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To the extent that, through my comments and submissions, I am an influence on the HN community, I would strongly prefer to be a positive influence. This includes, but is not limited to, avoiding unnecessary snark or negativity; being charitable towards people I disagree with; and not mouthing off about things I don't understand.

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  1. A command-line grammar of graphics (reasonableapproximation.net)
    1 points 0
  2. Specialized Labor and Counterfactual Compensation (reasonableapproximation.net)
    1 points 0
  3. Against Boots Theory (reasonableapproximation.net)
    2 points 0
  4. In my culture: the responsibilities of open source maintainers (reasonableapproximation.net)
    1 points 0
  5. Improving goimports (reasonableapproximation.net)
    1 points 0
  6. Data surgery is not rocket science (reasonableapproximation.net)
    1 points 0
  7. The Sally-Anne fallacy (reasonableapproximation.net)
    3 points 0
  8. Political Polarization in the US House of Representatives (bl.ocks.org)
    1 points 0
  9. Asking good questions (rationalconspiracy.com)
    2 points 0
  10. Simultaneously print and pipe a command output (reasonableapproximation.net)
    1 points 0
  11. How London cycle hire usage varies with weather (reasonableapproximation.net)
    3 points 5
  12. How to submit a drive-by patch and get it accepted (esr.ibiblio.org)
    9 points 0
  13. How to spot a high-quality repository conversion (esr.ibiblio.org)
    1 points 0
  14. Towards a Taxonomy of Logic Puzzles (reasonableapproximation.net)
    20 points 0
  15. The Farmer's Dilemma (reasonableapproximation.net)
    46 points 28
  16. A half-baked idea for keeping code and docs in sync (reasonableapproximation.net)
    1 points 0
  17. Ads work by cultural imprinting, not emotional inception (meltingasphalt.com)
    142 points 102
  18. Managing compatibility issues in ubiquitous code (esr.ibiblio.org)
    2 points 0
  19. Bsert – "better" asserts in Python (reasonableapproximation.net)
    1 points 0
  20. CIA and the perils of overengineering (esr.ibiblio.org)
    6 points 1
  21. The infinitely profitable program (peetm.com)
    12 points 1
  22. Engineering zero-defect software (esr.ibiblio.org)
    8 points 2
  23. Making simple connections (esr.ibiblio.org)
    3 points 0
  24. Sysfuck: bridging the gap between "Turing complete" and "actually useful". (github.com)
    2 points 0
  25. Repositories in Translation (esr.ibiblio.org)
    1 points 0