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You and I had similar difficulty yesterday vis-a-vis arbitrary downvoting. I was referring to a comment made at me regarding how HN comments are for correcting people who are wrong…

No, marco, you're just being "corrected." Iron sharpens iron, duh.

Yeah that's the consensus, and that's what it was meant to be, that's what it once was. However these days, especially in a community where only certain individuals can downvote, t…

I've found that this community is beyond unwelcoming, bordering on toxic. I no longer see the merit in contributing, and furthermore I find that reading these comment threads has b…

YES. This has been killing me for months- my clients keep crawling in my asshole and all of my efforts have changed exactly none of the problem.

I've been blaming my hosting company, getting everyone in their support chain to take a crack at the issue. I always just assumed that gmail was the working side of the problem, no…

holy hell an active livejournal link. that's amazing. i thought G.R.R.Martin was the only remaining user.

I haven't used IRC since middle school, back when I was 31337. Way back from the days when there was a leading '3.' It's great you mention 'being a prick,' because that's what I sa…

one of the best programmers i've ever worked with spent his time teaching himself php. he was a bright kid who made a stupid decision, but didnt let that stop him. we worked togeth…

It's really sad to me how all of us in our industry are getting slapped across the face day in and day out about how unfairly, unequally and unjustly women are treated in our indus…

Surprise surprise hackernews downvotes comments disparaging the rampant misogyny and prejudice in our industry.

> People expressing a fear that minorities are receiving unjust benefits are often racist? This type of thinking in our industry needs to STOP. There is far too much evidence that …

Mr. Doctorow is why I stopped reading BoingBoing. If you are familiar with his work this is not a-typical.

Interesting CPU performance in Chrome on Ubuntu! Relating to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8471049 (Google chrome helper amok in OSX HN thread) While playing Cursors m…

i have been wrestling with this for weeks, both professionally and personally. I'm fairly certain that in this process/before we noticed the problem we burned up one of our machine…

You sound like a completely sane person. The use (abuse) of substances is widespread among large swaths of the majority of mental illnesses. Associating the use of marijuana specif…

Correlation is not causation.

Thank you, too. The patching process wasnt as much my concern as the other widespread, clever exploits that really experienced bash dudes are finding. Like we discussed, my concern…

Thank you as well. I appreciate you taking the time to answer. We don't run cgi scripts, and we seem to be predominantly in the "probably safe" category. That said, this is the rea…

Thank you, this is very helpful- though I was hoping to be cheap and lazy.

I have an extremely small team, lots of projects and no resources or capacity to spend on securing our web applications. I host with one of the big guys, we don't run our servers f…

Your attitude continues to be less than stellar. You act like a babe in the woods who has no frame of reference and only innocently asks questions to further educate yourself. From…

It's not a flippant response, but I would certainly consider yours to be. You have never suffered from addiction, therefore your frame of reference is skewed, but forgivable. Havin…

Absolutely. I have taken the same list of meds as the post above yours, and thankfully as he did I have found the right medicine for me. I perceive the tone of the post above yours…

I am bipolar. What you describe is why it's a "hard sell" to patients with mood disorders. Yes, others will point to the higher dose for psychiatric patients. I would point to the …