dcminter

I don't think your comment deserves the downvotes (upvoted to compensate) but I do think that it's questionable if "Most errors are not type errors" is true. Rust's culture…

Yeah, I keep hearing about this toxic community from people who won't blink twice to use decade-out-of-date critiques of Java :)

I asked for the purpose. You guessed at the purpose. those are different.

A year or two ago I had a similar issue booking to see a Broadway show in NYC... baffling because surely a large percentage of their custom is international tourists. It must have been some kind of …

Even if one takes this as legitimate, the "foreign" passport gives enough information already (otherwise they couldn't prevent me from acquiring an ETA with it).

Amazingly obvious to jamespo is not normally the standard by which new immigration rules are introduced.

That's your guess. The UK authorities have never given this reason.

Yes, changes to the long standing status quo affecting 3 million people with no justification given, nothing to complain about. Sheesh.

It's a big change and not one that's been justified.

Why should any special architecting be required given that I am an EU citizen with an EU passport. On the contrary, effort was expended to prevent me from obtaining an ETA to no purpose that has eve…

Can confirm that UK immigration was annoyed by it, but it was perfectly legal nonetheless.

Sure, but it was a change that was slipped through under the radar without any proper justification for it (the situation wasn't even clarified for dual nationals until quite close to the deadlin…

Much the same with the US ESTA requirement. I miss the good old green Visa Waiver forms that we had to illegibly scribble on during the flight over :)

Most years I don't visit the UK. My european passport is far more useful to me. Note that this is an active change to the status quo. Up to and including today I had no need for my UK passport wh…

It costs money and my European passport is far more useful to me.

> if you enter a country whose citizenship you have you must always enter with the travel document or proof of citizenship of that country. no exceptions. Completely untrue. I have done so perfectl…

> It's not unreasonable to ask for the British passport Why? What legitimate purpose does this serve?

My native-Swedish friends all complain about the bureaucracy here, but it is so much more efficient than the British stuff. Some of that, though, is a side-effect of the ubiquitous "Bank ID&quo…

Aside from this app issue there's another instance of bloody minded bureacracy that affects dual citizens: As a dual citizen living outside the UK, to visit Britain I cannot apply for an ETA. Ins…

> Definitely a lot of modern ideas and institutions had their origins in coffee shops, though. There are accounts of discussions between Robert Hooke, Edmund Halley, and Isaac Newton in a London co…

If you delete the photos path element they do actually have a fallback resolver that redirects you to the appropriate path under photos. E.g. flickr.com/mwichary/sets/72177720330077904 …

"Do you seek to engage in or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities, espionage, sabotage, or genocide?" Quite.

Same; I liked it so much I added it to my rss feed reader so I don't miss future posts.

It doesn't seem to have been mentioned in the comments so far, but as a floppy-disk era developer I remember my mind was blown by the discovery that DEL was all-bits-set because this allowed a ch…

Yeah, we used to have a couple of the removable phoenix platters knocking around. Of course now everything tends to be solid state even terms like "drive" are becoming less common.

Plus a common alternative to "hard drive" was "hard disk." My late father never quite got out of the habit of calling it the "Winchester" - itself a nickname for a specif…

If you email hn@ycombinator.com they can probably help you zap it. Or just leave it - unless the post gets upvotes it won't appear on the front page anyway. If you didn't see already, then G…

I'm supplying the link to the reddit thread here because the person who typed it in from the GQ article provides a bit of additional context.