Viewing profile — rhet0rica

The "when" isn't a mystery or gradual in the slightest—we have concrete dates. The death of the button occurred on October 21, 2010, when Microsoft released Windows Phone 7 to the …

I prefer a more tongue-in-cheek theory than a mere preference for the word's shape. Perhaps "load-bearing" is structurally necessary—if it is ablated, the whole model will collapse…

The road to hell was paved lovingly, foolishly, naïvely, arrogantly, optimistically... load-bearingly?

Encoded in its design are the biases of its designers. It acts like a nervous twenty-something from San Francisco.

The two key interpretations are as follows: 1. It follows that all of human authorship is pointless since search engines now actively bury content and impede access to written docu…

This comment is such an elegant Rorschach test. Bravo.

WikiLambda is what happens when someone looks at the definition of the second-system effect and says, "Hey, that's cool and all, but I bet I can make a bigger, better version of th…

My thoughts exactly. Why the fuck is this the primary concern of EVERY person who works at Google?!

This may be the most important story of the year (for creatures with 20 pods.)

you are hereby sentenced by the council of dashers to type "—" ten million times using Windows-1252 alt codes you have 5 seconds to comply before your planet will be demolished to …

[flagged]

A single product name, you say? COPILOT, COPILOT, COPILOT!

Sadly they had to close that loophole where so-called family "members" could claim individuality, bypassing the spirit of the legislation. Science has yet to determine where corpor…

Never understood this about Windows Subsystem for Linux naming, nor its predecessor Windows Services for Unix. Surely Linux is the subsystem running on Windows? Should we now reint…

Trump specifically seems to hew awfully close to the symptoms of a long-term cocaine user. The hard drift into self-congratulatory vanity parallels that of Charlie Sheen during a c…

That's a good question! I'm sure we'll find out eventually. z Quickly spin up Hacker News comments from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with a lobotomy.

[dead]

since it claims to be precisely that, anything else would be false advertising

Optimism. Someday the blue bird will be free.

Punctuation. Let me tell you how much I've come to punctuate since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If…

I am reminded of a certain Mitchell and Webb skit that suggests the absence of deaths by drowning in a county indicates perhaps too much public funding has gone into preventing the…

his full name is scamuel alternative manual

I am deeply distressed that this doesn't require Xlib.

Fun fact: NEXTSTEP went 10 years without shipping a basic design refresh, except in prereleases (4.0PR1 and traces in 4.0PR2.) This was because it was a good fucking GUI that did i…

Although the author appears to be of Indian descent, I think this is just a case of "Silicon Valley Tech Bro Discovers Localization," particularly since he noted he didn't know the…