It is a pattern, yes. Let me show you a pattern that I have observed in Hacker News and forums since the demise of USENET.
USENET had an elegant way of ignoring without hellbanning, which the negative karma has done to me now.
Would you please study the history of Stalinism ?
Let me summarise it for you.
Ideology -- pg.
Yeah, Marx is a good guy too.
It is made of dictators and the inner ring -- Admins and Karma users like you. These people have special "powers" of punishment.
Admins have far greater powers of purging and renaming things.
Then the party cadre -- people who submit and actually keep the things in motion. They are usually not aware of the "inner ring", users like you. They want to help the lay people.
In fact no one even knows who is in the inner ring.
The inner ring is clueless of the Admins.
Then there are lay users like me, who lurk around and want to help but are generally punished.
If you think I am shitting you consider the rate of new users becoming high karma users in HN over the years.
You can use d3 and it will go the top of HN.
Your pedantry is just arbitrary. There is nothing really substantial in it. Rather than judging on the basis of content, you are judging me on the "words" I use.
Gimmick:
An ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.
Why thank you, it is novel :)
Please understand the democratic roots of the word "forum" and take it seriously.
Please consider donating to LibreSSL, again if you can. It would take less time than grammar-checking your comment :)
As a lay developer I can only hope that the people in linux, *bsd lands are working on the problem diligently.
Surprisingly Microsoft has its own SSL stack. Any thoughts of opensourcing from their end would be interesting, especially if they have nice test suites.
I think debuggers are under appreciated by Open Source languages(as in, it's not THE priority). An approach I am forced to use is heavy log statements and a DEBUG flag, so that I can feel the program show me what it's upto.
I think Bret's ideas are worth pondering on. The only issue when dealing with the philosophical idea of time, I find for myself, is that it's an easy rabbit hole to fall into.
I think multimedia computing, as introduced by Amiga did more for AI, speaking in terms of games, than the Lisp Machines. I do think the jack of all trades approach is useful for sharing data across computers and professions.
It's sad to see the demise of the professional multimedia computer to tablets and tablet-laptops.
It is a pattern, yes. Let me show you a pattern that I have observed in Hacker News and forums since the demise of USENET.
USENET had an elegant way of ignoring without hellbanning, which the negative karma has done to me now.
Would you please study the history of Stalinism ?
Let me summarise it for you.
Ideology -- pg.
Yeah, Marx is a good guy too.
It is made of dictators and the inner ring -- Admins and Karma users like you. These people have special "powers" of punishment.
Admins have far greater powers of purging and renaming things.
Then the party cadre -- people who submit and actually keep the things in motion. They are usually not aware of the "inner ring", users like you. They want to help the lay people.
In fact no one even knows who is in the inner ring. The inner ring is clueless of the Admins.
Then there are lay users like me, who lurk around and want to help but are generally punished.
If you think I am shitting you consider the rate of new users becoming high karma users in HN over the years.
You can use d3 and it will go the top of HN.
Your pedantry is just arbitrary. There is nothing really substantial in it. Rather than judging on the basis of content, you are judging me on the "words" I use.
Gimmick: An ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.
Why thank you, it is novel :)
Please understand the democratic roots of the word "forum" and take it seriously.