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anon5_on Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects

> that Heroku hack

What is the "that Heroku hack?" mentioned in that article

anon5_on My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

> "You are scheduled to be deleted on our next cron job. Nothing complex."

Is this serious? What's a cron job have to do with knocking out information from a rdbms?

I imagine a cron job could be useful if there was a script to clear out any static files - but you can also invoke the script manually. "Nothing complex" :)

anon5_on A Parser Combinator library for C

What's the difference between this and flex/yacc?

anon5_on Snapchat’s new ‘scary’ privacy policy

Is there any other uses of snapchat outside sending nude photos?

Is it possible for Google to create a ToS that grants them all ownership of email you send?

anon5_on How We Moved 34k Wired Pages to One Site

You guys were hardly successful - I still go through 27bstroke6 (yes, i remember the old name of threatlevel) and find the PDF affidavits are broken links.

Disappointing guys. Do you care enough? Can you guys hire and intern, go back into pacer and bring back the PDF's?

Make a log of your progress please. Do that, and you'll win my respect. Poulsen's writing was great.

anon5_on Ask HN: Where can I find high quality writing services?

> UPDATE: There are, by and large, two broad types of writers: extroverts who promote themselves capably, but might or might not have equally good skills, and introverts who lock themselves away and aren't great at self-promotion.

That in itself is a broad swath of a statement, and not necessarily true.

Why does being an extrovert have to be correlated with being and impostor, and introvert just simply these poor humble victims whose talents are overlooked?

What I saying is, if you're looking for work - applying for jobs is never the time to be humble. And if you are already confident, being humble won't help you.

anon5_on What language has the quickest payback?

The obvious answer is Haskell.

It is the only logical language that exists. Anyone who doesn't know it just hurting themselves.

After you master functional programming, you will be able to use it in EVERY other language.

You can even program ruby on rails functionally.

If anyway says anything negative about functional programming - they're just not dedicated or intelligent enough to understand its' abstract concepts.

In a world filled with hurt feelings and thin skin - finally seeing the logical essence of code is a transcendent experience.