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nastygibbon

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    Ask HN: How do you avoid people distracting you at work?

    I work as a developer at a large company in a large open office. We have many scrum teams and communication via Slack is normal. My coworkers frequently walk up to my desk to start…

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    Comment #16400306

    > ... if you start with selected text, does it fill the buffer with it > There's an outstanding PR that does preciesly that Just to be clear, I believe that PR will fill the newly-…

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    Comment #15891796

    Completely agree.

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    Comment #15780080

    Do you have a source for this?

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    Comment #15391659

    This looks interesting. I'm going to assume that you add whatever temporary buffer you use while editing the files to your gitignore? E.g. Vim will use .swp files. Does this get an…

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    Comment #13428113

    Yeah. This is the classic example and obviously is interesting to think about. Some people still defend telling the truth if you're hiding Anne Frank and the Nazis are at the door.…

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    Comment #13428033

    Yeah. I understand that. But by telling your boss the truth you gave him a real gift in that he could trust you. If he (or the higher-ups) thought about that a little bit they woul…

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    Comment #13427877

    > I also do not swear, for obvious reasons, in front of my three year old or any children for that matter. Again, it's just common sense. Why is this obvious (I'm not being facetio…

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    Comment #13427689

    > Straight honesty isn't always a virtue. I find this an interesting statement. Would you mind providing some clear examples of a real-life situation where honesty isn't a virtue? …

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    Ask HN: Does knowing the history of a programming language or technology matter?

    I had a disagreement with an experienced colleague today. I argued that following the changes and developments of a particular technology or language and learning about their histo…

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    Comment #9635558

    As a so called 'European', I'm kind of shocked/dubious that this would also be acceptable in American culture. My guess is most people would agree that if you put your feet on the …

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    Comment #9614294

    Can someone give us an ELI5? Pros/Cons etc.

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    Comment #9420026

    They sometimes fill them with different colours, too. Here is a link to a picture. http://goo.gl/ZDnSE0

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    Comment #9125597

    This. I'd love to subscribe to more than one lesson at a time.

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    Comment #9122329

    No info as to how this was exposed. Were they storing data as plain text?

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    Comment #9073227

    > A search of LinkedIn profiles turns up more than 60 former Tesla employees now employed by Apple. I can't tell - is this a lot or hardly anything?

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    Comment #9044017

    I really like this. Good work.

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    Comment #8273155

    Big thank you for this. Great shots.

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    Comment #8181566

    Emily Howell.

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