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IMHO, the United States lacks a true left wing party and the Democrats are the party of moderate regulation/legislation (which is unfortunate for a number of reasons).

While only tangential to the article, the short story from which Eudora gets its name is fascinating in both its depth and simplicity: http://art-bin.com/art/or_weltypostoff.html

No, that's my way of saying, who cares how many points I have on an internet forum and how are said points relevant to what I am saying? I glance at what's on HN in the morning and…

I didn't say anything about anything beyond the fact that that's the classic defence of trolling and it's a piss poor one. Cool that you looked at my karma tho, like it means somet…

Ah, the #1 go to defence for terrible people when they get called out for their actions, "it's just a joke, I was just kidding, don't be so sensitive."

That's going to be up to you, the Amazon employee. Personally, I'm unwilling to work for a company who's values are in severe opposition to my own, so I would probably quit my job …

I'm an engineer at Rover and we're definitely hiring. If you enjoy writing python and want to work with a great team of people (and dogs), you should totally apply.

Oh man, that really takes me back.

Erlang is an amazing language for learning how to effectively use OOP principles. I feel like anyone who works primarily with class-based languages owes it to themselves to write a…

Check out spacemacs, it works beautifully out of the box.

Yes. Personally, I think VRML's biggest flaw was that it was ahead of its time.

"triggering" someone is not the same thing as triggering a seizure.

Just like yelling "fire" in a crowded theater (where there is no fire), sending someone a gif in the hopes that it causes a seizure is not protected speech. It's assult.

Not very, according to it's website http://arcadia-unity.github.io/ Also looks like the last commit was 2 months ago, FWIW.

Just my personal observations over the past 15 years or so, but I think laptops and headphones killed the cafe.

I used to skip class in high school to go drink turkish coffee, chain-smoke, and discuss life, poetry, code, and philosophy at Cafe Algiers. I think I learned more there than I did…

On paper that sounds great, but 51% computing power rapidly becomes a "central/political/technical institution" in the real world.

I don't really disagree, but it's a 50 minute (uphill) walk from Pike Place to Volunteer Park, whereas it's 15 minutes to the edge of SLU. I don't really mind walking an hour, but …

They're all lovely parks, but none are within walking distance of downtown.

Terraform + any old CI + Elastic Beanstalk works wonderfully for deploying docker apps on AWS.

I'm pretty sure the kind of people who used to move from Akron to, say, Philedelphia for more opportunities before middle america's mobility and income were severely reduced by the…

Very true, but even with graphics mods the difference in ease of use between DF and KSP's interfaces is vast.

Depends if they like starting at ASCII. KSP has a much more familiar interface and would probably be the better route to go.

I'm really surprised that the author didn't get into one of the main ways a fortress fails. It's humming along smoothly and then suddenly the population doubles in size when a grou…

Yes, you can (mostly) implement this behaviour in pretty much any modern server framework or language. The point is, you get this behaviour for free as a core part of the language.…