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I don't even know of any tech websites that haven't succumbed to this. The Verge, Ars Technica, they all beat the social justice drum constantly.

Do you know of any good tech news websites that actually cover tech?

I've gotten to to PennApps multiple times and the only hackathon I've ever won is a Codeday, so this scenario that you're constructing is blatantly false. I'm assuming they look for people that will attract big sponsors to their hackathon, and the idea makes a lot of sense. Hackathons can't expand indefinitely, and the idea of having some consistency still makes more sense to me than random selection, which leads to situations where you're not accepted to a single hackathon in an entire semester. Unless you have a better idea, perhaps you should not mock this one?

Nah, actually being dead isn't that terrible. You hurt the people around you more than yourself when you go. Unless of course you die painfully/violently.

Very applicable actually. He lived a life that impacted millions of people around the world, and made his mark upon the world. RIP Terry Pratchett.

That reminds me of an English paper I had in freshman year of high school. Final grade on the rubric: 6/6 for each category, but 3/6 for "revisions" because I didn't change anything. Final grade B-.

Sometimes you see all kinds of complicated workarounds for that, such as detecting an orientation change and temporarily blocking zooming, or detecting an attempt to zoom and then disabling the restriction temporarily so if the user repeatedly tries to pinch-zoom then subsequent ones work.

Chris_Newton's comment seems to have possible workarounds that can fix this issue. I'll trust your decision whatever you go with though, and thanks for Skeleton!

This is a stupid article. Phone paying systems are clunky. I don't want to take out my phone, unlock it, open up an app, enter a PIN, choose a payment device, and then tap my phone to a payment system to pay, when I can just open up my wallet, take out this one card, and swipe it. Maybe you need to press the button a couple times to switch cards, but that's it.