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Your proposed norm is ripe for abuse by brilliant jerks. Just keep producing meritorious work and all incidents of you abusing people in your personal life will be excused.

(Your proposed norm is how things used to be, and still are to a large extent. This is bad and a failure of society, not a success.)

A serial workplace or school sexual harasser affects many people's livelihoods, their own livelihood is very far down my list of concerns. Beware isolated demands for compassion.

You can't simply submit a patch to any self-respecting open source project on a decision so consequential. You have to do annoying things that mostly get in the way, like convince other people and build consensus.

Just because this is a very difficult question doesn't mean we can throw our hands up and pretend it doesn't exist. Many things in life are very difficult and yet worth solving anyway.

I love free speech, but you're going to have to convince me with a lot of evidence that Germany restricting pro-Nazi speech after WW2 was bad.

I personally know, in real life, somewhere between 2 and 5 people who were raped by Jacob Appelbaum.

The "continue reading in the app" with a down arrow next to it is one of the darker patterns I've seen today.

Have you ever worked on a large-scale software product used by millions of people across thousands of kinds of devices? Telemetry is always going to be useful.

For something as committal as a new language to break in, it has to be a quantum leap from existing languages.

Yes, it would have to decide what to do for every previous command. Still less complicated than git rebase -i.

edit: there's even prior art. Sapling has undo: https://sapling-scm.com/docs/overview/undo/ and is GPLv2 licensed. Just look at what Sapling does.

This can all be figured out. The only real requirements are careful discipline and a commitment to getting the user experience right.

Having an undo command is likely the most leveraged thing by far the git developers can do to make new users unafraid of it. Screw up somehow? Just undo.

Look at the last repository-altering operation you ran and reverse the effects of it. Add a --dry-run to see what it would do, and print out the command it runs as a way to teach people more advanced things about Git.

Microsoft Word has undo. Git can as well.

No, I mean undoing your last action performed with git. Can be a commit, an amend, a reset. whatever.

Simple question: why is there no git undo command shipped in box? There is absolutely no technical barrier to shipping such a command.

See, this is the correct take. Using "resources" for people shook me the first time I heard it in a high-level planning meeting. I'm being serious here that it kept me up all night.

And native English speakers in India also use the phrase.

I think correct in this context just means standard in at least one dialect of English, which "do the needful" definitely is.

As descriptivist as linguistics is, there is a real distinction between standard and non-standard language.

This is the inevitable consequence of centralized curation and discovery—pressure points that neo-fascist states can use to suppress dissent. Now extend this to apps.

This is why the freedom to do what you want on your own devices, without gatekeeping, is so important. At least for podcasts there's likely workarounds, though only a small minority will use them.

Yes, that's the thin veil on top of the IQ test. It's similar to programming puzzles asked at tech cos.

So basically an IQ test in all but name.

Sounds like you haven't tried it out.

Any comments on the object-level issue at hand? Even a "While the comment you linked to is reprehensible," will do.

Okay, so have you banned them now?

> No, I don't. I want it to be like pushing or dragging a virtual piece of paper. That's what it is and how it feels the most natural to me.

Yes, that's what makes sense for a trackpad. Many people want that behavior for their trackpad, and also for their mice to scroll in the traditional direction, which is the opposite that of a trackpad.

> That being said I'm pretty sure you can already configure this without an app, in the system preferences.

Have you actually tried it out?

> No way. I love the cmd + tab and pairing that with keyboard shortcuts for navigating browser tabs is super powerful and doesn't require compromising the beautiful giant amount of screen real estate by inducing multitasking with multiple windows open.

I really don't know how macOS-style application vs Windows-style window switchers have any bearing on this. Why should two Firefox windows next to each other be treated differently from a Firefox window next to Safari window? A browser window is a browser window.

Ah yes, then you download an app for that. And that app has its own updater.

Then you realize you want your mouse and trackpad to scroll in reverse directions. So you download an app for that, which comes with its own updater.

And then you want a flat acceleration profile for your mouse, and you download an app for that. That, too, comes with its own updater.

Next, you realize that the Mac app-based cmd-tab sucks and you'd much rather have Windows-like behavior. So you download an app for that, which also comes with its own updater. (Yes, yes, I know the arguments Apple users bring out, it's always been done this way on Mac etc etc. Still really bad.)

Then you get a taste of auto-tiling on Linux and spend a couple hours setting up yabai and skhd (thankfully updated via homebrew), before realizing that you'll need to turn off SIP [1] for a semi-usable experience.

Then you do go and turn off SIP, and you realize that your iOS apps no longer work because macOS has DRM built into its hardware that detects if you've turned off SIP.

And then, one of those apps prompts you for an update, and in doing so it steals your keyboard focus while you're typing. And you say "is this what I spent $2500 to experience", and cry.

[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai#requirements-and-caveat...

I will take banning these people as evidence that you're sincere about "curiosity over indignation":

Strongly implying that trans people have a "delusion":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36805050

Saying that adults in trans kids' lives are "pedophiles":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36805394

Post histories are the only way to hold people on a pseudonymous website accountable.

I think I made it very clear why their opinion should result in a ban.

Also, as a general rule, it's impolite to use anything other than "they" if you don't know someone's pronouns.

edit: any comments on the object-level issue at hand, shkkmo? Or are you going to be like the worst people on the internet and focused entirely on the meta level?

Also, I don't trust dang enough, given reports from Hector Martin and others of being ignored. So I post about it here. (As to why I don't just leave HN, well, it's too important a forum.)

Indeed. Maybe also Ritalin.

This comment series (it's not just one comment, and your downplaying of it and not including eg that they called adults in trans children's lives "pedophiles" borders on the verge of dishonesty) is absolutely extreme on the spectrum of transphobia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36804092

The author should have been banned for this, not just downvoted.

Huh, I'd imagine cocaine, Adderall and molly would all be very popular among that crowd.