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Some would argue that Lego and Technic are too complicated, and we should all play with Duplo. Thankfully, Michelangelo and Leonardo were not in large teams. Which do you aspire to…

You don't have to do it like that. You could do: (= (* x (+ y z)) (+ (* x z) (* y z))) Or: (= (* x (+ y z)) (+ (* x z) (* y z))) Or: (= (* x (+ y z)) (+ (* x z) (* y z))) Or: (= (+…

Yes, that's exactly my point: forgiveness is withheld, even after repentance. Admitting guilt is double-punished, and doubling-down is comparatively rewarded.

No, you are arbitrarily deciding that "shaming judges the person," and that shaming means, "You are a bad person." That's what you think it means. You do not get to decide what "sh…

Your distinctions between shame and censure are arbitrary and meaningless. e.g.: Censure: "You shouldn't have done that." Shaming: "You shouldn't have done that. Shame on you." The…

Why? My time is valuable. If they want such detailed feedback (i.e. free business advice) from me, they can compensate me for it. I would get nothing in return for spending my time…

Cyber war would be such a situation, after first strike. Or before first strike, and attack from sources outside the country. In which case, seeing Russia go dark would be like an …

> A few times, even in the last election, the popular vote did not match the election outcome. That is not in dispute here. Why are you repeating that? > I think that's totally fai…

> Instead a mere 30% of the US can vote on who is president and the rest doesn't get a say. [The electoral system for voting the president is so weighed that if you were to win the…

Raw democracy can also lead to undesirable results. It's not true that whatever 51% of the population wants is right or good. Do you disagree? > They can both lead to anti-democrat…

What if there are no other factors? User A, new account, posts a single comment: "Illegal immigrants should be deported." User B, new account, posts a single comment in reply: "You…

Well, for example, the U.S. federal government was designed to cope with that problem: the Senate represents the states equally, regardless of population, and the President is elec…

Thanks for being open to the idea (unlike the downvoters). HN is so tiresome.

Isn't the whole point of semver that it's not complex or nuanced? A version is either backward-compatible or it's not. The fool's errand would be expecting semver to encode all inf…

It's quite annoying to have to enable JS for 3 different domains just to see something other than a blank page. It also prevents non-JS browsers and retrievers from seeing content.…

Regardless of how one feels about Facebook, has anyone stopped to ask why Facebook and Zuckerberg are getting such an avalanche of negative coverage from the mainstream media? Why …

The emacs-gif-screencast package does this very well. Each keystroke (technically, each command) is recorded as a frame, with timestamps used to set the appropriate duration of eac…

Have you run any numbers to back up your beliefs?

It may not be much help, but I've found minidlna to be a reliable, simple, lightweight media server on my LAN. I expect it could run well on a low-power device. Any DLNA/UPNP devic…

All this talk of being understanding and non-judgmental, but here you are, passing judgment on his words without caring to understand his intention. More concerned about how you th…

I think you misunderstood my comment. I'm aware of the apt security model and the nature of this bug. My point is that these Ubuntu repo servers are not available over HTTPS, which…

$ sudo sed -i 's/http:/https:/g' /etc/apt/sources.list $ sudo apt-get update ... Err https://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Sources Failed to connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com po…

> he was not "harassed out of the project," he was removed by formal action. Ah, yes, the standard bureaucratic cover for abuse: retroactively justify it with formal committee acti…

I wish I understood why you like Source Code Pro so much. For example, in Emacs, I just switched to Source Code Pro (on "normal" or "medium" weight). With the frame maximized verti…

Emacs is much like that, as everything the user can do is an interactive command, which is typically a named function. So tools like Helm, Ivy/Counsel, as well as the built-in comp…