unclebunkers

You're citing yourself??? Fuck dude, go outside for a bit, get some fresh air.

The first wasn't thought about, it was done to save bytes, not because people weren't going to be using the software.

IPv4 was enough, the use case changed.

640K should be enough is an urban legend.

This isn't meant to come across as rude, but you're missing the forest for the trees.

Everyone needs the post office, how else will you be able to send a letter. Everyone needs news, newspapers will be around forever. Everyone needs a travel agent, people like to travel. They'll be around forever. Everyone will always have a land line. Video stores will exist forever... Everyone needs a watch... Etc...

For every example you come up with, I can come up with three in which the majority of the population no longer complies. We progress more than you realize. A commercial windowing computer interface has been around for 30 years next year, it's still in it's infancy. Touch interfaces have transformed digital adoption to numbers greater than I would have ever been able to comprehend back in 92 when I sent my mom, who worked at the University of Calgary while I was at the University of Alberta, an email. It was magical. And yet, in no way did I think it would ever grow to a point where every person would hold not only email, but the internet (which existed, but not really at that point). If you're under 30, it'll be a lot harder to see the rate of increase.

I agree, it's pretty slick. But the size would prevent me from using it on any mobile focused site.

I was aware grapes having a higher percentage of tannins, flavenoids, etc... when grown in adverse conditions. However, I thought this was a property of the fact that the plant always commented the same nutrients to the grape, but because it's restricted in how much water it can intake, the grapes never fully plump with as much water. This plumping would reduce the percentage, and then dilute the wine. I didn't realize they actually provide more nutrients. This seems counter intuitive, since the plant would on rocky hard soils, have much fewer nutrients to draw from. Do you have a citation handy, it would be a good Sunday afternoon read?

I really need to stop arguing with idiots on the internet.

I like it, I made a similar one when playing with the javascript frameworks. However, outside of play, is Angular really the right choice here? 14kloc, for a poll? Seems rather excessive to me.

I think perhaps you're not nearly as clever as you think you are.

I'm quite aware. Make note.

Sorry, but this doesn't even come close to working in the real world. If you're on the web, then this makes sense. However, on the metal, you need to know versions.

There won't be a windows 20, or anything closet to that. If we're still using computers the way we are now in 20 years, then we've seriously failed as a species.

If we use the term drupe, it sounds slightly less crazy. Drupe enabled reactors seems like a phrase I could get behind. Fruity Reactors, or the Coconut Reactors do not inspire confidence. Though a bag of fruity reactors does sound tasty.

If Pirate Joes is a Trademark violation, then every single small business that includes a persons name is a trademark violation. Regardless, settle a name change, and done. My point is there is zero need to be litigious here, and there is no logical legal justification.

Trader Joeys, clear trademark violation. Pirate Joes, no fucking way. Not in this country.

Importing the stuff, complying with Canada's labelling has nothing to do with Trader Joes. That has to do with the Canadian government, and they don't seem to get too sticky about stuff like this.

Trader Joes has a right to refuse people who shop there, but again, you can't sue someone for trying to buy from you. Trespassing perhaps. Stalking?

Which brings us to your point about dilution of a brand. They lose that right when they sell it. It's called the first sale doctrine. HBO can stop Netflix from showing Game of Thrones streaming, but they cannot stop them from renting the video out. So, rather than listing things that aren't valid, could someone explain why isn't this covered by the first sale doctrine?

I'm confused. I thought if I bought anything, I'm allowed to do with it as I will? First sale doctrine, which limits the rights trademark holders had over their products once they've been paid.

We quickly realized that bacteria have evolved to eat oil, so it wasn't quite as big of an environmental disaster as first expected. I would not expect radiation to improve the situation at all.

It's about 24. There are about 24 different elements found in the least element diverse life forms on earth if I recall.

This greatly increases my expectations of life on other planets if true.

I firmly went the other way a few years back, and haven't regretted it. Looking at this how-to, I have no real urge to back, though it is a good writeup.

What law is Google breaking here exactly?

Cute.

You're simply presenting a "No True Scotsman" fallacy. Notch created his own company, ran it, and made a billion in selling it. If that's not an entrepreneur, most of HN is going to need to change their business cards.

On my site, I promote my stuff. I own it, I'm allowed. So should google. It's not a hard argument, they aren't common carrier.

I dunno, Notch seemed to do alright for himself. Having made at least a billion as a result of starting his own company. I suspect that qualifies as an entrepreneur. He didn't seem the KKND type, but I could be wrong.

"It's not enough to win, all others must fail"

This isn't the DNA of a winner, this is the DNA of a sociopath.

It's one of the few places where the majority of the people either writing the posts or being written about are also the members doing the commenting. I think timezone may be a factor as well; I've made comments which were highly upvoted throughout the day, only to be decimated over the evening. So what your seeing as a parody of itself, I see as different gravity wells of opinion that present at different times. Who sees the story first often dictates the initial run. We'll see a woman in tech article loaded with borderline sexist comments against women, then a singular voice pops up and says how disappointed they are in the community. That gets voted to the top. It's routine, and it's essentially what happened to this article.

Great answer, thank you.

Because I hate the negativity.

I'm a little unclear, does this hook into your code, or is it just a REPL? If it doesn't hook, what would be the use case for this?

Any time someone says something won't work, what they should be saying is "No one has figured out how to make this work yet".

What is this for?