nollidge

This is the most comprehensive list of gateways I've found:

https://github.com/cubiclesoft/email_sms_mms_gateways/blob/m...

Betteridge's law of headlines:

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

Typo.

I like using a word beyond my normal inner-dictionary that is the right one, in the right place.

This is often referred to as le mot juste.

Yes, that is absolutely what I'm saying. Obviously not because it's Wikipedia's policy, but because all information is provisional. All information should be regarded with varying levels of confidence never approaching 100%.

If you ask about my breakfast, I could be lying to you or recall yesterday's breakfast instead of today's or whatever.

I don't see why you have to impersonate me to make this point.

How would you know I'm telling you the truth?

It seems to me the problem is that people think there even exists such a thing as an authoritative source.

How can there be no screenshots?

That 250MB password will be run through scrypt by javascript

No, it will not. Nobody does this.

How is this a rebuttal? If anything, this furthers the author's case.

EDIT: nevermind, the language was fixed.

I did not successfully parallel park in my test and still passed. Thankfully I learned how on my own, but still.

U.S.? If so, me too, and I think we have horribly insufficient driving instruction here. Maybe it varies by state, but yeah, we didn't go on the freeway, I didn't really learn how to parallel park, I didn't learn anything about highway ettiquette (i.e. keep right unless passing), etc.

I wish we were required to have many, many more training hours before being licensed, especially in the colder climates with icy conditions on the regular.

Agree completely, that's why I said "probably" :)

EDIT: Comments are useful for explaining things like:

1. Non-obvious side effects

2. Code that's working around a bug in a 3rd party library

3. Code that calls into some non-intuitive 3rd party API

4. Citing your work (e.g. "adapted from stackoverflow.com/blah123")

5. Why you used pattern A instead of the more standard pattern B

I just hit "donate" and it took me to:

https://mayone.us/fec_compliance/

Sincere thanks to everybody who complained to them about this - I wouldn't have donated without HTTPS.

Yeah, I'm of the opinion that if you need a class/method comment to explain what it takes in or spits out, you probably named it badly.

When you stop by the local coffee shop, do you take note of what its address is?

Postal address? No, but I do know (for example) I'm on Main street, in that tiny alley one block west of 4th Ave, in the building just left of that weird giant sculpture of a bird.

I'm constantly aware of and can describe my relative location, even if I'm not always capable of expressing it using an absolute designation like postal address.

On the web, though, there is no such relativity. One website is not near or far from or above or below another. I cannot conceive of my location, much less express it, in any way but absolute address.

So: since I do not travel to reach places on the web, how do I know where I am? The address bar.

I suppose it still tells that service that I have a FB account.

Which barely more invasive than telling them you breathe air, no?

If anybody else is wondering what the hell "f8" is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_f8

See this post elsewhere on the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7674630

Can't you just adjust your LI email settings? I don't get any LI e-mail anymore after I went through the settings - no need to spamify anything.

QBasic on a 386/25MHz!

You should've started off with the hedging or formed your hypothesis as a question if you were unsure. People aren't going to read past the presumptuous claim to see if you walked it back - they're just going to hit the downvote button.

Also, I don't appreciate your thanking me as a way of passive-aggressively casting judgment on other downvoters. Nobody owes it to you to explain their downvote. I get that it was unexpected and kind of dismaying, but that doesn't mean drive-by downvoting was the wrong thing to do here.

They're downvoting you because it has nothing to do with "hipness", it's just the way it's done in some cultures.

And it really depends on how the company breaks down their development teams. Some do it by function, but some large enterprises divide things by business area - so you'll have a team for accounting, one for packaging, one for manufacturing, etc. In that sort of structure, generalists are much more valuable.

(i realize this is two days old, but i just saw your reply)

But... they could have just made it flat, and then it fits the use case you laid out AND the pocket one. Like, there is zero advantage to the bulky shape.

I think you accidentally a word...

as an indicator of base.

As an indicator of base 8 (octal).

> ...parse an integer out of a string in base-10 by default

It does.

Not quite: in some browsers (IE), a string starting with '0' gets interpreted as octal. So parseInt('041') === 33 in IE.

Guess how I found out about that.

And it's a bulky weird triangle shape, which to me is the stupidest part of the whole endeavor.

"sheer force" would be twisting the tumbler so hard you break all the pins

That's not how I read it... The best gloss of "sheer" in this context would be "pure", which would mean something like "force, devoid of any other tool or method". Like, "I moved the rock with sheer force" would imply I just pushed it and didn't use a lever or anything.

(You are correct that it's the wrong word choice, of course; the above is not what the author is meaning to say.)