Top5a

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by Top5a 7y ago
This is both off topic and a flamewar topic, which the site guidelines ask people not to introduce. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please do not use such generalizations on HN.
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by Top5a 7y ago
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?
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by Top5a 7y ago
The trolling on HN gets better every week!
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by Top5a 7y ago
Ah, ninja'd!
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by Top5a 7y ago
It is not. Rather, you could say that it is congruous, or, seeking the more emphatic tone, apposite.
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by Top5a 7y ago
No idea why you are being downvoted. You are correct -- one of the forms of irony would, for example, entail the specific intent of making a movie in the most aboveboard manner, only to have it mired in fraud.
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by Top5a 8y ago
>applications require a student signature or electronic affirmation to the accuracy of their submission Yes. I fail to understand all these people stating that it was not the fault of the students. They lied on their applications. I
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by Top5a 8y ago
Why would you chose this line of work (serious question, not a value judgment)? Did you know how amoral it was when you first applied? What caused you to leave?
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by Top5a 8y ago
>personal responsibility Blasphemy! I'd rather cry on the internet and collect sympathy points! Individual worth is derived solely from external validation by the social collective.
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by Top5a 8y ago
The fact that they alluded to their predicament being unethical or inhumane made me actually laugh out loud. The author is absolutely delusional. Even funnier, my initial response was that there must be some dietary or medical/hormona
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by Top5a 8y ago
Spot on. Which is why you are being downvoted (no, not sarcastic) for offending the sensibilities of the self-entitled masses who have no innate drive for self-improvement.
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by Top5a 8y ago
^This. First Slashdot, then Ars, now HN filled with an ever-increasing amount of mediocrity. But, I passed bootcamp! I have more structured hours of experience sleeping at my desk and slacking off in the nap room -- that makes me a bette
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by Top5a 8y ago
Afraid not. The "good" programmers/engineers/whathaveyou are, more often that not, the ones that proverbially "live and breathe" their craft, and have done so for a very large amount of, how should I say, &quo
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by Top5a 8y ago
The downvote/bury mechanic makes HN just as poor as SN or Reddit. If one must implement downvotes, at least provide tally, such as on Ars, rather than the default silly text fading (which one should disable).
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by Top5a 8y ago
>It's going to sound elitist I do not believe prefacing your argument with a hedge in this manner is necessary :) Barrier to entry and positive attractors, including, in the case of the early web, academic mindset, for early techno
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by Top5a 8y ago
Tired after a 40-hour week + commute? lol... hormonal imbalance or diet/health problem.
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Google Hangouts Outage and G Suite Status Dashboard (Discussion Prompt)
6 points by Top5a 9y ago|1 comments
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by Top5a 10y ago
>In Japan, a comic book about the adventures of a boy modelled on Bill Gates is called "Young Jump." My curiosity has been piqued. Does anyone have a link?
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by Top5a 10y ago
All legality, copyright law, etc. aside, how did this even create a problem? Even on small projects, basic build engineering dictates that you are cognizant of which package versions against which you are building. Furthermore, all package
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by Top5a 14y ago
:D awesome!!