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Oh fuc you.

> This is nonsense. I am very familiar with web browsers. Javascript is standardized as ECMAScript: As I said, it is standardized as SQL is "standardized", but every browser implem…

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Retirement? The guy visited china and met with the leader of china to calm relations after trump got elected. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/205... A germ…

> Wow, this comparison is totally whack Did you really say whack? > Javascript and C are both standardized and the former is the only option when using a web browser. Javascript is…

> I'm not sure how this is relevant. It's relevant because you want to limit the number of people who have access to your proprietary software. It's pretty straightforward. > the m…

> Do not write scripts with bash. It's a bit too late for that. Bash is pretty much the de facto default shell for linux. Telling people not to use bash scripts is like telling web…

Of course. Especially when proprietary software/intellectual property is involved. I don't know of any tech shop that makes the source code available to the QA. QA is normally a "b…

> I feel like the decline of traditional television is behind a lot of the push to destroy net neutrality. It's the decline of TV, news and traditional media in general. Look at wh…

> the paper has been in circulation for close to a 175 years The NY Post has been in circulation for over 200 years. Not sure what your point is. > is ranked as the most trusted jo…

> I am inherently suspicious of these types of nanny-tech initiatives. As you should be. It just gives google more excuse to monitor you. They have justification for monitoring you…

> the economist publishes articles of extraordinary quality No they don't. They offer fluff. This article is just fluff and years old news. Maybe because I work in the tech industr…

> Frankly that's luck. No doubt he is smart and has smart people working for him but that's pure luck. All investment is "luck" if you put it that way. > All but one gone and that …

Because the guy was justifying taking and keeping the DNA material for perpetuity with his anecdote. It's the quintessential example of authoritarianism defense. One instance of go…

> I was told that I could not opt out and that the sample becomes the property of the State and there is nothing I could do about it. That is so disgusting. For all the talk about …

> Both nationalism nor patriotism barely make sense any more. Time are changing. People said the same thing in the late and early 20th century before ww1 and ww2. They were wrong. …

Leverage the type system? Type systems exists to allow you catch errors at compile time. That is what it's there to do. It's like saying leveraging the compiler to compile or lever…

Absolutely. Don't know anyone who had anything good to say about klout, don't know any value klout provided.

It feels natural to anyone who understands binary numbers. Every odd number in binary will have the last bit as 1. Just like in the decimal system, every number that is a multiple …

How are these hack? This is standard bit masking/manipulation? Every CS student learns it and the C Programming Language has examples of it.

Sisper's Introduction to the Theory of Computation. Bible. Wheelock's Latin. Why don't we teach the bible and latin from kindegarten through college to our kids? I'm an atheist but…

> I recently did a social media purge Then why are you on hacker news? > It's this one network that still seems to be a marker of influence in the tech community and yet seems like…

> YT and FB could fix these social issues overnight What social issues? I remember old conservatives railing about gansta rap and south park causing social issues back i the day. N…

I thought the story would be about an actual billion dollar bank job, not a potential billion dollar bank job. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_bank_fraud_scandal

I wish HN would ban all betteridge's style headlines. How much did newton or einstein's father exercise? Were they body builders?