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I'm sure the FDA could be more efficient, but isn't a large part of the difficulty intrinsic to bringing a safe and effective device to the market? The flip side of people dying fr…

In another post, the author states outright that she likes many styles [0], so the idea she promotes "sterile, totalitarian looking architecture" is off the mark. The original post…

>I find it inappropriate and offensive that this author decides to be the sole authority on aesthetics of PRIVATE properties, appealing to some sort of an unassailable, celestial a…

I could be wrong, but I don't think projektir means they "feel like shit" even when they exercise. I think they mean they occasionally feel like shit after exercising, which obscur…

I don't think the barrier is nearly that high. I could see people downloading co-op apps if they hear that they have more drivers or better drivers. Getting to that part is difficu…

Totally agree. Hacker News readers like to promote their favorite, but I think most of us are ultimately pragmatists. For example, Vim is a personal favorite, but I've been using M…

To be fair, there is some precedent. Printf, QuickCheck, and other libraries and features keep the exact same name as they're copied from language to language.

It fits with Chris Arnade's other reporting on addiction, but it does seem a bit too focused on McDonald's and a bit too uniformly positive (aside from noting that readers might "s…

I like the theme—I'm guessing it's supposed to be reminiscent of early Mac OS and HyperCard? That seems to fit HyperDev's goal of getting up and running quickly so you can enjoy bu…

Another approach would be to use cron/anacron/launchd. Although these are technically serve a different purpose (running commands automatically), I find a lot of my background comm…

I don't think knowing when you're being asked to work too much is a thing that comes automatically with whatever job skills you're hired for. Even if you work in management or HR, …

Not to dismiss your experience as a resident of a country that's received significant aid, but there's substantial evidence that cash transfers work, which GiveDirectly has compile…

I would enjoy it if they used +ε and -ε for that, although +0 and -0 is probably clearer.

>Try incorporating some java code in a ruby project, however. No possible way that is going to fly. I don't think this example is convincing. There are too many languages to expect…

It's planned, apparently. [0] When it was discussed on the mailing list, it sounds like people were in favor of adding a keyword to disable it, making the syntax something like WIT…

I haven't personally studied the literature, but this study is in line with what GiveWell has concluded, although they are more certain about cash transfers not being spent on alco…

The other common places are in names like Brontë, Zoë, and so on and in the word naïve. See the the English subsection of the Wikipedia linked to above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

This is good advice, but I disagree with his example. The entire paragraph reads[0]: >The Upper Palaeolithic cave art of Europe was a tradition that lasted for perhaps 20,000 years…

There's Airtable, and although the form feature is rudimentary, it is point and click: https://airtable.com .

Taken together, Coca-Cola's beverages might come close: >Today, products of The Coca-Cola Company are consumed at the rate of more than 1.8 billion drinks per day. [0] However, it'…

No. What is it about how the Met Office studies climate change and requests new computers that is interesting? They both seem self-explanatory, so it didn't seem like listening to …

>Of particular interest is the Met Office's constant demand for bigger more expensive computers, and its recent moves into the more politically contentious territory of climate cha…

From the tables of fatalities per 100 million miles that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration compiles [0], the accident rate for trucks went up from 1.03 to 1.29. Passe…

Thanks to you and aaron-lebo for pointing that out. I'm not sure how I missed that, as I distinctly remembering noticing the language selection in the corner. I probably should hav…