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It's worth noting the quote the title is referencing, when examined with any level of scrutiny, is completely unfounded: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/hd78tv/does…

Oh awesome, thanks!

Does a setting like this also work for the iPad app? That's typically what I watch Netflix on while falling asleep.

Forgive me if this is a dumb comment to make, as I'm just barely starting to get into monitoring and the statistics knowledge that goes along with it, but adaptive fault detection …

What's the difference between them offering snap-on Glass over existing prescription glasses, and offering an existing Glass model with snap-in prescription lenses? You need to hav…

> Problem is…people who wear glasses can’t wear Google Glass. Uhh, what? I was under the assumption, at least from all their marketing material and everything that I've heard about…

Fabric to bootstrap new Salt minions, and Salt for the actual deployment.

Starting before 21 legally != Starting before 21 illegally You'd be surprised how much of a difference it makes when you remove the rebelliousness and allure of doing something ill…

This is an awfully wrong approach. As with things like Alcohol, if you teach your children how to operate and act responsibly, they get into less trouble with it as an adult. If yo…

The "killer features" all come from you using other Google products/services while signed-in to the same account that you use with Google Now. Search for "pizza" or a specific addr…

And again, there's the belief that someone should have the legal right to perform an action, regardless of whether or not that action is reprehensible. Ex: You should have the lega…

There's a difference between HN believing that businesses should legally be allowed to do all of the above, and HN believing that it's socially / morally wrong to do any of the abo…

It's impossible and immoral to have two projects with the same name. How dare they.

Completely unscientific, but if these outputs are any indication, this is going to be great news for Rubby users in the future... $ time ruby -e "puts 'hello world'" hello world re…

Comparing conversion rates of a complete before and after revamp won't tell you anything about the effectiveness of individual components of the revamp. You'd need several A/B test…

That's only half of the argument. The other half being that, after having text in there (say, in the edit form of a CRUD app), your user no longer remembers what that field was sup…

We do something very similar, but like you said there are the occasional sneaky devils trying to download their own dependencies. Nine times out of ten it seems like it's some vers…

True, "learned" does sort of imply that it's a best practice now used by nearly everyone in the community. I know that's far from the truth. "Encountered" is more appropriate, so I…

This should also be a reminder to everyone that you shouldn't be reliant on a single point of failure for your deploys. It's something that we in the Python community have already …

Obligatory link to the Sequelitis Mega Man UX video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpigqfcvlM&feature=playe... The article hit the nail on the head: the best walkthrough is the o…

As any gamer in the last 15 years will tell you: the Windows key is the bane of our existence. It's a classic case of know your audience and customer, because if you've ever played…

Not looking to get into a whole thing here, but... > he wouldn't have been able to if he didn't have easy access to firearms and a large cache of ammunition. There's no possible wa…

Hand-wavy terms are preferred if the text is end-user facing (and when end-users tend to not be too technical). Of course, a tooltip or "more details" link explaining the real tech…

You can understand what sexism is while also acknowledging that there are extremists in every group. I can already picture a few such extremists calling this title sexist.

Sounds like the developers who wrote that code didn't know how to write comments. Here's some guidelines: * Anything that duplicates the line they describe in prose should absolute…