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I remember when you could find someone's home address in the white pages of the phone book.

Another example: Olives

We called it "watermelon paper" since the stripes had green tint.

It's a great commit message, but could be even better with "TL;DR non-breaking space in a comment can cause parser problems".

Unlike the old days of broadcast TV when the networks had to produce shows that appealed to the broadest possible audience, Netflix can, and does, produce shows that appeal to a na…

It will be interesting to see if the revival of the printed Rock & Roll magazine Creem https://www.creem.com will find enough Boomer nostalgia to succeed. If so, then maybe PopSci …

PostScript is a fascinating programming language. Back in the 90s I wrote a program to filter Rich Text to PostScript. One of the formatting options is "full justification" which a…

This is what I love hacker news, a comment from an actual subject matter expert.

I think a key is that you need to provide your real identity and you are discouraged from trolling/being a jerk since future employers and coworkers will see it on display.

Irrelevant to this post.

After almost a decade of investigation the preponderance of evidence points to murder/suicide by the pilot. A safety issue is highly unlikely.

There's potential, sure, but it won't make everyone into a filmmaker just like Microsoft Word didn't make everyone into an author and Photoshop didn't make everyone an artist.

Besides the limestone filtering, I wonder if another reason for using branch water from upstream is that it is less likely to contain farm or animal runoff.

Honest question: I understand solar panels generate DC but I thought wind turbines generate AC. Why is a DC transmission line desirable?

Side note: If I lived in the Northern California foothills I would be cutting down big trees close to the house due to extreme fire danger. Side benefit, better Satellite visibilit…

A few years ago I worked at a place that wanted to implement "Life Story Interviews." I had the experience of several candidates responding, basically, WTF?? and hanging up.

Thus the chemical symbol W (Wolfram) for tungsten.

Yes, it was 2010.

This reminds me of my favorite hackathon project. The idea was to guess which college/university a person attended when they visited our website. I put a list of links to college b…

Whelp, that's about all of them.

Remember "New Coke"? The Coca Cola people responded to taste tests that indicated people like Pepsi better by making it more sweet like Pepsi. Sales and PR disaster ensued, famous …

You are conflating good advice with behavior mandates. It's OK to advise me that gambling can be dangerously addictive, or that getting vaccinated is a good way to avoid getting si…

You lost me at "stealing from the country they broke into illegally." I see people working hard to try to improve their and their families' lives. Surely the employer is deducting …

A solution in search of a problem.