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When stuff like this makes the front page on a regular basis, it's already a joke site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5735421

> The way the thing is filmed with the smiley face and lighting up eyes, I could easily imagine a sci-fi horror film being based around it. :) Like this? http://i.imgur.com/W1s9crO…

This is the correct answer. The manager's job is to manage the people , not the project. That's what a tech leads and PMs are for. A good people manager works to keep their employe…

That is incorrect. There are also metrics regarding "microevents", which are points in time during which brainwaves momentarily exhibit the characteristics of the first stages of s…

What's sad is that it wasn't so long ago we were treated to breathless articles regarding the software that was used as part of the President's re-election campaign, which apparent…

> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. For how many years were people dismissed as nutjobs and "conspiracy theorists" when they talked about NSA spying? Now we know…

There sure are a lot of hard-coded numbers in that codebase. In many cases it's easy to figure out where the numbers came from, but in others, it's nearly inscrutable without a nam…

Slight correction: the government went after them for anti-solicitation agreements[1], and then they were sued for salary-fixing by former employees[2]. [1] http://www.justice.gov/…

And then of course once they acquire those toys and have them sitting around for a while, they start to get itchy for an excuse to "use" them.

Yes, that guy was fake, but the protestors blocking the bus and preventing it from leaving were real.

> Who are "the right people"? Who gets to dictate who can and cannot live in a city? Not that I agree with the guy in the video in any way, but I 100% •guarantee* the protestors (a…

Well, there's this company: http://generalfusion.com VC-backed, too!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasers_and_aviation_safety

It's long past time for Facebook to simply stop using the words "private" and "delete" on any of their pages, because they obviously don't mean it whenever they use them.

I'm glad this is getting attention, however it occurred to me something important has been lost in the whole shuffle: the integration of Google+ and corporate Google Apps accounts.…

I think it's more like "piracy is legal if you do it on a large enough scale". If some snot-nosed teenager scanned a book and posted it on the web, the court would squash him like …

If true, that helps explain how they got their $3.5 billion valuation recently. This also further goes to show: if you want Facebook's attention, do something with photos.

That's fine for some projects, but not every project follows that flow. One example: ompanies using GitHub Enterprise internally generally don't make every regular contributor to a…

You can already do this with git config, but unfortunately it's a giant hammer that affects the entire repo at once. It is of course possible to write a post-receive hook that deni…

I don't think you can blame the "genius" engineers. These seem rather more like business decisions. As soon as Google started talking about the total number of Google+ accounts as …

Bike safety starts with the rider. One of the scariest experiences I ever had while driving a car was nearly hitting a cyclist as I was pulling out of a parking lot. He was riding …

And yet they were at one time the low-volume underdog. People scoffed at them when they first started making iPods and again later with iPhones (even though there were fewer doubte…

That doesn't sound like being captious (to use the article's term), that sounds more like asking the "Five Whys": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys which is almost always a good …

I called it recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6564469 and of course the reaction was denial & vitriol. It bears repeating: the world's governments can be divided into …

A quick list of gripes is a pretty unconvincing argument that hotels are "doomed". There is no guarantee that any of those things would be better at an AirBnB. Likewise, a correspo…