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Considering that Mario Kart has the rubber-banding effect to give less skilled players a chance, it doesn't seem unreasonable to assume that all their other multiplayer games have similar mechanisms to make the game fair for everyone.


Notice how the usage of 'Anonymous' as a proper noun means it has an identifiable name.


Really? Point out Anonymous.

Ya, you were being cute, but Lulzsec was Sabu and his group. Anonymous is whatever a random group of people decided to that day and call themselves Anonymous. Tomorrow it will be a different group of people with a different and potentially conflicting cause.


Point out God.

It's still a proper noun relating to a specific group of people. It's like a team name - just because the roster of the Steelers change over the years doesn't mean that 'Steelers' is not a name.

Edit: 'Anonymous' is a team name, I mean, not 'God' :)


> Point out God

God is an idea that makes people feel better about themselves and to put themselves on a moral high ground over others.

What makes the Steelers the Steelers is not the roster, it is the paid position of the Coach and the owner of a legal entity and a defined goal and purpose. Anonymous is none of that.

Anonymous is anyone. It could be a bunch of people protesting Wall Street today. Tomorrow a group could call themselves Anonymous and protest Westboro Baptist. The day after a group calling itself Anonymous might break into Sony's systems. They might be all the same people, some of the same people or none of the same people. Each group might be made of people that agree with the others or vehemently disagree. It is not a specific group of people, it is not eve a coherent group of people.


Google Authenticator doesn't see much love on iOS, and anyone using it while testing iOS7 will struggle to actually use it properly.


To be fair, if you wanted to convert a PSD to HTML the last thing you'd need is Bootstrap.


> Why do some people survive terrible hardships, and others don't?

> Aaron suffered from [...] depression for many years.

This answers the question, although I would prefer not to use the term 'suicidal depression', which is not a medical term.

As someone who's attempted suicide, I also believe your choice of quote is both wrong and unfair. Surviving the holocaust is in no way comparable to surviving the things your mind can convince you to do when you suffer from anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder or any other such condition.


You're right, the fact that Frankl was a holocaust survivor was not relevant, and I didn't mean to draw a comparison between the two experiences.

My impression of depression is that it's pervasive and crippling, and often the events surrounding it can be incidental. Not to say that one event couldn't be a tipping point, but neither is it fair to put all blame on one event or one organization or one person, as it downplays the effect of the underlying condition.


And also by the same token, pinning it squarely on the condition can equally downplay the situation such a person might find themselves in.

It's an incredibly difficult topic to discuss.


They recommend doing that when the user "presses an action button or link". This is not the same as launching a browser extension.

Blindly following some person's recommendations doesn't even close to having good UI (or UX). eg. Opting for no confirmation and providing an undo option is an absolutely terrible idea for a 'format disk' button in an OS installer.


That sounds like OpenResty: http://openresty.org


I suppose the overbearing influence of the San Francisco startup scene doesn't really have that much of an effect on the general HN readership...


"The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to discuss the matter publicly."

The irony is delicious.


"The ship of state, dear Bernard, is the only ship that leaks from the top" - Sir Humphrey Appleby


But, what does he have to hide??????????


While it may be clutching at straws, Mozilla do actually use 'Moz' for vendor prefixing in Firefox. While purely technical (and only applicable to CSS), there may on some small occasion be a need for disambiguation.

That said, and to my knowlege, Moz has never been a colloquial term for Mozilla. So probably no need to worry.


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