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I'm confused. Is PowerShell 'recognized' as a shell?

I thought only unix and unix-like shells would be covered. I wonder what the technical definition of a shell is though.

(genuinely curious, not trying to be snarky)

I think the issue is an issue of education.

When I see the 'green' colour followed by the word 'secure' when visiting a website using chrome, I know that this does not mean immediately that I have to trust the site. I presume the vast majority of hacker news readers will know better too. But what about the normal, average users?

I think we should just be more proactive in telling people what an SSL certificate actually is, and what https guarantees. Otherwise, we are not really having a discussion.

I think that you should add: "Listen to your parents when you have to make minor life decisions".

Way too many people either try too hard to please their parents, or ignore their advice entirely. With time, you learn to not swing too much either way.

You are not necessarily wrong, but I think it is important to try to understand what the comment meant. Perhaps some specific event in her life justifies her position.

In literally terms, certain authors are simply better than others. But this does not invalidate the idea that some people might find more popular authors to have a bigger impact to them.

“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

That is one of my favorite quotes of all times, specifically taking into account the setting of the book.

Can you post a similar or simplified challenge here? It seems like a nice exercise

Oh, at least Canada is explicitly named. For many businesses, "north america = USA".

I haven't really tried 8tracks but most streaming media have a very limited J-pop selection and no South American genres (cumbia, waynos, etc) so I never use them anyways. Good luck though!

Don't. I'm seriously thinking about moving to Toronto right now. I have a Soft. Eng. degree from McGill and I can't find any business in this city that will pay me minimum wage.

I also do not speak English at home, nor do most of my peers and I found the opposite to be true: it is easier to do math problems and find spelling mistakes for those of us who do not have English as a mother tongue.

I'm pretty sure I read a study about this, but my google-fu is not helping today.

For anyone interested in why this would not work (coming from someone in the left) please see the "MUC dollar" used by a Peruvian president in the 70s[1](https://books.google.ca/books?id=8M6ueEbn3GUC&pg=PA343&lpg=P...)

option - q will get you œ, but at least in informal settings, typing "oe" is acceptable, I think.

this reminds me of 'real programmers' by xkcd[1]

[1]https://xkcd.com/378/

I think that language is part of what makes us human. At the very least, the small imperfections in our communication end up as awesome parts of our culture.

I would be more interested in an universal real-time translator. It is 2016, it is about time

"This book is targeted towards at least somewhat experienced developers (in other words, it is NOT “how to develop your first program” book with IDE screenshots and copy-paste examples). If your game project is your very first programming project – you’re likely to have difficulties understanding this boo"

After spending sometime around people that want to become indie developers, I cannot emphasize this enough. Please do not try to make an MMO as a first game.

I understand where you are coming from, but it is not that I am buying 'the lines of bullshit that make [me] feel this way', it just so happens that I need (any) job in the tech field as a recent CS grad, and I have only started searching and I would gladly be employed even under non-ideal conditions.

This, I presume, is the predicament of at least a small portion of people in our industry. Yet, your sentiment and line of thought are interesting, and I fully agree with you. I just hope that you understand that even logical agents can be forced to take non-logical decisions given the state of affairs of the world.

beggars can't be choosers. (Some of us would gladly take any of the above options)

I know this is unsolicited advice, but what problems do you see in this person's code that you can share with us?

I think that the internet, by its own nature, self-segregates people. I might not have data to back this up, but it is apparent that people go online to ratify their own views, rather than to listen to others.

I have also left reddit, mostly because the discussion around any controversial topic is toxic. Toxic. At least here you get the occasional moderates who are willing to actually have a discussion, where they try to check their assumptions and the logical leaps that they make to justify a point.

But to answer your question, I simply say that perhaps HN is the best place to have this type of discussions. Simply because politics, important societal issues, etc permeate our lives, including the technology that we use. In that sense, a good way to ponder about these issues is not to face them directly, but to deal with them as they arise within the confines of our daily lives.

By the way, I have made plenty of weird assumptions and assertions in this post, and so have you, and the weird thing is that instead of focusing on those issues, it is likely that I would feel personally attacked if I were shown to be wrong. That is part of being human, but it is also ultimately why talking about any issue is hard:

critical thinking is hard, and uncomfortable, and a concept that everyone talks about but that nobody is really willing to utilize.

For anyone interested in this idea, read "The Evitable Confict", the last short story in "I, robot", written by Asimov.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. It is perhaps more common among linux/mac users, but windows user should just join the python-as-a-calculator club.

This is wrong. Factually. Speak with any bank at all, paying your credit card debt will never, ever hurt your credit score.

At least here in Canada. source: I know plenty of people that pay their credit card every month, with 800+ scores.

Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy

It reminds me of Simpson's Rule:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_rule

Not OP, but using google search tools, I got this:

https://www.google.ca/#tbs=qdr:d&q=intitle:%22software%22+si...

It displays ~15 results

I will try another approach that has not been mentioned so far.

I know this is HN, but you haven't really mentioned anything about novelty outside software. Now, I will try to not make assumptions, but is it perhaps that you are only seeking novelty in a very constrained way, which makes you feel uneasy about your choices?

What type of food do you eat? What hobbies do you pursue? Maybe you have a very monotonous life (or at least you think you have it) and try to compensate in your career with novelty.

If I were in your position, I would first write down when and where I experience these 'novelty rushes'. The key here is not looking at these notes after you write them for at least a couple of weeks. After a couple of weeks doing this, look at what you wrote and see if it maybe has to do with other factors in your life (maybe you rush to try something new after an argument with your wife, when you don't drink your coffee in the morning or when you don't go running for 1 or 2 days)

Perhaps it has nothing to do with your life outside this area, but maybe you just like reading documentation. At any rate, writing down what you are doing when you get these 'novelty rushes' would help you identify the problem. Hopefully.

I do not know if this will help you in this specific case, but whenever I want to find an article on HN, I just use google

site:news.ycombinator.com some words i remember

you can use google's search tools to help you too.

I would only like to add that it is a human behaviour that I find really interesting. It puzzles me in general why people admire other humans, or pretend that their heroes are not flawed.

We know that more than one figure in history cheated on their spouses, were violent towards their children, etc. Yet, people still admire other human beings, and not necessarily their particular achievements. Mind you, I am not saying that this behaviour is wrong, or bad, it is just very interesting.

Ultimately, I will probably remain puzzled by the way other people around me behave, but I guess that within certain limits, it doesn't harm anybody. Many people will continue to try to find out his or her identity.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. - Anatole France

I know this might sound like a really non-efficient thing to do, but you can individually unfollow every single one of your contacts. I only have around ~200 friends so unfollowing them wasn't that hard.

Nowadays, I love going to Facebook. My news feed is completely empty.

I do not have a good defence as to why I have an accent, but I'll try to clarify my position.

Yes, it is true that you can get rid of an accent, and that you can overcome certain limitations that arise out of the 'state of affairs of the world'. I do not deny this.

Yet, sometimes you need a lot of effort to overcome certain obstacles. Perhaps I am somewhat inefficient with my efforts, and I should try harder. Or at the very least, consider asking for a tutor. In spite of that, I hope that you understand that we do want to blend in, and just like 'fat people', we sometimes lack the tools to appropriately do so.

So, in conclusion, I do not disagree with what you say, but I'll choose to focus on the actual actions that I can take to communicate more effectively. Right now, that means finding coaches that help with pronunciation.