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joekrieon Silkworms that eat carbon nanotubes and graphene spin tougher silk

You beat me to the Spider-Man reference.

joekrieon The decline of Stack Overflow (2015)

Not really, but I did eventually get upvoted.

joekrieon The decline of Stack Overflow (2015)

I find some topics are much better than others on SO. It's pretty useful for Python and SQL, from my experience.

joekrieon The decline of Stack Overflow (2015)

It's especially irritating when these elitist types clearly don't know as much as they think they do.

joekrieon The decline of Stack Overflow (2015)

I find it to be a great resource if someone has already answered your question, especially if I find it via Google. As for asking questions, it's a bit off-putting to be immediately downvoted without explanation, and to not get a single answer.

Point is, it's good resource to free-ride but not actively participate.

joekrieon Google HTML/CSS Style Guide – Omit Optional Tags

This blows my mind. Can't wait to bring this up in a code review.

joekrieon Courage

Luckily you get a rechargeable charger that lasts up to 24 hours. Furthermore, "you can charge the charger and charge the earphones at the same time". http://www.avclub.com/article/apple-courageously-forgets-put...

joekrieon InfluxDB 1.0 GA Released: A Retrospective and What’s Next

Cool to see a database specializing in time series data.

joekrieon Courage

No worries, Apple's got you covered with AirPods

joekrieon Courage

Do Motorola and LeEco plan to omit the headphone jack on all new phones?

joekrieon Courage

Sometimes I have to turn my Honda off and then on again to get it to pair properly.

joekrieon Warner Brothers reports own site as illegal

Banks were signing off on the erroneous foreclosures without properly reviewing them. And, if Matt Taibbi is to believed, the courts weren't of much help to the victims of fraudulent forclosures. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/matt-taibbi-courts...

joekrieon Warner Brothers reports own site as illegal

Complying and taking down the legitimate links should force WB to properly review their requests.

This case is kind of funny, but something similar started happening when banks started automating foreclosures. People who were up to date on their mortgages were getting evicted from exactly the same kind of negligence WB is exhibiting here.

joekrieon Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

I'm blocked by a sign in page. Did they take down the blog in the last day?

joekrieon Js-joda – Immutable date and time library for JavaScript

I started using JS-Joda because I've had a good experience with Noda Time [1], which started a a port of Joda-Time to .NET

[1] http://nodatime.org/

joekrieon FCC loses court battle to let cities build their own broadband

Probably similar justification as for veggie libel laws and gun owners privacy laws.

joekrieon Ask HN: What is the most underrated GitHub repo you found lately?

https://github.com/js-joda/js-joda - JS-Joda, JodaTime for JS

joekrieon Ireland jails three top bankers over 2008 banking meltdown

Was the fraud uncovered by the crisis, or was it known about and tolerated until it turned into a crisis?