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Calling something "the shit" is still unnecessarily using profanity. It's impolite. It's not a surprise it would be flagged as offensive.

I think today it's a lot less explicitly aggressive, but it's actually more meanspirited. It might be controversial to say this, but online discourse is a lot less male and a lot m…

If I could filter out the overuse of profanity shown in this article, I would. "Fuck yeah!!! That bad bitch is totally the shit!!" gets caught by a profanity filter. No great loss,…

I imagine it could have something to do with the physical fixedness of a book. I can remember the positions of the line breaks in some of my favourite books as a child and it would…

Explain China's complete lack of development until very recently, then.

>In these later letters, Wolf sounds like the kind of alarmist digital enthusiasts often deride. After all, they say, reading is not dying; it’s thriving. Wolf herself quotes a stu…

The Linux kernel uses lots of macros, many of them with lowercase names that are barely distinguishable from function names. Given the quality of that codebase, I think not using m…

You could make a proposal to the C committee to add a keyword `_Nullptr` and to add a header `stdnull.h` which has `#define nullptr _Nullptr`, like they did with bool.

(Please do write code like this anymore.)

Learn C the Hard Way is considered by the community to be, not exaggerating, one of the worst C books ever written.

To use a trivial example: int free;

Why are you posting a SubscriberLink to an LWN article to HN? That's not really the point of the links. They're for sharing in small groups not for giving away paid content to thou…

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Elon Musk is indisputably a snake oil salesman. See: hyperloop.

>More fundamentally, it’s insufficient to throw in a few courses on maths that everyone quickly forgets. Maths, science, and logic should be the basic foundation for cultivating ch…

The top 141 'elite engineers' are certainly making more than $10m/yr and their careers will last much longer.

>This is inconsiderate. Would you write "hire a babysitter, maybe?"? I'd love if people hired babysitters (or left children with family) instead of taking their SCREAMING children …

The platform has always traditionally been your own computer. You install programs that you find useful, fun, interesting, necessary, etc. When you have an issue with one, you cont…

It definitely seems like a lot of the time, the people making these lists could just resolve the issues with not a lot more effort than writing all this 'good first issue' document…

I think a video game ad displayed in a computer game magazine must be much more accurate than the kind of shitty advertising I get shown online.

Newspaper ads don't have tracking. TV ads don't have tracking. Why should web ads? They don't have a right to a business model. I do have a right to privacy. If they can't come up …

I don't really understand halting share trading. Who is the exchange to say who may or may not trade a product you own? It just seems weird. If there's bad news, the people who pay…

That's weird. It's not expensive to wire houses, and you can't get gigabit fibre speeds with ethernet. You certainly couldn't get anywhere near it 5-10 years ago, but gigabit fibre…

>this is not really democracy Literally every single part of the EU apparatus is democratic. Every single bit. The European Council consists of the Heads of Government of the EU st…

Yeah that's nothing to do with big companies moving there. That's what happens when you let Chinese investors dominate your housing market. (See Auckland as well)