When GNOME 3 came out, it felt like they had this vision of a Better way to Do Things and didn't see why all their users wouldn't be excited to change their workflow. How they responded to criticism definitely makes…
This. How much lost time, panic, and rage did carelessly deleting these folders cause? It was a dire mistake.
Well, there's a tension between the right to collect/collate/record naturally public things and being concerned about how that info’s being used by others. Does it seem reasonable to have law enforcement go through your…
The expanded scale raises concerns - avoiding secure locations that scan your face is less burdensome than refraining from public air travel, and a homeland security-curated traveller face db would have a wider reach…
It sounds like rebasing this way ensures branches will not overlap at merge time. This presumably pushes the "combination of changes" into the rebased-before-merging branch, which (if nothing else) makes sure that one…
Their Polari bible translation has "unto the homie" == "to the man", so Polari for "man" is "homie"! I think the modern slang homie comes from "homeboy", so that'd be convergent etymology?
The fun images may have seemed like a way to lighten things up, but here they're a distraction from the content.. even as still images, every section break doesn't need a happy monkey or Poison Ivy.
Discussion from Jan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13528599
When GNOME 3 came out, it felt like they had this vision of a Better way to Do Things and didn't see why all their users wouldn't be excited to change their workflow. How they responded to criticism definitely makes…
This. How much lost time, panic, and rage did carelessly deleting these folders cause? It was a dire mistake.
Well, there's a tension between the right to collect/collate/record naturally public things and being concerned about how that info’s being used by others. Does it seem reasonable to have law enforcement go through your…
The expanded scale raises concerns - avoiding secure locations that scan your face is less burdensome than refraining from public air travel, and a homeland security-curated traveller face db would have a wider reach…
It sounds like rebasing this way ensures branches will not overlap at merge time. This presumably pushes the "combination of changes" into the rebased-before-merging branch, which (if nothing else) makes sure that one…
Their Polari bible translation has "unto the homie" == "to the man", so Polari for "man" is "homie"! I think the modern slang homie comes from "homeboy", so that'd be convergent etymology?
The fun images may have seemed like a way to lighten things up, but here they're a distraction from the content.. even as still images, every section break doesn't need a happy monkey or Poison Ivy.
Discussion from Jan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13528599