MrUnknown

I am not following this nearly as much as everyone else, but I can explain why I am interested in it.

_why is more of an artist instead of a programmer, he became popular, wanted to be anonymous (or at least his actions and code be more important than the person) but didn't really hide his identity. Once who he was became semi-popular (an actual name and, I believe, where he worked) he completely deleted his online presence. All of his code, etc. and just disappeared with no mention as to why he did it.

Now he is back and telling a story. I see it as a art project he is doing with his alternate identity. The character of _why is just interesting. First we have no idea why he disappeared, now we have no idea why he is reaching out to us.

In the end he could say "Drink More Ovaltine," disappear again, and I wouldn't be surprised.

To me, it seems like a lot of these light-weight Non-IDE text editors, are basically IDEs anyway. You just said sublime and Vim have most of the features of an IDE.

I personally use RubyMine, and while I don't use the debugging a whole lot, it comes in handy with some really confusing issues. Other than that, it is just a fancy text editor that I have become used to for Ruby work.

This has to be the dumbest comment I have ever read on HN.

It's OK, neither was mine it seems judging by its reply.

I am sure banning them would have prevented this situation from ever happening.

I don't really contribute a whole lot to Hacker News, but generally on here (unlike reddit) people are expected to back up their opinion. Not make sweeping statements and expect the other person to research if the person was right or wrong.

He was saying that Valve is like Blizzard, in that they don't try to push the GPU

Care to explain why? For simply a domain registering company, it seems fine.

but it does, so what's your point?

Looks like it was removed, because I can't find it.

They still have something in there about damages for $100k, but that pertains to "using" the content of the site.

As someone who barely knows any JavaScript, but want to learn CoffeeScript (I know ruby, and they are similar), even I can do this.

I purchased a copy just to send some money your way for a great tutorial. Thank you for your hard work.

Backbone.js requires Underscore.js. Total it is 9.6k. that is > 7k

It needs the IQ Routes feature. I don't know if it is standard or not.

While I hate what you are saying, I completely agree with it.

While high-speed isn't available everywhere (I know, because it isn't on every street where I live) it does cover a majority of Americans. Netflix already makes plenty of money and doesn't seem to be suffering from not being available to all Americans.

It doesn't matter how dense the media is as you still need to get the content onto it. This will be done by downloading or purchasing it at a store on some other media to transfer to it.

Thing is, I would rather pay $8/mo to stream older movies I will only ever watch once rather than buy them on DVD for $5/ea in the bargain bin. Even if I decide to watch it a few times, my price for it is still much lower.

You also call the media cheap, which it is and will be, but you forget the costs of licensing. I am sure it doesn't cost $25 to make a blu-ray. Streaming services allow a type of collective bargaining for it's users and gives a lower price overall.

I am with you, I am 27 and really had no clue what the heck Zagat is. I knew they reviewed food places, but why they are trusted or why I should care? I am more interested in my co-workers opinion.

I don't see this as a great purchase for Google either. They already put business reviews from other websites on their listing pages. I have seen Zagat ratings on various pages. Why couldn't they just pull it in also instead of buying the company?

I don't think people are taking them as a religion (at least I hope not). It is more along the lines that it seems the people at Google are still mostly trying to make the Internet and technology a better place rather than only worrying about profits.

Of course, they do care about profits, but it isn't their only agenda. This is why Google owning the patents isn't a major deal. There is no history of using the patents to get rid of competitors or to make a quick buck. They pull them out of the closet to defend themselves from other patent lawsuits. I am certain that if Google started going after various companies over mundane patents, the view of them will change very quickly and you wouldn't see very many people defending them.

I completely agree with this type of use.

The issue is laws are generally written to allow unlimited access for any reason to any amount of data at any time. This allows abuse. While the law will allow your use for the greater good, it will probably also allow a police officer to request the logs of his daughter's current boyfriend.

I haven't read the law, so my comment may be completely inaccurate, but I don't really have much faith in the law being written properly and providing real incentive to not abuse the power.

Most people don't tend to respond well to these types of complaints.

I used to work as customer service for a website and would constantly get sarcastic help requests. It made me hate them and I certainly didn't want to help them. In fact, I either ignored the ticket or just responded slowly as I handled tickets with more reasonable people.

The people saying this is a "great" ticket and wish more reports were given this way are full of it. You will very quickly get tired of it because you realize you are doing everything you can to help them and they really don't care enough to give you enough respect to speak with you as a human being in a conversation. Instead choosing to be sarcastic and insult your efforts to help.

I see this the other way around. I am thankful a huge bunch of volunteers spend many hours of their day creating software I use daily without having to pay for it. They don't deserve to be treated like this.

Expressing frustrations in a completely smart ass way is being a dick.

He was being a complete idiot in his bug report. The moderator stated that he has been warned many times before. He completely deserved to be banned after being warned that his actions will result in being banned.

Sure, he is submitting bug reports, but his childish behavior shouldn't have to be tolerated because of this.

It's bad news period. It is hillarious how they were arguing that less competition will allow them to lower prices and provide better service.

I knew if I had almost a monopoly, my first priority would be to lower prices and provide better service. Just like Comcast, sorry, Xfinity.

I think a lot of people read its title and dismissed the article out-right because they didn't want to be called a loser because they considered themselves "frugal." The author of the article actually describes real frugalness, by getting what you pay for instead of just buying the cheapest thing possible.

Sorry, this is my normal username I sign up with and I didn't create a throwaway account. I just rarely comment.

My username on reddit is the same also. 2+ Years or so and no comments.

Then do it! Believe in yourself!