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Howdy, I posted this and also run Sauerworld, the community news and resources site for Cube 2: Sauerbraten. As others have helpfully pointed out, Sauerbraten is an open source Qua…

This sounds more psychotic than hypocritical to me. "I'll win in a fight", is this a normal way of thinking? I'm a US citizen and I can honestly say this thought has never crossed …

I'm not surprised at all. My observation has been that teachers - even ones who are brilliantly good as teachers - are abysmal PowerPoint users. Every one I've seen has made the sa…

You're not in it to win it anymore. Get out while the getting is good, relax a bit, prepare for your next shot.

So what? It sounds like you are using this argument to excuse companies whose practices are causing workplace injury.

Let me put this into terms that you might better relate to. To a person with kids, being lectured about the right choices to make in their lives with regards to their kids by someo…

What? How do you suppose this surveillance will be conducted? It sounds to me like you are proposing that we solve the problem of individual companies having to hire some people to…

Obviously you have no kids and no interest in persuading anyone who does, to be throwing around this "failed parent" talk for anyone raising a child with special needs.

Which of the following seems more likely? A recruiter who was already giving the guy the wrong interview, and whose job revolves essentially around HR and sales, made mistakes in a…

A bit OT and I hate to be a pest... but can you guys please start offering laptops with more than 1080p displays? It's almost Kafka-esque that my phone has 77% more pixels than a $…

21:40. He mentions in the video that they had a one-producer, one-consumer input queue that they originally implemented with clojure.lang.PersistentQueue. They engaged Cognitect fo…

Restarting is different from reloading. Take a look at `clojure.tools.namespace.repl/refresh` - which in recent versions of CIDER is triggered with `cider-refresh`. It does what yo…

This article describes some seriously clueless agile practices. A massive reorg and restructuring dictated from the top to enable agile, a bottom-up methodology. They dictate that …

You are perhaps trolling/satiring but there are certainly people who feel this way, even if they don't state it in such up-front absurd ways. Our founders responded to taxes they d…

Not a single thing about harassment. Why? Does Twitter's technical leadership think the problem is that irrelevant that it's not worth putting on the roadmap? Does the media care s…

Yes. Germany, for instance, has a similar system where you pay per TV.

It's very unlikely that you'd be a target in any such rampage... unless you keep complaining like this.

Is there anything of particular interest happening on the site now? There doesn't seem to be any new release or any kind of announcement, and this has been featured on HN before. W…

Remember when Gmail used to have that ticker for how much space you get that would update live? You'd watch for a few seconds, and instead of 3.104649 GB of free email storage you'…

One downside to this approach is that it can tend to create status or power rifts between the product people and the tools people. In traditional shops, the "skills that pay the bi…

Twitter is already the premier platform for cyberstalking and harassment. The question they're struggling with is, how do they monetize that? Maybe if they charged for rape threats…

For those of us who are not familiar with the Indian political and business background of this story and the characters, can someone summarize? Some parts translate pretty clearly …

Joel's article is cautioning against the kind of cost/benefit-blind thinking that makes "rewrite all the code" a default option. Actually, I think in a certain way your story - per…

There is a bit of legal knowledge that may be relevant here, at least in terms of framing this question of who is responsible. In many jurisdictions (in the US) the legal standard …