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thekaleb··on A Secretly Detained American Has Asked for a Lawyer – But Gov Won’t Give Him One
I'm trying to find the passed Congressional bill for the authorization of use of military force in Syria that would have declared an actual war, but cannot seem to find which bill it was.
thekaleb··on [dead]
I did read the article and still was unsure what the antecedent was. I believe they are selling services to adapt software to users based on connected data.
thekaleb··on Stack Overflow lays off 20% of staff
> “I don’t see HackerNews or GitHub as competing against us directly for the same dollars or even the same attention,” CEO and co-founder Joel Spolsky said at the time.

Does Hacker News make "dollars"?

thekaleb··on What are some of the most disliked programming languages?
I felt the same as you, but lately I've felt an attraction to perl6. Which version did you choose to use?
thekaleb··on Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones
I have unlimited data with T-Mobile and no tethering fee.
thekaleb··on The Mystery of a Lost Roman Herb
The book The History of Salt says that soy sauce originally started out as fermented fish sauce and that it and garum may have a common ancestor.
thekaleb··on Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care
MyPy provides some useful type-checking for python. I have not had a chance to use it in production code because we are still stuck on python 2 due to Google AppEngine standard not supporting python 3.
thekaleb··on Learn GraphQL with GitHub
I believe that Falcor's JSON Graph[1] supports recursion rather well.

[1]: https://netflix.github.io/falcor/documentation/jsongraph.htm...

thekaleb··on ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification
Unless you need to add something to the beginning.
thekaleb··on Commander Keen Level Maps
It seems to be a common theme among the creators' other games, e.g. Wolfenstein 3D.
thekaleb··on Ask HN: Laid off today for the first time, anything to be wary of? Advice?
I can confirm your sentiment. I got laid off from a job. It turned out to be fantastic.
thekaleb··on “Dear Mark. I am writing this to inform you that I shall not comply”
I do not use any sort of advertisement blocker, and I also do not see any pictures.
thekaleb··on Termux: terminal emulator and Linux environment for Android
`apt update` runs over HTTP (no SSL)... Is this a common practice?

This is a nice package otherwise.

thekaleb··on William Shakespeare, Playwright and Poet, Is Dead at 52
I never enjoyed Shakespeare until I began reading King Henry IV on a mobile WAP site on my Nokia about 12 years ago while guarding some railroad tracks.
thekaleb··on William Shakespeare, Playwright and Poet, Is Dead at 52
Dawei in Mandarin.
thekaleb··on Dilma Rousseff Is Impeached by Brazil’s Lower House of Congress
In the US, that formality us called impeachment.
thekaleb··on Games you can't win
Reply All also did a great episode about it.

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/50-the-cathedral/

thekaleb··on Beginners being herded into command line due to composer
How it's this in anyway a composer issue? Should this not be an issue on a specific project which is using composer? I am of the opinion that this is a non-issue overall.
thekaleb··on Is the Internet destroying the U.S. two party system?
A good first step would be to get rid of the R and D next to names on state sponsored ballots.
thekaleb··on Is the Internet destroying the U.S. two party system?
That cannot happen until the US does away with first-past-the-post voting.
thekaleb··on Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?
My ~/.config directory is a git repository. I use some environment variables for utilities (like vim) that do not support the XDG spec.
thekaleb··on Google Chrome now supports native web push
This looks like native desktop notifications.
thekaleb··on Sites with a /now page
I've been planning for a while to make some finger business cards for myself.
thekaleb··on Google Pagespeed Test Fails Itself on Mobile
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
thekaleb··on Toggle CSS bookmarklet
This does not seem to work. It needs to be in an IIFE with a "use strict" statment, but even then, I run into this bug on Chrome: https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=3953
thekaleb··on How I got XSS’d by my ad network
On the video, it is mentioned that the advertisements are in a frame.
thekaleb··on When an Open Relationship Comes at a Price
TL;DR people get jealous.
thekaleb··on Remote frame injection PoC by exploiting an A-MPDU vulnerability in 802.11n
It says this is for unencrypted networks, so do most coffee shops use n?
thekaleb··on Ask HN: Best host for a one-page website?
https://divshot.com seems reasonable
thekaleb··on Alternatives to Regular Expressions
Problems arise with regular expressions when they are used against irregular grammars.
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