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abroncs | 11 years ago | on: An Author Confronts Her Number One Online Critic

On the other end of the spectrum are people ( teenage girls mostly) who actually kill themselves from the relentless online harassment.

Different people will react differently, just like in an offline setting. There isn't really a solution that works for everybody.

abroncs | 11 years ago | on: An Author Confronts Her Number One Online Critic

Very interesting read.

abroncs | 11 years ago | on: The Future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp

That, or contribute to Neovim https://github.com/neovim/neovim

abroncs | 11 years ago | on: The Dropbox terabyte conundrum

I never bought a pro account because, like the OP says, I consider Dropbox for smaller things. 100 GB was too much then, and now 1TB is ridiculous. I would have liked a smaller tier (20-25 GB at the most), but I guess they can't really make money if people actually use up their space. oh well..

abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Navdy

Can we start adding some context to these titles, please?

abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM

Also Romania.

abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981)

I learned programming with Pascal in high school, and it definitely didn't stink. It's way easier than C and lets you focus on the actual programming, not the idiosyncrasies of the language. It's very much like Python in this regard, but I think it's even better as a first languge. It's more explicit and to someone completely new to programming, that really pays off IMO.

abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Inside the world of legalised prostitution in Germany

Decriminalization isn't legalization. We should be looking at countries where it's entirely legal, prostitutes have guaranteed work conditions etc.

abroncs | 11 years ago | on: MathBox 2

Site crashes both Safari and Chrome on my iPad. What is it about?

abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Arab Leaders, Viewing Hamas as Worse Than Israel, Stay Silent

This is what the US always did. If a government doesn't play ball with them they try everything to get rid of it. Look at what happened just a couple of months ago in Ukraine: democratically elected president was ousted just because he was becoming too friendly with Putin.

abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Things learned using Elastic Search (2013)

> NOT EVERYONE USES COMPOSER!!!

Well, get with the times ffs.

Amuzingly, I recently integrated ES with a Yii app and it ran wonderfully. Sped up our search considerably.