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Re:Judge Orders Los Angeles Times to Delete Part of Published Article on Sunday July 15, 2018 @11:53PM (#17538639)

And an archive.is link of that one, for good measure:

https://archive.is/g8jV7

Re:Pull to Refresh.js on Thursday June 07, 2018 @12:10PM (#17257144)

Love the slot machine mechanic of pulling to refresh [0] [1] [2].

Over the years it's grown to become quite satisfying.

Mmm.. dopamine.

[0] https://thebrag.com/truth-facebook-pull-refresh-feature/

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vv5jkb/the-secret-ways-so...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/ex-googler-slams-designers-fo...

Re:Favstar will shut down as a result of Twitter’s API changes for dat... on Monday May 14, 2018 @04:18PM (#17069095)

<emailed mods>, thanks tptacek.

Re:The Erlang Runtime System on Saturday May 05, 2018 @08:28PM (#17004659)

Submissions without discussion aren't duplicates.

Re:Complete rich text editor built using JavaScript on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:12PM (#16950414)

Is this going to be open-source? I'm confused about why I'd want or need to create an account.

Re:Ask HN: How is Quilt different from ClusterHQ? on Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:42PM (#16389294)

Easily clickable links:

[0] https://quilt-data.breezy.hr/p/15c4a8807cf6-technical-lead

[1] http://archive.is/vjiLw

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13239032

Ask HN: How is Quilt different from ClusterHQ?

Posted by promopacket on Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:41PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I just noticed a Quilt job posting on the front page [0] and am wondering what is different about Quilt compared to the late ClusterHQ.If you recall, ClusterHQ created FlockerHub, and wanted to be "Git for Data". Then in December of 2016, right before the holidays, ClusterHQ abruptly shutdown [1] [2].Coincidentally, I had interviewed there a month before. After going through the process and...

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? on Sunday February 11, 2018 @04:13AM (#16351895)

Agree that it happens, and think this case is different.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16351137

Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? on Saturday February 10, 2018 @11:12PM (#16351137)

There is a running joke within Google that the best way to get promoted is to create another chat or video conferencing app.

Is it really a joke at this point, though?

Googler engineering leaders and teams engaging in the replacement of good chat tech with worse happens every year or two. All to demonstrate "cross-org impact" and climb the promo ladder. This is in fact the driving force behind many of the complaints mentioned in the article.

A sad and systemic failure, indeed.