> I'm sorry you feel that way. We just happen to disagree then.
This kind of thing really annoys me. What do you mean you "happen to disagree"? Bakkot pointed out a fundamental contradiction in your whole position. You're not agreeing to disagree, you're ignoring a totally valid point, apparently because you simply don't want to hear it.
I am not sure what your fruit story is trying to prove, it is near-meaningless to me. But here's a metaphor for how you are conducting yourself in this discussion: You are playing a game of paintball. Bakkot has just shot you square in the chest. Everyone saw you get hit, and there's paint all over you, but you refuse to acknowledge it and keep playing anyway, ruining the game.
For those Rails users amongst us, many of these cool data types (I am particularly hanging out for Arrays) are available in the fast-improving postgres_ext gemⁱ, and (even more exciting) there's an effort to get it merged into Rails 4.
> The fact that Humans exist proves there is some intelligence in the Universe
> The fact that humans exist proves no such thing
I think you missed his point. The fact that humans exist and are intelligent is absolutely proof that there is some intelligence in the universe, i.e. us.
> My favorite pair of jeans gets worn 10 times more often than my other jeans. If I did away with the other jeans, I could afford to buy more of those things I really love.
This took me embarrassingly long to realise. Instead of buying clothes because they were pretty nice and on sale, buy only what you absolutely love, and pay full price. Instead of having "favourite underwear", get rid of everything that's not your favourite and make sure you only own favourites.
Yeah, it costs more at first. But over time you build up a wardrobe of high quality clothes you love. Quality over quantity, indeed.
One person. They're obviously troubled. Are we really going to let the actions of one person change the frame of the whole discussion?
A game allowing you to beat up a woman is, I hope, repulsive to any HN reader. But its existence, especially when it's so easy these days, means nothing in and of itself. You could probably feed in any picture you like, man or woman. It's not a weighty factor in a discussion.
> Christian, husband, father, software developer. In that order.
Maybe this is a horrible thing to say but when I read something like that I just completely turn off. Religious fanatic sick? Their invisible space god can take care of them! I love how he put his stupid superstition not one, but two places ahead of being a father. That's really cute.
I donated to the Python programmer with ALS but I think I'll let Jesus help this guy.
This is pretty painful. Firstly, I'm sure such vote-buying is against the rules, or at least against the spirit of any such award. Secondly .. is this what it's come to guys? This? "Vote for us, not because you like us, but because we'll do pushups"?
These guys need to go home and rethink their lives.
> And if we end up winning the award, co-founders Alex and Chase will hustle for users on Main Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan wearing banana costumes
If that's helpful, they'd be doing it already. It sounds to me like a ridiculous idea. So why even suggest it? These guys are clowns.
> The horror of slavery was that you had no choice in life
Your argument is all just semantics. Fine, slaves had no choice, and a large segment of Japanese (and other) society have no meaningful choice. Happy?
Slavery is a concept, anyway. You don't have to pedantically compare every single use of the word to some pet historical incident. I think it's entirely reasonable to compare sections of the working class's lives to slavery, and your attempts to "ban" the whole topic are really misguided and inappropriate, IMO.
It's not even close to the world's best travel site. I've looked at it before - maybe it's good in America but outside the results are bizarre.
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OK, so I am thinking of going over to the old country, SYD-LHR mid october. That's a long flight, I want at least premium economy - wtf, I can't even specify that on hipmunk! Well, that search is over even before it begun. I am sorry but a travel site that doesn't know what premium economy is is literally useless.
I don't want to sound like a dick. This stuff must be hard. But World's Best Travel Site? Are you kidding? How about learning "chopsticks" before you claim you're the greatest pianist in history?
(edit - the sapporo price changed under me in the last few hours, rendering my comment pretty void, right now at least. What I said about no prem econ stands, though. I'm a tall guy, and I'll flat-out refuse an economy flight more than 8 hours. Business is very expensive if I'm on my own money. Premium economy is a lifesaver to me. It needs to be on the site, yesterday)
Sounds like if the hacker had just done it out of hours, perhaps when the person in question was asleep, they would have had uncontested access to the accounts and the hack might have been far more damaging.
> at some point Samsung could simply say "no more"
I don't think it really works like that. Apple doesn't show up at the Samsung Shop every day and ask to buy the next day's components for their factory. They have long term contracts, a year or more in advance, often including huge co-investments in the factory toolings which will be involved in manufacturing them. Of course I don't know the details but I doubt Apple or the courts would look too kindly on Samsung suddenly declining to fulfil their multi-billion-dollar, multi-year supply contracts because they wanted to help their own competing products.
Samsung is very much wearing "golden handcuffs" in this situation.
This article is shockingly bad, from the very first sentence:
> There are only 3 enterprise-grade technology products I’ve ever seen that sell themselves. Two of them are from Apple
Huh? What "enterprise-grade" Apple product? XServe? Apple is nowhere in the enterprise, and thank god for that.
Here's some enterprise software that sells itself: Exchange. BES (well, used to). ProCurve. DRAC. Symantec Ghost. Did you see iTunes Group Policy Server anywhere in that list?
The article starts off stupid and only goes downhill from there. This guy doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
HR at some no-name start-up gets it into their head that some kid can make all their programming dreams come true. They made a blog post to lure him.
Later, HR at some other no-name startup makes a blog post proudly announcing that the kid in question applied there first, also making some annoying backhanded compliments about how their standards were too high or some lame shit.
This kind of thing really annoys me. What do you mean you "happen to disagree"? Bakkot pointed out a fundamental contradiction in your whole position. You're not agreeing to disagree, you're ignoring a totally valid point, apparently because you simply don't want to hear it.
I am not sure what your fruit story is trying to prove, it is near-meaningless to me. But here's a metaphor for how you are conducting yourself in this discussion: You are playing a game of paintball. Bakkot has just shot you square in the chest. Everyone saw you get hit, and there's paint all over you, but you refuse to acknowledge it and keep playing anyway, ruining the game.