Hmm, so after reading the article I searched for: dell linux laptop and clicked the first link to dell.com

On the product page for the 13 inch XPS Linux I saw a notification: "Sorry, this item is not available anymore for purchase online. Please see our recommended replacement product." And a quick Ctrl-f for 'recommended' or 'replacement' turned up nothing. When I went to the product browser and clicked Operating System the only choices were Windows 7 and Windows 10.

After this experience I'm not entirely convinced Dell actually sells Linux laptops.

Interesting, what would you say are the legal / TOS ramifications of a service like this?

As far as I know, the APIs TOS are for 'apps' in slack, which this isn't. This app runs on top of a database that has messages. Getting message data into the database is not against the terms of service either.

For anyone interested in a surprisingly pleasant to use front-end MVC framework I am a huge fan of http://mithril.js.org/.

It espouses a (I believe?) slightly more traditional MVC interpretation where your Controllers are usually extremely light and in most cases completely optional. It encourages a MVVMC (Model View View-Model Controller) approach to encapsulate view-state.

Hmm, today I learned America has never had a riot before.

Although I seem to distinctly remember my city of Philadelphia rioting pretty good after the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series...

Or in, say, New Hampshire, like a year ago.

I'm not sure; I think it's telling that Instagram, arguably one of the most popular / trafficked and supported (Facebook) websites out there, thinks it's unnecessary to even show an ERROR page if a browser has JS disabled.

Hire better engineers?

I don't understand whenever there is a HN article about some injustice being done to Tech Workers somewhere there inevitably be this post

> "I can't find sympathy for people making $x/yr."

Why not? Where do you draw the line of people deserving sympathy vs. those deserving none? If they made $59,999/yr would you "get worked up about their plight"? Can you point out an article on HN (ostensibly a site related to the Tech Industry, hence the posts about Tech Workers) about a factory closing down where there was explicitly no sympathy?

I'm not a really vindictive person, but I'm so glad this guy is going to jail; hopefully for the rest of his life.

What does how other countries deal with protests have anything to do with the US Army's guide to dealing with protests?

I see no blame anywhere in the article, and claiming that:

> army people [...] are normally pretty isolated from social issues and don't have very well informed opinion of their own.

is both untrue and offensive.

EDIT, never mind I see you took the bold stance of commenting from a throwaway.

Clearly you are not familiar with Military culture. Military and their families live, eat, party, go to theaters, go to school, shop,... on Military bases that civilians have limited if any access to. Some are stationed in foreign countries or are on float (working on a ship) for months. They are definitely separated from the rest of us.

No, that's simply not true. I've said this on HN several times through the years but it is still and will always be true: the US military is a slice of Americana. Virtually every subculture represented in America can be found in the US military. We live in your neighborhoods, eat at the same restaurants, watch the same TV shows, and send our children to the same schools as you. We are you.

Military bases have places to go to, yes. But they certainly do not seclude or sequester themselves from civilian life.

Indeed, if military servicemembers actually could be relied on to stay on base many senior officers would be inordinately pleased.

But do not confuse being able to walk on base with a complete isolation with the civilian sector; servicemembers still have civilian friends, parents, relatives, spouses, children, in-laws, social acquaintances, often co-workers, and the list goes on and on.

As far as being on a ship (with access to email, news, and Facebook...) for months, what do you think happens to civilian mariners, or astronauts, or offshore oil rig workers when they're gone for months? Are they necessarily isolated and socially inept too?