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And it got flagged. HN: still a bro club after all these years.

Irix! When I got my MFA in '88 we had Mac IIs, Amigas, and a SGI workstation. There was a huge difference: the macs/amigas sat quietly on the work desks in their sleek beige boxes,…

Pivot tables are so 1990's. Vector functions (you have to press three keys at once !) and 2D table solvers are all the rage. Get with the hip crowd. /s

Two satires from The New Yorker on HN front page in one day! This should have been about Excel. I see way more puffery surrounding Excel than I do Word.

You're doing the same thing you are criticizing your straw-person leftists as doing. As a leftist, it is quite easy to critique her ideas in good faith: she disdains anyone who doe…

I gave my partner an airtag as a test to see how accurate it was. After three days of daily driving around going to work errands etc, they received no warning whatsoever but I coul…

I soured on the idea (more work, ROI?) and never used them, but when I see pages like Webpack, Bootstrap and Python docs, I drool over their well-designed, easily cross-referenced …

I joined a project that used it back in 2014. What I found was that the documentation ended up being about as useful as reading the header files, and less useful once you open the …

A bit of a grandiose article, but yeah, they actually do mess with your head. Maybe not as woo-like intensity as OP elaborates. I did one and it took me a long time to feel anythin…

I made a spreadsheet of all of his books, and read everything my library had, which was about 70% of them. His early stuff is shlocky and gets tedious by the 10th book from that er…

Not clicking on that. I recall seeing a picture of rows of hundreds of crabs strapped to harnesses, bent in half, with needles in their backs draining their blue blood. Still can't…

Now I don't know what "rotation" means. After reading that thread, the phrase "rotating through spacetime" is still just gibberish. It sounds like he's trying to solve a physics pr…

> "nerds aren't the good guys anymore," Why would anyone assume this was ever true?

If you have terabytes of photos, be honest: no one is ever going to look at them. Pare them down to the good ones, get high-quality prints, and make a photo album. There's really n…

> Intel's internal manufacturing operations must earn Intel's business This is putting lots of high-level employee's future earnings on the line in a far more direct manner. It wil…

I'd say 99% of folks based on my 50+ years of experience on- and off-line. I think I've only known a handful of people who can think critically about their opinions.

Critical thinking is just plain HARD . Let's face it, it is lacking as much on HN as it is on any social media site. That's because it requires a Vulcan-like lack of emotional inve…

I've been thinking about this for a day and thanks for pointing this out. I remember the scene well, as I've seen the film several times, but I didn't catch the distinction between…

Come off it. Everyone loves to watch a loudmouth fail [1], regardless of what they are bragging about. [1] Except maybe Buddhists and the elderly.

I found the learning curve to be quite steep with few examples of graphs that looked well-designed. By default, large graphs look like crap because engineers designed it, not desig…