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The entire article is based on online group dynamics over people trying to figure out how to come to grips with historically ignored problems. I fail to feel outraged by this proce…

It depends, I worked briefly for Flex(tronics), and my projects were entirely focused on battery life and size (or at least, the client design requirements were). There's a differe…

It seems no one has stopped to consider that some people just like poetry, whether it is from an "authenticated" human source, or AI and is close enough to language to engage the b…

I'd be interested to see a HN poll to know how many of you roll your own (that is, you're serving all HTTP traffic on the back end of a load balancer), or using a website hosting s…

I turned on CC hoping for translation, and it was captioning in Japanese. Lol.

> Am I even a competent developer if I have to use the Internet every five minutes to code? It just means you are slowed down by the need to look things up. Do you consider speed p…

There are many centuries of engineering behind this. I went to the Museum of Horology in Austria. It has examples of the first mechanical clocks, up to today's timepieces. It is fa…

Another excellent catch. I'm obviously a white dude and I was addressing white dude issues: college radio was largely white punk bands; and rap and hip hop was being marginalized u…

Good catch. I'm not sure how to internalize that.

I just posted the same thing. Did you read this? https://www.amazon.com/Commodify-Your-Dissent-Salvos-Baffler...

I'm in my mid-50's. I missed the 1950's and 1960's in the US, but I recall the 70's and onward vividly. It is hard to impart to today's generations just how subversive MTV was in t…

I think this skews toward programmers. 30+ questions and everything was a composition of shift, rotate, and, or, nand, nor, xor. If you're a programmer it's just a matter of figuri…

I took one as a kid. I had to draw pictures. There's a lot to an IQ test besides guess what's next.

Back in 1995 I had a moment of massive intellectual insecurity and joined MENSA. There were about 30 of us who took the test. Keep in mind this was before email privacy & hygiene a…

There are many sides to apple. The CPU architecture side is not the same as software, cloud, or products/apps, it is run very differently. It's almost a different company. The arch…

It is impossible to remain an individual contributor at Intel. This will last about a year. There are simply too many employees to maintain a flat hierarchy. People dream of this, …

> I just don't understand how very smart people can so passionately believe in a closed loop Does good programmer == very smart? Does good mechanic == very smart? Part of the echo …

Sure do, Stevedave. The lead up was more fun than the game, though, IMHO. Especially the email updates.

You can export QXF and QMTF (and CSV) but the online QXF converters seem dubious... (not QFX, that's different). Although you have inspired me to spend some time examining the form…

Bookmarked! Also, there is a long form of this called "Difficult Conversations", which is a really good book for handling all sorts of complicated issues, both at work and at home.…

GnuCash only imports ancient quicken formats. The new Quicken formats (since about 2015) are not importable. I'd love to, but I can't restart a 32-year quicken file, so they got me…