GranPC

That reminds me of the Richards Tip episode from Nathan for You, in which, in order to fulfill a legal requirement for a name change, they started printing a newspaper called The Diarrhea Times.

Flash didn't use JS, but rather ActionScript. Which was very much inspired by ECMAScript, especially AS3 -- but Flash's security holes were all of Adobe's doing. Good times.

Did you work on BB10?

It's more of a gut feeling than anything else. I don't know what the normalization rules are, but I think we mostly notice the normalizer when it mangles something [1], and not when it's just quietly humming along. Someone with more spare time could probably figure out a dataset of original to normalized titles and measure that.

[1]: Example from the frontpage right now: "How Big Are Factorials?" probably got normalized to "Big Are Factorials?" originally, based off other previous manglings I have seen previously.

In its (admittedly weak) defense, if the submitter edits the title back during the few-minute window after submitting where this is possible, the normalizer does not kick back in. But it is a bit opaque, in the sense that the poster needs to: realize that the title has been changed; know that they can edit the title (but not too slow!); and know that it won't be filtered through again.

I have no idea what the website would look like without it, but I have a feeling it does more good than harm.

I believe the "This" might have gotten swallowed by HN's title normalizer.

I am trying very hard to find an original version of this cipher with no luck. It almost sounds like this whole thing is a hallucination...? Can anyone point me to a PDF of the original Cyphral Distich as printed?

Couldn't you put !.gitignore et al in your global config file?

FWIW, the Original version looks misaligned on my Linux phone running Firefox. Fixed is, well, fixed.

It means they rebased all their changes on top of the new version. This is usually time-consuming because AOSP is not developed in the open, so you can't do this incrementally as things change -- you just get a massive drop sometime after release.

No, they got it booting on bare metal a few posts down.

You should probs edit out the spoiler, or encode it somehow for others who haven't watched it yet!