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Never confuse effort with results. Brian is confusing 20 years of professional effort with global results. According to Brian, decades of his professional effort were driven by a s…

I thought this was the purpose of warrant officers. By design, they have a separate hierarchy and charter for all intents and purposes. Sure, you don't get paid as much as the priv…

I jumped to the comments first, and my initial thought was, “what would Nathan Marz think of all of this...and what is he investing in these days?” I was honestly skeptical, readin…

This is an aspiration of any monopolistic enterprise, and many in Silicon Valley glorify this belief. See Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One.

When the Google community deprecates something as stable as PGP for reasons like "don't have common enough subset" or "can't reach the bar of safe-by-default" or "require a maintai…

All I see are people listening. Scores of legal professionals, attorneys, and judges have read through thousands of pages of serious arguments made by the right. Election officials…

Well done sir

As a former armor officer, I worry that integrating tech in the warrior kit is a complacency risk; not a problem, just a risk. For example, tank platoons rely heavily on communicat…

Is this study biased in the sense that people who cook for themselves are not represented? Does the hospital staff order everything in?

Lol, indeed

That makes it a zero sum game--all or nothing. Not good enough.

A hiker, I mean. The distinction is not important.

The complexity of this problem is absurd. If the biker precisely know the terrain then he is capable of knowing where he is in that terrain. This is the basis of terrain-associatio…

Like others have said. Do more research. Microsoft is the total package... for a price. Check out HTML5/XAML/TypeScript/Entity Framework/MVC if you're interested in Microsoft's mob…

This couldn't be further from the truth.

Yep, that is the library...grad of '07

Thanks vyrotek

iambot, I was wondering if there is a bona fide web service for Hacker News, like a WSDL document, endpoint, etc.. Specifically, it would be called a syndicated web service in .NET…

Do anyone know if there is a Hacker News Web Service?