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Is there any other option for signing up?

I don't use Twitter and don't intend to.

This one may be also interesting for open data devs: http://scraperwiki.com/

Have you followed the google images search link?

Also the pitchfork is an attribute of the devils in hell. It is not an attribute of daemons.

As much as USofA political and religious fundamentalism (on all sides) amuses and entertains me, a couple of things make me take it seriously:

1. USA has a very strong political power and exports its culture.

2. I am old enough to have witnessed the effects of state atheism personally and directly in my country. Atheism can be as stupid and evil as any other religion.

P.S. I come from Eastern Europe.

So much bullshit in this thread...

First of all the logo: http://www.google.com/search?q=devil&tbm=isch Clearly an image of the devil. The pitchfork strengthens this meaning: http://www.symbols.com/old/encyclopedia/05/051.html

What is the devil?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil

So, the thing in FreeBSD logo is clearly considered to represent personalized evil by a lot of people. Denying the significance of this meaning is stupid and counter-productive.

Some of people take the issue of opposing evil very seriously and personally. As we all should (according to our understanding) -- whether it is poverty, poisoning of air and water, unethical business practices, corrupt officials, etc.

Now I believe the main cause that this story made the news is the 1000$ (potential?) loss for the hotel and some other demands from the customer. Other than that I doubt it would be considered important by the many people posting here.

The customer is called "superstitious". It is also noted that the customer and the complaining hotel owner are both women, while the ISP owner and his tech support person are both male. So we see the cliché of superstitious and irrational women against calm and rational men.

So yeah... ignoring the obvious, looking down on people based on their religious beliefs and sex, ignoring them unless the issue involves money...

Get over it. If you want more people to like FreeBSD -- change the logo. If you won't -- don't complain.

Exactly. And this is the scariest part that the author and everyone else in this thread missed.

TL;DR: Facebook is tightening its filter bubble around you and getting more in between you and your friends.

Ignoring the new features that were added, there is one feature that has disappeared -- the full list of your friend updates in the News feed.

Previously you could click on "Most recent" and get a list of all updates. Now they are filtered and it is totally inconvenient to get around this: you must explicitly check "All updates" from every friends context menu (by default it is "Most updates").

It may seem like a feature until you realize that you may miss the news that your friends are OccupyingWallStreet or criticizing Facebook or doing other twoplusbad things.

Now I am not against filtering and ranking most news (as in media) automatically. I think it is a great achievement that we are able to do this. However I am strongly against anyone deciding for me what is important for me and my friends. There is a line that should be drawn somewhere and you should not ignore this.

Thanks for posting test results. I am using Tree Style Tabs extension for FireFox and have _lots_ of tabs open all the time.

Now I don't need to test myself if I should switch to Chrome :-)

Somehow this old tale from 1992 springs to mind: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/personal/humour/Computer_Au...

Where's the "don't know, haven't measured it" option?

Without measurements this data does not mean anything.

I created a simple page with a single frame in it containing the TPB page. This did the job.

Didn't want to write any blog posts about it, just point people to the original page.

I am trying to post a link to the PirateBay page in my personal news feed.

I get a message about abusive content.

Facebook won't let me post a link to this torrent. Anyone know a way around?

URL shorteners don't help.

First thought: will have to rewrite my email regexps...

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

Except for one of my ex-coworkers. When I asked him why did he chose Hudson over Jenkins, he murmured something about superior Oracle support.

I can relate to the feelings presented in the post, but they look to me like whining.

I understand the value of expressing feelings in a relationship.

However the author makes us (developers) look like little girls that need taking care of. I have never been in a startup (just in similar circumstances), but I doubt this is productive in such an environment.

I would better appreciate the same feelings analyzed from another perspective -- how to understand yourself better what to do and tell your partner and use this understanding to move forward.

Thank you. This looks very interesting.

Was trying to find a free version of the article and found more of Parnas works here: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/p/...

Thank you! One more reason to use Clojure...

I am glad my post inspired this discussion :-)

I bought a tablet only recently and am frustrated that I haven't found a convenient way to write programs with it. I hope some day I will.

Is it the same as MSI installers that people are complaining about in the bottom thread? :-)

(Author here) Thanks for the time you put into your comment.

I think there may be both advantages and disadvantages in unifying function calls and dictionary queries. The reason I am asking the question is that I haven't been able to try it for myself (or at least read about someones experience with it).

And I will try exposing myself to more languages :-)

Humble is about writing HTML tables, not database tables! :-)

I haven't tried developing MSI installers, so haven't experienced the horror.

One more area where I saw tables used for describing processes was keyword driven testing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword-driven_testing Didn't have enough experience with it so don't know if it is also horrific...

(OP here) I don't think plain-text source code will ever be replaced as the main way of writing programs.

It is simple, transparent, has accumulated very large number of tools for analyzing and editing it (think of all the UNIX utilities or the complexity of IDEs).

However most of the non-plain-text methods (like UML) help you get a bird-eye view of what you are creating.

Also Humble can be embedded in rich text (like HTML) so it may have some niche uses as a real programming language.

I have built a prototype blog that you could re-program with Humble via WYSIWYG editing some time ago. It was brittle (you could break the website by errors in the main template) and slow, but it was fun to do everything in the browser.

You can use Gravatar to show different pictures for every John Smith.

Unity looks promising. Maybe I'll switch back to default Ubuntu desktop again :-)

I didn't know about Unity before this, even though I've been using Ubuntu for the last 7 years.

I used Tint2 on Openbox to get a vertical taskbar. Combined with Tree Style Tabs for Firefox it creates a consistent UI hierarchy going from left to right.

Your post inspired me. Thank you.

I didn't expect much at first from the title and from the rant part.

Even worse.

Two years ago such a comment would have -2 votes and would be hidden just because of its tone.

Sorry for the meta, but I am missing the old HN.

I doubt we would be able to have the whole front page dedicated just to Erlang news if the need appeared.

It seems that the problem of maintaining quality of discussion in an open forum remains unsolved.

Maybe limits to entry (like the problem in the link) or ability to provide negative feedback to posters would help.

Things real people dont say about reading publications: "We need more engaging advertising".

Depending on where you live, there have been a number of similar projects that the author dreams of.

Some organizations doing this:

http://SunlightFoundation.com/ (USA), http://mysociety.org/ (UK), http://cee.mysociety.org/ (Central and Eastern Europe).