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- Recombine to avoid naming when naming is hard http://www.lispcast.com/avoid-naming-at-all-costs 64 comments
- Anyone who has a hard-to-pronounce first name, have you ever changed it for a job application? https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6kpudg/anyone_who_has_a_hardtopronounce_first_name_have/ 12 comments cscareerquestions
- The Hidden Ways Urban Design Segregates The Poor | "There's a name for uncomfortable benches, hard-to-reach parks, and ubiquitous surveillance: disciplinary architecture." http://www.fastcodesign.com/3034206/slicker-city/the-hidden-ways-urban-design-segregates-the-poor 2 comments culturalstudies
- [Mercogliano] David Quinn on Adam Fox: "People talk about all these rookie of the year candidates, and I don’t hear his name enough. I don’t care what the stats are – you’d be hard-pressed to find a rookie as good as this guy in the (NHL)" https://twitter.com/vzmercogliano/status/1233227128495333376 119 comments hockey
- AMD's new Ryzen CPUs just got officially named, but it's hardly a surprise https://www.pcguide.com/news/amd-new-ryzen-cpus-just-got-officially-named-but-its-hardly-a-surprise/ 93 comments amd
- Getting hit hard with Display Name spoofing. Is there a way to just strip display names from all external addresses so it only shows their actual email in the "From" field in Office 365? https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/eopfieldnotes/2018/02/09/combating-display-name-spoofing/ 50 comments sysadmin
- Pirelli simplify F1 tyre names to hard, medium and soft for 2019 https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/138235/pirelli-will-simplify-compound-names-in-2019 163 comments formula1
- A congressman challenged CNN to name more than 2 white terrorist attacks. It’s not that hard. http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/8/14552098/sean-duffy-white-terrorists 27 comments politics
- Hard drive reliability study names names (damn it, Seagate!) http://techreport.com/news/25940/hard-drive-reliability-study-names-names 237 comments hardware
- Ben Scrivens, Tyler Seguin, Josh Harding named NHL's 'Three Stars' of week. http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=692050 129 comments hockey
- Andrew W.K. Named Cultural Ambassador to the Middle East by U.S. Department of State "I can hardly wait for this adventure!" http://m.pitchfork.com/news/48689-andrew-wk-named-cultural-ambassador-to-the-middle-east-by-us-department-of-state/ 3 comments worldnews
- Finding a name for a game can be hard... so please help us! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_time_event 24 comments gamedev
- Cardano is now heading towards a highly anticipated hard fork named Alonzo that will enable developers to finally be able to build smart contracts on Cardano. https://blockcrunch.co/2021/05/22/cardano-is-launching-smart-contracts-soon/ 28 comments cryptocurrency
- Work hard so you don’t depend on my name in 2024: PM Narendra Modi to MPs https://twitter.com/timesofindia/status/1160049382986788864?s=19 104 comments india
- C.I.A. Names New Iran Chief in a Sign of Trump’s Hard Line https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/world/middleeast/cia-iran-dark-prince-michael-dandrea.html 29 comments geopolitics
- Naming things is very hard but Object Oriented CSS & BEM can help you here. My slides from @WHFNP talk I did recently in London [CSS] http://slides.com/lilianakastilio/introduction-to-oocss-and-bem-6#/ 17 comments webdev
- "In fact it's debatable whether he has any real friends—if he does, they're hard to find. While I was reporting this story, Jeb's office gave me the names of two "close friends" to speak with, both of whom, it turned out, did not consider themselves close to Jeb at all..." http://www.gq.com/story/jeb-bush-president 15 comments politics
- "It would be hard to name a single thing President Obama has done domestically that any other Democrat wouldn't have done if he or she were president following George W. Bush, and there's a lot he hasn't done that every other Democrat who ran for president would have done." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/leadership-obama-style-an_b_398813.html?? 8 comments politics
- If an iPhone comes in range of a Wi-Fi network named ‘%secretclub%power’, then that iPhone will no longer be able to use Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi related features, unless a hard factory reset of the device is done. https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/04/wifi-iphone-disable-bug/ 7 comments technews
- Hughton: "We have worked very hard to eradicate it from the stadiums in England, we're putting more pressure on clubs, naming certain individuals, but it's still a big problem abroad. The only thing that can happen is tougher penalties.We can't stop it, we can try to limit it, but we can't stop it." https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11741/11677363/callum-hudson-odoi-and-raheem-sterling-lauded-by-chris-hughton-for-handling-montenegro-racism 5 comments soccer
- When a 7ft NBA player named Reggie Harding attempted to rob a Detroit gas station with a mask, the attendant said "I know it's you, Reggie.", to which he replied "No, man, it ain't me" http://blogspost.us/rwp9 6 comments nba
- [very hard quiz] How many European megacities can you name in 10 minutes? http://www.sporcle.com/games/unidentifiedkiwi/1mil_europe 68 comments europe
- Hackers Find China Is Land of Opportunity "Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person’s computer, download the contents of the hard drive, record the keystrokes and monitor cellphone communications, too." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/world/asia/in-china-hacking-has-widespread-acceptance.html 7 comments technology
- Wikileaks, War and Hard Truths - How many hundreds of thousands of people can be murdered in the name of September 11th before the Americans say, “Enough!”? http://www.socialistwebzine.org/2011/01/wikileaks-war-and-hard-truths.html 25 comments politics
- Greece’s growing political and economic problems have its small neighbor Macedonia sensing an opportunity to push hard for joining NATO, a move that has been stalled for years thanks to Athens’ opposition because of disputes over Macedonia’s name. http://www.politico.eu/article/greece-macedonia-fyrom-nato-crisis-yugoslavia/ 106 comments europe
- Marching backwards to Stalingrad - Local officials are lobbying hard to restore Volgograd’s former name. They might finally get their wish (but only after Putin’s reelection) https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/12/05/marching-backwards-to-stalingrad 3 comments europe
- Democrats May Keep Bernie Sanders Off New York Primary Ballot: Vermont Senator/Indie Rocker Bernie Sanders is an Independent.. he's going to have a hard time getting his name on the Democratic presidential primary ballot in New York to compete with Taylor Swift fan Hillary Clinton next year. http://gothamist.com/2015/06/18/bernie_sanders_new_york.php 17 comments politics
- Trump keeps confusing the name of new hard-to-kill missiles the US military is working on with a toothbrush https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-keeps-messing-up-name-of-hypersonic-missiles-2020-10 4 comments politics
- Trump keeps confusing the name of new hard-to-kill missiles the US military is working on with a toothbrush https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-keeps-messing-up-name-of-hypersonic-missiles-2020-10 78 comments politics
- Drew McIntyre: 15 years ago this fresh faced kid made his @WWE debut. I had only been in America for about 2 weeks, the titantron got my name wrong, and I didn't know what a hard-cam was or how to find it. Craziest part is I’m still 37 years younger than @WWESheamus https://twitter.com/DMcIntyreWWE/status/1580291661455728640?s=19&t=6TDYfZi3FmSU7tY_uuOPFA 14 comments squaredcircle
- Mourinho on Italy World Cup woes: “It’s hard to accept. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Italy were a powerhouse, household names. It’s hard to come to terms with what has happened to Italy. They have good players. There’s talent. There are no excuses for missing the WC2022.” https://www.abola.pt/Internacional/2022-09-22/roma-nao-ha-desculpas-para-italia-ter-falhado-o-mundial-2022/957772 243 comments soccer
- Hyper-V Virtual Machine "Off-Critical" state resolved by deleting VM, creating a new one with the same name, and reattaching .vhdx hard drives. All data from the previous year and a half is now missing. https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/d2y9qr/hyperv_virtual_machine_offcritical_state_resolved/ 7 comments techsupport
- Miami Heat's intense culture: "agents named a handful of veteran players who specifically said they wouldn’t consider Miami in free agency because they heard the Heat practice more than other teams and expect guys to work extremely hard." http://hoopshype.com/2017/04/27/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-miami-heats-intense-culture/ 463 comments nba
- [Schrager] Another great story... As other bigger names around league are being told they’re getting cut today, UDFA rookie wide receiver Nsimba Walker is expected to make the Los Angeles Rams final 53. Great camp. Hard work pays off. Joins Cooper Kupp as Eastern Washington WRs in LA. https://twitter.com/PSchrags/status/1167880564621234181 3 comments nfl
- What’s Kim Jong-un’s Last Name? Mike Pompeo Is Learning the Hard Way https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/world/asia/mike-pompeo-kim-jong-un-name.html 6 comments worldnews
- Senate investigators indicated Monday they've received few answers from the Obama administration after a laptop and portable hard drives - likely containing names and Social Security numbers of millions - were stolen from a federal building in Washington state. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/u/us_stolen_laptop?site=ap&section=home&template=default 4 comments politics
- While Lower 48 politicians might have partisan heartburn over Obama’s decision to change the name of Mount McKinley to Denali, you’d be hard pressed to find many Alaskans, conservative or otherwise, with objections. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-alaska-really-thinks-about-denali 27 comments politics
- Many of us might have missed this guy in mirzapur2. His name is Jitendra badriprasad verma (Jeetu Verma) We all loved him in our childhood in Tarzan the wonder car. Despite his amazing performances in some movies like The fall, soldier,mirzapur2 etc. he hardly gets recognition. https://www.reddit.com/gallery/jhan82 65 comments india
- Top U.S. General: Military Must Take ‘Hard Look’ At Bases Named For Confederate Leaders | Gen. Mark Milley labeled Confederate leaders as treasonous and signaled his support for renaming bases. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f07f05ac5b67a80bc053edf?test_ad=taboola_iframe_mw_life 8 comments politics
- [Kevin McHale to Harden] You calling me name is going to change my opinion. Its hard to have a lot of credibility if you don't play good defense. It's hard to say let's get stop when people look at you please stand in front of somebody. It is not James' personality to start a spark at a tight game https://streamable.com/mn0ee 44 comments nba