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The effects of marginal tax rates materialized in the 70's and early 80's. It was often smarter to have just one person work in a family because the take home from a second job wou…

I agree, C doesn't itself explain "how things work." But I think the process of learning C can (but won't always) lead to a pretty good understanding of how things work. I'm admitt…

This is coming from the point of view of someone who doesn't dwell in the world of programming to any significant degree. I don't always understand or use the jargon correctly. I w…

The network effects at craigslist are an intrinsic part craigslist's value. You can't truthfully claim you have a better product if you are missing the key feature of your competit…

I agree, if we stick to "most new features", which I think was the unstated meaning. However, I like my iphone 4 post-keynote as much as I did pre-keynote. Which is to say, quite a…

It isn't "our" hardware, and that is the problem. It is "their" hardware that they sell to us. For it to be "our's", we'd have to design and manufacture it.

That never happens though. The only way for money to sit still is to literally pull it out in cash and stuff it under a mattress.

I don't know if I'll find it here on HN, but I'm interested to hear from fans of Microsoft, or at least people who follow Microsoft. I check out some news on windows 8 periodically…

I'm not too familiar with the boot process, but would a signed GRUB be enough to get through the secure part of UEFI's secure boot?

You're own comment fits the criteria. "Please either stop writing such things or simply go away."

Maybe you don't want to, and that's fine, but you'll never be able to quit smoking if you do it while you are hacking. Habits are associative and have triggers, and that's a setup …

TLDs are a nuisance, and I can't be arsed with figuring out if your site is a .net or .com or org. or .whatever. I just google it anyway.

on Dec 12, 1980, AAPL was $2.75. The Apple I listed for $666.66 (I assume 1976) So say that was 243 shares. Today that would be roughly $140,000.

I've done much the same with my 2009 MBP. I love that laptop. However, something to keep in mind here is that the upgrades we have performed are built in to the retina MBP (SSD/Ram…

The meme should specify the headline is a statement with a question mark, rather than a proper question. I.e. THIS POST TO BE DOWNVOTED? Vs SHOULD THIS POST BE DOWNVOTED?

Well, shucks, wuts a load balancer? Sounds like some kinda doofus trying to keep a pile of shit on their head from tipping over. Jargon is jargon, and in my part of the world, you'…

Well, you did come across as a dick. Go read the whole article this time, and look at the picture of their kid at the end. I think your post was longer than the article. That makes…

Read up on the heroku architecture. These are the terms used. The manual garbage collection wasn't the problem. An unexpected data structure created by garbage collection wasn't ha…

Yeah, flash is still super pricey. I run a pair as well in my mbp. The ability to configure lesser options to make it cheaper counts for something as well. With Apple you are stuck…

They come in a lot cheaper than those new MBPs, too That is simply not true. Configured approximately the same as the cheaper Retina MBP, the verix cost $200 more than the retina m…

I realize this is anecdotal, but my 2009 macbook pro 13 is in great shape. Screen, battery, and keyboard are all great. I've watched the new macbook pros come out for 3 years now, …

It's flash based, up to 768GB.

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That is an awesome idea. I imagine the drug atenolol would become popular among politicians.

Are you kidding? Have you seen a macbook logic board?