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Ran into a couple of things. Firstly, the documentation is wrong and when it states using "node app.js -u blah -p blah" it needs to specify "node app.js config -u ...".

Also, I found that if you enter an incorrect password, the application itself will break out of the switch statement (track in this case), but it won't output an error to stdout and also node remains running (with the application dead) and will make it appear like nothing bad has happened.

(E: Using Ubuntu 14.04, node 0.10.33, libspotify, etc, all up to date).

Speaking as someone who is in their 30s, I couldn't care less about the silly voices, the endless repetitive churning out of videos about the same indie games (God knows I'm still watching Bisnap do endless playthroughs of Risk of Rain and Binding of Isaac) or the clearly very young fanbase. Those things don't really bother me.

Now making jokes about rape and the holocaust? PewDiePie can go fuck himself.

a feminist, ... I don’t just stand for equality – I have crashed the glass ceiling in every aspect of my life.

As a feminist ...

... which is why I have decided not to hire women altogether.

Something doesn't add up here!

I think a more likely reason heavily tattooed people could have a problem working at the government is that they are more likely to be people who are difficult to clear (heavy drug use in the past, surrounded by people who are heavy drug users, etc.). They clearance process is honestly really stupid. Having tattoos will not disqualify you, but surrounding yourself in people with bad habits will.

What the fuck is this drivel? Did you honestly just imply that anyone with tattoos is likely to have a history of heavy drug use? Seriously?

In the long run, the only way in which it "works" is that you lose any semblance of being a decent human being and people can just straight-up see that you're a scumbag from the get-go.

True, but I don't believe there's a more dyslexia friendly font in standard fonts which are available on more platforms.

Just a little gripe of mine, to be honest, but it's really one of the only positive things to the font, and having it removed in the process of attempting to improve the font is a bit funny to me.

"The squashed, wonky, and weird glyphs of Comic Sans have been beaten into shape while maintaining the honesty that made Comic Sans so popular."

Doesn't this directly make Comic Neue inferior to Comic Sans for people with dyslexia, one of the original fonts plus points.

Good job justifying harassment. I'm sure anyone who bullied you thought they were justified too.

I'll try and keep calm when I explain this because, quite frankly in context, this is a ridiculous thing to say.

Consider, if you will, which of the following constitutes harassment or bullying.

a) Peppering your code with racist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic, or generally any other type of bigotry and posting it in a public place.

b) Correcting code which contains bigoted slurs, submitting a pull request and saying "Hey, I removed the stuff that makes people feel bad, would be super rad if you accept".

If you picked option b, I'm sorry, that's the wrong answer. But I'm a pretty nice guy, so I'll let you have another try!

You're reading this entirely wrong. This is an opportunity to submit requests (you know how pull requests aren't automatically accepted, right?) to help clean up the vile bigotry that exists within people's repos.

If you honestly believe this to be "bullying" or "vigilantism" then you're rocking one serious persecution complex with this issue. For people like us, this shit is actually important. You're complaining about generic curse words like "fuck" and "shit" and entirely missing the point.

Slurs like those mentioned in the article aren't just words, for people who have had to live with those insults our entire lives, they have history and they have been used to insult and oppress us. Get the fuck off your high horse because _you're_ not offended and perhaps put yourselves in the shoes of someone who has had these words used against them, spat with bile and venom, for decades.

Also, in "your day" you ended up with broken bones, well that's great, I've got two dead friends who committed suicide because of words like these over the years. This isn't a dick waving competition, this shit has serious effects on people.

Hi there, as a member of the LGBT community I fully support this endeavour because, hey, I don't want my sexuality marginalised when all I'm trying to do is read some code on github!

Please tell me more about how feeling insulted and marginalised is a good thing.

Case in point: my wife wanted to surprise me one day and saw that I had domains expiring while I was out of cell reception on a business trip. She obviously has all the necessary to verify she is my wife, and has access to my domains. If she used this to do something bad, this would be a different story. Instead, she was able to have a good conversation with someone who ended up giving her discount codes because she "knew I used them, but didn't know where to get them" and she wouldn't make the purchase until she saved at least 35% as I always said I did, minimum. All my domains got renewed, with a new card being added just to be sure it wasn't using money I didn't authorize - no matter who called. She is afraid of breaking things and still got through the process with positive experiences!

Here's your horror story.

They allowed an unverified (by the account holder) third party to make changes to your account.

That's fucking terrifying.

Going on the defensive and posting snarky replies purely because your device of choice opted not to support the format - despite being free to do so - is neither big, nor clever. The person you're replying to is completely correct, you make a great case as to why free and open software is a good thing, because your ability to experience this content is hindered by a walled garden of an OS.