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Re:Ask HN: What was the best off-topic online discussion you have ever... on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:49AM (#24433422)
I seed this with a discussion about the Arc on a PL community mailing list (https://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]...)

Ask HN: What was the best off-topic online discussion you have ever observed?

Posted by gver10 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:48AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Off-topic discussions happen all the time. It's the internet after all. However, were there any memorable, funny, weird off-topic discussions that stayed in your memory? I'm mainly referring to (semi-)-professional mailing lists, forums etc. where you normally wouldn't expect those discussions.

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Re:What's the future of Servo? on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:34PM (#24165399)
Could you please clarify on this: how is Brave not giving BAT to content creators?
Re:Kicking Off the Repl.it Programming Language Jam on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:15PM (#24114670)
Nothing per se against repl.it, but I'm surprised to see this on #1 of the front page as it's basically a call to free labour. Will there ever be a future when companies innovate themselves again? IMHO all these "hackathons" or "jams" are really just about finding use cases for their product and getting it tested for a very affordable reward ...
Re:Face masks are breaking facial recognition algorithms, says new gov... on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:15AM (#23983918)
Could you explain what's wrong with disinfecting the fingerprint scanner?
Re:Github Is Down on Friday June 19, 2020 @04:50AM (#23572522)
Is it just me or is this happening more and more often recently, i.e. since Microsoft acquired GitHub? It's also very shady that they don't even seem to detect these incidents properly.
Re:Mozilla VPN on Thursday June 18, 2020 @05:23PM (#23568191)
> Although there are a lot of VPNs out there, we felt like you deserve a VPN with the Mozilla name behind it.
Re:The Next Step for Generics on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @06:05PM (#23544852)
This doesn't explain the obsession with Rust.

Fitting analogy: If there's an article about McDonald's, people would always talk about Wendy's instead. No one would mention BurgerKing (C++), Subway (D), KFC, ...

Re:The Next Step for Generics on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @06:01PM (#23544815)
Not a 100% fit, but we have: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming

> a style of computer programming characterized by the _ritual_ inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose.

Re:Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live? on Sunday May 24, 2020 @06:50PM (#23295607)
You'll feel different after a winter with barely any sunlight. Norway is great for vacation, but I can't recommend it's dark winters.