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When he finds the '@', he's gonna be delighted!


I hope she's not called Rebecca Mary-Rachel Ford ...


And has a cousin named Star.


Haha! Fortunately, her initials are not all in ASCII, so it's not gone wrong yet. But true, I should set her up with a user account that doesn't have write access on anything.


Apparently doesn't work if the words are just in your signature.


maybe a script that adds it automatically as white on white text ?


I'm not sure that's even 'large', let alone 'huge'.


For real. I think I've had to open multi-GB files in Sublime a few times. (And if not that, then certainly hundreds of MB.) Worked like a charm.


Are government run lotteries also unethical? What about government run investment schemes?


You should clarify - that's the minified JavaScript!


The trouble with that analogy is that water and electricity (just about) are absolutely essential to our day-to-day lives; a specific social media site isn't. Facebook needs to appeal to the trend to keep in business. Hugely popular social networking sites have failed in the past, precisely when they've fallen out if fashion.


From the FAQ [1]:

"Are reposts ok?

If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok."

As with much of the HN system, that's intentionally vague, but in my interpretation, reposts can occur more frequently than once per year.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html


There are a few similar slip-ups in the article; the author is presumably not a native English speaker. However, despite that - and what really motivated me to comment - I find this really well written, and the odd mistake just adds a bit of character. Very impressed.


True, I am not a native English speaker (French here). Doing my best to fix all those tiny typos. Any report appreciated. :)



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