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The only anti-phishing program I've ever seen that was even a little effective was at one company I worked at, where there was an ongoing phishing test. Users were randomly selecte…

> If we had universal healthcare in the USA, we'd have to have a common charting protocol and a medical chart exchange. Isn't this exactly what HIPAA was supposed to address?

Elixir has this as well, IIRC.

That's because it moves from being a project to being a process. I've tried to express this at my current job. They want to take time out to write a lot of unit tests, but they're …

I'd argue it's the main benefit.

> These are surprisingly often easy to answer I agree that maintenance costs are often overlooked/ignored, but I'm curious how you get answers on the costs. I've never found it par…

Whatever became of the tweel?

Cynical, but probably the most humane take I’ve seen here so far.

There’s still some of that feeling in little pockets around the Internet. The tildeverse ( https://tildeverse.org ) might interest you; it’s a loose group of servers that offer fre…

That’s… not a senior engineer. Whatever his title may have been.

The article is from 2001, but it’s an evergreen reminder to _stop building solutions in search of a problem._

> Punishing people for making mistakes means very few will be willing to take responsibility. That’s what responsibility is: taking lumps for making mistakes. If I make a mistake o…

Came here to recommend rectangle and iterm.

Fundamentally, GraphQL is a _query language_, but people keep trying to build/use it as an _API_.

I’ve had a lot of success with namecheap. Granted, I haven’t tried many others, but it’s worked well for me.

So go build something better.

> Nobody wants deflation. I hear this argument regularly, but I’ve never understood why. Hyperinflation is historically a bad thing, but whenever I ask about deflation, I just get …

Haha. But seriously, Kagi gives you all this out of the box, in any browser…

In business, I have four "bad words": just, only, simply, and obviously. Used in a work context, they are nearly always used in an attempt to diminish the perceived effort of somet…

Why not both?

Never before have I been so repulsed by a thread on HN.

> three times a fortnight I approve of this unit of measure.

Has it? From what I’ve heard about the textbook industry, I feel like it hasn’t.

My company issued everyone headsets, and the audio is night-and-day difference, but maaaaaaan I hate wearing a headset.

I have long been of the opinion that, if multiverse theory is correct, there must be one timeline that is the most hilarious, and I believe we are in it.