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Re:RFC: PHP license update on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @10:38AM (#44571615)
Prevents any dispute over the significance of a certain word or phrase being capitalized vs not.
If your contribution is to quote an old rap song and make a meta complaint about how people will react to you, then you're right - you don't deserve a positive reaction.
Re:Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen on Thursday May 29, 2025 @12:12PM (#44127451)
That book was seminal for me too and is the genesis for where I am today. Flanders' accurate criticism of "mystery meat navigation" was incredibly influential for me and still reverberates in my mind when I think about usability issues.
Re:Ugly infrastructure: Why can't we have nice things? on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:19AM (#44030196)
I agree. They have painted large concrete structures like this in cold weather places in the United States and they start chipping and deteriorating almost immediately. A deteriorating "public arts" project where untalented "artists" graffiti the side of an overpass is far worse than plain concrete.
No one is above the law.
Re:The Adrian Dittmann Story on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:56PM (#42604018)
Stop posting the same comment and link over and over.
Re:Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @09:52AM (#37307960)
A command line version of SimTower.
Re:Terminated on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:42AM (#31811669)
Doing all the things YouTube does, like transcode videos, gets complicated quick.

At the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, we created our own video hosting site, https://mediahub.unl.edu/ (https://github.com/unl/UNL_MediaHub) to self-host videos for when avoiding government or k-12 firewalls is desirable as well as integrating with rev.com for captioning.

It's really unfortunate that higher education hasn't banded together more often to develop projects of mutual interest.

Re:InfoWars files for bankruptcy in U.S. court on Monday April 18, 2022 @12:04PM (#31072543)
You're still speaking in a generality like the parent post is complaining about with the press coverage.

There would be a big difference between Jones saying "the shooting was fake, it was a hoax" versus "that father on screen, John Smith, is a liar and an actor and doesn't even have a kid plus he's probably a pedo".

Well, which is it? What did Jones actually say about Sandy Hook? That seems to never get reported.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022) on Friday April 01, 2022 @12:41PM (#30880221)
Lincoln, NE | University of Nebraska | PHP Web Applications Developer | Full time permanent

Primarily PHP developer for public facing web applications. Two openings available through this job listing: one primarily a Drupal CMS developer, and one non-Drupal PHP dev.

https://employment.unl.edu/postings/77997

Re:Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes on Monday March 14, 2022 @12:52PM (#30674793)
oh man thats not fair
Re:Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @12:10PM (#29487371)
I just got banned from Twitter a couple days ago for the same reason: "platform manipulation and spam". I only occasionally tweet about college football and don't do anything illicit at all. All I can figure is I was banned simply because of the accounts I follow, which included @TrackerTrial among other "controversial" conservative-type political accounts.
Re:New iMac with Vesa Mount on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @11:06PM (#26884998)
It didn’t use to be a separate model. You used to be able to remove the stand from the standard iMac and attach a Apple VESA mount adapter in its place.
>> or at least requiring more fully transparent "odds" statements about the likelihood of specific in-game items in those loot boxes

Published odds is definitely needed. When I bought physical packs of baseball cards as a kid, by the mid/late 90s they had odds listed on the back of getting the special cards, autographs, etc. That was absolutely vital to being an informed consumer.

Re:Openstreetmap is having a moment on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:36PM (#25141359)
"Needing a moment" or "I need a moment" in American English is the negative version.
Not everything is made for a general public consumer base. PWA might be a good idea for an internal-facing staff application when a director says they want an app.
The criminal conspiracy was very well documented in the Mueller report? As Greenwald says in the first sentence, no American was charged with conspiracy/collusion/coordination with Russia. All the people sent to prison are for process crimes or unrelated matters (Manafort). Hell, Roger Stone is going to prison for lying that he was part of a conspiracy with Wikileaks, when in fact he was making that up!
That's not a very good threat. Diversity is Europe's strength and they will be welcome with open arms!
That’s a good way to describe it. It’s interesting that an anti-pattern (bad UI/UX) can be an asset like that. Snapchat is the Bloomberg Terminal for teens.

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