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philjacksonon Show HN: Yipgo – stripped down workflow manager

Ouch, that's very shoddy - you're right. Thanks I'll correct those and get some help reading the copy!

philjacksonon Amazon's move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage

Sounds like Oracle wrote that to me!

philjacksonon Guide to email in Emacs using mu and mu4e

No questions. Just a "thanks" - mu4e is great.

philjacksonon Apple Removes Infowars from Podcast Directory

What if we find out the government were making the frogs gay?

philjacksonon Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account

> You send in 5-6 proposals per year and send direct messages and mails to multiple people when you don't receive answers

Jesus, if you think that comes off as needy, you should see what founders often have to do to get going.

philjacksonon My personal site is a terminal

The completion doesn't work properly. It's a super fun little project, but, very frustrating to use.

philjacksonon Streams: a new general purpose data structure in Redis

I've had a break from Antirez' blog for a while - it's fun to go back and see how good his English has gotten!

philjacksonon GnuPG Fundraising Rally

I wonder if they've reached out to news organisations like The Guardian and NYT. Also, perhaps human rights charities could make reasonable contributions once someone explains the importance of the project?

philjacksonon Gender-neutral Chromium code

I've found it fairly common these days for documentation to explicitly use female pronouns when talking about anonymous people - I guess that's just a show of solidarity to our underrepresented female counterparts.

Using a specific gender when refereing to someone anonymous grates on me anyway - just seems like poor writing.

philjacksonon Medium plans to launch a consumer subscription product this quarter

"We live in a world where digital products are inherently undervalued relative to other products. We will shell out $5 for a pumpkin spice latte in a heartbeat, but the second we have to pay $1.99 for an app, we begin to conduct cost-benefit analysis as if we were buying a damn house."

This is something I think about a lot, especially as a developer of a service that will one day require subscription (Yipgo).

When I buy a coffee, I walk into a physical building, staffed by people who I've got a two way relationship with and I get a physical coffee. As well as the experience itself, there's more a more tangable product in the coffee than there is a blog I might subscribe to. I'm not saying we shouldn't pay for it, I'm just suggesting that might be the phsycology that explains it a little.

philjacksonon Shame on Y Combinator

Imagine working in a world where when you disagree with the way someone votes or supports a political character, you tried to get them fired. No one would have a job anymore.

philjacksonon OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligence How to Speak

I'm looking forward to a bot making a joke about banging my mum...

philjacksonon The vanishing civility: The game of jerks, bozos and assholes

Is the irony in the title intentional?

philjacksonon Brexit: UKIP Leader Nigel Farage Resigns

I wonder if he'll move to Germany with his German wife.

philjacksonon Hacked: Private Messages From Dating Site ‘Muslim Match’

It's exactly the kind of people who use Muslim Match that are at risk. I'm not suggesting that people will die, but there will be awful consiquences from this - especially for females.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090106224426/http://www.bbc.co...

philjacksonon Happy 20th Birthday, Quake

He looks so young. Please don't let me fund out he built Build while I was ogling the stripper sprites in Duke Nukem and barely managing my CGSE maths homework...

philjacksonon Typosquatting programming language package managers

That's a massive burden on the poor person who has to ok the package - especially at NPM's scale, for example.

philjacksonon Show HN: New calendar app idea

The website heavily encourages connecting your Google calendar.

philjacksonon Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still Out of Control

Another wild over-valuation on Hacker News.

philjacksonon Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test

SPEED MEGATHREAD, post your speed/location/ISP below here:

44Mbps / London, uk / BT

philjacksonon Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?

According to Google translate, chess has been interested in you since you were little.

philjacksonon Why I Haven’t Fixed Your Issue Yet

I thought the blinking cursor was there to imply we needed to write the blog post ourselves.

philjacksonon Vim vs. IDE's

I've never known anyone to code in nano!

philjacksonon NGS: Next Generation Unix Shell

I don't think there's enough that needs fixing in the current shells/terminals that require a new paradigm at the moment. These things seem to come and go without much adoption.

Sorry, bit negative of me - it's awesome that people are trying.

philjacksonon Show HN: I built a free app to help devs create more accurate software estimates

    (let [estimate XXX]
      (* estimate 2))

philjacksonon Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development

Great - thanks.

philjacksonon Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development

I'd love to see a comparison with Clojure, anyone know of such a thing yet?

philjacksonon Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development

In actual fact, the LFE installation experience was a breath of fresh air:

    $ brew install erlang
    $ git clone ...lfe.git
    $ cd lfe; make && make install

    $ lfe

I miss make.

philjacksonon Announcing SQL Server on Linux

Out of curiosity, how does OSS prevent vendor lock-in? Are you talking more in terms of support?

philjacksonon Announcing SQL Server on Linux

Every time there's an announcement like this, I like to remember back to the campaign of FUD that MS peddled against Linux. I think Ballmer once called the OS a "cancer".