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As a sometime cyclist, I agree that cyclists should abide by traffic laws. I assume this was downvoted for tone. The premise is undeniable. Bicycles should obey the laws. Greater rule adherence means a more predictable, and thus safer, street.

Never seems to be.

Even the most obvious of sarcasm is poorly adapted to the comments section of Hacker News.

And as for remote work?

Follow-up question: "Should you?"

Well, I agree. First, North Korea would have to allow foreign journalism. Right now, as I understand it, a North Korean contact who was known to be "cultivated" by a foreign journalist would be hauled up on charges of espionage and treason.

I'm assuming they could have just used a well-known and well-tested library.

Edit: replaced snarky response with this.

It's not just startups -- businesses tend to focus on earning money. I don't know if we can realistically expect private industry to take an interest in social or economic problems. At the lowest level, there are founders trying to choose a niche that gets them from debt to break-even as quickly as possible; at the highest level, you get into transnational corporations which act only in their own interest.

I would be happy if Apple or Google were to dump their excess billions into social welfare or government reform, but it is vanishingly unlikely.

Spoiler: there are like six books where _nothing ever happens at all ever_. Enjoy!

Or in .bashrc:

bind "C-p":history-search-backward

bind "C-n":history-search-forward

Absolutely. Christianity is just one possible frame.

God cannot feel pride, for that would imply the possibility of failure. God is beyond most human emotions, probably all, for that reason: our emotions imply their opposites, while for God, there are no alternatives other than what is -- which is by definition perfect.

Mind you, I'm an atheist, so this is just my understanding of the argument.

The Microsoft Natural is my pick. Split enough for ergonomics, good key response, not very expensive.

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-A11-00337-Natural-Keyboard-E...

Sole OP response in a thread full of questions.

Ruby users may also be interested in adding pry to that setup: http://www.alanmacdougall.com/blog/2012/03/27/using-vim-slim... (disclosure: my own blog)

On the other hand, most of this rogues' gallery is digital agencies or sites made by digital agencies. Sadly, those businesses market to unsophisticated customers on the basis of flash and dazzle, and usually any attempt at user advocacy is met with requests for flash and dazzle. The target audience of this kind of site is not the end user who visits the site; it's the manager who signs off on the invoice. Those managers very seldom have long-term engagement growth as an evaluation metric.

I really want the term "kebab-case" to catch on.

Nice to see an Old Man Murray shoutout. Last I heard, one of the writers of that site and other web classics was working at Valve, so maybe some of the wit and wisdom can live on.

I love Dwarf Fortress, but I would not characterize it as "playable."

Charles (www.charlesproxy.com) makes this kind of thing pretty easy. Well worth the money, in my book.

Well, honestly, why should it be necessary?

I live in New York, which has one of the best public transit systems in the US, and I think driverless cars are freaking amazing, even (or especially) in the context of a city with effective public transit. For one thing, they could solve the last-mile problem public transit has at its outer limits.

You imply that those who find fault with the studies are acting from "religious" motives instead of good faith. I don't find that suggestion constructive. Can you defend the substance of the studies to the extent that others are attacking it?

What's specifically wrong with RequireJS? I haven't heard much discussion of it, and you only addressed Browserify in your comment.

You can use that as a buffalo sentence: police police police police police police police.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo... (and can I just say that this is an awesome Wikipedia URL.)

jEdit has had this feature for a long time. It's one thing I miss, having moved to Vim.

If you want your Pry experience to be even more SLIME-like, try combining it with vim and tmux. You can write code in vim, and send arbitrary lines or blocks to the terminal for seamless execution. This has changed how I do a lot of things, not just Pry: it's really handy for putting together bash scripts, for example.

(self-link) http://www.alanmacdougall.com/blog/2012/03/27/using-vim-slim...

Counter-anecdote: I have a T520 and I'm perfectly happy with it. Get the full HD screen, it's worth it. I admit that I'd prefer the old 4:3 screen size, but that's just not the way of the world anymore.

I love Linux for general hacking, but not having Adobe tools is a huge blow when it comes to working on a design. It's almost insurmountable.

And AS3, if you're into that sort of thing (self-plug): https://github.com/amacdougall/underscore.as