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i like cooking my friends and my family. syntax is important! ;)

Just Say No (to mass media fearmongers). give your tv set to somebody you really dislike.

rxvt-unicode, "urxvtd -f -o -q" in my ~/.xinitrc.

you ignored the silver bullet criticism i don't think so, i simply refuse to have my arguments framed that way since i'm very well aware of the shortcomings present in what has so …

Pimply-Faced Youth :)

but we're not talking about silver bullets: we're talking about models which let you derive most information from your data. mathematics says you will get the most bang for your bu…

like the yesterday's submission of "Why you should never use MongoDB (2013)" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12290739 ), this is all just plain sad because totally unnecessa…

the manpage is very explicit about that: Use the file name "-" (a single dash) to use stdin instead of a given file. Alternately, the file name "." (a single period) may be specifi…

explain the presence of homosexuality in a population when the theory of evolution predicts that any such trait (which leads to much lower genetic fitness) would have disappeared a…

do not use -X without having read the manual, it can break redirects and other things. from the curl(1) manpage: -X, --request (...) Normally you don't need this option. All sorts …

> normal conditionals are common in everyday life: "If they don't have a dark roast coffee, get me a medium roast." "They had dark roast so I got you nothing as requested." IOW, th…

this post says "remote" but the recruiterbox page says "Work from our amazing office at Kerkstraat 61 in the center of Amsterdam.

it's its

today. the various BSD systems all come without bash in their default configurations (and it's never in /bin). this should not be construed as an argument in support of /bin/sh.

403 - This request is blocked by Admin Tools. Please change this message in the component's options. same when going to http://portlandtribune.com/ what's up?

a mercenary is a professional soldier, the spin doctoring goes way back.

yes and no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_patent_law > By the 16th century, the English Crown would habitually grant letters patent for monopolies to favoured persons (o…

yeah, that was really close, wasn't it? just imagine we had all these mature IP protections in place two thousand years ago! so much stuff we could have had by now! imagine no one …

> The patent system was designed to foster innovation. No, the patent system was dedigned to elevate Queen's friends above their competition.

they said "oh, React is one of the better documented frameworks out there" well, consider the ruby language: it is implementation-defined(!). i got a Rails job without knowing any …

anything from C. J. Date

give me a junior to flesh out my sketches, it'll be done in two weeks. ask me to go it all alone, see you in four months.

i've read you comment, and it looks to me like this is a fair rephrasing. can you offer better alternatives where i mischaracterize your position? * you are allowed to drive under …

have public tv "air this film"? of course, you need strong democratic institutions like said public tv.

my impression has been that node.js reached the top of its hip curve a few years ago, same with golang. not that they're disused, they're just not obsessive-compulsive topics. this…