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GitHub did this to me a few years ago. I still feel violated. Not by my idiot former employer. I feel violated by GitHub. I got my account back. Sort of. They detached a significant amount of my content from my account, and returned to me a gimpy lobotomized version of myself.

All my old GitHub comments are credited to “ghost” now. I was somewhere in the first 12,000 GitHub accounts.

My relationship with GitHub significantly predated my dalliance with this one employer years ago. I trusted GitHub. My GitHub account was a formative part of my identity. I still can’t believe it and I still can’t forgive them. I lost some of my sparkle that day.

So?

Impressive! I've been using Fluentd a lot, will look at this.

p.s. Search for "complaince" and fix the typo :-)

It's impossible for me to be as anonymous as I like on Quora, because they require a government ID with the name I want to use. Which isn't even that weird! It's my legal last name, plus my childhood nickname for a first name.

Your name just didn't provoke their Real Name Gestapo.

Yes. Within hours of registering my account, Quora emailed to let me know that my name sounds fake and that I have to prove my identity with government ID, or I can't use Quora on an equal basis with other users. It really burns me!

I think part of their reasoning is "hey, we have prominent users! Let's make sure everyone knows it!" But Ask MetaFilter has famous users. They are in no way diminished by my pseudonymity.

Plus I know how to change my name. I can spend $100 at the courthouse, and get an ID that would force Quora to let me use my preferred name. My point is, Quora doesn't get to be the impetus for my legal name change. I don't need Quora's permission to call myself what I prefer to be called.

That's a false dichotomy.

Ask MetaFilter is a much better Yahoo Answers, but I can be pseudonymous there. Also, my pseudonym is much closer to a real identity than what's on my driver's license.

I don't have any real reason to fear sharing my "real name" with Quora. I'm lucky. But I'm not the only person in the world. Good thing I'm not trans or a religious dissident. Good thing the only thing stopping me from contributing to Quora is my ornery nature. I would hate to for the world to miss out on my Quora contributions for a good reason.

Good thing Quora doesn't have my "real name" is all I'm saying. I have an interest in privacy, even though I use the same pseudonym as my identity on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. And Ask MetaFilter. And so many other places. I shouldn't have to beg to use my preferred name on Quora's bulletin board, regardless of my reasons. It's none of their business.

There's nothing about a "real names" policy that automatically turns a shitposter into a quality contributor. There are plenty of reasons not to wear a target on your back and self-doxx. Today's misadventure is one very good reason.

I'm experiencing a sense of schadenfruede because I'm embittered by Quora's arrogant "real names" policy. They won't "let me" contribute.

Nothing insightful. I'm just here to kick them while they're down.

Being looked at by whom?

What the expletive! (Awesome, really didn’t see it coming though!)

Yeah, do you have a composer.json in the root of your repo? Buildpack will detect a PHP app...

I loved this, thank you. I never knew how the abolitionists managed to pass the slave trade act until now.

That's just like Perl to have a literary name like Perl::Critic :-)

Nitpicking: if you're keeping the name, pick a canonical way to spell it and "enforce" that everywhere :-)

Repo name: Git-Enforcer

Logo at top of readme: git ENFORCER

call-to-action button: "Install Git Enforcer Free"

shields.io version badge: "GitEnforcer"

Which one is it? Pick one to be known by!

I do like the idea overall. So, let me tell you why I instantly hated it and closed the tab.

Your Show HN headline did a great job, I was excited to see what a github repo quality bot does!

This is a personal preference, but I find the name "Git Enforcer", the police officer emoji, and the git logo with a police hat on it completely off-putting. Not the atmosphere I would want to foster when I'm trying to use persuasion to get colleagues to adopt good practices. In my world, police are authoritarian bullies who demand instant compliance without negotiation, or else they'll brutalize you.

It's humbler and more inviting for a bot to come across as an assistant. "Git Enforcer" comes across as something a clueless boss imposes. I think all the wrong-footed design cues come from the name "git enforcer".

Basically your bot is a linter for collaboration behaviors. It can't actually enforce anything, all it can do is nag. Actually, if the name was GitNag and the icon was a horse, I would find your bot charming.

Speaking of linters, lately I've been using [Black](https://github.com/ambv/black) for my Python. Its self-description in that Readme sold me on it instantly.

I wish you well with this! It is a cool idea.

The idea that bonobos and chimpanzees can speak the same language is absolutely thrilling. Even though bonobos are chimps, I always saw the two species as very distinct; this discovery really resets my worldview on multiple levels.

A custom build with only the components you're using cuts the CSS size dramatically. You also get to specify your supported browsers, which can cut down the size as well. Finally, you don't have to use their javascript, and not every component requires it.

Sorry for the tone of my replies, seivan, you're probably a perfectly nice person who I would get along with just great in real life. Dawkins creeping around picking on a 14 year old boy and unable to stop himself from saying the stupidest and meanest thing possible at every opportunity is really getting to me, especially because I once admired him. It feels ugly to watch him self-destruct.

Recognize anyone you know? http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians...

Oh, so you're new, and you worship authoritarian dictators.

In a world that wasn't fucking awful, Dawkins would be Ahmed's idol, instead of his creepy public persecutor. I guess that's what happens when you spend a few decades on a pedestal, drinking your own kool-aid.

As a teenage Muslim atheist, Dawkins was my hero. As an adult, 20 years later, I am embarrassed for him and for you, his followers.

I see the Hacker News community is valiantly rising to the occasion again.

Yes, Richard Dawkins, a 14-year-old boy intended to get arrested and deliberately provoked an overreaction by Texas racists, whose existence I'm sure he was totally aware of, because 14 year old boys are some wily motherfuckers.

Richard Dawkins, once a luminary, now a delusional conspiracy theorist struggling to cling to the fringes of respectable society, drowning in his own diarrhea.

Pure garbage from the new king of blowhards. He's in way too deep, like Bill Maher, and he's now preaching only to his dwindling choir.

A few great comments from /r/linguistics on Reddit really enlightened me on this topic.

Gender isn't senseless, it's a checksum strategy for information. It's not even about sex, lots of grammars have genders that have nothing to do with male/female. The point of gender is agreement: if you're talking about something female, all verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in the sentence have to agree, or the listener gets a syntax error. The syntax error helps the listener figure out that they missed something, or that the transmission was garbled. https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/3i1695/eli5_wh...

If you get rid of gender, as English mostly has, you end up forced to adopt different constraints that seem equally arbitrary and wasteful, like strict word order and lots of prepositions. https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/3i1695/eli5_wh...

Very excellent comment demonstrating the point about English and word order - in Russian, you can say three words that mean "the dog saw the rabbit" in every possible order, and it's still a valid sentence that means the same thing, because Russian doesn't depend on word order. If it was English, "the dog saw the rabbit", "saw the rabbit the dog", "saw the dog the rabbit", "the rabbit the dog saw", and "the dog the rabbit saw" would all mean exactly the same thing, unambiguously, because the gender of "dog" would have to match the gender of "saw". https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/1kdxsc/are_the...

It's not like the entire 9 million residents were on public assistance for the entire 8 years. People come and go, most public assistance programs are time-limited.

Exercise. Read "The best exercises for mental illnesses": http://www.thementalrunner.org/p/the-best-exercise-for-menta...

(Via the "exercise out of depression" subreddit: https://m.reddit.com/r/EOOD/ )

It's a typo, the actual URL is vjs.zencdn.net. No wonder the domain was available.

So, is this a RubyMotion app? (Asking because I'm curious, they recently released Android support in addition to iOS/OS X).

Regardless of whether or not you're using RubyMotion, would you like to share any comments or experiences about developing and releasing the app for both iOS and Android at the same time? I think it's remarkable, it seems like people pick either iOS or Android to launch. A lot of small iOS shops don't even build their Android versions in-house, they will contract the Android version out to an Android firm.

Great work on this app, I love it! Will try it out in the real world later today.

Nope, people who paid $600+ for an iPhone still had to have a two-year contract, they didn't even get compensated for it with a subsidy. And at the same time that you paid $600, AT&T was giving Apple a cut of the contract, something like 10 bucks a month from your AT&T bill went straight to Apple in the beginning. So Apple was really getting around $840 per iPhone over the life of the contract, $600 up front and $10/month for 24 months.