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"gimme gimme gimme" from man after midnight, you say?

Really nice job with this project, and especially the clear/concise write-up of the pipeline steps.

If this is real, I don't think it's about release timing at all, but the technical complexity of implementing and integrating the specific new features they've chosen. I don't have…

This is a great review for two reasons: a) it provides readers with a laundry list of things to go study independently b) the book author can, given time and inclination, do the sa…

"Grave error" implies something that a non-fool might blunder into. Fools don't blunder, per se, they simply exist. One of the first jokes I ever heard at a startup was "We'll give…

If you're wondering how to write thorough doc for an engineering audience, I highly recommend looking at IBM's doc for z/OS. The first thing you'll notice is: there's a lot of it.

And yet, an order of magnitude less arrogant than the recruiting attitude that led to its authorship.

The market for people who want a native terminal on their phone should be roughly equivalent to people who ever want to terminal INTO their phone. The market already well served by…

Does Linux behave similarly by default if one uses calloc instead?

This is awesome, Danny. Now get on that 30-page version. :)

Somehow I'm not worried about their brand getting usurped.

rock on, tptacek! if you're not eating sushi off the top of a rare steak right now, stop what you're doing. :)

My sense is that if you can regularly acquire and store thousands of vintage LPs for less than $3 per record, it doesn't matter where you advertise the yard sale. Glad to hear Face…

If you think McDonald's is liable for assaulting you, bring a suit. If you lack the resources to bring a suit, by all means complain and stop shopping at McDonald's. But how much e…

> you have got to be a fucking idiot to buy one Whenever I get the urge to write something like that, I ask myself: "Am I in the target market for this?" A product built to these t…

Social network != internet-connected social network. My statements are more about people (and the experience of living among them) than they are about Facebook or any other interne…

This might be one of the rare cases where "you'll understand when you're older" is the most elegant and truthful response available. But I'll understand if that's not very satisfyi…

I was an outspoken Facebook-hater for a long time. Perhaps my most quotable moment on HN to date was saying "I have no love for their product or their business model, but their eng…

> The lack of response comes down to the fact that Google would rather make sure they get all bad actors and throw out some good than be more lenient and let some bad actors stay. …

"To date, almost three years after launching 4ormat, not a single person has ever contacted us requesting support for Internet Explorer." yeesh

Or the communications requirements of Earth's population would need to change in such a way that communicating through miles of planet becomes our most practical option. For exampl…

Seems like a nice tool at a high-but-fair price point. I look forward to seeing some deeper reviews, because the Illustrator trial I used to design my app icon expired a long, long…

I'd just like to note that, as with the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, the fact that the publisher is no longer going to print future editions does not accurately predict tha…

> don't any other people here think 2-year-old kids shouldn't be playing iPad games at all? > My own kid won't be here for a few more months, so I'm not preaching; just honestly as…

The normalization of prison rape—like eighteenth-century japery about watching men struggle as they die on the gallows—will surely strike our descendants as chillingly sadistic, in…