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atomicdog

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atomicdog··on Google+ can now hide your gender "in response to user feedback"
I wonder what it feels like to be Randall Munroe and have sycophantic fanboys for a poorly drawn stick-figure webcomic that was briefly funny a couple of years ago.
atomicdog··on All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (1990)
TIL Carmack's been using Objective C since the Doom days.
atomicdog··on Interview with key LulzSec hacker
Good idea, let's combat these immature lulzsec hackers by... stooping to their level and dropping dox on them?
atomicdog··on A Programmer's First Experience with Google+ (Screenshots)
I think circles/"groups" are no different to categories in your contact list
atomicdog··on Who are the finest UK design and dev companies...
Wow... a blank canvas for design companies to promote themselves.
atomicdog··on Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
I'm guessing he needs a product to be intuitive enough that he doesn't need a marketing person to tell him how to use it. Wave was pretty far from that.
atomicdog··on “Let's settle this in a Ruby programming contest”
You want to see the real world of Ruby programming? The one they don't show you in magazines or the E Channel?
atomicdog··on Sitting for hours can shave years off life
Similarly, being unhealthy at 20 is a waste of time. You can eat cheetos at any age.
atomicdog··on Ask HN: How did you get avg 95% in University?
You sacrifice a social life.
atomicdog··on Editorial: Dear Nokia, you cannot be serious
Isn't the fact that they're using Meego for this phone and instant admission of the inferiority of the WP7 platform?
atomicdog··on IOS Icons made in Pure CSS
Impressive in Chrome, but seriously they couldn't get them to work in Firefox?
atomicdog··on EFF no longer accepts donations in Bitcoins
People who want to buy drugs and weaponry over the Tor network.
atomicdog··on Programming is…
Don't give him ideas.
atomicdog··on Programming is…
>Configuring IDEs, virtual machines, web servers, databases

A lot of the things listed are things that infrastructure guys, not programmers, should be doing...

atomicdog··on The Death of the Scrollbar
B-but it's so shiney and modern!
atomicdog··on After botched child porn raid, judge sees the light on IP addresses
Possible explanation: Stop trying to defend trigger happy cops shooting family pets.
atomicdog··on After botched child porn raid, judge sees the light on IP addresses
Came here expecting to see comments discussing the best way of avoiding liability if caught downloading CP.

Was not disappointed.

atomicdog··on Apple Purchases iCloud.com for $4.5 Million
"Now you're thinking with clouds!"
atomicdog··on Ask HN: Are There Any Compelling Reasons To Continue Using Firefox?
It has a nicer interface than Chrome.
atomicdog··on ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
Some people pronounce "?" as "Huh"?

Might as well call it a "WTF mark".

atomicdog··on Facebook drops the comment button, allows users to edit replies
There's no way 14 year old girls using Facebook are gonna figure out that shift+enter submits, all you'd see in that scenario is a bunch of people complaining about how they couldn't submit any commits... or not, as they wouldn't be able to submit.
atomicdog··on How to construct a web developer in twelve months
Did that guy just suggest reading Twitter and Techcrunch are requirements for being a web developer? Not impressed...
atomicdog··on One page: Javascript in 10 minutes
There's a special place in hell for people who still put opening curly brackets on the same line in 2011.
atomicdog··on Five arrested over 'Anonymous' web attacks
>law is the law.

Okay, square.

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