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Golang, as a garbage-collected execution environment, suffers from lousy tail latency

My theory on this is that it is easier for designers to empathize with users who are the same age or younger, since in these situations they've had the experience of the user's age…

It's kind of funny to point out issues with SQL's composability, and in the same breath spec out a language in which "a set (including an empty one) cannot be an element of another…

This was 2007. Is this used in production these days? If not, what else is used instead?

That strategy is dumb because in practice people don't mind or prefer using distinct apps for each of their subnetworks; and when these networks start overlapping in the same app, …

This gives me an idea... Even in fullscreen, I believe hovering the mouse near the top of the screen will also bring back some controls into view, but temporarily... So there's alr…

Thanks. This is a great reference indeed! The challenge is preserving ability for content to control all pixels; without it, the content ecosystem ends up developing single-purpose…

Hmm not if your users are trained to press Ctrl-Alt-Del again... The login screen would also allow them to order the OS to log off the current session too.

An API usually embeds significant design decisions that are hard work to come up with. That said, there is some precedent for companies reimplementing competitors' API verbatim in …

In large companies, there's another factor to consider, which is that if you're a few years into the company, the stock grants that you received a few years back and that are still…

You can negotiate for a reasonable increase but if an offer comes in at half of what you're making, negotiation is a waste of time for both parties.

Education is no doubt one of the problems underlying credulity but it is not the only one. I have seen very well-educated people repeatedly fall for misinformation on social networ…

> Protected from prying eyes Yes but only by law, which allows exceptions, notably law enforcement, national security, etc. And I wasn't saying this causes fake news, but it does p…

> What exactly is it about the platform that makes it so "evil"? Off the top of my head I'd personally nominate Ads on WhatsApp Password breaches affecting both fb and ig Forced ho…

Ad-nominem!

Big companies know that every one of their binaries gets torn apart by people eager for a scoop and have exploited this in the past. See for example https://www.androidpolice.com/2…

Excellent research. I wonder who the artist is who drew the typeface and whether they realized at the time that it would have such significance that somebody would still be studyin…

Thanks. I thought this was about the gaming industry, which also has a tradition of crazy crunch time.

Opening up the site, I saw the headline load up, then something asking for notification permissions, then I'm not sure exactly what happened but many elements came on screen at the…

I definitely felt on the wrong side of a gazillion popup banners after that click

Ah yes sorry fixed that

I'm sure nano/pico and the like are nice but to me there's two things a terminal editor can try to solve for: being nice, or bring ubiquitous. The nicest ones (say emacs) are way n…

Thanks for sharing the insight... This being HN, it doesn't necessarily read to me like a disadvantage for QUIC the protocol as much as an opportunity for someone to come up with a…

Because the consequences of claiming these things but actually not doing them would be both prohibitively large and impossible to avoid in a large company with a history of whistle…

This is where GDPR would help. They wouldn't be able to keep your account and personal info.