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There are valid uses for some of these. Imagine where online User eXperience and User Interfaces would be without services that help tell someone what is working and what is not. F…

I sympathize. It's terrible when a computer thinks you must not be human because you're not slow and don't make enough mistakes. I've been accused of being a bot before also.

Don't discount Warren Buffet's mantra. When people are scared, he buys. When stockholders feel great, he sells. So fear=buy if fundamentals are good, exhuburence = sell and make pr…

This applies to _most_ disciplines, not just math or math related fields.

The real definition of distributed systems is endlessly challenging as you are always balancing trade-offs. The CAP theorem still holds, so we pick which 2 out 3 to be strength​s a…

Much more than 12 days. Below is a copy/paste of a recent security vulnerability timeline: 2015-12-14 | me > dotCMS | 8 SQL injection vulnerabilities 2015-12-14 | dotCMS > me | the…

I've worked with the McDonald's web team before. They do care about performance and security. I reverse engineered an undocumented (to them) protocol for a game system in order to …

It seems we revisit this topic or a branch of it often enough that it's almost becoming a meme. Here is a 2-page, 7.4K security checklist. If you verify and check each box, your ap…

Assuming a web page, does the page reload in less than 1 second? On a full sized keyboard, the normal rate is 3.3 key presses per second. On a mobile device, I'm sure an 8 characte…

Peer review feedback loops do tend to make one carefully consider what one says, however if the peers are too homogeneous, you may not get challenged on many things outside the bub…

Try TheHill.com and AllSides.com. I find AllSides.com useful for presenting the same story from multiple sides and biases. The Hill aims to be apolitical and center biased, and doe…

Not a downvoter-the opposite in face. From a rational, logical, and chemistry point of view, one cannot have a balanced view or understanding without positives and negatives. The o…

Those biases were on full display this year, not even bothering with the normal veneer.

Very nice. I saw the word "Zeitsouveränität" and knew the literal meaning but didn't realize it's modern usage. In reality, time sovereignty is the only worthwhile thing wealth get…

Try learning foreign languages. To understand a language, one must possess a level of understanding of the underlying culture and history. Then one discovers that dialects arise fr…

After being married over 20 years, which I still find shocking that anyone has put up with me for so long, I find that "to let her be as emotional as she wants but stay rational an…

Mad props for the _ Ein Heldenleben_ reference. Richard Strauss was a genius, following in the footsteps and improving on Wagner. Side note: I'm continuously amazed at the breadth …

With 1 daughter in university and 2 in high school, I do something similar, adding in listening to their viewpoints, and asking them critical thinking questions about their views w…

Tribal instincts, competing for scarce resources?

I believe the parent poster is saying that fake news isn't a new phenomena; I don't believe it was condemnation of any specific news outlet. Any search of history can find fake new…

You hit the proverbial "nail on the head." Before 24/7 news channels and online access, the rush to "scoop" another newspaper still had a 16-hour cycle due to daily print runs. The…

Mad props for extending the analogy to make our point. Nice job! Now I need to find language to complement someone without it sounding like OO programming style. HN, may I please h…

This alien concept (to many engineers) of beauty is a large part of makes new apps, especially web applications and SaaS startups, win or lose. Good design elements are the norm no…

Vi (or gvim) is too easy by comparison. Making them use emacs would be a whole different story.

Visual cohesion makes my day more productive because I spend less time mentally context switching between app philosophies. Mental context switching is just like high CPU system ti…