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There's no way they didn't push this as hard as they could for a marketing blog post.

The Half-life 2 Combine Solider armor. It almost looks silly like they're wearing a pillow, but it lets you tack on a ton of protection for your center mass without affecting mobility as much.

This anecdote and using the word "deadbeat" is oft repeated but doesn't really have much basis in reality (even the article you linked doesn't cite any sources for the term). Credit card transaction fees generate revenue regardless of when you pay.

I had interpreted the parent comment to be about gameplay, but those are all fantastic points about matchmaking and the related QoL improvements. It absolutely is taken for granted because I forgot Halo 2 was the first to do _all_ of that well, and in one complete package.

> Halo 2 was the most innovative online game of all time

In what ways exactly? Competitive online FPSs with strong modding communities were already more than a decade in full swing on the PC.

> Snide remarks about astroturfing are also off topic here.

How is that off topic when there are literally people in this thread from Canva arguing the framing and not the main point he made? Everything you disagree with isn't off topic.

Yeah I think it's one of those features that people generally steer away from. Ironically, if you stick to the "Rails way" of doing things I don't think you would ever encounter it.

Wherein people who only develop in Chrome cry about web standards

Can you not use the `path` option in each Gemfile for local development? https://bundler.io/v1.12/man/gemfile.5.html#PATH-path-

I'm kind of shocked by how poorly understood basic HTTP stuff like this is for HN audience based on the comments and article itself. My filter bubble must be tuned to "web."

This is exactly the kind of tactic/hack that PG/Y Combinator actively encourages for that stage of startup is it not?

Missing the issue by a mile: It's the place data not the maps, and you're required in the ToS to use Google's maps if you want to display their data geospatially. When Factual/Foursquare/Facebook/Apple (who all use a blend of each other's place data) overtake Google's data quality there then we can talk about the decline of maps.

Nip in the "bud" not "butt" as long as we're offing exacting critiques ;)

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/nip+in+the+bud

The national guard does not work like that. Also, no the military cannot just shoot people on the spot for being in the area of looting, it is not a "statement of fact." You just made this up and pulled it out of thin air so don't respond with "well prove it" or some other BS. Quit being a racist troll and reflect on your hateful little life.

I liked this piece, but came out of it more on the side of frameworks, oddly, than libraries. I went into it with a bias ostensibly shared by the author based on the title but here we are. Probably different priorities or values in terms of what constitutes 'shipping' I would guess based on our respective backgrounds.

Many people are upset about the child separation and detention policies which were not standard under the Obama administration as opposed to deportation. Conflating the two seems to embody the same intellectual dishonesty you're railing against.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/09/711446917/fact-check-trump-wr...

'Tosche Station' and 'power converters' obviously - see 90% is all I need!

This seems so backwards to me. Why not do it as part of your CI process where you're not foisting unnecessary tooling on your developers local machines? The lag involved in spinning up and running the commit hooks is noticeable and disruptive especially if you commit often and rebase locally.

> just plain censorship

Who are they censoring, themselves? The word "Censorship" has been so abused in the past few years it has ceased to have any real meaning in casual conversation.

You can read their rationale for removing it rather than updating it here: https://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2018/04/12/601650762/...

> Turpin said, "In order to fix the problems, we would have essentially had to construct a different story," a process that he said would have been "intellectually dishonest. There comes a point that you can't fix a story appropriately." He said the decision was not made lightly; "we believe strongly we don't want to disappear material for any reason if we can possibly keep from taking it down."

> I have never had a framework project where I didn’t end up fighting the very system that was supposed to make development “easy”.

Not always, but often, I find this attitude in developers who either refuse to read documentation, or just entrenched in their ways and too stubborn to try it someone else's way.

Is every project you're starting really so cutting edge that the problems others have solved and come to a consensus on don't apply to you? Perhaps, but maybe you should also be taking a look in the mirror and making an honest assessment on just how difficult you are to work with.

I don't understand the conflation of Rest/JSON with NoSQL. The most popular frameworks for the dynamic languages you cite all use SQL with strong schemas out of the box. Come to think of it I'm not sure why we're even associating Rest with JSON specifically or any content type for that matter when one of the major points of Rest is content-negotiation via media types. You can even implement a messaging concept with Protbufs in a strictly "rest-like" fashion.

I really wish there was a fourth option: "Squash and Create a Merge Commit." It's nice to have a single commit per feature, but also see when it was merged into master and by who.

As well as the setup and maintenance of infrastructure.

GraphViz can output directed graphs in a variety of formats: http://www.graphviz.org/

I recently worked on a project where we started off looking to use something similar to what op posted. Despite being a very old library, nothing really provided the level of stability and options that Graphviz had. If you can get past the somewhat odd syntax, I would highly recommend it for complicated directed graph output.

There is also a guard plugin for immediate feedback: https://github.com/yujinakayama/guard-rubocop

Rubocop can even correct some style errors automatically now!

Donald Glover is his real name, as a rap artist he is Childish Gambino.

They got the bulk of their packages out AND let their works take christmas day off? How many Amazon warehouse workers who were scheduled got Christmas off?

It's not about getting a pat on the back, that kind of praise is meaningless and awkward. What is good to hear is that you're still providing value to the company and that what you're working on aligns with their goals. Knowing that can be the difference between getting promoted or getting laid off.

The slowest part of most tests suites are the integration and acceptance tests. Regardless of how decoupled my actual domain logic is, these will usually be the bottleneck, so I can't really agree with slow tests always being a symptom of some underlying architecture problem.

Absolutely, the Rails app I'm working on right now is just like this. Still feels like Rails but the complex logic and interactions can run without it.