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Firstly, it's important to note that on Hacker News, responders are probably going to be biased towards writing software that solves your problems. Secondly, it sounds to me as if …

I've done this sort of thing a few times. - Build a small core team who know the problem in depth. You really need to understand v1 and v2 data and the mappings, as well as the fun…

No, that isn't exactly how insurance works, and it would be almost pointless for individuals if it did work that way. Instead, it works by bucketing risk. In the simplest form, eve…

Thank you for pointing that out. I have different nicks most places I frequent and I forget that others are far more consistent.

Another out of topic - I keep seeing your comments and in a comment about two years ago you said your profile had a link to your research. I looked at your profile to find out a bi…

It's perfectly possible that Interfax is a reliable source of information about Ukraine, although it seems to be mostly based in Russia and mostly staffed by Russians, but we do ne…

As currently set up, with proof of work, it is an environmental disaster.

Physics has had a 470 year head start, if you measure from Copernicus. Of course it looks simple. It wasn't simple at the time; it's taken something like 14 generations so far.

Well, he threw something else at somebody I know, so there's that.

I'm not especially pro-Samsung, and I'm just one consumer and I'm sure that for every unhappy one, there's someone who loves LG or loathes Samsung, but I will never buy any LG prod…

There are several prevailing schools of thought: - True hard-core Brexiteers really do care about sovereignty. They are nationalists.They want nobody but themselves to have any ele…

I don't think that brought in bee keeping exists very much in the UK. I live near the edge of fields, in a semi-rural setting. I've never seen it. I have see plenty of wild bees an…

Databases do have copyright protection under EU law if they are original.

Databases have protection under EU law. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/protection-dat... The EU is also interested in Google, and this looks like a slam-dunk case on…

In answer to the the question posed on the linked page 'who's the author?', probably Anthony Edwards ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._W._F._Edwards ) see https://quentinsf.com/so…

I guess, I can say that I worked on a project for introducing interactive advertising displays into their branches. It was killed because they didn't like the power cabling.

Thank you for posting this: I had been considering using them.

I disagree a bit with the article. The premise is that you shouldn't make login forms behave badly for password managers, and I agree with this. But at the same time, people using …

Similar. I can't quantify, but I seem to be getting less useful results, certainly on the first page, and often beyond. I'm not sure it's not just perception though because I've no…

I've worked in the same market as you, I think, from the hints in your comments. I've run or had a hand in running conferences and trade shows, as well as having built software and…

Speaking as a Drupalista, I think we are better than the norm in the tech world. I don't think there's been a recent survey but we wre 15-20% women about 4 or 5 years ago. I don't …

I'd just like to note that in some interactions I had with Linus, he was very polite, when he had some reasons to be impolite. I think the blunt interactions are almost always to d…

1. Won't happen at 100% penetration. Horses are still ridden. Some people still use quills. People without adblockers become more valuable. 2. Personal, targeted advertising rather…

I'd like to see another reward level: I would pay $50 for an option to buy the phone at $650 at launch or soon afterwards. Say 2 months after launch to give the people who have pai…

@mkbrody - Panel 3 'We clean' on the front page of your site - 'professionaly' should probably be 'professionally'. And before anyone steps in to be disparaging or #irony, lots of …