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For example, when proofreading writing, it's easier to catch mistakes when reading the document aloud and jotting down the needed edits on a printed copy of the document vs just re…

Reminds me about the classic regression excel joke saying that to get a better regression, one should sort the points to be in order first.

Telling every time someone posts a bad regression they never post the R^2.

It's a interesting technical investigation that not only goes over the technology required to recreate the gold filter, but it's a nice explanation of how some imaging stuff works?…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_church Hidden chapels are fairly common in Europe during the Reformation when one could not be a practicing Catholic in a Protestant count…

The flipside of this is, in a hypothetical world where Amazon / Google is trust busted, this problem is delayed somewhat because only Google / Amazon have the necessary scale to cr…

Interest rates for banking accounts for quite some time have been low. 3% is very high for the USA so it' s a pleasant surprise for many people.

Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez is a good read. Good reminder that tech is not all sunshine and roses and that a lot of cloak and dagger goes behind the scenes in the vall…

Some of us don't want to use a C/C++ inspired language for web development when there is a simpler solution offered.

Reminds me of this https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-... article on how airbnb has changed the aesthetics of certain places. I feel like fears of algorith…

I appreciate the fact that Jerry Low's article is not quite as vicious as the title makes it out to be. A bit clickbaity the title, but the actual article makes a good point to sep…

https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/ Considering articles like this and the fact FizzBuzz tests are even a thing I wouldn't be so sure. I get your point, but…

The playground insult version of Zuck is Zucc for reference. Also has become the term for when a Facebook page gets shut down, they get "zucced".

Disclaimer, I am asking this question for research purposes for a class paper. While HN does have anonymity, if you do respond, I will ensure any responses that I include will be a…

Have to agree, it's bit disappointing the most common style of font used are the minimalist ones like Google's font or Facebook's. I mean for pixel blurring reasons it makes sense …

For better or for worse for quite a large portion of the world Facebook is the internet. The sentiment is admirable but I have a feeling the people able to #deletefacebook, are the…

The lines about engineers I find to be odd. I don't believe that an entire culture could think that way, yet the author states that the news is a out of context problem for these f…