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Over 25% of the original ASCII specification is control characters.

It provides no benefit, so even the smallest amount of added complexity or additional engineering effort required isn't worthwhile.

Even given the other objections to your argument, there are an extraordinary number of examples of now-very-appreciated artists, writers, etc whose work was not valued at the time …

Here's a good summary of some recent stuff: https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...

Corey Quinn wrote an interesting article addressing that question: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_bra... Some good information in the comments as well.

DHH joined their board in 2024 [0], and is using this opportunity to purge people he disagrees with politically from the Ruby ecosystem. It really is as simple as that. 0: https://…

Specifically, it was in a meeting called by Jason Fried to address people who were concerned about the ongoing existence of an internal list of "funny customer names" (which by all…

Why would we think that intelligence would increase in response to universality, rather than in response to resource constraints?

I wonder if those would be useful in identifying the potential contents of specific Marion Stokes tapes (my understanding is that they're sorted, but are only labeled with channel …

Not of companies. Of the people who choose to work for them (or, rather, choose not to stop working for them after they build these "features").

In the spirit of HN, I guess I'll ask -- what did you think the point of the story was?

Long story short, the sword was forged during the First Age by the famed Dwarven-smith Telchar of Nogrod -- later wielded by Elendil and shattered in the Battle of Dagorlad. Once t…

These jobs do not attract the best software engineers.

Copy at IA: https://web.archive.org/web/20231121210833/https://gist.gith... Digest mirror: https://static.space/sha2-256:a53e64b47b45972c3086e0300a8bb0...

Offhand, an understanding of the assembly and internal mechanics of a product from having built it would make me feel like I would be be more likely to be able to fix it if require…

So that's a no, you have no examples. Got it.

jgc knew about it in mid-2018, at least, since I was still involved with P0 at that point and spoke with him about it. I guess he forgot.

The devil has enough advocates. Don't feel the need to throw your hat into the ring.

If one side is advocating genocide and you want to mute your criticism of politics (so that you can make money, to be clear), that's a choice available to you, but it's neither eth…

> How am I supposed to work? Whatever happened to the man pages, y'know.

Audre Lorde's quote is relevant here: ---------- For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they…

> I also don't think this is an example of Microsoft taking a side; rather I read it as them refusing to bat, which seems fine. You can't be neutral on a moving train, as they say.…

Wow, what a great way to kill yourself and/or your family. Thanks for the tip!