damncabbage

(Don't we, we get equally worried when people mix it up.)

(It creates new jobs, but it doesn't necessarily mean the displaced get those new jobs.)

  I wouldn't be too terribly shocked if people just sucked it 
  up and bought it anyway as long as the servers are stable.

(The above is anecdotal at best, but my gut feeling is that this will hurt EA in more than the very short term. See also: Blizzard with Diablo 3.)

(Bad first-hand experience looking for work-arounds.)

(And HN needs something to stop this happening.)

I'd certainly be feeling baited-and-switched right now if I hadn't already left.

(See https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick for an example of how to do it right.)

(It's 2005-era thinking, but the metrics for some ad networks are [or at least were] skewed to invite abuse of that metric.)

  $addOne = function($a){ return $a + 1 };
  $result = array_map($addOne, array(1,2,3)); // now [2,3,4]

  // Reference to intval() function.
  $result = array_map(intval, array('1','2','a'));

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5185428)

So who gets to decide what's a half-truth, a lie by omission, or just well-intentioned but insufficiently detailed?

The guy in registration? One person is responsible for assigning domain names on the Internet?

Actually, "We have 2.5 people doing it," Williamson said, meaning that the half person is really a full person doing it part-time. Or something. Regardless, 2.5 humans is not enough people, or parts of people, to do the job. (Would one person be assigning quit-claims to a gold rush?)

So what do current systems do?

* Go for broke, go full threading (eg. HN, Reddit, Usenet).

* Ignore it (eg. phpBB). Just like real life, everything gets muddied, but you have far more people in the conversation that would be practical in reality.

* Track it but try to hide it (eg. Twitter). Discussions have tree structures, but you can only have a flat view of them. You have to manually sift through replies to find the branching points and then trace it from there.

For example, these are two discussion trees branching from the same conversation starter:

https://twitter.com/lgarvey/status/279088834115940352

https://twitter.com/nitecoder/status/279088173743747072

In any case, I suspect Discourse's threading mostly stems from Jeff Atwood's dislike of threading: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/12/web-discussions-fla...

(It seems I skipped actually writing something useful and went straight to durr version control, sorry.)

Points A) and C) are dead on. Addressing your point B), though:

Yes, it is commodity software. But most seem to use at least some plugins and themes, and making changes to those without a rollback is a nightmare. You can make backups before changing things, sure, but version control has that already built in.

(Sibling posts to yours point out that Wordpress looks in both the docroot and one level up for wp-config.php - if I ever manage a Wordpress site again I'll be sure to move it out.)

... Or the guy who is just editing files directly on the server (or shovelling everything up with FTP), instead of sane version control.

(I'm not sure anyone doing the former can be counted as "Pro", WP or otherwise.)

Just a reminder: This case is not related to his Pirate Bay involvement. He is accused of hacking Logica, who handles data for the Swedish Tax Authority.

How much empathy would you have if someone, not involved in TPB, 'stole' information about you from your local tax authority? Especially Americans who seem to be paranoid about their tax stuff (For example Romney). At least in Sweden your tax data is pretty much public - when requested from the Tax Authority.

As a side note: This is also true for privately held companies in Sweden, all annual reports are pretty much public. You can for example view Mojang's (Minecraft) figures here: http://www.allabolag.se/5568192388/Mojang_AB

As much as I dislike them, I also think they'll take off.

I can see them as another Instagram-like "useless" thing that is none-the-less popular because it's quick, illustrative and requires little effort. Think an animated GIF-like snapshot of your day.

(Bah humbug, etc.)