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Last time Patrick was on HN customer support duty: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28522784

You’ve come to the right place! This is where the Stripe CEO will reply to you when all their support processes have failed, and you have no other course to save your business. Tha…

What’s your goal? Source code is not to be read like a book. If you read it, you must do so with a goal, context and purpose.

I flagged this post. Not credible enough for HN front page. Really ridiculous. Surely no one can believe Vr headsets out sold Xbox consoles? Who here honestly actually believes the…

What proof is required that the money is legally obtained? Or is it simply open money laundering for international criminals?

It’s money that matters. All the poor people who have a problem with this scheme need to be realistic about how the world works and stop complaining. (Snark, to be clear).

But no systemd distro is saying “we want to dump systemd but we can’t because it’s too tightly Coupled” are they? Or maybe the maintainers are I don’t know do you have links to sho…

I just want to pre-empt the inevitable bitching about systemd to say I think it’s awesome and incredibly useful and consistent and powerful and I’d take it any day over the mess of…

If you’re a developer, your employer is using git checkins as the primary measure of whether you are working. You’ll need a script to automate credible git activity.

Can someone explain what is meant by this?

When ever I pass by a large digital outdoor screen I imagine computer games being played on it and then I wonder what would be involved in hacking that screen and connecting a comp…

Maybe all content creators around the world should form a union to fight against the big platforms. At the moment, any individual content creator is just a little xitch when it com…

Can anyone explain why opioids are still being sold and prescribed?

I very much hope my doctor relies a great deal on Google. Any expert in any field should hone their skills via google.

I found that if I’m deep copying then that’s a sign my software design is wrong. There’s a lot of challenges and problems with deep copying, better to find another way.

Can be an asshole sometimes. Quite a lot actually. If you ask it to respond in a conversation about …. well pretty much any nasty topic you can think of, it’ll join in whole hearte…