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Comment · 5 years ago
Slightly more involved, but still serviceable:

- start typing the text on a link near the icon you want to click (for this comment, `thomasa`...)

- then press Shift+Tab to highlight the previous link

Comment · 6 years ago
Why is the Facebook integration not lazy-loaded only for users who log in through an FB account?
Comment · 6 years ago
Docs are less likely to be broken if GitHub implements some automated, global way to rename the main branch: when this isn't done in an ad-hoc, per-repo way, they can implement logic to redirect URLs.

(Or, for a quick and dirty fix, always redirect master to the main branch)

Comment · 6 years ago
> I think a key aspect of remote work being successful is for the distributed team to be in the same time zone or have less than 1 hour time difference

I think the exact time difference doesn't matter so much as everyone can be at work simultaneously at least 70/80% of the time.

Comment · 6 years ago
I'm very obviously not a lawyer nor lawmaker, but I'm under the impression that anything can be classified as an act of war as long as another country is willing to treat it as such, and other superpowers/blocs are willing to sign off on this assessment, and back it militarily and through sanctions/incentives.

(Though this would all probably swept aside as soon as somebody reverse engineers the vaccine.)

Comment · 6 years ago
Random thought: we're now closer to 2038 than to Y2K.
Comment · 6 years ago
Maybe I'm overengineering, but couldn't you store the sanitized version as the normal value, and also store and make publicly available the original unsanitized value in an ominously and obviously named key (say, dangerouslyUnsanitizedValue) that happens to be easily greppable/lintable?
Comment · 6 years ago
Hm... Features take some time to get to production. The stuff I use/appreciate most launched either before Microsoft acquired them, or shortly after the deal — so its development predates that.
Comment · 6 years ago
In those places, old Apple hardware isn't significantly cheaper than new hardware. You might get a 25% discount for a degraded experience (security updates may end in ~3 years) or buy much older hardware (e.g. 9 year old models) that cannot run current macOS and Xcode, etc.

And yes, a local PC can work out to lower prices due to specific tax arrangements, sourcing components straight from manufacturers and assembling them locally.

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