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I won't be applying, due to my lack of a swedish work permit - but I love to see Vim or Emacs listed as a hard requirement in a job advert.

These obviously are’t planned obsolescence though. Flexgate is a manufacturing error, that they handled in a consumer hostile way Batterygate, was an arguably misguided way to supp…

Your interpretation of my comment, though I guess intended as a joke, can only really mean two things: 1. You are unaware of DHH’s more recent favoured topics 2. You don’t think th…

DHH very keen to demonstrate to all Londoners that he’s not been to London edit: and also is a tool

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hmm. Increasingly it feels like I shouldn't be using cloudflare.

We can add hacker news commenters to the list of people who wouldn’t get Pierre Menard

Thanks for the response, and apologies for misrepresenting your results somewhat! I'm probably not going to change the title since I am at heart and polemicist and a sloppy thinker…

It's because we won't build things. Writing from a part of zone-2 London which is full of two story detached and terraced houses.

It's not about being right, it's about appearing to be right

I was briefly terrified this was Lambda in the AWS sense

In case anyone isn't familiar with remix, bloomingkales seemingly has no familiarity with the framework. Obviously it's not been created as a conspiracy to sell training courses. T…

The title made me think this was about a 'negative 40B pivot', when it actually means an 'approximately 40B pivot'. Does hacker news not support Tildes or what?

I do think this is a cool product, but I would be very hesitant to buy a clock that relies on the internet, and on an API that might die at some point.

The only time I had to work with C# it was a non .Net Core project, and I had to run the editor in a virtual windows machine running on a Macbook. It was a vaguely traumatic experi…

I did think it was very windy today.

Hey! I usually find it very hard to remain deeply engaged with a podcast. I'll be focused for a few minutes, then my focus will shift and only later will I realise that I've been p…

“ The process is self-reinforcing; the more degraded it becomes, the harder it is to develop a useful and accurate theory.” This is a really good point I think. It feels like the S…