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geetee··on George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon
Didn't the leaks reveal that Chelsea's wedding was paid for by the foundation?
geetee··on 15 years trying to make everyone separate HTML, JavaScript, CSS – and then
Separation of concern or technology? A well structured React application is much easier to understand than something where you need to keep 3 files in your mind at once.
geetee··on NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
You can't republish with the same version number, so you would be protected if you're pinned to a specific release.
geetee··on Graffiti on ‘Homeland,’ Unnoticed by Producers, Calls Show Racist
The amusing part to me is that Homeland actually draws the line down the middle pretty much. It shows the human side of "terrorists" and also demonizes the CIA.
geetee··on Finger Binary
Interesting to think about how much more information you can encode in by using various hand positions (e.g. rotating on different axes.)
geetee··on Pure UI
Similar story here. I don't miss the mental context switching. I also always hated how many template languages/frameworks stuff DSLs into strings.
geetee··on Behind the Curtain: A Look at the Inner Workings of NSA's XKEYSCORE
How did this not get more attention?
geetee··on In Search of the Red Cross' $500M in Haiti Relief
VICE on HBO did a good piece on the failure of USAID in Haiti: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/policysocial-context/26018-hb...
geetee··on Senate Approves Bill to Rein in N.S.A. Surveillance
How long until there is a new fee on my phone bill to pay for the storage and retrieval cost of this?
geetee··on Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
I didn't mean to imply that it could be considered self-defense according to the letter of the law. Just floating the scenario where you're running a business that, while illegal, is not morally wrong, and you're faced with the possibility of spending the rest of your life behind bars. What do you do?
geetee··on Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
I knew it wouldn't be a popular angle, but maybe some counterpoints along with those down votes please?
geetee··on Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
You could make an argument that the alleged murder for hire attempts were simply self defense. The consequence of being exposed is life in prison, and I don't think any of us can say with certainty how far we'd go to avoid life in prison. It's not like he was trying to have innocent bystanders murdered. If selling drugs was not a crime, there would be no opportunity for blackmail, and nobody to silence.
geetee··on Nand to Tetris 1
It's referring to this book: http://www.nand2tetris.org
geetee··on China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub
This is some terrible JavaScript. And jQuery?
geetee··on [dead]
Seems to have affected NPM: http://status.npmjs.org/
geetee··on [dead]
Penis jokes. Yawn.
geetee··on Maybe stop using Grunt?
I will probably go that route if we ever rebuild those tools.
geetee··on Maybe stop using Grunt?
I think I found myself in a similar situation as the OP. We have multiple different, but architecturally similar, products which each get their own Gruntfile. If we stop here, we're solid, perfect. Unfortunately, each product has multiple flavors which each need to build into their own separate output directories. For us, that's where the Grunt patterns break down and get awkward. It's actually been good enough for almost 2 years now, but I can definitely see the cracks.
geetee··on Blue Moon: The “Craft” Beer Made by Coors
I think this article says more about the mind of a quick-to-judge consumer than the corporations that brew and sell the beer.
geetee··on Blue Moon: The “Craft” Beer Made by Coors
Assume the mind of a potential new Blue Moon consumer in 1995. You pick up the bottle and notice it says "From the makers of Coors Light." Do you: A) think to yourself "This probably tastes like water" and put it down, or B) drink it without an ounce of bias?
geetee··on My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple
I believe you, but they actually admitted that was the reason?
geetee··on Google undeleted whocalled.us after a front page article on Hacker News
Fixing mistakes without accepting blame or acknowledging the error always bothers me. Does it stem from the fear of a lawsuit-happy society, or embarrassment?
geetee··on Deleting any Facebook album
You didn't need the target's access token. Your own worked just fine.
geetee··on Getting paid to work on open-source?
Thanks for your thoughtful reply!
geetee··on Getting paid to work on open-source?
I'm trying to get this kind of thing going at the company I work for. Was this system already in place before you joined? I'm hoping you can speak more to some ways that will persuade management to support this effort. Thanks!
geetee··on I Was Arrested for Learning a Foreign Language. Today, I Have Some Closure
Gotta nip it in the bud before it's too late.
geetee··on Ask HN: What's wrong with my JS?
Kind of sneaky to put important details in parentheses like they did. I would have let that omission slide, especially considering the typical candidate we get.
geetee··on How India's Patent Office Destroyed Gilead's Global Game Plan
I'm all for patents to protect pharmaceutical companies, but there needs to be a profit limit where the patent expires early.
geetee··on JavaScript Modularity Shaming
I thought this was a joke library. Then I checked the NPM stats.

6,597 downloads in the last day

28,883 downloads in the last week

134,084 downloads in the last month

geetee··on Xbox and PlayStation hit by 'hack'
You're really going to trash a kid for being sad on Christmas when his toy didn't work? Cold.
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