link on the blog post: > Today we are launching new Twitter API access tier…

I had assumed your comment as the standard hn opinion of "RSS is the greatest thing since sliced bread" but you literally mean "TLDR: use RSS".

Traditional goal setting doesn't take into account trade-offs. You should be aware and discuss those while goal setting. From the example: Company Goal: Make more money Sales: We'l…

With regard to rebase and fossil vs git when you have a small team of trusted developers rebase is harmful because you lose information that could help you understand the _why_ of …

the devs seem to blame go-imap ( https://github.com/emersion/go-imap ). at a quick glance the library itself doesn't seem to have an open issue describing the problem. curious if t…

i disagree. more of my data has been compromised due to attacks/leaks/etc on the host than has been compromised due to someone having access to my machine.