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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @10:20AM (#42063671)
The United States is ranked 16th highest in the world for emissions per capita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

Re:Authlib: Python Authentication on Monday June 26, 2023 @11:44AM (#36481274)
OAuth (OIDC) still makes a lot of sense in some scenarios. I work at a university and I just used Authlib a few months ago to consume our single sign-on, and let me tell you, that was much easier than using the API would have been.
Re:Cal.com: The Open-Source Calendly Alternative on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @03:52PM (#34510168)
That may be an issue during onboarding. I've got an account set up already and I'm able to edit my availability schedule from 12:00am to 11:59pm.
Re:H.R.2184 – End Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act on Friday September 09, 2022 @01:03PM (#32781903)
This was introduced 03/26/2021. Not sure why it's relevant enough now to be at the top of HN.
Re:Show HN: Tuc – When cut doesn’t cut it on Monday June 13, 2022 @12:04PM (#31727377)
I am in love with this trend of replacing old school unix utilities with new rust projects that stay just as fast or faster, but increase the usability or feature set tenfold. rg, fd, exa, bat, and now tuc.
Re:Toward a “modern” Emacs on Friday September 25, 2020 @08:25PM (#24595395)
Don't forget syntax highlighting shortcomings. Sublime, VS Code, Syntect, Pygments, and other highlighting engines all get most languages right. Emacs and vim both do weak and incomplete jobs identifying tokens. It makes nice color schemes look bland because they skew toward only a few colors. At least neovim is working on treesitting which should improve this ability.
It looks like port 63333 is a common forwarding port for Postgresql. https://github.com/search?q=port+63333+database&type=Code
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2020) on Friday January 03, 2020 @04:36AM (#21944525)
Location: Ypsilanti, MI

Remote: Yes, only

Technologies: Golang, C++, Ruby, Linux

Résumé: https://shreve.io/resume.pdf

Email: [email protected]

I'm a soon-to-be CS BSE looking for a junior software engineering role starting in May. I spent 6 years as a Rails developer, but went to school to help me pivot to systems programming. I want a job that will help me grow my security and distributed systems knowledge.

Re:F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules on Thursday December 14, 2017 @02:15PM (#15925790)
When you explain what Net Neutrality is, an overwhelming majority of people supported it, including republicans. This isn't just a tech-literate liberal issue.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/12...

Pieter Levels wrote pretty much the same thing a few days ago, but most people that know about Pieter know he likes to automate things. I'm pretty sure he set his up as a cron job.

https://gist.github.com/levelsio/ee9539134035492ba77a7be1b49...

Re:Deconstructing the Google Analytics tracking script on Thursday June 29, 2017 @08:14AM (#14662583)
I'm amused by the fact he thinks `array.push(arguments)` inside the nested function evaluates and pushes the arguments from the parent function.
Re:Nylas Mail is now free on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @10:21AM (#13418218)
That's an integral part of how it works. Their sync servers download your email, then sync with your local client. You need that ID to log into their server and access your individual email accounts.
Re:Pokémon Go loses its luster, sheds more than 10M users on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:38PM (#12347385)
I was totally fine wandering around aimlessly until my phone buzzed, but they also took out battery saver mode. I never even found out about the existence of maps until they were banned. Removal of such a benign, yet helpful feature as battery saver mode is what made me quit.
Re:CloudFlare Watch on Friday March 04, 2016 @11:24AM (#11224787)
That also includes all the web scraping it's doing. As it says, there's a lot of churn in the data, and it tries to keep it all updated.

Of course, that's still way too much. I don't believe that's an honest figure, or the owner is being ripped off.

Re:Don't Attend a Hackathon on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @12:36PM (#9886174)
Isn't that what a hackathon is about? Maybe, "Don't work for free at a hackathon".

Writing code for one's own idea is play. Writing code for someone else's vision is work.

Excuse me, Git gets me riled up.
TL;DR: Git really _is_ terrible software.

You're defending VCS in general. Git is a single VCS implementation, and a shitty one at that.

Git is hacked together from C, Shell, Tcl (which tbh, I've never even heard of), Python, and C++. Mercurial, by comparison, is Python and C.

Git has an awful UI out of the box. Why? There's no reason other than fuck you. Mercurial's UI out of the box is similar to every project that has tried to make Git easier to use. It's for _people_ to use, not Linux kernel developers. [Humor on this topic: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~asampson/blog/git.html]

Git's documentation also sucks. Suppose you don't understand rebasing. Try running `git help rebase` and you'll get this back: "git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head". WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?

Another example: `git help push` returns "git-push - Update remote refs along with associated objects". Why is this so goddamn complicated? It's almost like it was written by developers that have no idea what it's like to not understand how git works. Oh wait.

Mercurial on the other hand, has simple explanations at first, with more in-depth explanations if you look further. `hg help push` returns "push changes to the specified destination". Which is how someone would explain VCS pushing to another human being.

Linus Torvalds isn't running `git help`, people that don't understand git are. Documentation should be written for them.

Why can't we all just admit that git is terrible software and move on?
Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation on Monday December 15, 2014 @10:38AM (#8752471)
Yes. What they were going for was "red head-scarf", but that is also questionable. I've only ever seen "head scarf" unhyphenated.