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cag_ii··on Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart
It's strange how far out of the way people will go to avoid the obvious.
cag_ii··on Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta
Have you considered/tried adding back to the official documentation in cases like these?
cag_ii··on Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
cag_ii··on A brief history of web development
I must have missed it when "Functional programming have become the latest craze due to a surge in Node.js"
cag_ii··on Local Motors
The blog content is much more interesting than the homepage...

https://cocreate.localmotors.com/blog/post/local-motors-debu...

cag_ii··on Next Silicon Valley (list)
What exactly does it mean to become the "next Silicon Valley"?

It seems to me a boring cliché used to make article headlines from nothing.

cag_ii··on OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
I'd imagine you would need to unlock the Apple watch before it would unlock the computer.
cag_ii··on OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
I only heard them refer to it as "macOS Sierra".
cag_ii··on OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
Weren't all pre OS-X versions also called Mac OS?
cag_ii··on Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout
No one works on Sundays where you are?
cag_ii··on After reading “Rails is yesterday’s software”, I need to reply
Why compare Rails with Clojure (a framework vs. a language)?

I think if you more fairly compare Rails with Django, Flask, Laravel, etc. you might find the differences aren't so great.

cag_ii··on Slashdot acquired by SourceForge
It looks like this was part of the sourceforge purchase made back in January and previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11092219

cag_ii··on Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002
It does fall back on imageMagick, but there is screenshot.el ;)

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/screenshot.el

cag_ii··on 5 Weird Java Questions That Will Make Your Head Spin
That first example is just plain evil...
cag_ii··on iFixit App Pulled from Apple’s Store
This post didn't sound surprised or like a complaint to me. I think they new very well what they were getting into and handled it quite well.
cag_ii··on Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
> This team has achieved three incredible feats: they’ve created one of the most important productivity tools in history...

That's a very, very bold statement...

cag_ii··on Amazon Flex
Interestingly, Amazon also runs the "Amazon Locker"[0] service in the US, which sounds much like the "paczkomat" you describe.

    0. http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_366591722_2?encoding=UTF8&node=6442600011
cag_ii··on NewLisp
It is listed as a LISP on the NFS CGI versions page:

http://ultraviolet-cgi.nfshost.com/

cag_ii··on A Zipcar a day gets stolen in SF – here's how they stole mine
Stopping the engine also means you'd loose power steering, and more importantly power brakes.
cag_ii··on Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place
Can you explain this? It looks to me like a regexp that searches Java source for words 7+ characters that start with a capital letter?
cag_ii··on GraphQL: A data query language
The working draft is here:

http://facebook.github.io/graphql/

cag_ii··on What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community
I can't imagine it wouldn't be. This kind of decisions aren't made very quickly. I'm more curious if the IO team was aware of this...
cag_ii··on Apple Unveils the iPad Pro
If you really wanted to be objective, you could replace "Apple" in your comment with the name of just about any leading tech. company.
cag_ii··on What Are the Most Disappointing Albums?
> "these albums are disappointing for these objective criteria".

Except that the actual scores used to make this "objective" analysis are largely subjective.

cag_ii··on The Completely Different World of Python with IBM i
There's a better informed article on this topic on the same site here:

http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/developer/general/python-i...

cag_ii··on San Francisco’s Newest Fast Food: Healthy, Cheap and Served by Robots
Zero mention of robots in the article... disappointed.
cag_ii··on Ask HN: Best book/resource for SEO?
Start by reading the Google webmaster guidelines:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en

cag_ii··on Ask HN: Where can I search early usenet (what happened to Google's archives)?
Odd, if I type the title into google groups search it returns no results (as you stated), but in regular google search the google groups post is the first result.
cag_ii··on Let's talk content. AMA
Seems completely reasonable, maybe just a bit vague...

The only surprising thing to me about this announcement is that they didn't already have such a policy in place.

cag_ii··on Buenos Aires Censors and Raids the Technologists Fixing Its E-Voting System
> ... manipulated into voting the absolute worst politicians ...

I've never really followed an Argentine election closely, but I'm curious is they have options. In other words, Is there often a significantly better political representative that is overlooked, or is it more of a "lesser of all evils" situation?

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