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A McDonald's kiosk is a masterpiece of engineering perfectly designed to make as much money as possible. It's by no means lazily made or without afterthoughts or care. Every detail…

Do you have an example query? Quotes for literal words work for me. Domain search was always with with site:domain.com and not quotes and works fine. I think bing/ddg removed that …

I strongly recommend installing Spectacle for Mac, which does window snapping with a hotkey. Apparently it's no longer maintained but works perfectly fine right now, and there are …

She seems to assume that federations are supposed to be small groups where everyone knows each other. Has anyone claimed that? Email and the web are the perfect examplea of federat…

Any simple heuristic has false positives, meaning they'll end up taking down legitimate sites that had repeated content for a good reason. Say, for example two sites quoting text f…

There are billions of dollars on stake from both sides, search engines and spammers, in an endless arms race that has been going on for more than 20 years. Trust me, it's beyond na…

Unrelated, but your website is down right now.

It's much better than any other article I've seen on hacker news about it.

Why not?

Put ads before you have a product. Send people to a fake landing page when they click, just to see if there's interest at all.

What do you mean by demonetizing forums?

Wow, I opened this to recommend Fall of Civilizations, but I'm glad to see it's already recommended by the OP.

Adversarial interoperability is the only solution. Make the new networks compatible with the current ones, even without their authorization.

Try GNU parallel.

Chrome mobile saves to mhtml if you download a page. Chrome desktop can save to mhtml if you select "webpage, single file". And of course they open the files fine. But it's not com…

I can't believe I never thought of this. I keep a huge bookmark folder with "things I might need 10 years from now", but finding things becomes a torture if you can only search by …

The real solution is to change the rules of the games so that the cheap strategies don't pay. Both in games and business.

Thanks for the explanation! The Option example makes perfect sense.

Yeah, it's very confusing. Array is a monad. Then what's the function that takes an array and returns another? Is it map? That can't be because map takes two parameters, not one: t…