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Look, I don't have time for your childish pedantry. There were entire articles on the front page of HN blaming C for having poor language design on the issue of "goto fail". Now th…

I just don't know how to reconcile the fact that HN tore the C language a new arsehole over "goto fail", and is now back to praising macros. Macros need to be tossed into the dustb…

It's amazing how wrong companies can get marketing. Take Apple's AirDrop, for example. I spent 20 minutes one day wondering why my iPhone wasn't connecting to my Mac Mini. Turns ou…

Depends on whether people actually saw an automobile before they heard about the concept. And of course, people aren't visionaries. They usually do want what they have now--only be…

Quicktun used to use C's rand() to generate keypairs (see keypair.c). They still include a blurb about /dev/urandom being insecure and apparently requiring the user to manually inp…

> “[It] will give our adversaries a huge moment of pause to go: ‘Do I even want to go engage a naval ship?’” Rear Admiral Matt Klunder ah, yes. Because a railgun is the determining…

> participated in a democratic process and he has an unpopular opinion It may be unpopular in certain circles, but the majority of California first voted yes on Prop 22 and then ag…

it's more accurate to discuss NaCl since that's what libsodium is. NaCl is the combination of crypto primitives and the "box" abstraction. libsodium is just the repackaging and cle…

> The number you're looking for is 599,602 people, not 7 million people. What are you talking about? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008... 7,001,084 votes…

I'm sorry, but Prop 8 passed. By 7 million people. Boycotting Mozilla? Really? You need to talk about boycotting California . Making a scapegoat out of one single person for what a…

> Eich found it easier to treat millions of people he's never met as second class citizens You act as if Prop 8 didn't pass by 52.24% of the voting public, or by 7 million people .…

UDP has error checking in the form of a checksum. It's one of the few guarantees UDP has: your datagram either arrives complete, or not at all. TCP also has no real security to spe…

I have yet to hear anyone speak positively about their experience working at SpaceX. The common theme seems to be incredibly high turnover with intense burnout. However, looking at…

Not sure what you mean. I've developed Android apps on Windows 7 using Cygwin and make just fine. It's nearly identical to using it on Linux.

I feel like this whole thread is a bad joke. Do you know of Unix pipes? The fact that gulp calls all of this "streams" and "pipes" is a seriously bizarre form of NIH. You might als…

> where they had enormous amounts of custom machining and microcontroller work, you can deride that as "tinkering" if you like. I will deride it all day, because it's not manufactu…

Raleigh? Access to students from NC State, Duke, and UNC Chapel Hill, all within a few miles. And of course... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle_Park It may completely…

Facebook is not Apple. Even Google is not Apple, as we watch time and time again Google failing at hardware and customer service. Neither of which, Facebook has any experience at. …

yes, but some of us have higher standards of creativity than the 100th version of 2048 or the front page of reddit.

There is no evidence that points to QWERTY being designed to be inefficient. http://www.economist.com/node/196071 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-t...

Or Blizzard. They have an actual virtual world already. I can easily see WoW fans who already sit at a PC and buy special hardware for their games to flock to VR tech.