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There is a recent British Netflix series called "The Capture" that is pertinent to this discussion. A little absurd at times, but for anyone who wants some mental floss around this…

MongoDB was hardly alone -- almost all of these projects favored getting people started quickly, and avoiding anything that slowed them for even a moment. And we've seen it in proj…

Speaking of unicorns, here's what one of the best programmers I've ever worked with has fallen to- https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/seeking-a-well-capitalized... This is pretty di…

Anyone who actually believes your consulting tales is a remarkable sucker.

I am the proud owner of the Brooklyn Bridge. Might you be interested in buying it? The giant consulting dollar nonsense was always total bullshit.

"I think this shows off why linux desktop enviroments aren't up to par with other systems" This may be true, but your example is spurious. I'm not a big user of OSX and I'm constan…

Extraordinarily trivial C and C++ submissions see great traction on HN. A recent one -- pointer arithmetic -- saw a bit of confusion about how something so trivial was on here to s…

"but think it's worth mentioning"..."There are people who work better in an office than at home" The article specifically and directly addressed this. Right near the beginning, as …

I suspect this article made a lot of people feel stupid Anyone who doesn't understand pointer arithmetic in C has no business being involved with C. I'm not trying to be negative a…

It's years old, but I listened to the advice of- https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2013/08/07/ten-reasons-you... -and in re-analysis it all holds completely true. Nginx gives my de…

The temperature was entirely reasonable. The woman got burns because she was an elderly woman with extremely dry skin. If your skin is excessively dry, much lower temperatures can …

It's funny that people complain about media sensationalism, but then nonsense like this gets voted up. And yes, my comment will be dead (hurrah for showdead users). "McDonalds rais…

Holy shit, is this a joke? Is this what HN has come to? Followed link. Chuckled at how stupid it was. Expected cynical comments...nope, people are serious. Wow. And yes I realize t…

https://www.ampproject.org/ An open source standard. And to be clear it's a minor derivative (mostly defined usaged) of those other crazy standards like HTML. This submission is hi…

Whole WP ecosystem is a huge pile of crap This is the sort of noise that should be soundly knocked down when seen. I decided to start working on my own blogging platform that will …

(yes this will be dead. That's okay) Over my career I've attained my MCSE, MCDBA, MCSD certificates. I've worked on and deployed massive solutions on the Microsoft stack, and still…

only one can win for any cycle. How so? Samsung simply executes very well . HTC has notoriously executed terribly, but even with HTC making misstep after misstep, Android has liter…

The average tech company age is 29, and that includes management, middle management, the executive, and so on. 35 is absolutely "old" in the valley, without question. Many expect t…

Marginal? Holy shit, how isn't this completely transparent and dead, like my post will be? Samsung is pulling in about $4B profit per quarter from their smartphones. "Marginal"? In…

Only one of those really makes any money. (Yes, I realize I'll be dead, courtesy of dang and his clique. This is for the showdead) That noise like this gets a pass on here is simpl…

[this will be a dead post because dang is a bitch] Ignoring that Android has been replacing ChromeOS rather than the other way around (the PixelC, and now the Android runtime on Ch…

Then their article should be "because they do". Pointing out one tiny, seldom the cause of UDP packet drops is literally worse than useless.

[I realize this comment will be Dead. I disagreed with one of Dang's friends once, and via the brilliant moderation of HN...] There are countless ways UDP packets get dropped, and …

The article seems to blame Intel for this. Intel has absolutely nothing to do with it, and the dictum was by Microsoft and primarily relates to support. They want new computers shi…

That's the whole reason they have surge pricing: to get more drivers out during those times to handle the load. As with all such systems, it is eminently gamed by the participants.…