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This tool is specifically designed to help you be less helpful, less friendly, more cold, more passive aggressive to friends and colleagues. I know so many developers who are going…

Asset bubbles always create an unholy mess when they burst, but in this case the kind of people will lead the fallout from it are going to exacerbate the problems. A toxic mixture …

This is just an ad. FFS Hacker News, why is this front page?

What if, and I’m going to go out on a limb here, it’s because Silicon Valley is run by white, racist misogynists? Would it be that much of a shock, given pretty much every American…

There's a remarkable amount of entitlement in that article. Spoiler alert: lots and lots of hard-working, promising startups don't become unicorns. Lots just die, many just slowly …

You know there was that recent Stackoverflow analysis that concluded that Perl was the most disliked programming language? It got me to thinking about how Perl managed to become qu…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult

Silicon Valley, in particular, has always seemed to me to fetishise the pseudo-legendary brilliant young school leaver overachiever superstar. Anyone who hasn't burned out by the t…

Classic innovator’s dilemma. Their first mover advantage has made them complacent.

The edge gestures for switching apps aren’t new, they’ve been on the iPad for some time. The swipe up to app switch/go home is the only new gesture. Anyway my point stands: the hom…

Yes, the people of Earth could never grasp the awesome complexity of a new edge gesture. Of course the home button was such a simple UX though: * Press place your finger on it to u…

“The firefighters are all volunteers.” Yeah, okay. But why?

Youtube are just really, really desperate to kill Youtube by any means necessary these days.

I mean, gosh. They’re using some interesting tech but they’re not gonna get anywhere using UNIX with Windows NT about to take off. Also books. I mean I like books but who reads boo…

IANAL, but won’t this violate the license terms Google provides for Play services?

So, unikernels?

According to reliable source, The Inquirer, citing reliable source TorrentFreak.

I always forget how much the enlightened community of Hacker News loves to downvote comments drawing attention to the heavily young white privileged male-centric hiring policies of…

Gendry?

Vagrant's documentation leaves something to be desired. It's perfectly possible to control many VMs from one Vagrantfile, but good luck figuring out how from the docs. I mean with …

The Kremlin is nothing if not reliably vindictive to those that it believes has crossed it. Twitter better hope it has its story straight (and the paper shredders working overtime)…

Good to know private shareholders are getting even richer off all that taxpayer research money that's pumped into MIT.