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by sbank 2y ago
Yeah, it's so weird (and shameless).
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by sbank 2y ago
Not the first repo he is plagiarizing. One of the first things I see when visiting his profile: https://github.com/obaraelijah/redis-proto From: https://github.com/dpbriggs/redis-oxide But Elijah
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by sbank 2y ago
Let's hope Elijah Samson, AKA obaraelijah, AKA elly sam, AKA Sahomey Technologies, AKA Sahomey-Technologies will learn from this.
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by sbank 6y ago
He said that there are "porn companies that feature of-age performers" that "are highly exploitative and uncomfortably close to human trafficking", e.g. GDP. Nothing more, nothing less. > Qatar football stadium The is
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by sbank 6y ago
> Why? The rest of the sentence, which you conveniently left out when quoting, is one why.
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by sbank 9y ago
Not a cannabis user, but I hardly ever remember my dreams. Maybe one every 1-2 months if I'm lucky. I wonder if that means that there is something wrong with my sleep.
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by sbank 9y ago
Or maybe it was just said in jest. Not everything has to be so black and white.
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by sbank 9y ago
PHP.
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by sbank 10y ago
To be a little crude, and in my opinion, what you are basically saying is that you are glad that the choice and autonomy of other people unrelated to you is restricted so that your vision of what the world should look like can be realized.
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by sbank 10y ago
Autonomy over my work and how I solve problems. Not having to deal with the customer directly or provide support. Few meetings and business waste. Quiet working conditions with few interruptions.
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by sbank 10y ago
Does anyone have thoughts on Wickr? It comes with extra features like expiring messages/media.
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by sbank 10y ago
Maybe you don't like it, and you are fully within your rights to cancel, but it is not abuse. They can or should be able to carry whatever products they damn well please.
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by sbank 11y ago
> Uber and Airbnb's disregard for regulation That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.
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by sbank 11y ago
Fire service could be privatized and government provided welfare does not have to exist to begin with.
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by sbank 11y ago
Where do you live? Because if you live in the western world and in a country with a reasonable amount personal and financial freedom, you are out of your freaking mind.
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by sbank 11y ago
I try to get up every 1-2 hours and walk around and do some exercises when I'm on a long-haul flight. I'm that weird guy doing squats and other exercises at the back of the plane. If there is no room outside I use a bathroom. I al
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by sbank 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveilla...
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by sbank 11y ago
If I'm insanely fortunate I will have 100 reasonably healthy years on this planet. Spending 3-4% of my life at any one company is a lot if you ask me, no matter how much I like it there. The bottom line for a lot of people on HN is tha
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by sbank 11y ago
Maybe this won't be a popular response, but what we do know is that Facebook couldn't give a single fuck about your privacy or protecting your private information. (Insofar as they "care" it is to protect their own inter
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by sbank 11y ago
I second this, and have used it for years with caffeine for this exact reason. By itself it also has an anti-anxiolytic and calming effect, and has been used to treat ADHD as well. If you want to try it out, make sure you get Suntheanine. A
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by sbank 11y ago
Thanks a lot for the detailed response! I'm a Rails developer myself, and have recently become increasingly interested in front end development. Have tried to embrace React et al. but am not convinced that it's what I need.
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by sbank 11y ago
Thank you for this comment. Several things there that I will look into! If you don't mind, could you elaborate a bit on the following: > - $(document).on('event', '.element', ..) is fantastic. Never debug events
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by sbank 11y ago
> [...] the United Nations practice (one it shares with big business and some European Union institutions) of employing interns on an unpaid basis. It's only bad when private businesses do it, of course.
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by sbank 11y ago
Private monopolies are largely unproblematic as they will be destroyed by more effective competitors eventually. I'm way more afraid of government monopoly. Point in case: The protectionism and government interference that has kept the
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by sbank 11y ago
Very interested? Somewhat interested? Not interested? Which one? Which one? Which one?
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by sbank 11y ago
> Yes, it's brutal, and a bit ruthless, but effective. I'm not saying that people who don't work out should not be let go, and I'm certainly not saying that you "owe" people anything. It's a business an
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by sbank 11y ago
> However, based on your other answers about what you do, it's unlikely that this current $200K salary is sustainable. Your company can easily replace what you do with a local developer for less than $200K. They are actually doing t
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by sbank 12y ago
Really awesome work! Looks very polished and thorough.
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by sbank 12y ago
I lean towards merging as is and fixing afterwards. Or doing a manual merge locally, fix whatever needs to be fixed, and then push to master. There is just something about changing other people's commits that doesn't sit well with
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Ask HN: Etiquette around altering commits in pull requests on GitHub
2 points by sbank 12y ago|3 comments

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