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The point was that I don't believe anyone should act to normalize a behavior, in any context, of using a medical disorder as a metaphor for anything, in this case, software usabili…

100% agree. I stopped reading when I saw that. What exactly is "Windows autism" exactly? My autistic son would like to know... And I would encourage you not to say it in private co…

Hopefully saving people some time - Equifax is "unable to process" online requests - which they tell you after your submit the form. And Transunion's website for fraud alerts is cu…

If anyone is considering building their own, this is a good reference. Dan Benjamin's site detailing his recommendations: http://hackintoshmethod.com/

Did you read the court document? Amazon employees signed up, sometimes with fake addresses and then immediately began running wide ranging searches across numerous categories in co…

How are you going to compete with insurance companies who have all of the data, existing relationships will their entire networks of providers and pre-existing negotiated rates wit…

Blogger was a static blog generator well before this. It launched in 1999 and was around for a few years in that form before it was acquired by Google in 2003 and transitioned . Yo…

It's just another web framework, Coca-Cola is just another sugar water drink, Calvin and Hobbes is just another comic and a Lamborghini Aventador is just another car. "Just another…

Last month Patrick Geraghty, an administrative law judge with the National Transportation Safety Board ruled "the FAA regulations approved for manned aircraft did not apply to unma…

And on top of that, when you get to that point, up and down don't do anything. You should be able to combine those tiles vertically.

Am I the only one who was confused by the title and thought that the article was about someone named 'Tory Boss'?

Seriously? Go look at the games, we're talking about a single image of a character in most cases. And showing something off doesn't have to be putting it up on Microsoft.com for th…

First, no being an artist isn't a requirement to be a gamedev. That's why I said find a friend who is. Second, If, as you say, the app isn't the end goal, then don't release it and…

This doesn't detract what the fact that you had the initiative and drive to complete 30 different games. But if I can offer some advice now, rather than when something real happens…

His books were written over 24 years so they idea of writing one great book is just not a practical one. He made his living as a professor not simply self-publishing, lectures and …

I completely disagree. 'Funny ways to market it' will instead be 'Offensive and inappropriate' in many settings. The average person on the street doesn't give presentations, so imm…

Back in the day we had these things called webcams and bloggers would set them to take snapshots every few minutes and automatically upload them to their blogs. As an example, Kott…

Previously on HN... Nuclear Explosions since 1942 (map) (datavis.tumblr.com) 3 points by transburgh 4 years ago | 1 comments | cached Animated History of Nuclear Explosions (ctbto.…

You have a PPO plan so you pay a copay. Many people have HSA, High Deductible or Catastrophic plans where they pay out of pocket until their hit their deductible. So all of these p…

These are called cost and quality or transparency tools in the industry. Many insurance companies have tools that can do this exact thing for their members AND apply it to your spe…

I completely agree about social isolation and missing the in-between conversations. I also don't think the next generation will suddenly all become insular thinkers because of tech…

Thanks pg. Based on filling in the details you provided I agree with you. As a reader I assumed this was his analysis as a true founder - present from pitch to alumni. Clearly, tha…

(many of which were about what to do about you) What does this mean? Is this as an attack on the author's credibility, character, skills or otherwise? It seems like there should be…

Looking at his profile: I'm a co-founder of JGraph. We make mxGraph and draw.io http://www.jgraph.com/ http://www.draw.io/

It's actually been posted 6 times over the past 5 years. Why I Hate Frameworks (discuss.joelonsoftware.com) 193 points by gavingmiller 2 years ago | 103 comments | cached Why I Hat…