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Re:Pinboard.in is not resolving DNS on Monday June 15, 2026 @05:56PM (#48547554)
Apparently this happened before in Jan 2022, and the same IP holds (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29873350) - I was able to snag a backup of my bookmarks by updating `/etc/hosts` to include `64.62.134.190 pinboard.in`.
Re:I am depressed and I need someone to talk to on Sunday December 16, 2012 @05:12PM (#4929776)
Service. Most of the details are withheld for privacy reasons, but what worked for one person with severe clinical depression - to the extent that she lived in the government mental hospital on constant suicide watch - could work for you also. She volunteered to help (after putting it off for years), and her attitude and depression vanished over a short period of time. This is one person's tale, and may not work for you.
Re:I'm Not Japanese on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @12:10PM (#4418069)
Ask the user, remember preference. Possibly Accept-Language (note - not locale, as locale != language). But, ask the user.
Re:Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus on Friday August 10, 2012 @03:08PM (#4367695)
The difficulty that I have with his linear generalization is that I strongly agree with some points on both sides - sometimes feeling oppositely strongly about two halfs of the same sentence. Another commenter linked to http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2010/05/types-la-chart.html which makes the statement that "the design space is very highly dimensioned, perhaps infinitely so". I suspect that the programmer opinion space is similarly highly dimensioned, and more particularly, that the specific single dimensional analogue that Steve Yegge draws in his post obscures critical features of this topology. If I can come down hard all over the line, then he does not have a good enough mapping from the higher dimensional space. As an aside, using the labels "liberal" and "conservative" inappropriately juxtaposes rather strong emotions in the mix. Hopefully the emotional/visceral reaction was not his intention as a means of ideological persuasion.