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solox3··on Facebook Boycott Grows: Ford Joins Coca-Cola, Starbucks and Other Brands
It's exactly what it is. The marketing department does a cost-benefit analysis on whether it gets more attention by buying Facebook ads, versus the (free!) media coverage they get from not buying Facebook ads. This time, the latter seems to be winning.
solox3··on Show HN: I built a puzzle / programming challenge with a 0.125 BTC prize
It involves a "border" style.
solox3··on Linux on Dex
Something like Project Linda then? https://www.razer.com/projectlinda

It is still a concept, but Razer's two phones have been the same size, so it remains a possibility.

solox3··on Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?
* "Syncthing" for keeping multiple copies of the current files, across devices in different locations, that will never malfunction at the same time. This is usually enough.

* "Back in Time" for keeping older file versions in external hard drives.

The two were chosen mainly because they have decent GUIs, both support diffs, and the backups can be viewed using nothing but a file explorer.

solox3··on Red Flags Signaling That a Rebuild Will Fail
With this good article I think I have a good question.

The reference to Martin Fowler’s strangler pattern (https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerApplication.html) was mentioned in the article to grow the new system in the same codebase until the old system is strangled. In my case (Ionic 1 to 2) however, both the entire framework and the language are different. How should the strangler pattern work in this case?

solox3··on Show HN: I built an open source event-management system
Old commits are still showing the credentials. Recommend following this guide to erase your .env from all commits.

https://help.github.com/articles/removing-sensitive-data-fro...

solox3··on Database of Lost Crypto Assets
Pretty good. A max of 100,000 Dogecoins is definitely not enough though.
solox3··on Eight years of Go
Novice here. Why is having no exceptions a good thing, in your opinion?
solox3··on Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community
None of those commits are signed. Apparently people on GitHub can commit as torvalds if the author email matches his: https://github.com/amoffat/masquerade/commit/9b0562595cc479a...

(You can't fake a fork without hacking the torvalds account, though, so maybe it really was him.)

solox3··on The cost of using different sites on mobile networks around the world
I just got a bar graph full of $0.00 (http://imgur.com/uciLhOG). Maybe there's a bug in measuring images and fonts referenced by CSS? More decimal places are a good idea.
solox3··on Software Developers after 40, 50 and 60 Who're Still Coding
Junior here. What does "map associations" mean in this context?
solox3··on Uber CEO Plays with Fire
Demand mapping, driver supply allocation, more accurate surge pricing for the rest of us with the app...
solox3··on Best Android Libraries for Developers
Started looking into Android development a few weeks ago. This list is rather useful. Thank you!
solox3··on Anguish: Invisible Programming Language and Invisible Data Theft
git makes Anguish code look more readable than the rest of the file: http://imgur.com/AHavQor
solox3··on Why I Carry a Newton
Searching a notebook is not an issue, as it may be accelerated using physical hashtags... "bookmarks", if you will.
solox3··on Show HN: Adblock Fast
The seven rules:

https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast/blob/master/op...

Are these regular expressions machine-compiled?

solox3··on Placebo Button
Misinterpreted the question, "what do you want your button to do", and typed "Turn red." Needless to say, it turned red.
solox3··on Show HN: Fuzzy search in 400B of JavaScript
I guess fuzzy search also allows for substitutions like "csrtwheel", but neither you nor the OP does this.
solox3··on Animated Bézier Curves
It sounds exactly like it's spelled in French.
solox3··on Redesigning the traditional Chinese shoulder pole
Yeah, the Chinese have a unit of measurement called "yi" which is exactly 0.1 billion.
solox3··on Firefox 35 release notes
>Support for inspecting ::before and ::after pseudo elements

Oh yes, this is a long-awaited improvement.

solox3··on Learning Curves for Different Programming Languages
Besides that list-dict array implementation, it really hasn't much left going for it.
solox3··on LOLCODE
Why isn't LOLCODE more popular? [A few possible reasons] [1] I can think of:

* The benefits it offers over C++ are (or were) not significant enough to make people invest in the switch

* Library availability lacked compared with C++

* It is unsure whether there is "Garbage Collection", and whether it is optional.

* It's not backed by a big name - and our industry is obsessed with big names.

* Perhaps a lack of literature and interest by academic institutions to teach it.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7692230

solox3··on Ask HN: Is Your Income above Your Country's Median Income?
No. I am currently $4000 behind the median (Canada, Small startup)
solox3··on The optional “else” in Python loops
There will always be non-expert programmers of many languages. Avoiding language-specific constructs will not solve the issue.

As far as portability is concerned (if you port software by hand a lot, for example), this is indeed an issue; but if you work with people who write python code, you might as well use everything in your toolbox.

solox3··on Show HN: Browser plugin that turns 'disrupt' into 'bullshit'
Downworthy?
solox3··on How we raised $484k on Kickstarter to make Glowing Plants
That's Cufon -- poor man's web fonts. Cufon uses flash to show text with the font you wanted instead of loading a font file, which wasn't possible until CSS3.
solox3··on These tweets are proof that startup people are crazy
The author's idea was to block upworthy headlines, but I use it myself to block any article links to these upworthy websites, on sites like HN and Reddit.
solox3··on These tweets are proof that startup people are crazy
Countering upworthy headlines: https://github.com/snipe/downworthy

(Not guaranteed to work on all headlines; feel free to contribute filters)

solox3··on Blood of world's oldest woman hints at limits of life
Older people die from not being able to perform mitosis of vital cells (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12573379) -- a decade-old observation. She is just a new, other data point.
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