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> The industry as a whole throws away orders of magnitude more engineering-years than that on vanity projects The industry as a whole throws away orders of magnitude more engineeri…

find -print0...|xargs -0... works for me, and i don't always want to execute something and xargs can run parallel processes. i feel like this guy never bothered to read the man pag…

Your podcast episode on the history of commodities trading[1] was awesome! I, sadly, don't visit your site as much as I used to, because, well, honestly I can't really keep track o…

Wow, i recognized the 68000 before i even saw the caption. That little chip sure powered a lot of different things back then.

It's a web 1.0 thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring this was a popular one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ate_my_balls Webrings kinda went away when "blogging" became the n…

True, because lying is the currency that HR and Recruiting traffics in.

an email harvester.

> not affiliated with y combinator. obviously. please don't sue us. we're single, not stupid.

I have a friend who's dad is a good carpenter, put a whole second story on his house, did the flooring and made a lot of furniture. He said it was about 4th grade before he found o…

I quite often get inappropriately sized boxes.

Yeah, several times. Thanks windows.

That's funny, I recognized the name, but had to look him up and went "oh yeah, eyebrows guy!". The kid who played Joffrey on game of thrones also always came across as a very smart…

Oh, yes, he was doing a "book club" on twitter for a little while. I remember him doing an interesting thread on an Updike book where he was making a point that the author was a gr…

now this wants me to scan a QR code with a mobile device?

Tell that to the NPM folks.

I kinda think everyone should have an old school "joy of cooking", where they have instructions on skinning rabbits and squirrels, just as a reference that things weren't always li…

honestly? no.

Naw, just actually live here for a couple years and you'll figure it out. If you're just a jerkass ubering everywhere then it prolly won't bother you anyway since you're just click…

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Unfortunately we're going to get it whether or not we need it.

That's pretty cool. I'm guessing it would need some tweaking to handle things like cookies, or does it just need a pointer to the cookiejar? I'm not too familiar with servo,

OK, now make them all run at once! (I know many conflict and there is not a shell buffer long enough to handle all that) Kidding aside, I actually said "ugh, seriously" when I saw …

not familiar, can you expand?

right, after you got in trouble. you were an arrogant prick until you dug yourself into a hole of your narcissism. you're writing to a broader audience than you think, and you've a…