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Oh great, now we have the Hacker News startup brigade stirring up trouble amidst all the Wikipedia politics that is already taking place.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="init=/usr/bin/tail"

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Supposedly this?

https://github.com/jgeboski/bitlbee-facebook

I think this one already uses the Graph API directly.

Because this is Hacker News.

Because doing ${things that exists} in ${current trendy programming language} is somehow gauged as a Good Thing™ in your portfolio by the startup mindset.

Because posting this Good Thing™ on Hacker News is basically the SF startup scene's own LinkedIn equivalent.

Because other people who has bee doing this Good Thing™ want their own Good Things™ to be validated as well, so they continue this tradition.

Saying that using NoScript means disabling Javascript wholesale is like saying using SELinux or AppArmor means disabling filesystem access wholesale.

It's a disingenuous and silly argument.

Welcome to Hacker News in 2015, where the community mindset has changed from the old school Slashdot's reverence for software freedom and ideology to modern Reddit's mantra of "Who cares? It works! Get real!"

Jesus Christ. Why do we even allow this sort of pseudo-scientific "race realist" (read: racist) rubbish on Hacker News?

Japan is one of the most racist first-world countries in the world. Have you even seen their incessant xenophobia?

>change the meaning of the poem

What? Those lines are the poem!

Congrats to the PDF.js team for the adoption.

I'm curious as to how the pdf2htmlEX project [0] compares to PDF.js. Instead of client-side conversion this is a server-side one-time conversion from PDF to HTML5.

[0] https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX

>playing <video> tags uses ffmpeg on linux

If only. It uses that broken pile of abstraction called GStreamer.

I hate the "invention" of Gifv with every ounce of my soul. If it's a Webm or a MP4 file then say so. There are HTML5 tags for them and their looping. The least the Internet needs is a redundant file extension for what has been done by Gfycat and 4chan/8chan for years now.

Anything to discourage a GitHub monoculture is a good thing, IMO.

>a wide variety of nutters and pseudoscientists that have wrecked their brand

For those who aren't aware of this plague of bad quality TEDx talks, Sam Hyde's "2070 Paradigm Shift"[0] is a very entertaining, self-conscious deconstruction of such poor TEDx talks.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0

>Swift is still very new, crashes in the language and in the IDE will not surprise anyone who calls himself a software engineer.

And yet Rust is reliable as fuck even in its current shape.

Swift has no excuse to be so unpredictable, especially given that it's back by a humongous commercial company.

>this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen

Lol obligatory XKCD!

http://xkcd.com/1497/

Spotted the GitHub fanboy.

GitLab is objectively better. They even list their reasons on the page.

If you disagree you could, you know, refute those points instead of dismissing the whole thing in a petty manner.

>Why is this getting down voted?

This isn't Reddit. Stop caring about Muh Internet Pointz.

Wow, so are we going to force him to resign as well?