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This constant vilification of one of the great figures of tech history is tiresome. Yeah, maybe Steve Jobs was not a great person, but why should constantly overshadow his tremendous successes?

Steve Jobs was a forceful and perhaps disagreeable character, but he is one of the clearest examples of how having relentless drive and taste can change the world. Focus less on the feet of clay and more on the giant.

And not to diminish Wozniak’s tremendous achievements, but Steve Jobs continuously innovated over the course of decades and had a much greater impact on the world.

That’s whitewashing it. The War on Iraq was a crime, not a mistake.

Leverpostej is the most disgusting thing in Danish cuisine. Just the smell of it heating up in the oven gives me nausea, while Danes start drooling in anticipation.

Putting the burden on invididuals for averting the climate crisis is a form victim-blaming. It’s long been clear that only concerted collective action will be effective in producing real change.

This is why so many free-market, minimal-state absolutists are so prone to putting their fingers in their ears and pretending climate change is not a problem, or if it is, that individuals as free agents are responsible for creating it and therefore fixing it. They cannot accept the logical conclusion of the necessity of state action, as it contradicts their core beliefs.

Yet here you are, alive and commenting on HN.

On the internet, nobody knows you’re an octopus.

The day they killed Google Reader was the day they publicly renounced their “Don’t Be Evil” motto.

From TFA:

> the turning point was the assassination of Google Reader — for which I will never forgive them, and try to regularly exert a small vengeance by mentioning it

Copenhagen is not super-dense, not even very dense. Berlin is even less dense than Copenhagen, yet both cities are very pleasurable for using the bike as your sole means of transportation.

My favorite utility is a shell function for quickly attaching to an existing screen session after connecting via ssh (or creating a new one if none exists). It's pretty handy for treating a single ssh connection to a server as if it was a long-lived multi-tab terminal:

  sshcreen () {
      ssh -t "$@" screen -xRR
  }

Works with bash and zsh. Usage is pretty simple:

  $ sshcreen [email protected]

Or for local Docker instances mapped to port 2222:

  $ sshcreen root@localhost -p 2222

Detach the session with CTRL-A + D, reattach by rerunning the sshcreen command you previously used.

A little Java, a few patterns, by Matthias Felleisen. Delightful book.

I found this to be the most insightful comment in the whole thread.