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There's an over-abundance of information. All that's left for HN is angry, emotional quibbling by those who lack the basic qualifications to evaluate the data and science, even if …

("Hacker News"? This particular little niche website is fast becoming Wall Street Blog West. People who came for the tech are leaving because of the increasing emphasis on how to m…

As a long-time San Francisco resident I found it irksome that Alex was so quick to bemoan the lack of culture to consume without showing any possible interest in creating any. In m…

Where did I claim otherwise? I only noted that his suggested approach -- which is clearly reflected by 37signals -- has led to me maintain a lower estimation of their decorum and t…

37signals would be significantly raised in my estimation if you tempered your invectives with less emotional arguments. Of course, tempered rational arguments rarely drive signific…

First, Please avoid editorializing story titles. The submission title is a direct quote from the article: The decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit at source Secon…

Unit tests are narrow and focused, and aimed at verifying features. What you're talking about is something I'd call white box QA. Which is valuable, though it's essentially just an…

No amount of testing the former will lead you to realize the latter. Sure, you might happen to come to the realization while writing the test, but you might do so over breakfast to…

Testing can verify that your software works within the space of behavior that you already know about. It can't make up for your failure to understand the problem fully. Thinking ab…

They have a restriction on taking pictures of things you shouldn't (which includes most of the campus), but they don't have restrictions on cameras. In addition to there being no w…

This is Apple, not the Government. If you don't like the legal terms of employment, California is an at-will state. Quit. That said, this article is total ridiculous bunk. Gizmodo …

I can also confirm that Apple does not have a "no camera" policy on campus. Or a "gestapo". The security is very well run, however.

They're not "blobs" if they are also protobuf/thrift messages themselves.

Heterogeneous collections, discriminated unions, and GADTs can be implemented easily in either thrift or protobuf by leveraging inclusion of custom type-tagged messages/data. Howev…

I hope not. Between Protobuf and Thrift, I don't see the point of adopting a less efficient, even more niche NIH serialization format and RPC protocol.

> As an analogy, you can take the routers that were stupidly configured to use stratum 1 NTP servers. These misbehaving devices placed too much strain on the NTP "network" because …

All of this is going to lead to massive disillusionment with an open online lifestyle. Privacy is going to make a major comeback in the decade to come. Or, alternatively, it's goin…

To put it another way: the only reason to maintain your own backups of your site data -- aside from healthy paranoia -- is because you expect your service provider to fail at doing…

Reason 1: I pay for my bank account one way or another. It's bank's responsibility to keep the system running and secure, not mine. Sometimes we just can't do everything ourselves …

Colin's statement was in the context of the question of BSD vs. GPL licensing. RedHat's model it's clearly more effective than simple charity, but I don't see a difference between …

This is an unfortunate misconception. Some of Apple's significant BSD/MIT/Apache contributions, off the top of my head: * LLVM and clang (MIT) - http://llvm.org/ * libdispatch, aka…