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if the energy is allowed to be released too quickly

Wasn't this the problem? That the kernel was drawing too much voltage from the battery, or something like that I read.

Problem with Android is the amount of devices that will never get updates.

How many devices are there in the wild that have yet to be patched against stagefright? I bet it's over 50%

I don't feel like typing much because it's nap time but IRCv3 is an almost closed group of friends, mostly znc core developers, who have decided they can choose what the future of IRC looks like.

They have put lots of pressure on and harassed other developers of clients and networks, sending them patches and infiltrating their devs if necessary, so their ideas are actually implemented.

If you complain about those ideas and specs, they'll tell you to refer to their github issue tracker, but they mostly ignore those who are not part of that core group I mentioned.

There are boards and boards. And even in the worst boards there are good threads. It's a culture of its own, though.

You mean, remove opacity from the body...

Such a great idea, though.

I don't speak English natively, and any corrections are welcome. On the other hand I don't run a multi-million business based on writing comments on Hacker News so currently hiring a PR person to proofread these comments is not within the boundaries of my budget.

WoSign runs a business that is basically based on trust, and Nigerian scammers have sent me PDFs that looked far more convincing and trustable than that one WoSign posted.

So much money they are making and they can't hire anybody who can write English properly or write a PDF that is not composed of a handful of font faces and sizes.

I also find it funny they have fired the CEO (the PDF does not say he stepped down voluntarily) but he's the one sending that link to the mailing list. I call bs.

Are we future obsessed? I am not.

I thought he said "Spanish" meaning "a local source", not "a source in a language other than English"

That's not Spanish, that's from Ecuador.

If the government had to subsidise them, I bet they'd make sure the prices were reasonable.

You can easily see it in the map of how the people voted and you’ll notice that those territories where the war was actually fought got the big majority of the votes supporting the peace treaty.

Or maybe because people in those territories support the guerrillas?

1TB is not a lot. I download around 300GB a month on my 10/1 ADSL line, and I don't even watch HD video or stuff like that--it's mostly torrenting of software/movies. I'd probably go over 1TB if I had fibre.

That said I find data caps reasonable, but 1TB is not reasonable.

Because rolling out a fibre network is very very very expensive. People who think they are entitled to certain speeds, data caps, or prices, don't understand this. That's why Google Fiber is reconsidering their investment. It simply is too expensive.

If you have a problem, you can ask your government to force Comcast to rent the network, as it happens in civilised countries like mine, but that makes it harder to compete in price.

They mess with the chronological order of my timeline and I'm grabbing a hatchet.

Yes exactly. It's embarrasing. Those tweets are just removed from your timeline and there's no way you can make them return. For someone like me who follows just a few people and intends to read the entire timeline, it is very very bad.

That's their core product there and it's broken. And they don't care. I miss the twicca days... That's the Twitter I liked, a chronological stream of text. I mourn for it.

I'm going to expand on this. There are two distinct annoying features.

1. The one you're talking about, messes up the chronological order of the timeline completely. That one is called "Show me the best Tweets first", in settings, and I have disabled it. Some people report Twitter flips the switch whenever they see fit, but that has never happened to me.

2. The second one is a small widget that appears at the top of your timeline that says "while you were away" and shows three tweets. There is no way to disable this. This is what it looks like on a desktop: http://i.imgur.com/R6rPRGo.jpg There are similar ones for mobile. I don't personally care too much about it (I close it... just one of hundreds of annoyances I have to put up with when I use a computer) but there's a huge problem: those three tweets are removed from your timeline, wherever they were. So they mess my timeline up (someone might have tweeted two things in rapid succession, and one of the tweets goes missing because they move it up to that widget). And there is no way to disable this, at all.

1,555 employees, for example, why that and not 1,500

What the hell is with those numbers? Is it a joke I don't get?

There's no way to disable that feature.

Twitter chose this long list of liberal-leaning associations to "police" the community. I don't think it's a conspiracy-like accusation to say their moderation leans to the left. https://blog.twitter.com/2016/announcing-the-twitter-trust-s...

This thread went from 2nd most voted to killed immediately. dang, what can you tell us about this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12651429 (you need showdead=yes in your profile to see it)

https://blog.twitter.com/2016/announcing-the-twitter-trust-s...

If you have a moderality complex UI, by making it responsive you are going to ruin it. That's why most serious websites with complex UIs don't bother with responsiveness and have two different interfaces.

I doubt it, they had an XMPP interface, but that doesn't mean they use XMPP in the backend

Semi-offtopic: this is what the front page of Twitter looks like for me.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s5LeMVvmcJ0/V_UeJYgxG6I/A...

There's this and two more tweets, in rotation. They are three sports-related Tweets from two years ago, with that shit image quality, and what's even more amusing: since I'm based in Spain, they believe I'm interested in Argentinian football, probably because I speak the same language (but Spaniards usually know absolutely nothing about sports from South America, neither are they interested in that).

Even better, the cookie use banner moves the tweet down, making it overlap with the footer.

And this has been like this for two years already. I guess nobody ever logs in in the company?

I wonder how cheaper would it be if tweets were removed in, let's say, six months.

How many of those Android users use an Android because they can't afford an iPhone?

Still better than nothing.

I'd say things have changed quite a bit since format string bugs...