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Re:Switch to OpenStreetMap on Thursday December 12, 2019 @10:24AM (#21772525)
Wow, the documents for the user blocks are very thorough. Here is a fun snippet that (blocked) user sorein sent to the OSM Data Working Group:

"YOU MORON WHO PROMISED T INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN ME AND THE GYPSIES TAKING OVER IN THE ROMANIAN NEWSLETTER, AND THEN YOU JUST RUDELY FORGOT NEED TO STOP!!! GO DO A JOB FOR WHICH YOU ARTE QUALIFIED"

Re:CUDA Grep on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:51PM (#20307654)
Both links in the "REFERENCES" section.
That makes sense. Thank you!
Re:CUDA Grep on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:46PM (#20298560)
The references on the project site lead to 404. Are they CMU internal links?
TFA = This F---ing Article?
Re:How Id built Wolfenstein 3D using Commander Keen tech on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @06:19PM (#20279632)
Awesome, thank you for the link!
Re:Typesetting Markdown – Part 4: Theme Style on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @06:19PM (#20279625)
Awesome! Thank you!
Re:How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @06:13PM (#20279593)
But do they block temporary cards generated by Monzo?
Re:How Id built Wolfenstein 3D using Commander Keen tech on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @05:28PM (#20279156)
Where could I find his code to take a look at? Is there a reputable source or should I just Google it?
Re:Typesetting Markdown – Part 4: Theme Style on Monday June 24, 2019 @12:38PM (#20265408)
What do you mean by yak shaving?
The thought of recruiting beta testers for such a service ...
Re:Show HN: A LaTeX-based resume building app on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @08:56AM (#20164033)
I don't have any feedback on the app since it is offline at the moment, but you have a great attitude in response to criticism!
Aren't we at the stage where we can generate faces? Like the This Person Does Not Exist website?
Re:Password expiration is dead, long live passwords on Friday June 07, 2019 @11:54AM (#20125824)
Haha that's pretty funny. "Who was your first college roommate?" "A bunch of garbage."
Awesome! Thank you for taking the time to explain!
Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer on Friday June 07, 2019 @11:39AM (#20125647)
Interestingly, I'm at that unproductive phase right now. On one hand, I could fix this fast and ugly, but then my code is going to look no different then all the code I go home and complain about. On the other hand, I can try to make my code really nice and abstracted with well thought out design patterns like <golden-coworker>'s. So, on one hand I'm a hypocrite and on the other hand I'm slow and hardly productive because I am just learning design patterns and no matter how many times I refactor my code it never looks as good as <golden-coworkers>'s. How did you get out of this stage? Please help.
Re:Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs on Friday June 07, 2019 @09:01AM (#20124074)
I was going to make a joke, but actually a good answer to this is that users could just direct people to checkout their blog linked in their bio. This is assuming the person you are responding to didn't mean block all URLs from the site; just from tweets.

Technically it doesn't solve the scam problem though:

"I'm definitely the real Elon Musk. No question about it. Click the link in my bio to get 40 ETH, but you need to send me 20 ETH first so that I can verify things."

Re:Rognan robotic furniture for small space living on Thursday June 06, 2019 @08:40AM (#20113936)
“Hey Siri, retract the bed into the rear of the kitchen wall and spin the bathroom 180°.”
If you don't mind me asking: what does an Amazon consultancy mean / do?
Re:Password expiration is dead, long live passwords on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:42AM (#20083578)
Customer Rep.: "What is your mother's maiden name?"

Scammer: "I just entered a bunch of garbage."

Customer Rep.: "Yup! Thanks for verifying that Mr. Smith!"

Re:OKRs from a development team’s perspective on Friday May 24, 2019 @03:43PM (#20004693)
Would it kill people to expand the acronym on first use?

For example: "Most of the companies I’ve worked for in the last 5 years have used the objectives and keys results (OKR) system."

I'm not sure why this common practice in text is seemingly disappearing on the web.

Did the button work for you? It didn't for me.
Is that an actual Welsh name or did you just jam your knuckles into the keyboard?
Did you type this graph out by hand?
First 10 characters, so it would be: harrypotte
Re:This Startup Does Not Exist on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @08:39AM (#19254165)
You should have a NSFW warning on the last one for people mindlessly clicking the links like I did.
They said that the search for a HQ2 will not continue and instead they are focusing on increasing presence in NY, VA, and I think TN. Not sure if the increased presence is 25,000 jobs worth.
Re:Nasa makes final attempt to communicate with Mars rover on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @09:47AM (#19153448)
My battery is low and it’s getting dark.

- Opportunity

Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:01AM (#19114129)
Sadly, you'll still find people (even in this thread) that claim "of course Trump's campaign wasn't meant to be taken literally." With statements like "if you took what Trump said on the campaign literally, then you missed the point."

So then if _The Wall_ was figurative, why did he shut down the government over its funding?

"No he meant that one literally."

Okay... So what about the fact that the wall would be funded by Mexico? He claimed that he would literally make them write a check.

"That was obviously figurative."

An exhausting stretch of logic by those who can't burden themselves with introspection.

Re:Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Wife MacKenzie Are Divorcing on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @10:58AM (#18865686)
I think the opinion that the title is quite "gossipy" for HN is shared with a good portion of the community. I was entirely ready to just disregard the post after skimming the comments, but your point about splitting of assets is a great topic for discussion.

What has happened historically when an executive gets divorced? Is this is the first high-profile tech company executive divorce?

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