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> the controversy arising Could you be more specific? Are you talking about a Hacker News thread or something else?

You shouldn't have replied. You and the other guy are both out of your gourds, and you don't understand how crazy you look.

I sort of doubt that. In practice, it seems to incentivize influencing policy to drive up healthcare costs, with little regard for patient outcomes.

Before the tire fire that is rvm became "standard", it was normal to just download the version you needed and build it from source. There's nothing forcing us to use crappy, obscur…

Forget public healthcare, I'd gladly live in Canada for this protection!

Great advice! I'd venture that managing large files is an unsolved problem. It's a hack in most version control systems, and uploading/downloading files from a host, even S3, is a …

Static website generators.

> Traditionally, there are two ways to study a page like this: > 1. Type out every line of code > 2. Copy+paste the code from their website, maybe play around and make small change…

uMatrix is your friend.

I think it's sort of like first-class flying. There's no logistical reason for not boarding the plane rear-to-front, but you can get people to pay for the privilege of being first,…

It's destructive, and Amazon can get away with being a crap book store now. I've ordered many thousands of dollars worth of computing books from them over the years. In the past si…

This is a known footgun of promises. But if you are using async/await, uncaught error in the promise chain is the same as uncaught error inline.

As a fallback. I like LISPs as much as the next guy/gal, but editing the AST by default is too low-level. The importance of paredit is a language smell in my opinion, not something…

This is like saying running for exercise is a waste of time because you could be driving instead. It's not about knowing a particular sort algorithm. It's about the discipline of s…

They destroyed the XPI/XUL platform and thousands of hours of work that went into those extensions. Now Firefox is a much worse version of Chrome, no reason to use it except for du…