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borisj··on German Interior Ministry shuts down Linksunten.indymedia.org
By generalizing "leftists", you sound like a right-winger who has problems with anything left of your own political views. I'm sure you'll explain how you're in fact a moderate as defense.
borisj··on Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices
If Whole Foods was in financial trouble before the acquisition, I don't imagine they'll be able to cut prices and maintain their quality. Something's got to give and I think it's going to be that "nice idea" you mention.
borisj··on Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits (2013)
Is there an updated list? This is from 2013
borisj··on JavaScript is Eating the World
Javascript is just the language. Its your runtime environment (browser) that is letting an unprivileged process consume resources like that without killing it.
borisj··on Sensor tracks who's driving in your neighbourhood
Ethics are just words that they claim to take seriously until money is involved. See: Peter Thiel.
borisj··on Oni: An IDE powered by Neovim
It seems hated by some developers such as yourself, yet users of electron apps seem to quite like them, a lot. Not sure how slack's,spotify's, and visualcode's success indicate a horrible user experience. What Qt application has as much reach as slack? Every GTK app I've ever used outside of GNOME stuck out as out of place with the OS. Maybe some Qt apps flew under my nose but I'd say the same about them, at least to the extent that they always made it obvious via certain UI elements that they were Qt apps.
borisj··on The Next iOS Update Has a Feature to Prevent Cops From Searching an iPhone
It also has the functionality to be able to wipe your phone when failing to unlock after 10 tries. It sounds so arduous to trigger in a tight situation that it's not useful in the real world.
borisj··on How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine
A lot of this exact advice was applicable when I was first learning C and C++ in college. Some of it was enforced by certain compilers' errors even. Interesting how the more things change, the more they stay the same.
borisj··on Ask HN: Is having videogames in your portfolio/GitHub a bad move?
USA here. As someone who has sat on both sides of the interview table, I've never once thought of game development being a negative thing to have in your portfolio. I don't know what your country is like but that attitude sounds moronic and immature.
borisj··on The Electric-Bike Conundrum
15 on a commuter sounds about right -- pretty fast actually for most anything I'd call a commmuter bike. I rode a single speed bike for about 8 years before I upgraded to an entry level Cannondale Supersix Evo, which I got late in the season so I ended up with a really, really good deal on a carbon frame road bike. On flats I have no problem maintaining 20-22mph for longer periods of time, but that's after some training. On sprinty bursts on flats I do high 20s, maybe breaking 30mph. On downhills 35mph and I don't feel comfortably pushing past that. In fact I rarely feel comfortably going that fast -- there are just specific stretches of road and hills where I'm not worried about potholes or surprise traffic.

When I started on the road bike doing 15-17mph during rolling-hill after-work rides with minimal intersections and traffic, and I'd say that's comfortably my casual pace that I can keep up for at least 25 miles at a time now, except when I first started I was sweaty and out of breath and now it's an easy commute speed.

borisj··on The Electric-Bike Conundrum
Oh absolutely. I don't think I'm an ass on the road (I stay off sidewalks when I can and give a heads up when I'm passing pedestrians), but I do get into my spandex and treat every ride I do like a serious workout. My commute to work is about 25 miles and try to bike that round trip once a week, and then doing more challenging rides on the weekends.
borisj··on The Electric-Bike Conundrum
I've been only doing solo and work rides, but I'm trying to get into amateur racing actually and been psyched out getting into a "serious" group of riders, but hearing that is really encouraging :). Of course, this is only flats, but I do try treat almost every ride as a training ride and push myself, and use the weekends to train as well.
borisj··on The Electric-Bike Conundrum
Interesting. My normal flat road pace on my road bike is in the mid 20s.
borisj··on Uber’s head of developer product leaves citing Kalanick’s ouster
Product manager for a project/product (or set thereof) your team works on.
borisj··on DOJ Demands Files on Anti-Trump Activists, and DreamHost Resists
They already found 200+ alleged rioters. They're looking for the identities of the other 65,844,400.
borisj··on DOJ Demands Files on Anti-Trump Activists, and DreamHost Resists
No, but it's not a constitutional issue. Likewise, you can host your alt-right views on the internet, but you don't have a right to a domain name and third-party hosting.
borisj··on DOJ Demands Files on Anti-Trump Activists, and DreamHost Resists
No, they are seeking available personal information on 1.3 million visits to the site.
borisj··on Ask HN: Where does one find true entry level development jobs?
Yes, incompetence. I bet that such a defense would have trouble in court considering that your resume and interview would ideally cover the true amount of years of experience.