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throwaway150

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About throwaway150

My two and a half cents!

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    Comment #47069009

    Page is gone. Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20260105115129/https://devblogs.... It is very worrying that people with no ethics work for these trillion dollar companies…

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    Comment #47068380

    Exactly. I don't understand why so many people think the maintainer has some obligation to accept the funds even when they aren't comfortable doing so. The terms of engagement chan…

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    Comment #47068258

    > I'm not debating it... we're not debating it. You're having it explained to you. You have not explained anything. > That would be the very definition of a bubble. Just as is your…

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    Comment #47065787

    > if you are going to do something for a living, make sure it is NOT scalable. Great advice but difficult to action though. I mean 10 years back I'd have thought programming is tha…

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    Comment #47065017

    > It's not really debatable. Very weird for you to start a reply like this when we are literally debating it. > You say "all of us" Yes, I mean those of who don't use git-flow. Tha…

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    Comment #47064741

    So is there anything that would actually satisfy crowd here? Offer $25K and it is "How dare a trillion dollar company pay so little?" Offer $250K and it is "Hmm. Exception! Must be…

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    Comment #47064350

    > Why do none of you understand that this is for Anna's archives official torrents only? Because you are on the site where people who have no understanding of the domain or the pro…

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    Comment #47063880

    > Yup, there would have been much less Git buy-in if it weren't for git flow I don't buy this. I've never used git-flow in life. No team I've worked for has ever used git-flow. Yet…

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    Comment #47043799

    If a PR claims to solve a problem that I don't need, then I can skip its review because I'll never merge it. I don't think every PR needs reviewing. Some PRs we can ignore just by …

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    Comment #47043445

    > Every PR needs to be reviewed. Why would you review a PR that you are never going to merge?

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    Comment #47019874

    This I understand very well. It wasn't my question though. No, I wasn't asking anybody to organize a structure like Wikipedia. I was challenging the parent's comment where they sai…

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    Comment #47019783

    > The sole person running this site doesn't find the same things interesting than you do. That misses the point. I know the site is run by a single maintainer and they are free to …

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    Comment #47016943

    Appreciate the reply. My submissions fell within the scope though. I think I took the rejections too personally. Sorry for that. I appreciate the time and effort you put into maint…

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    Comment #47016595

    I tested with the 3 major browsers and all 3 block it as "Suspected Phishing". So looks like the system is working as designed. Lookalike websites serving malware have always exist…

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    Comment #47016214

    > This would be overwhelmed with AI slop within days. Why so? What's the logic? With ooh.directory, one person is curating it. With a community project, 10 people may curate it. Wh…

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    Comment #47016157

    > So what? This website is just some man's collection of blogs, not a government registry funded by tax money. It does not seem to even take public donations. Why shouldn't its mai…

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    Comment #47016047

    > You do seem particularly offended or annoyed that some blogs you suggested have not yet appeared on the site. I'm not offended. Just a little frustrated that I took the time to m…

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    Comment #47015999

    To be fair, I appreciate the technical effort it takes to build and maintain a directory like this. It isn't lost on me that many people like it. Kudos to the author for creating t…

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    Comment #47015895

    This looks great. Your https://minifeed.net/about page is really nice too. Well done! You should make it a top level post if you haven't already

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    Comment #47015328

    > it just feels so low effort when it's just "look what AI made" I don't know how many more of these posts will hit HN front page. It's like this forum has been taken over by vibec…

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    Comment #47015216

    > You either trust it or you don't. don't see why it has to be this way. It doesn't take much to tell us what the review process is like and what gets added and what does not. If I…