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insteadofon What Is Glitter?

> "I was presented with information that caused me to doubt the veracity of 2 of the 5 reactions in the video [...] It appears (and I've since confirmed) in these two cases, the 'thieves' were actually acquaintances of the person helping me."

https://twitter.com/MarkRober/status/1075767629703372800

insteadofon Lost Art of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines

Look into a Squatty Potty. An extension that is basically a stool to help you raise your feet and knees into a more squatted position to help defecate into the toilet. Or just bring a wide stool to the toilet with you that raises the same.

insteadofon Atlassian announces new logo

That new logo looks like fingertips.

Does this mean they've also done away with all caps on JIRA? Or was that changed a while ago?

insteadofon More than one million people will work from coworking spaces in 2017

Noticed a local coworking space added a coffee bar and small brewery as well as a open mic platform area. From that it appears as though it's heading the reverse of where cafes ended up being co-working spaces from those sipping a latte for six hours.

Coworking spaces don't feel comfortable enough to even work at in the first place. It's as noisy as a coffee shop, but at least you have a desk you might not get the next day.

insteadofon We Hired a Blind Coder

Speaking of, The Changelog #206 https://changelog.com/206/ just put out one with a blind programmer as well, "This week on the show we talk with Parham Doustdar, a blind programmer. We talked about the advantages of being a blind programmer, the tools he uses, quitting school, carving your own path, and more."

insteadofon Show HN: A support network for working remote – my idea to overcome cabin fever

The polish, the forums at least, are probably due to using what looks like Discourse to power the discussions.

insteadofon Ask HN: Is it reasonable to cover your webCam?

Maybe they're fine using a sticker, a sticky note (or Post-its), or even just with unplugging it if they're using an external webcam.

insteadofon GitHub is your resume so keep your resume in GitHub

Clear case of: http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297690717/why-doesnt-america-r...

insteadofon Why Did Quora Join Y Combinator?

If on Chrome, you might try https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/all-answers-for-qu...

insteadofon Young Bankers Fed Up With 90-Hour Weeks Move to Startups

You've already given out the news, it's the film that comes at 11.

insteadofon Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the IETF's

Some already using it in the wild include:

- bbs.boingboing.net - discuss.howtogeek.com - discourse.ubuntu.com - forum.greenheartgames.com - discuss.atom.io

insteadofon Developer quits GitHub due to harassment

That post is more about audiences who, when men and women talk and cuss the same, are shocked, wilting like flowers. They expect the women to be sweet, dainty and lady-like.

The whole of: When men cuss on stage, they're commanding. When women cuss on stage, they're unprofessional.

insteadofon Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”?

The community, not moderators, closed the question. The community also had an answer based on "Pure speculation" which means they can't replicate what the OP asked.

A user can gift all the free interesting content they want. But if it's not scoped or on topic, then it's not scoped for the site or on topic and would be closed and/or deleted. Just because Rodney Dangerfield turns up to your bedroom and starts making jokes doesn't mean it's the time or place.

insteadofon Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”?

If all your searches are "which language is better?", "what IDE should I use?" and "what is already in the documentation that I should consider a hidden feature?" then yes, it will be closed as off topic.

insteadofon What are the lesser known but useful data structures?

No, you don't get any points for making edits unless you're under 2000, and even then it has to be robo-approved blindly by three other users.

insteadofon What is your best programmer joke?

Of the 20+ pages already there, no one has yet posted the funny one from xkcd or Dilbert. No other site on the Internet can put these two sources together like Stack Overflow can.

insteadofon What is your best programmer joke?

No one's complaining about the lack of cat photos and memegenerator links on Hacker News, but here we are again decrying Stack Overflow trying to keep its signal to noise ratio high.

The historical lock is an appeasement for those who like to binge on candy all day long and not realise a site built on 90% candy is no place for quality.

You're laying bets all over the place. How about putting forth a cogent argument why these type of questions need to reside on Stack Overflow and not on reddit or Hacker News?

insteadofon Watch pg write an essay in real time

Needs a moving background showing his face as he types up each word.

insteadofon Why I no longer contribute to Stack Overflow

So "flag for moderator attention" means what to you?

insteadofon Why I no longer contribute to Stack Overflow

Asking about the colour of the bikeshed always draws more upvotes and views than a question asking why the screws buckle and eject when the outside temperature reaches 30C but only if the interior is 21C.

Popularity does not mean a question is within the scope of the site guidelines.

insteadofon Why I no longer contribute to Stack Overflow

A typical day's queue of flags on Stack Overflow is around 1000. If your flag isn't tended to the minute it's raised, it's going to be because of the 900 or so others already there taking up time from having to verify the flag reason is correct in the first place.

insteadofon Why I no longer contribute to Stack Overflow

Reading the other comments here, a lot of people think mods are those with 2k. Or at least those with edit privileges.

insteadofon Why I no longer contribute to Stack Overflow

In four years you should have learnt that it's "Stack Overflow" with a space and that you can only get moderator status when you have a diamond next to your name.

Then again, there are plenty of 3-year+ users with 100k+ who still think moderators are any other users who disagree with them and/or can only vote to close a question.

When you don't want to see the effects of leaving joke questions around as more and more users use that as a reason to increase the noise, then you don't want to see why moderation and locking/deleting needs to take place.

insteadofon Show HN: Marketplace for programmers that have contributed to open source

Where is the page on payment terms? Is there one? Unless you have it buried in the Terms.

insteadofon Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing

Just another example of the overzealous moderation on Stack Overflow to close any and every question ever asked because it in some way managed to be useful to anyone but their narrow minded view of what constitutes a programming question that didn't fit their formula of Q&A.

insteadofon Hilariously bad startup ideas

People with OCD are not the same as germaphobes. They may overlap, but it's not the same group.

insteadofon Explore what is Trending on GitHub

Must have been updated since as they posted at the bottom of the post,

"What makes repositories or developers trend? We look at a variety of data points including stars, forks, commits, follows, and pageviews, weighting them appropriately. It's not just about total numbers, but also how recently the events happened."

insteadofon AMC is succeeding by breaking the rules of legacy television

Jon Bernthal. Whose character was already outliving what the creators were planning.