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> Let's treat this as an issue of computer science, not politics.

To be clear: for those that are able, advocating for a permanent policy change is the better solution. Government access to all user data could become a requirement to run a legitimate business. Even if we were able to convert everything to an anonymous P2P traffic-flooded web, we would still live in fear (will the 5th protect you?).

Can you see, I was waving...

FYI - This is the plot behind Showtime's Continuum (http://www.showcase.ca/continuum), where private corporations buyout the existing national government.

They don't portray human-rights well in this new world.

You can buy filters to reduce noise.

http://www.amazon.com/Smarthome-1626-10-FilterLinc-10-Amp-Fi...

> “Sorry, we’re not going to take this code... "

Why are you apologizing?

Based them, in some way, on standardized test scores?

When using terminal-notifier, use the -group ID and -remove ID together -- otherwise, the swipe-to-notification-area gets cluttered. Alternatively, do a sleep and close it automatically.

There is an automatic way of doing this is OSX[1]. You may also want to use terminal-notifier instead of growl[2]. My experience was that the bash prompt became too slow. However, results seem to vary.

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[1] http://tech.superhappykittymeow.com/?p=332

[2] https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier

His opinion is sexist and not homophobic. He's saying a male father provides specific things that only a male father can provide; likewise with the female mother. He would be opposed to two parents of the same sex, but for sexist reasons.

I'm not saying his judgement is correct, but nature is sometimes sexist (e.g., men naturally build muscles quicker than women due the difference in hormones).

If he's smart, he's not even in Hong Kong anymore, nor has he been for some time.

Prerecorded video explicitly stating where he's located? Seems like a ruse.

Can someone explain the importance of local times needing to be the same? Who cares if I go to work at 3, while you start at 5. Do we think it will force a creep of the work day's starting and stopping time? Some of us already stay up (or get up) to deal with other parts of the world. Is it that we need to compare our bedtimes with others?

I actually wouldn't mind this. None of our relatives live in the same area as us and anything that requires coordination (e.g., planning to video-chat), requires specifying a time zone.

There's no upside to this happening. Governments will still collect data. Your personal details, however, will be publicly available.

> I am the guy with the nuke. As a citizen of a representative democracy I would vote against any politician who favored the abolition of useful technology. Even if I disagree with the politics of that technology.

You don't have as much power as you think you do.

Chrome will truncate a pasted URL, but you can navigate to it using a link's href (works the same way with long img src URLs).

I actually like git, a lot. Far more than SVN. If git sucks, are you saying all VCS are broken? Or do you have an alternative?

Please try to differentiate between dropping or bumping the device and shaking the device. Google's iOS maps app uses this interface for feedback, and isn't very smart.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/9XWKo4p.png

`git pull --rebase` does not update my remote tracking branch. Though you may not care about this.

Whenever I'm pulling down code, instead of `git pull', I use fetch. I fetch the specific branch into the local remote tracking branch (remote/branchname). Then use rebase, rather than merge. I won't lose anything and it avoids those dumb merge commits. Also, aliases are great for this.

    git fetch <remote> <branchname>:refs/remotes/<remote>/<branchname>
    git rebase <branchname> <remote>/<branchname>

This must be trolling.

> Those people who don't like our app are always able to receive their money back.

Can you explain the refund process?

> Yet only last week a woman of color, Adria Richards ...

WTF. How did this become about race?

So we're all staring at a wrapped lines so you can do a 3-way merge? How often do you need to merge anyways? More often than you write code? Often enough for it to be the limiting factor?

How did they do interactive merges when they were limited to 80 characters?

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I'm not sure that "Node.JS is a terrible platform [because] there are better alternatives." is any more valid.

If we are to believe that triggering the full-force of the immune system is some sort of switch, then perhaps it would be possible to synthesize a drug to do this directly?

I assume light collides with atmosphere as well. Only in a perfect vacuum, light would travel forever?

It is worth noting that there was no direct detection of dark matter. It comes from a measurement of gravitational lensing, which has been going on for awhile˟˟.

Critical response: http://www.scilogs.eu/en/blog/the-dark-matter-crisis/2012-07...

Source: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v487/n7406/full/nature1...

˟˟ http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2006/aug/25/gravity...

Should be able to use Type.prototype.method (e.g., Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty).

For case-sensitive alphanumeric: (26+26+10)^5

Which is still far lower than 12 digits.