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So the middle between "pro-slaver" and "anti-slaver" is "anti-slaver". Got it

Is it rude to say whoosh on hn?

cmd+opt+i, select the ad element, delete it. What the website considers "OK" is never a factor as to whether your browser can block an ad.

120 Days of Sodom

Can you rephrase what you said? Whenever I see "SJW" or "virtue signaling" in a post, I immediately stop reading and move on. Those terms are meaningless to those who don't subscribe to the groupthink of a devout cult of sheltered sexists.

I've literally never heard of Arango before reading these comments. That might have something to do with people not using it.

I'd venture a guess that many people who don't like wikileaks now didn't feel that way when wikileaks was exposing the democratic president. Many likely thought and continue to think of Snowden as a hero. I find wikileaks sensationalist in a way that mirrors the sensationalism of grocery store checkout-aisle tabloids.

Promoting conspiracy theories about satanic rituals, pizzagate, the seth rich lies, and clinton-organized child kidnappings is not in any way exposing something resembling truth. They promoted conspiracy theories criticizing that the Panama Papers release was a George Soros-funded conspiracy to target Russia and the former USSR.

None of these claims had evidence attached to them. Leaks of truth are valuable, but I have lost all faith that wikileaks publishes in a non-partisan "truth for truth's sake" mission, rather, I think they have specific targets in mind and publish whatever it takes to harm those targets and help others.

Because any interaction shows engagement.

Have you tried not using atom? Atom is and has been my IDE replacement for almost 3 years now. Things like this make my experience better.

I recently fired up WebStorm and found typing to be slower than atom for most files. I wouldn't open a large file in atom, sure, but it's been getting better in that regard and generally most of my code files are < 400 lines anyway.

> and without Facebook

And Atom does it without Microsoft.

Seriously though, what kind of comment is that? Facebook develops open source plugins for the atom ecosystem, and somehow that's supposed to be the most important criticism?

Out of curiosity, what's your setup like? Also using Atom for clojure.

I'm unconvinced. I have read a ton of anecdotes and 2nd-hand accounts about this, but I've never seen any experiment or any piece of hard proof that yelp or its representatives hold your rating over your head if you don't sign up for advertising. It seems like an easy scenario to test out.

I'm totally open to being convinced, but I'm skeptical right now that they are in fact that shady. I'm more inclined to believe that it's a placebo effect from suspicious people suddenly paying more attention to ratings after a sales call, and also attributing any negative dip in rating to the phone call they recently had. There are also third-party groups who call claiming to be able to list your business higher or rate it better, and I'm suspicious that some people confound these callers as yelp representatives.

And linked from elsewhere in the thread: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-yelp-ratings-20140905-... -- it just seems like with no scientific study backing the claims and case after case being lost, I think the onus of proof is on the people accusing yelp of these threats.

But how will the store acquire all my personal information that way?

Bitcoin can still be akin to keeping your life savings in the sock drawer. You still have to take steps to keep your holdings safe from a single point of failure and if you do get breached there's no legal recourse. You have nearly full control of your funds via bitcoin, but with that much control comes great responsibility to minimize risk that you normally expect a financial institution to do.

Right. I used to DJ throughout college and tried out a variety of formats. At high amplification, artifacts become apparent. VBR0 and 256kbit MP3s did not hold up, at all. Even smaller speakers and headphones didn't hide some of the compression artifacts for me.

320kbit CBR MP3s were... I'd say, generally OK if you did not plan on skewing their tempo much outside of a very small range (give or take 5% speed). Really bad artifacting becomes audible quickly beyond that range. Maybe it was placebo, but I also found differences between FLAC and 320kbit MP3 discernible when working on big, more powerful speakers.

But, with FLAC, it didn't matter if the sound was played at 10% tempo or extreme amplitude, audio was always crisp, clear, and free of compression artifacts (obviously).

On my laptop speakers or earbuds, no way would I be able to tell the difference between any of these today.

So then if my application logic catches a thrown exception because I don't want my app to crash every time a server bug is exposed, I should be returning a 200 OK response rather than a 500 Internal Server Error, because the app logic accounts for handling exceptions and returns a response.

I can't disagree more. It just seems like clients would have a nightmare of a time debugging client-side code against such a system.

Looking at current browser market shares on netmarketshare.com (first link that came up via google search) it looks like this version of chrome accounts for 0.07% of traffic this month. Why are you pinned on such an old version?

Interestingly enough, the older version 45 has 6.08% share. Is some operating system pinning chrome 45 and perhaps providing security updates?

Who is attacking the ACLU?

I've completely quit facebook and noticed that I just replaced its usage entirely by reddit. With facebook I usually just saw what my friends were up to; with reddit, I just see a bunch of strangers and recurring figures, and threads where everyone is an keyboard comedian. I think my reddit usage is extremely unhealthy because I just browse the same things over and over again in my free time. But most of the time I feel like I just don't know what to do (or don't have time to do what I know I should) on the internet anymore.

I never see butts on instagram :/, but I just use it to occasionally share photos I'm proud of, and that's usually the only time I also happen to browse what my friends have posted. I have zero interest in any social/communication aspect that instagram may offer.

Usually two or three times because fuck sites who hijack browser history because I scroll a little too far

Because designing UIs in a universally-understood, well-tooled markup language like HTML is a lot more developer-efficient than [insert-native-C++-library-here]. Electron allows the use of web tech on the front end with as many native or non-native calls on the backend as you want.

I'm guessing a lot of cruft built up on atom as it was iteratively built on top of developing front-end frameworks and transpilers over the years, compared to vscode which came on the scene much later when a lot of this had already settled. My guess it's just an older project with many times more contributions that accumulated legacy cruft that takes time to fully expunge.

I'm also not convinced the feature set is identical. Atom comes with a lot of language support, customization options, and extensibility out of the box.

I'm guessing they are trying to run atom on an embedded android smartwatch OS backported to 2006 hardware? I've never found the argument compelling. My memory is there to be used by apps I use.

This does beat a dead horse.

Simple answer: Plugins. It'll be the same answer every time this question is asked, for me.

As someone who doesn't see using typescript in the foreseeable future, and doesn't feel impacted by performance benchmark comparisons, VSCode doesn't seem to offer me any compelling reason to switch to it and go through reconfiguring another editor.

I chose to learn to code because I was 12 and wanted to make games. I suppose a lot of other developers today were introduced to coding via the prospect of game development, and video games were/are heavily marketed toward male customers. In fact, you start seeing women engineers dropping from software fields at an accelerated pace as consoles and arcades were becoming a cultural norm in the 80s.

Spend more than a quick glance looking at the map then.

Maybe they'll get there with time, but with 50 different parameters (... for one function? really?) I'd say put most of them in some kind of an options object, which certainly can have defaults and also checks your values at compile-time.

Well "like" and "follow" should be different things. I follow users on instagram/strava because I want to see what they do. I like the content they post when... well, when it pleases me, or I want it to get some more attention. I deleted my facebook account after nearly 10 years with the service, but I hated the decision they made to show content from pages you've liked (often inadvertently when you meant to like a post rather than the page). I fought against facebook for the last few months as I kept "unliking" every page/profile I had ever liked, but it was hard to keep that clean.