atrophying

Easy. I don't sit at a computer all day.

Personally, I find I'm a better coder when I get up and move around on a regular basis. I'll work for an hour or two, then go for a walk. Come back, work for another hour or two, go get some coffee from the coffee shop on the other end of campus. Rinse and repeat. Often times I'll be able to work out a problem or have a great idea while I'm walking.

There's this idea that to be a coder you have to be in front of a computer every waking moment, but the most successful programmers and engineers I know are the ones who know when to step away, who leave the work at work, and take care of themselves physically and emotionally. Otherwise, you're right, it's not sustainable at all.

Try again. It's more like, "hey baby, I want to rape you while you're sleeping then fuck you in the ass while you cry ... fucking bitch, why don't you want it?"

That's not a direct quote from my inbox, but it's close.

Speaking as an lady old fart on the Internet, it wasn't nearly this bad 15, 20 years ago. I've spent literally decades in some of these Internet communities, and the level of disrespect women receive on the Internet has skyrocketed in the past 10 years. Used to be that shit like doxing was incredibly rare; now it's an everyday occurrence and has to be factored into most women's social media.

There's also a lot to be said for standing up and saying, "hey, this isn't okay behavior." Because it won't change unless this kind of behavior is brought into the spotlight and their perpetrators left to scurry like roaches.

Speaking as someone who's on the spectrum, just because one is autistic doesn't automatically make them toxic - nor does being toxic automatically make one autistic. This is a really disingenuous and harmful stereotype of people on the spectrum. Autism affects more than just social functioning, and a great number of us, myself included, have no problems behaving in a positive and supportive fashion.

Same, and I've found it so useful I paid for a home license. Don't get me wrong, I love a little CLI action, but Charles is pretty seamless and works great with all of my more complicated localhost dev setups and the weird routing that comes along with that.

Maybe it's just me, but I see the biggest problem in implementing a 2FA policy is the friction of the process. Using a password manager isn't as easy as remembering a single password. Using an offline manager isn't as easy as an online one. This, though ... this is the most over engineered, least user centered thing I've seen in a long time. I couldn't even begin to tell you the amount of task friction and sheer frustration that thing would be for someone like me who logs into and out of properties all day. All for the low price of $130, as if I don't get enough PITA for free.

Free speech is a concept of government. Reddit is a for-proft corporation. It's not censorship, it's a business refining its model.

Joke's on you that you thought reddit was anything but.

10 LET L = "BASIC"

20 LET H = "HELLO WORLD"

30 IF L = "BASIC" GOTO 40

40 PRINT H

50 END

Compared to what the web looked like in '95, it's downright modern.

It's the ghost of HTML 3.2, now with excess DOM manipulation!

Oh god now I'm having flashbacks to <tr align="center"><td colspan="3" nowrap><img src="spacer.gif" height="100" width="150"></td></tr> make it stop.

It's a neat concept, but your privacy policy is going to kill you. It's incredibly boilerplate and vague, with no information about how you actually use the data.

If you want security-conscious folks to use your service (that is, hackers from HN), please provide more information about how you actually plan to use the data and more robust language about security and transparency. There's no way in hell I'd let a third-party like yours access the entirety of my browser history without seeing some evidence of vigorous privacy protection first.

They started picking and choosing which parts of AppData they backed up, but never informed their users and kept on claiming they backed up "everything." See, the backup app used to be set up so you could see what was being excluded, and modify it if need be. I had the entirety of AppData selected as "for backup," then had several bits of saved user data wiped out. One of those was an extension that stored its data in the browser user profile, something I used frequently and had restored a half-dozen times from backup. Then it was gone. Backblaze stopped backing it up, deleted it from their servers, and I had no way to restore it. Three years of data lost and zero effort from Backblaze to recover it, not even an apology.

The technology isn't bad, but their customer service is some of the worst I've ever seen. I was a Backblaze customer for three years and not once did I have what I'd consider a positive experience. If anything goes wrong they leave you hanging. They're not a company I'd ever trust with valuable data again.

Fair warning: Backblaze has a habit of making major changes silently (without any indication to the user), and their customer support is TERRIBLE. I was a customer for several years and never had a positive interaction with their support staff. The final straw was losing several files last year after they changed their backup method without notifying users, a method that contradicted their documentation. I got full IDGAF treatment from their support. That's right - a backup solution failed to backup, then support basically shrugged and said "your loss, too bad, so sad" when I contacted them even though they admitted it was their fault.

Buyer beware when it comes to Backblaze.

> Many SV startups display a website with 50% women programmers... all of them cute and young. We know very well they're not here to attract more women to programming.

Really? Are you so shortsighted as to think that an attractive young woman can't actually be a programmer, and that her only actual job function is to appeal to her male coworkers? Despite the fact that the industry skews towards the young and attractive in the first place?

This attitude right here is why so many women have problems in STEM. If we're even remotely attractive we're considered to only be there to appeal to our male coworkers. If we're not attractive we're ignored and belittled. In either case, there's no acceptance of our technical skills. Has it ever occurred to you that maybe women programmers don't exist for the sole purpose of entertaining men, and that the cute and young women you see might actually be - wait for it - programmers?