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If the reason understandability is important is that it means you get fewer defects etc, then really it isn't that it's important, it's that defects etc are important. This article…

OP compromised more than one user's machine. So they could write the change on one machine, and send it to be reviewed and approved by another user. (I work at Google but have no s…

They do. Eg https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/ras/ras-cent... Obviously not usually considered cause, but rather effect.

Surprisingly, yes, there's really not a lot of McDonald's or other chain fast food restaurants downtown. You can try exploring in Google maps to get a feel for it (consider eg the …

The snark and meanness in this HN thread is totally uncalled for and why people don't publish code. I can't believe this thread is on the front page together with https://news.ycom…

std::move should extend the lifetime of a temporary like static_cast does. (Or else not accept temporaries). Otherwise, no new features necessary. But that one bites sometimes.

SEC yield already includes expenses, so it's just 2.99%. (The actual dividend yield is 3.08%. I don't know where the other .06% comes from, but IANAA).

Any finite sized brain will eventually repeat itself or halt, is probably the main point. This is probably not something we can work around.

I don't understand how cats meowing proves anything about dogs. But see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule... The original sense is "No parking on su…

1.5mi is walkable, though. (My commute is 3 miles a day, every day, on foot. Bay Area.)

I finished (but never optimized it): https://bitbucket.org/devin.jeanpierre/re0

Changelist is Perforce-speak for changeset. Because each CL gets an individual review before applying to the codebase, there is no merge process -- there is no branching/merging. T…

The whole point of one big repository is being able to avoid versioning and always work at head.

No, it means the worst case is bounded above and below by n^2. That is, the worst-case scales no worse or better than n^2, but approximately proportional, asymptotically. (Whereas,…

Can you MITM public wifi? Real question, but I thought the answer was "no", which would make public wifi a compelling counter-example.

I don't actually think that's more significant than self-driving cars -- getting things faster is one thing, changing the way we travel is another. Imagine a world where nobody die…

http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2012-12-18/corporat... "The City of Mountain View [...]expressly rejects housing as an allowable use in the area." IIRC there was another r…

> I can hardly imagine a way to satisfy the protesters' demands for cheaper rent without taking away that landlord's fundamental right to charge what he wants for use of his own pr…

No, not at all. Requiring an increase of 2048 bits over 14 years implies that computing power increases by a factor of 2 16 every year.

It's pretty feasible, you just don't want to give it up.

I usually get irritated at unnecessary references to a person's size, but I think the closer made it all worth it.

Well, there's also the consent decree. I don't think anyone wants one of those...