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My understanding is that he did both. He was using library access for a while but it wasn't fast enough.

Cats that are raised as kittens and that you've had since they were young basically view you as their mother. If they are more independent/feral then they don't really bond as stro…

> What? What about the vast majority of links that appear in-line, in text (think Wikipedia). What about the increased bandwidth usage for pre-loaded pages I don't intend to visit?…

My expectation is that you could only do this for the same domain.

This make a ton of sense on the surface. It explains why we're warm blooded (keep warm). It explains why we have fur (keep warm). Plus there were a lot of reptiles about during the…

> Maybe I'm out of touch but 4-5 interviews when they have sought you out and you're a domain expert seems like a big red flag. I was interviewing with the CTO/CEO etc and some of …

This is probably done to hurt social media analytics companies. Without these numbers being known the only company that knows them is Facebook which means they can sell them...

I kind of got in a shit storm with Sun Microsystems back in the day about this... One of their servlets had a query parameter like /servlet/com.sun.projectname.SuperCrazyServlet?ur…

> Being beholden to corporations for our operating systems is antithetical to freedom. This may be an unpopular statement here but where do you think Linux comes from? Corporations…

The other issue is dealing with module compilation... this part still always screws me over. Once it's up and running TS is freaking amazing

Agreed... this is called "partial founder buyout" btw and helps align investors and founders. Your investors want you to shoot for the stars... it's hard to do that when you're wor…

This is confusing: > We do not collect, use, or possess any information about the nationality or ethnicity of our users. No nationality? Don't they kind of have to collect national…

this has an easy solution. 1. Build a Dyson sphere around the sun. 2. Capture all the mass in the solar system to build a giant freaking laser. 3. Use the energy to from the Dyson …

TL;DR inverse square rule... it's super dark out there!

Thank god for NYC... Poor tiny NYC I'm sure could use the tax revenue. Why can't they pick some place that could actually use the growth? Boulder?

This is one of the reasons TLS/SSL and crypto is so amazingly important. Go ahead, monkey around with BGP, since I have the public key of the recipient of my packets I can detect t…

I've been doing a TON of work around PDF lately with my Polar project and wanted get feedback from you guys: https://getpolarized.io/ I just implemented bulk PDF import this weeken…