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Ah. It all makes sense now. It is cheaper for them to layoff with a decent 3 month severance than it is to pay high interest on the debt that is funding their salaries (interest ra…

You have to scroll down a bit to the image that describes the keyboard in great detail. It includes a mouse trackball. The keys use some kind of clicky switches. The buttons themse…

Summary: Merchants store the token, instead of credit card details. Token is only valid for use between merchant and payment provider (requests very likely need to originate from t…

Facebook (the social app) and Google (Ads, Play Store, etc) are no different. I’ve read countless accounts from many individuals and small/independent app developers about their ac…

One big reason for this is the tax law in US and Canada. Legally, contractors (esp. when incorporated) are considered employees if they work exclusively for one client over an exte…

What’s wrong with removing the commands and adding shell aliases instead? That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. eg. In bash, they can be expressed as: alias fgrep=grep -F alias e…

Clever tricks in programming are an anti-pattern. When writing code in a social/collaborative setting, it is imperative to write it in an inclusive way. Heck, I’ll coin this term h…

Social networks, news sites, online marketplaces or retail. I would imagine the experience to not be any different from trying to use the Twitter app when you lose connectivity. Th…

Also a clear lack of empathy. I mean, sure, the person did something wrong. But have they stopped being human? Where is the humanity in squeezing every penny out of someone already…

In-vitro Swedish study Would love to understand from anyone what this could mean for liver cells that undergo this RNA to DNA transformation (and absorption?) into their nucleus. P…

I find it quite odd that payment providers are being singled out. They aren’t going after the cloud provider, or the other services helping this company run their operations. > if …

You’re both right. Snowflake as a technical slang/jargon generally refers to “flaky” or light-weight solutions that aren’t expected to withstand the test of time/scale. Snowflake, …

Last thing I expected to discover on HN. This is incredibly useful for any DIYer. Thanks OP! Edit: Usually I refrain from thank you posts on HN but I had to make an exception owing…

I used Nim for hobby projects many years ago (when it was fresh out of being called Nimrod). Then it went through a phase of constant (breaking) changes and I couldn’t keep up. The…

This is very cool! Nice work OP. A lot cleaner and intuitive than even Vala (which in itself was a giant leap forward in GTK development).

Short unambiguous answer is yes. However, the destination doesn’t have to be limited to stock/bond markets. Think property, gold or toilet paper rolls. Last one is a joke. It’s har…

You’re on point except for one big difference: a block chain is distributed. I don’t think it is foolproof, as no tech really is. But the concept seems to significantly raise the c…

Extending programming patterns to how executive management operates: they need a very high level language with support for generics and abstractions to communicate efficiently with…

The above commentator didn’t pretend to know anything. It’s an honest question and they asked with utmost humility. Here’s the question: what’s stopping a significant adoption of b…

People forget that at the end of the day, we are biological machines. Neural networks are so effective because they are modelled after how our brains work (albeit in the simplest s…

> I don't understand what it changes for vc Their portfolio companies can go bankrupt. It is a Darwinian (survival of the fittest) moment for all the companies at this time. We’re …

Skimmed through. Here’s a thought: What’s the alternative to philanthropy? If the answer is “democracy“, what does it mean in this context? To me, that means an elected body that d…

Granted, Oculus makes fantastic products that are making VR more accessible. However, as a business, it has been investment heavy[1]. Meta continues to make 10s of billions of doll…