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In case any of your colleagues have a mysterious "illness" today and/or seem sleep deprived tomorrow, this is probably why.

I can see how this has the potential to disrupt the games industry. If you work on a AAA title, there is a small army of artists making 19 different types of leather armor. Or 87 i…

An acronym for “working from home”.

Yup! And in addition to making it easier to manage cloud resources by defining that state in a programming language, Pulumi can do other interesting things with your resource graph…

It’s a bit more involved than that… Suppose you wrote a program to go and create your cloud infrastructure. Using AWS’ APIs you write an app to spin up a VM, setup a load balancer,…

> Doesn't that mean that the program will need privileged credentials? Obviously whatever program is actually creating the cloud resources will need credentials to do so. However, …

Hi! I work at Pulumi and have been using it to standup and manage all of our service infrastructure. > How does Pulumi keep track of which services are launched, especially during …

Does it really? Valve is extremely profitable because of their particular role in the video games industry. But outside of Steam, is the company really a role model for success? Is…

Your body reacts to the sweetness and produces insulin, which when not paired with actual sugars, turns into fat. This is known as "Insulin Resistance" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

I'm pretty sure the secret to creating a good search engine isn't the speed at which you sort data.

If you judge your success by fidelity with your competitor's product you will NEVER win. The only way they can possibly gain double-digit market share is if they actually do someth…

This looks essentially like Economic dumping. Nokia is _giving_ phones away in order to game market share, and using this "PR coup" as cover. It's a good strategy, but I certainly …

OP here. For some reason nobody gets the point that it was a joke. While you could argue about the merits of the statement, the blog post on whole is just for entertainment.

This reminds me of the "Windows Live Hotmail" fiasco. Annoying as all the brand vacillation is, this move looks like it is in the right direction.

As a friendly reminder, you can click 'flag' for posts that aren't germane to Hacker News discussions. (Though I don't know why there isn't a flag link for this post.)

From Google's privacy policy, they anonymize IP addresses after 9 months, and strip out any cookie information after 18 months. So I don't think many of the author's claims actuall…

Am I missing the story here? Man makes billions in income and has to pay billions in taxes?

Something that most people miss is that at least part of what makes Google search so good (and Bing for that matter) _is_ the tracking. Without the ability to track some user behav…

I think it might be too early to pass judgement. I would hope that over time Google releases sample applications, better widgets, and so on to take care of the boilerplate. (Simila…

I'm confused why Microsoft would sponsor something like this. Google going after game developers and getting them to port their apps to HTML5 makes sense, as it supports the Web as…

This is interesting, but why is this on Hacker News?

Sadly, it's ironic to get advice which reads "AVOID DISTRACTIONS!" while participating in HN, the biggest distraction I have.