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Comment · 9 years ago
There is no line. Expression is turing complete. That you might not like something I say does not have any effect on my right to say it as a human being.

Obviously the names are tongue in cheek jabs. There's no language called Auschwitz, afaik, and even if there was, it would have as much right to exist as Java or Python or whatever.

You don't get to tell people what to name things just because you're offended. You get to be offended, that's it.

Comment · 9 years ago
Irrelevant, since he's correct. I've actually known an ex-Zomato employee who's said the same thing, this is the first time I've heard strangers mention it though.

Upvotes do not determine if information is true or not, and there's plenty of people out there who aren't the least bit concerned with whether or not HN upvotes them.

Tangentially, I don't think outsourcing is really that big of a deal. LOTS of companies do it, and it's easy to get bitten by it, but it's also easy to check over what they bring back, as well. I'm not trying to make a case for excusing this incident, as they could have very easily dedicated some dev time to quality check the code (if it's the code that they outsourced in the first place, which we don't know for sure or not) so there's really no excuse for it. People in the states outsource to india, people in india outsource to africa or south america, people in africa probably have some place they outsource to, maybe china or something. It's an economical oddity, not a moral dilemma, imo.

Comment · 9 years ago
I prefer to be censored by dang, is he available? edit: I've also not broken any guidelines, you're just upset that I'm right. I understand.
Comment · 9 years ago
Is this appropriate for businesses to be doing?

I mean, you don't see Ford putting out bounties on drunk hit'n'run drivers, and that's something that's cost thousands of lives.

How is this type of McCarthy PR acceptable?

DJI customers, what are your thoughts on this?

Comment · 9 years ago
I almost said Javascript out of ubiquity, but it'd be a grave insult to the plane. Java is a good answer, maybe C#, maybe Python. The language needs to be one that gets a lot of work done, and is reliable.

What's a language that's just always got your back in a situation? That's the F/A18.

Comment · 9 years ago
Ada is the F14. Expensive, works well, but ya really just don't need it most of the time.
Comment · 9 years ago
Let me guess, there will mysteriously be no black bar.
Comment · 9 years ago
Well, your browser info and metadata have now been sold to third parties for a few pennies, so I'd say mission successful for site owner.

Are people actually still this naive? Reading HN users makes me feel like I'm trapped in the 80s where the internet was a magical mystery that nobody really understood. It's about 40 years too late to just assume the average trash website is actually a meaningful statement about something, or a viable product of some sort.

99.9999999% are just junk. The big ones, you already know about.

Comment · 9 years ago
Disgraceful hitpiece from a trash publication.

Keep truckin, Travis.

Comment · 9 years ago
That gif is not even close to how it actually works, that's such a dirty thing to do, that's no accident...
Comment · 9 years ago
"To put this into context, here are some numbers that describe completely different products from completely different companies."

Exactly what context is this supposed to be?

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