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I can add that the original anecdote here wasn't in the US. It happened to me in Japan, I think in 2009. (The CEO doing the testing wasn't Japanese though - maybe Russian at a gues…

What am amazing premise for a story, thanks for the tip!

Bowling balls aren't hollow, they're solid spheres with finger holes drilled in. The varying weights comes from having weighted cores inside.

This reminds me of the weirdest interview I ever had (boutique software agency, maybe 30 devs). I walk in, and the CEO's secretary hands me an IQ test and says I have one hour. I d…

Related, I read Lovecraft for the first time a while back and the xenophobia was so overt it was almost humorous. The story was basically a police detective uncovering ritual cult …

> The site is not about solving your problem. The site is about answering your question. The point stands either way, reread my comment. When you ask a question on SO and somebody …

> So ideally that question should have answers that apply to the new question as well. The point is who decides. If you ask a question and I flag it as a dupe, I might think the an…

I still think SO was done in by the weird way they handled similar questions. They encouraged veteran users to flag new questions as dupes, even if the "original" question was year…

I always find it strange how many HN commenters appear to have unconsciously added "exclusively" or "without exception" to the text of the comment they're replying to.

Related, Raymond Chandler says in his letters that he taught himself to write a novelette by copying one (by Erle Stanley Gardner). He took the original story and wrote a detailed …

(fist bump)

I disagree! It's easy to check that an AI program meets its specification, which is to process input tokens and generate output tokens. :) If you're talking about verifying whether…

I see what you're getting at, but I think you're focusing on the incidental. An animation is good if it's clear and intuitive in motion. It may often be the case that good animatio…

That's not what TFA is about though. Look at the youtube example - it has two pieces of UI animating from from a start point to an end point, and the paths are such that they momen…

Nice work, just gave a quick pass but seems to work well! (Also: vouched, your comment was dead FYI)

> Placing an undue emphasis on civility is how bad actors control the conversation. The load-bearing word in that claim is "undue", and it's not justified here. I'm not doing arcan…

If you think the guidelines should be changed you can mail dang, but unless they change the civil thing would be to follow them.

Please read what the HN guidelines say about insinuations of astroturfing, because it very much applies here.

(vouched - just fyi this comment was dead, no idea why)

I'm fond of linguistic bugbears, and have actually sent that same article to people before :D But what you're missing is that the less/fewer debate is over their use as adjectives,…

(The aside was for you - TFA's title is not a case where either word works.)

It's not a grammar issue; only "less" matches TFA's meaning. (Aside: it's better not to be pedantic, but if you must be pedantic you should remember to be correct as well.)