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What quote? And yes, in my opinion some IRC clients have suboptimal defaults or missing support for this. It's a shame, but changing your nick to emulate a built in IRC command is …

>If you're using a bouncer, it's trivial to set it up to change your nickname when you're not there. This is a terrible way to communicate your absence. It's spammy, potentially co…

>Saying "there's many sides to the story" is a lame excuse that people (especially politicians) use to avoid making decisions. That might be true, but it's also true that making de…

The complex part is that a lot of people have a lot of different opinions on it. Now I don't know most of them, because I have no personal interest in it ( http://en.wikipedia.org/…

>Hypothetically, if the CEO of another tech company was revealed to have political interests in slavery, would we feel the need to tip-toe so carefully? First, I would ask if that …

Considering the (lack of) alternatives I fear that using language to argue about meaning in language is the best I can do :S. But seriously, I think talking about what _exactly_ so…

>I take this to be an argument about complexity. The fox side of the argument is roughly that the world is more complex than most people allow for, and one principle or world view …

Using the twitch chat for anything constructive is guaranteed to fail. pls no coperino ravioli.

AI and robotics... I for one am excited.

The police already used shotguns, loaded with metal slugs for door breaching (!).

You can just let nmap run over it if you don't know the port anymore...

I think the fact that he's good at marketing doesn't change the fact that he did a lot of morally questionable things. And I don't think they're negligible– at least not from an et…

>Meanwhile readers of "HackerNews" and all the self-proclaimed "Hackers" at YC start-ups and all the trendy new "Growth Hackers" of course have much more in common with the CCC and…

>Are you talking about AirBnb and their Craigslist scamming? What? I don't even know if Kimble and AirBnB are connected... >Meanwhile venture backed start-ups are doing God's work,…

:S EDIT: For a bit of background: He and the CCC were never really friendly with each other. He tried to fit in the german hacker culture, but everyone knew he was a fraud. For exa…

Kimble is a fraud and an asshole. The only things he's good at are marketing and scamming. Just take a look at his history- insider trading, selling userdata from a BBS he ran to a…

The author isn't exactly friendly either...

AFAIK it is used in failsafe systems: you have two systems who deliver the same output, but are developed independently.

I like it. It's so super-villainy that I can't help but think it's meant tongue-in-cheek. And the logo does look awesome.

Considering she is part of the W3C CSS Working Group I don't think she needs to write posts like that to prove something.

It's 'a FAQ', 'an FAQ' is... wrong.

Elemental Weapons are okay, but not really very viable. If you want a weapon without scaling, chaos is your best bet, if you're => 10 humanity. The way to play is break points thou…

FROM Software didnt intend to port Dark Souls originally, and when they did it after demand from the playerbase it was their first port. Lets hope they learnt something from it. An…

Kimble's going into politics? That's going to be fun, he's predestined for a job where he can bullshit as much as possible.