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I was wondering the same and assuming I'd overlooked something.

I kept it up until the user abruptly left the chat. That was a drag, I felt like we had a productive conversation going.

I also tend to associate "Bloom County" with "Calvin and Hobbes". I think I was reading both of them around the same time.

Low cost of living

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The first I remember reading about the "Blackbird" was in the _The Uncanny X-Men_, during the Claremont & Byrne run in the early 80's. Their jet was modeled on the SR-71, although I don't recall if they explicitly mentioned that model number.

Not to mention http://riotjs.com/.

The Atlantic article that Uncle Bob was writing in response to lists several specific examples of software failures that did, or could have, resulted in loss of life: a failure of the 911 system; air traffic control systems; medical devices.

I'm currently taking advantages of SaltStack's GPG renderer to store secrets in our version-controlled Salt code (see https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/renderers/all/salt....).

Can someone explain how the combat is supposed to work? I suppose that if I had more experience with these kinds of games it might be obvious.

Didn't see a link here, so I'll drop one for "Get Lamp", a documentary about text adventures.

http://www.getlamp.com

"Ditto". Longtime user (of the iOS app) and have never lost a note that I can recall.

Looking through the "Classic Quotes" list, it's apparent that MegaHAL was a big They Might Be Giants fan.

My interpretation: Assuming the work was outsourced to cheaper laborers (e.g. in India), OP may have felt that his job was at risk. By sabotaging the efforts of those offshore workers and making them appear incapable, he hoped to discourage management from outsourcing that work.

"If DMCA claims were expensive... the garage bands and individual artists/musicians would be left out of the game completely, they couldn't use DMCA to take down their music."

By the end of the article it had crossed my mind that Boyter and Ducker (the perpetrators of the hoax) were themselves fictitious characters, and that the article itself was part of a larger hoax.

This is so over the top that I read it as satire (not good satire, but satire). Is this serious?

I have read it, and it's quite good. Was about to post the link myself until I saw that you had.

Whoosh.

Probably not in her list of "favorite firing" stories.

Try and calculate the enormous waste of both time and money from memory leaks caused by code written in C and C++. Rust solves this...

This seems like an unusual language feature to highlight --- don't most modern programming languages solve this problem with various implementations of GC or memory management? N.B. I am not at all familiar with Rust and so maybe I'm missing some important context...

How is it fundamentally different from other "true crime" shows like "Dateline", "20/20", and "48 Hours"?

This is the book that I recommend to colleagues who are learning Git. I still refer back to it on occasion when I get into tricky situations with Git. Looking forward to reading through this new edition.

Try the Readability plugin for your browser of choice:

https://www.readability.com/addons

Am I the only one who's curious why the poster specified an "eBook" instead of just "book"?

Are you kidding? With this, I can more easily skip over those applicants with tons of Java and C++ development experience when I'm looking for a C# developer. No more wasting time on reading resumes with completely unrelated experience!

Even looking at the graphic, I didn't understand --- I thought they wanted me to tilt my iPad along the horizontal axis (pitch). When that didn't work I tried tilting on vertical (roll). It wasn't until the tablet slipped in my hands enough to rotate sideways that I got a clue.

A U.S. President, maybe, but no, certainly not a plain old CEO.

He may have been referring to "libertarians" and not "liberals", but I'm not sure it really affects the GP post's point.