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That's one dishonest headline. Air pollution areas are commonly associated with big cities, where the crime rate tends to be higher. The website clearly turned this into something else for no reason at all other than clicks.

In that case, you might want to check the wiki. There are still some examples missing, but they'll give you a general idea.

Hello. It was tested on Linux and FreeBSD. Works fine on any of those systems if you have SBCL and dmenu installed, though it might need a few tweaks on program paths of your configuration file.

I plan to migrate this to a more flexible Roswell script in a near future.

Hello. I currently use this daily to automate my workflow. I have no pretension of "selling" this as a very extensible tool that everyone should use, though I agree that I need to improve the README.

Hello, I'm the author. I just found out someone put this in HN again, I hope I can explain.

This is basically a way to create menus and submenus for recurrent utilities. You can use a rofi or dmenu frontend. Once you bind it a key shortcut, rofi/dmenu will come up asking you what to do.

Right now I can directly access my favorite websites, open my favorite programs, do web search (and also switch web engine), all without touching the browser directly. The idea is to group a lot of things in a lightweight script, and have a keyboard-only interaction with no extra extensions or programs.

I agree that the README is a little poor right now, and screenshots/gifs would also help on this regard. I'll start working on it pretty soon.

They shouldn't. I'm not saying that Git doesn't have commands that can be hard to understand fully, but the whole point of any abstraction is to hide the "insides" of any operation so you don't have to think about them.

Having commands for each DAG operation will just add more complexity and expose a structure which you shouldn't be handling manually.

Though I agree that complaining like this can be a problem for people with zero experience, I don't think it is a valid argument against what OP is pointing out. Most of the process seems to be rooted on automation, which encourages candidates to find a way to bypass the selection system instead of showing actual competence. This means a direct loss on the company's staff quality. If anything, IBM might be losing good people, possibly to other companies.

Not cool. This also seems to imply no support for Atom feeds as well. I have switched my media channels entirely to RSS/Atom feeds, though I only read them through Emacs. This cannot stop stuff like fake news, but it always seemed important to me to the fact that it makes viewing discussions entirely optional (you have to visit the link for that). The lack of ads is also a plus.

This is beautiful, and a wonderful project to develop along with some friends. JPL nailed it.

It may sound like a harsh statement, but exactly because corporations are not like people, they seem to be harder to change, in my opinion. I'm not saying Microsoft can't change, but it's easy to forget that the main goal of any corporation is profit, specially when it's so big.

I think the thought of deletion is pretty much just one of the problems. I managed to delete my Facebook profile a few months ago, but the amount of pressure I often receive from people so that I create a new account is what impresses me the most -- not from the personal level, since I already made up my mind, but from the point that most of the people think Facebook is just an essential, irreplaceable tool which everyone MUST have. I'm glad this did not yet affect my work or study, but this "disease" seems to have already infected most of my family and friends.

Now personally, I think people fool themselves most of the time to find what seems to be a reasonable answer to why they use Facebook: be it networking, be it a way to communicate with family and friends, be it a way to stay "in touch" with the news (and that also opens up for the whole fake news discussion, but oh well). I'm not saying those are not legitimate reasons to have a Facebook account (these are actually the primary services that it claims to offer), but I really wish people could see that there are other means to that. Some don't even involve having any social media accounts.

I was going to answer, but the other comments already did :) Though most of it right now is just learning material for people new to Common Lisp, the project is actually for lispers of any level.

Hello. I'm afraid the main focus is to join all Brazilian or Portuguese-speaking lispers in one place, but we're not really supporting English-speaking ones, though you're very welcome to join (if you try keeping stuff in Portuguese on our chat). But in any case, since most CL learning links are in English, you can also contribute by sending us material that you find relevant for the language on GitHub.

While I expect a lot of people to not agree with what I am going to say, I believe this is much more linked to the political moment than to Twitter having a problem with "handling controversy". This just feels like an excuse to find a way to filter human communication, at this point.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a Brazilian and the latest years' politics headlines have been flooding Twitter around here too, but spurious political tweets tend to be much more boosted by people who don't agree with them -- they just feel that urge to answer it or create a hashtag against it -- than by people actually supporting said tweets.