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This reminds me of the 'Library of Mistakes' in Edinburgh, a free public library which promotes the study of financial history.

https://www.libraryofmistakes.com/

This is known in the craft as monologophobia. Theodore Bernstein, a NYT journalist, who coined the phrase, described a monologophobe as someone 'who would rather walk naked in front of Saks Fifth Avenue than be caught using the same word more than once in three lines of type'.

The most common example is journalists' aversion to repeating words like 'said' or 'told'. People don't _say_ things any more, they: continue, explain, add, verbalise, enunciate, vocalise, and so on.

Though I don't think something must be hard to be worthwhile, I think there's something in what you say. 'Trust in what is difficult' is a theme in the works of one of my favourite poets, Rainer Maria Rilke. It is the focus of 'The Man Watching': http://www.michaelppowers.com/wisdom/rilke.html

After years of distro hopping, I settled with Elementary: https://elementary.io/

The trade magazine, Press Gazette, recently launched a campaign to 'stop Google and Facebook destroying journalism'

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazette-launches-duopoly...

The code for HN is available at http://www.arclanguage.org/arc3.1.tar.

Field Notes get my vote. Expensive but unrivaled quality. You can leave one in your back pocket for a month and it won't fall to pieces.

https://fieldnotesbrand.com

To clarify, I want to shine a light on results wrongly removed: cases where freedom of expression, and the public interest in remembering, outweighs the right to be forgotten.

The opening of the Dhammapada sticks in my mind: "All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

This is more general writing advice, but you won't go far wrong by following George Orwell's rules:

:: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

:: Never use a long word where a short one will do.

:: If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

:: Never use the passive where you can use the active.

:: Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

:: Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

That's right. The Welsh Government gives millions to big business. A few years back, for example, they handed Ford £10 million to keep one of its factories open. Taxpayers' money is also spent on subsidising low pay in the private sector through Jobs Growth Wales. It's unsustainable and the money could be better invested.

I spent a fair while thinking about this one for my first job in journalism--after all, what good's a reporter without questions. In the end, I asked the interviewers how they got their break in the industry. I think it worked well, I got my foot in the door at least.

I've had mental health problems and, family aside, nothing--not exercise, medicine nor therapy--has helped me more than having work to do. There's a lot to be said for having a job to set your mind to.

In a nutshell: I can't. Some say there's no such word but I can't magic up the infrastructure needed. The firm I work for is hundreds of years old and it's an idea that only such an institution could implement. Thanks for your question though, it gives me something to think about, namely how I could perhaps adapt the idea. Who knows? Maybe there is a start-up in there somewhere.

Thanks for your sage words. It's not massive money in the grand picture, I know, but neither is it insignificant in a rapidly declining industry, such as print journalism. However, I glady take your points aboard and I'm glad I asked HN!

Thanks for your thoughts, you make good points. I'll likely play it safe and ask my manager to send it up the chain to the appropriate person.

It's not so much about having no trust in my superiors. I work at a newspaper company but in editorial and the idea is on the business side of the "church and state" divide.

It's an ailing industry, which could do with any revenue stream it can get its hands on, and I just want to help where I can.

Thanks for your thoughts, sound advice. It's not something I want to jump into. You are likely right about trying to target the "right" person.

I'll add two that have yet to be mentioned: moreutils and youtube-dl.

Looks like I'm in the minority in agreeing with the author's sentiments. It's a counter-intuitive argument but I'll try to make it...

I'm of the motherfuckingwebsite.com school of thought--an evangelist for simple design--but I think simple and unique often go hand-in-hand.

Take my industry: newspapers. Ninety-nine percent take a flat-pack, everyfuckingwebsite.com approach. I think that conformity compromises design. Readability should be at the heart of most sites--let alone news sites--yet I find most hard to read for colours, distractions and so on.

The news websites I enjoy are simple and unique--like the Drudge Report and Hacker News, which are pretty much just a list of links with minimal layers. I think that gets to the core of my purpose as a reader: no bullshit clicking around for ages to find what I want/need to read--just here's the news in our view.

For me, that's a big reason for the Daily Mail's success too. Content aside, I think their presentation of news is second to none. You could argue it's like a lot of sites but I disagree: few run tall pictures, nine-deck headlines and so on. MailOnline's production is similar to the way editors put a page together for print. They've transitioned much of the craft online. I think that's how the website retains something of a newspaper 'feel' which most have lost.

Anyway, I should stop writing, I'm going off on tangents and probably talking gibberish, just wanted to chuck in my 2p.

The Hardened Gentoo project page has a lot of useful information, guides on using Pax, grsecurity and so on...

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened