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Re:Yo Raises $1.5M In Funding At A $10M Valuation on Saturday July 19, 2014 @06:20PM (#8058946)
The problem is that for the small percentage of texts that you only need to write "yo", there is a incomparably larger percentage that may need more than that. The Yo app removes functionality that native texting (or any number of WhatsApps and Facebook Messengers) already provide. Realistically it's like any other contact application: if you know people who use it you might use it, but I don't know anyone who uses it and I don't use it.
The easiest solution I've found is to just run a VM and not sync whatever folder you install node_modules in. I just had this problem like a week ago with gulp because I was syncing the folder I was building in. It's a good time to learn how to use Vagrant.
You can just say it's offensive. Qualifying it with your gender is the opposite of what you want to do.
Re:The Platinum Rule on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:57AM (#7634795)
You wouldn't want someone else to kill you due to racial hatred, so that immediately doesn't follow the Golden Rule.
Walmart is a profit maximizing company. Spending 4 billion dollars to save the government 300 million in food stamps is not ever going to happen.
Re:Mozilla just can't catch a break on Saturday April 05, 2014 @11:57AM (#7537402)
The same Democracy that had Africans in chains on plantations. When the future looks back what side will Brendan Eich be on?
Re:What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap on Thursday April 03, 2014 @11:24PM (#7529021)
> many users have hundreds of archives adding up to several terabytes, but pay less than $10/month.

$0.25 / GB-month x 1000gb = $250 / 1TB-month

Re:The Next Mission on Thursday April 03, 2014 @11:12PM (#7528974)
What? Just as Eich had a right to dislike homosexuals, everyone in the world has a right to dislike bigots. Unfortunately for bigots, it's a lot harder to defend that position.