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I imagine something akin to a bat signal that alerts Aphyr to these types of posts. Looking forward to the Jepsen write-up.

It’s not illegal to provide advice of this nature without a license. It’s illegal to charge for services where you are advertising expertise in these areas without a license. Chatb…

I might be missing the point but isn’t this what we use mypy et al for today?

HN Admins should feel free to delete this thread if it's a duplicate or off-topic. Steps to reproduce: 1. Visit amazon.com (Desktop site) 2. Search for a book e.g. 'The Hobbit' and…

I think the reason why blog posts are written in this hyperbolic format is because it catches people’s attention, or “click bait”, if you will. If it were toned down in the way you…

I believe they meant PC as in PC (Windows) vs Mac. I've encountered a lot of people who use PC Windows Machine interchangeably.

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Yes, but clickbait.

I had my Vitamin D levels tested last year, was enlightening. For those interested it's a pretty painless (small blood sample) and inexpensive test.

This is a neat idea but I also have no idea if theoretically feasible or not.

So many comments in the vein of "who has time to waste on candidates we aren't going to make an offer to?" - You are damaging your companies brand thinking this way. You want peopl…

Thank you! I will check this out.

Does anyone have resources that talk about writing a TLA+ model for an existing software system as opposed to designing a new system using TLA+ as the design reference?

Agree wholeheartedly with how you posed the question, I would like to expand: Should Adult (xxx) sites be held accountable for ads for male enlargement pills/snake oils? I personal…

Thanks for this.

Unrelated to op, never seen this link before, super cool thanks for sharing.

Disclaimer: I agree with you mostly. I think your comment is an almost complete argument against playing video games. I do think it's a little incomplete to say that things inside …

Not the author of the relevant post but assuming he's tailing off of the first response I can only surmise they meant that in their case Kafka was unnecessary/a bad choice due to t…

Sorry for the newb question but a quick google didn't yield the results I was looking for. What is the attack vector here that "screen scraping" would exploit?

Coding for programmers [nerds] is fun, we should do it all the time [nights and weekends] and magically improve/learn new tech by osmosis. /s I genuinely think this is how many peo…

This is fantastic advice and very well written to boot. I think you could expand on this thought in a blog post or short story. I know I'd read it.

If you assume a villain/nefarious actor is in play, then people have been doing this with mobile phones/tablets/computers/smart TVs for a long time - why do we make such a big dist…

Not saying that what you are implying is wrong, but empirically speaking working hard/relative merit do not correlate to proportionate monetary rewards in our current system. The i…

I agree, I think a manager with randomly generated (and long) passwords is the way to go in terms of security + ease of use sweet spot. edit: in addition to 2FA/yubikey type measur…

Well, I am not very well informed on this topic, however, I tend to believe that the math checks out in the "correct horse" principle. This is a vast oversimplification, but basica…