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Now I understood none of that, but it sounds like a hack to work around something they tried to fix, or is an ugly way of gluing "old" libraries into "new" libraries which should b…

I'll preface this by saying I want to discuss the future viability of ASP.NET Core, to understand what others think of it, and to see what alternatives are available. I'm worried b…

This was a good article about the stresses of entering a programming career. The strained sexism tie-ins were unnecessary because most of the challenges she faced are universal, I …

Chariot for Men: The premise is the same as all the other ridesharing services, There’s a driver app and a client app, except that what makes us unique is our safe driving feature …

It's a crazy world we live in where someone would post such a candid article about their own under-performance. This article is embarrassing to the individual, and more importantly…

> I'd give it a personality and a set of values and a rudimentary understanding of how the world works. I don't think you have any idea how complicated such a task would be.

Is it possible to create and verify a PayPal account against one of these cards? This would allow users to have pseudonymous PayPal accounts. It always bothers me when I go to make…

Before deleting your account you should edit out and overwrite as much information as possible. Things like your name, e-mail, and any other fields should be falsified before delet…

I was banging my head against this earlier last week. It was such a jarring change to visit GitHub and not be able to navigate. It gives me pause to see how suddenly an easily-navi…

How are people able to develop on chromebook-like devices with 2GB RAM? I'm seeing a lot of such devices in this thread and don't understand it. Once I spin up a couple of database…

One man's "saving money" is another man's "robbery". Set up a scheduled transfer from your checking account to your own savings account if you can't manage your own money. Don't en…

I disagree with the title - I don't think this is a sad state at all. This looks very healthy to me. Backbone clearly had a purpose some years ago and it is unequivocally deprecate…

Why filter your cousin's world view when you could show him all available options and let him make an informed decision himself? Microsoft isn't so "bad" any more with their shift …

> You don't need a firewall on individual machines either; just don't run network-facing services in the first place I disagree. Firewalls fail closed under user error. The solutio…

When you say firewall, do you mean a firewall on the edge of a home LAN? Because I still see a firewall on each individual networked machine as being extremely important.

> We fucked up the front door, but we totally won't fuck up the back door. This is the most apt summary of this whole situation. I expect to see a family-friendly version of this p…

I dread helping anyone with iTunes related issues. The syncing process is dangerous, it's far too easy to wipe someone's collection of music / family photos / pictures. I'm not sur…

Wasn't there a similar issue in another browser here on HN recently? How does this actually happen - two different security companies both push out "secure" browsers that are funda…

I sympathize with you that the UEFI implementations are bad, but I don't agree that it's an excuse for everything on top of UEFI to be bad. I think the two competing ideas are: Eit…

Reading poettering's response ( https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402 ) I'm left feeling like he needs a thorough "Mauro, SHUT THE F * UP" response from Linus himself ( ht…

Found the guy who's difficult to work with... Seriously though, every company has had to deal with one of these people sooner or later. The cost to team morale always outweighs the…

Are there any "reputation-based" tools available for home users? I have always wanted a tool that would visually show me every device on my network and give a clear indication when…