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If simply pointing out negative facts is a "personal attack" now, I'm quite thoroughly done here. You should reevaluate your priorities and ethics, they're far removed from those o…

Years later, still advocating theft from employees. Stay classy, David. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3955917

Your concerns apply equally to software aggregations generally -- e.g. every Linux distribution. Import paths are not the appropriate method of providing "credit". That's the sort …

All Linux distributions consist primarily of third-party code. I don't know what you mean by "arbitrary", though. It makes no sense in context, and is notably at odds with your ear…

> I'm confused, is this a curated set of existing Go libraries, or a brand-new set of libraries? Toward the bottom of the page they talk about contributing back to open source proj…

Your view is one of the worst types of conservative inhumanity and I honestly am repulsed by it.

> Where was the robber's empathy and humanity when he decided to commit a violent crime? Where was ours when we drove him to that crime? > I can think of a few better candidates fo…

The comment I responded to said "And mass pardons of federal prison could hint the governors about their power too." . This suggests two mistaken beliefs: 1) That governors as a wh…

Whatever justice is, it cannot be the vengeful, racist, wealth-centered system we have now. Nor can it possibly be found in the the mind of anyone prone to uttering the phrase "fuc…

1) The governors have powers that vary from zilch to equal to the President's. This is determined state-by-state. 2) You are mistaken if you believe all or even a substantial minor…

The offenses were not against the United States. This man is in a Colorado prison for crimes under Colorado law. The President has no authority in this case.

There is only one correct response: "We thank the researchers who pointed out our mistakes, and apologize to all voters for our failure to adequately secure a vital system.". The o…

> You are ignoring the line "But the real future of the laptop computer will remain in the specialized niche markets..." That's the part that's a prediction, which informs the tone…

> You wouldn't agree that more than a few percent of the kind of people who were already heavy office PC users back in 1985 now use laptops on aeroplanes, in hotel rooms or at conf…

> But the writer went further, to claim that by and large even the people who were already regular users of word processors and spreadsheets would have little desire to work on the…

> "For the most part, the portable computer is a dream machine for the few." I would say that 30 years ago, this was an objective statement of fact. > He just couldn't imagine any …

I feel like we read vastly different articles. I read an article where the author discussed the limitations of laptops as they existed thirty years ago (when, I'll remind you, this…

Could you list the specific predictions you believe the author made?

> 30 years later you can't go outside without seeing someone with a laptop computer. You certainly can, particularly outside tech hubs. Even in SV, when I was out and about, I don'…

http://raspberrycolocation.com/order/ "Average delivery time" 90 days? I'm not even sure what that means, but it doesn't strike me as particularly useful...

> This is like paying $10 every month for a raspberry pi + $40 SSD, or $75 in hardware. Raspberry Pis and SSDs do not come with bandwidth and redundant network, power, and cooling …

Because a method does not exist where a hundred hosts can do just as much damage. It is utterly trivial to detect and block anomalous login activity from 100 hosts.

> I specifically set a request number that would be below most thresholds. No legitimate user will be logging in once per second. If you're specifically throttling logins and don't…

> There are botnets with hundreds of thousands of hosts in them. Which have a wide array of other mechanisms by which to DDoS your application. If that level of force is being dire…

If someone can't easily figure out how to create per-IP login attempt throttles, I suspect their application has far more gaping holes in it.