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They don't just "not like the US". The US is actively terrorizing their homelands.

What nuance needs to be added to blowing up hospitals?

All that. I've told people who scoff at $32 million "for a website" that $32 million might actually be low, depending on requirements.

My takeaway is that most people assume a university professor never "brushes up against the floor of society" (as you put it). This article is good for enlightening people that thi…

> Growing an already massive company company by 3x in revenue is the important thing, which is the 'bottom line' in which missteps have to be contextualized. Yes, he managed to cre…

I'll bet you use Azure though (even if you don't realize it). I guarantee you use apps/websites/services that leverage Azure.

> For whatever reason, the industry press never liked Ballmer, and I guess they like Satya Ballmer made several missteps: 1. Fruitless foray into mobile with acquisition of Nokia a…

Long story, short: 1. Realize the world is moving beyond Windows 2. Cede mobile OS to Android/iOS, that battle is lost. 3. Realize, next great revenue stream is the Cloud (Azure).

I think it's useful as far as making the amount stick in the brain. For like 90% of America a stat like that is a hugely disturbing figure.

> It's not even really a city, but more just a place where exurbanites congregate from 9 to 5 to conduct commerce. Definitely not the case. Lots of people live in the city of San F…

I think the part that you may be missing is that View 1 (embedded view) is hosted on DocuSign's domain. So the view may be designed by the client, but it's not hosted by the client…

Even if they added this feature, the API bug would still remain (it would just be covered up by the UI). A sophisticated enough client user would still have access to the all data …

I'm curious as to how HelloSign guards against this. Do they have some sort of session token that sends you back to the signing page on refresh? (i.e. similar to guard to avoid sub…

When I read retrospectives like this, I wonder how many apps have this bug and don't know it.

Whether an API is "good" or "bad" often is dependent on the requirements of the calling client. At the beginning of projects when client requirements are unclear, it is often hard …

Was going to post roughly the same thing. All good suggestions in the article, but there are absolutely costs in the approaches she suggests (unless she's saying people's time has …

On the flip side, many of the previous generations of parents would kill to have the choices their kids have. They simply never had those choices when they grew up.

>> "If she was in a committed relationship, had offspring, a home with equity, savings, and a career, there is no guarantee that would bring her fulfillment." All of this. Also, I'…

FB post is solely about "literal" vs "non-literal" code copying. These are words that the lawyers chose to use to communicate a complex (for non-programmers) idea to a bunch of non…

John Romero was largely responsible for the stories and designs of the old school iD games from back in the day. Carmack brought the tech brilliance to make it happen.

I believe the "non-literal copying" thing simply refers to the insight gained from the R&D time he spent on Occulus while still an employee of Zenimax. 90% of HN members know that …

"While I personally believe they did break the NDA by showing the hardware with the demo Carmack cooked up, the amount of money awarded is beyond absurd." That all depends on if th…

They also made a number of "free" games that were published by SoftDisk. This was all pre-modern software era though. If that happened today, it would end up very similarly to how …

Yep. Check out 4:06 from this scene from "The Aviator": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z1pPyarKhA Lady: "We don't care about money here, Mr. Hughes" Howard Hughes: "That's becaus…