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The problem isn't that it's too abundant. The problem is that people make excuses for it every time it happens, instead of just saying, "Yeah, that was really verbally abusive."

I agree with you. The problem I'm seeing in this thread relates to this point: > There could be a debate about what constitutes verbal abuse, on a case by case basis. And that woul…

This post was about grown men, not fourteen-year-olds. Grown men... as in, people who should know better.

I can't imagine using shame as my primary motivator for improving my work.

"Offending" and "verbally abusing" are not the same thing.

This debate exists on a spectrum of gray areas, but I'm pretty sure "you should be retroactively aborted" crosses the line from "shaking someone's cage" to "flagrantly excessive ve…

Genuine question: Did you read the article? I feel like the author's main point is that there seems to be a higher abundance of toxic interactions in Open Source than other communi…

Hadn't heard of nvim until today. Can anyone sell me on this project? I looked at the homepage and README, but they're both pretty hand-wavey. What problems does nvim solve for exp…

It's not a choice if you can't afford it or are turned down.

This is true, but who has the time and energy to fight every stupid Kafkaesque battle like this?

It's to incentivize buyers to Buy It Now. If you know that Buy It Now disappears as soon as someone bids, then you're more likely to Buy It Now because if you don't Buy It Now, you…

Wow. It never occurred to me that when you provide a service like that, someone could use it to literally ruin Christmas. That is heavy.

The author filtered on questions with accepted answers only.

The author filtered by questions with accepted answers only.

http://xkcd.com/810/

How is anyone even surprised about this? If you're making money off of someone else's platform, it's only a matter of time before they're gonna ask for a cut.

Trying to figure out if I'm going crazy, if this is isolated to my account, or if the rest of the internet just hasn't noticed yet.

Who cares if they're not actually vulnerable? It's 2012. These password restrictions are arbitrary and anachronistic.

Perhaps "crap sort" is appropriate, in that the performance of the algorithm itself is crap, and the name also evokes similar intuitive parallels to "bubble sort", since (as we kno…

I lucked out with this project; it began as a Kickstarter which got incredibly overfunded: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxcantor/beautiful-vim-... It hit the front page of …