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Doesn't mean HN has to be serious 100% of the time.

Well it was my favourite movie as a kid, so it was just a knee-jerk reaction

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I'm a grad getting in to webdev, and I find this fascinating - is it really that bad? Every company I've interviewed at so far has been lenient as long as you know how to solve a p…

Editor, development environ, OS, obscure bash aliases, personal routines, code review/issue tracking; I want to hear it all!

same reason gun control is a good idea?

weird, worked with 0 lag on Ubuntu/Chrome

Unfortunately a band-aid solution for a deep-rooted problem (not saying that one shouldn't do it).

I even did it on this thread, then realised the irony immediately

Snail mail prints to my friends. I'm joking of course, but what a horrible future - imagine if a 1984-like government used this tech to completely censor anything deemed against th…

Film cameras to the rescue. DRM that, buddy!

If you go just far enough back, the hours we work would sound ridiculous (but I do agree about the effort).

Absolute champion

I get: youtube-dl: error: no such option: --youtube-skip-dash-manifest As an error, am I missing something?

Pragmatic!

I'm interested, how did you figure out that's what was happening (just the first example)?

What you say is true - although I'm not sure it matters. There are heaps of art forms which are out of copyright, why should people critique/parody new films? Because they're relev…

fair use - education

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