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I would personally add 2) Websites that are known for mallware, phishing, or otherwise going to mess you up. As I said I don't know if SOPA is good/bad, but my point was that "I su…

So if a company starts infringing trademarks, polluting search engines en masse, tricking people into buying their rubbish, phishing their details, getting credit card details etc,…

You've missed the point. This is an internet hate mob formation. The facts aren't important.

I just think the sky isn't falling that's all. I think the endless posting of articles, protesting, etc etc is a big waste of man hours.

What does "Open Internet" mean though? You can't reasonably support free speech in all instances, just like you can't reasonably support an "open internet" in all instances. There …

Please can we at least try to ensure HN doesn't go the way of Reddit? I'm against SOPA as much as the next guy, but it's a moot issue. Browsers will just release new versions that …

A single currency across countries with such different economies, histories, cultures and languages would still result in the same outcome IMHO.

Their mistake was to join the Euro.

"the idea of a single currency" caused it. A truly terrible idea. Everything that happened was inevitable.

You're conveniently ignoring the fact that the + operator also means string concatenation. Javascript thinks to itself 'hello' string concatenated with a 1 value.

It wasn't. At least in the UK in the 80s, you could go out to any town center, walk into a shop, and buy a "home" computer. They were everywhere.

"hello" - 1 doesn't return NaN out of some sense of exception to trying to subtract from a string. It returns it because parseFloat("hello") = NaN, and NaN - 1 = NaN.

Well, I grew up in a day when it was even easier. * Buy home computer (ZX81) * Turn on * 10 Print "Hello world" * run I don't think the instant gratification and ease of use did me…

That would be ridiculous because then what would 'hello' + 1 equal? Everyone would expect it to equal 'hello1'.

OK here's plain english simple explain... Left hand side is a string, and "+" is string concatenation as well as addition. So '5' + 3 = '53' (String concatenation). Just as "Hello"…

Everyone already has a browser, which includes a profiler, debugger, REPL etc. Not everyone has a c compiler or JDK, or wants the hassle of having to set them up just to start lear…

See my comment below. It's not about being trapped in any mindset. It's about thinking logically. Either '5' - 3 results in an error of some kind, or it evaluates to 2. There is no…

No it's not. Logically, the only other thing that could happen is for an "error" or "exception" be thrown when you do '5' - 3 There's really only 2 choices. Either convert the '5' …

Disagree... for example from the link: In JavaScript: '5' + 3 gives '53' Whereas '5' - 3 gives 2 That's just logical and obvious, since "+" is both numerical addition, and string c…

What's the point? What's the difference between a stream of messages, and a stream of bytes? Nothing.

If it was up to HN users, no website would have advertising on it. HN users are very far removed from normal users. HN feedback is interesting, but it's not as useful as feedback f…

From what I've seen twitter isn't really a social network. The majority on twitter are just consumers for the "celebrities".

> "If Twitter is making money..." Is it? Doesn't seem very likely at all that it is.

I hope you're being sarcastic.