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I agree with the central point, that web analytics lacks rigor. But I don't think it's wholly true that the problem is that our own motivations cause our analysis to lack objectivi…

There was so much to enjoy in Embassytown : the Hosts, the Metaphors, the Festival of Lies, biorigging, Immer, the super-cerebral ending. Anyone come across anything equally juicy …

I've been doing this too, with mine! A recent discovery is that if you keep all the Y pieces pointing in the same compass direction you seem to end up with a track which is always …

That is a short story called "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"

Silly Vice: it's "Perec", not "Pereca".

The Browser! https://thebrowser.com . I frequently see its recommendations percolating through to the front page of HN. 5 hand-picked articles a day drawn from every corner of the …

> In many private industries, even highly regulated ones like finance, the people who first successfully transitioned the industries to computer based systems are now dying of old …

Fair point. I'd accept the trade-off if it meant I could use quote-unquote Linux instead of macOS.

Because the power management never quite works as it should

When Windows Subsystem for Linux can run nginx, rails etc reliably, will seriously consider leaving behind MacBook Pro for something like this

Some right-wingers in the UK (e.g. the ones advocating withdrawing from the EU) would like to see it abolished (and the BBC diminished)

"For me, declaring code is not code," Page said. This sentence sounds pretty odd to me. What does Larry Page mean?

"its whole syntax is the literal representation of one of it's core datatypes, the linked list" "Your average Lisp process is code running on a Lisp VM, and the VM allows you to mo…

Mick is the author's name. I think it's a joke?

Google's model rests on the assumption that all the ads on the site will be Google ads, and as such this scheme comes with a fairly heavy incentive for content providers to carry G…