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Because they are still used on the web as well. I still use "D {handle} {message}" to DM people.


Seems like a mistake waiting to happen.


Anyone remember Anthony Weiner? His infamous tweet (that ended up with him resigning from Congress) was intended to be a direct message but he started it with @, not D, so it went (briefly) to his public timeline [1].

And it seems that, when you're a congressman, posting a dick pic even briefly is enough to attract some attention.

[1] http://www.nationaljournal.com/how-weiner-fell-into-the-twit...


It's so ironic, the whole thing could have been avoided if he'd given her the D... (sorry)


You're not sorry.


Yep, it has already happened!

A few years back you could tweet FOLLOW USERNAME and that username would follow you


Yes, but only in Soviet Russia.


For @chucknorris this feature has always existed.


I was doing exactly the same project probably 8 years ago when I was still a high school student. I used to have a lot of websites, too but I never launched as I thought phishing is probably illegal and unethical.


Can we please stop posting articles behind a paywall? I can't read this at all, not even in incognito browser mode.


If you copy and paste the link into Google, you can find a version you can read without paying for the subscription.


5 days old.


Links don't work on this.


Care to post details about this? Is this actually fast? Does it implement all features and guarantees of redis? Should anybody actually use this in production (maybe because it works on Windows)? Is it well tested?

Looks like a really cool effort but authors of open source projects often think people would read the code and figure out all, the truth is people usually look at what's in the readme and that's all the attention span most people are going to have. My 2c: improve your README.md.


He links a list of missing stuff in the readme.

And if you read "Why? To learn rust" and ask "should I use this in production"...


<off-topic> Can we have a HN rule stopping people from posting paywalled content? This is getting really annoying apparently I ran out of my quota for visiting newyorker.com pages this month. I know how to overcome it, but that's a website I normally wouldn't visit from some other website than HN and this feels annoying. This is like the new DRM.


Most paywalls are trivially easy to bypass.

You've run out of your free quote, but other people have not (or they have paid for the content) so why should they be denied content?

Good content needs to be paid for somehow.



spam


This has been my long time dream. There's so little that prevents this from happening theoretically (obviously there's a lot of coding will be done, but hey that's the fun part). I am very glad Microsoft is taking all the right steps to bring two world closer: Linux and Windows.

With all the announcements around stuff like Docker for Windows Server Containers and cross platform .NET, this was nearly inevitable. Now the server management also steers in the right direction.

Disclaimer: ms employee doing tons of open source.


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