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I finally completed my self published beginner Android programming book earlier this year. I took a break and now I'm working on updating it to add more Kotlin examples. I wrote th…

I just realized that searching HN for "SVB" by date gives you a blow by blow account of what happened to SVB. According to the HN timeline the trouble began 9 days ago. That'll be …

The Google Podcasts app works for me. It has a minimalist feel to it.

For those who are interested in leather goods https://www.youtube.com/@Corter

This sounds like the premise for a good zombie movie.

In fact West African countries have a centuries old method of making soap from locally available material. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_black_soap

I had to do view page source to see the HTML code. Very nicely written.

Can someone explain how Amazon is able to use the Elasticsearch name when it is owned by Elasticsearch BV?

SCRUM is toxic. It is toxic because it dis-empowers the developers who are doing the actual work and hands that power over to the "SCRUM master". The SCRUM master is the ultimate b…

Well in their defense, we don't want to pay for newspapers and so you can argue that this is the result of a lack of resources.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who i…

Wow. Heads will surely roll once this reaches Satya's desk.

iRoku TV seems to have been successful in becoming the Netflix of Africa

> There might be some good doctors in Cuba but you bet your ass that only Castro and his goons have access to them. A minor correction, neither the late Fidel Castro nor Raul Castr…

I thought that inside info was non-public material info and so air-traffic data is not non-public per-se and so it's fair game. No?

Reading to your kids in not good for them? Can you please elaborate?

Can someone explain the link of the lowered life expectancy to flu and pneumonia? I thought that these were deceases that were only fatal for people with compromised immunity.

We as the collective tech community brought this onto ourselves. We did not self regulate ourselves. We did not take out customer's privacy serious enough. Therefore, big governmen…