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Box is in a rough businesses. They are offering a commodity product in a very competitive landscape and so they have tons of upfront costs, and have to buy their way into the marke…

"Where does that misplaced pride come from?" I don't think it's misplaced at all. There's no way 'not' to be 'married' to your startup. For entrepreneurs, it's a 'life' investment,…

Agreed. I don't even like MS, but MS VS Code is just great. Sadly, I think they kind of ripped off most of Sublime's 'ideas' (who knows where they originated) ... But I'm pretty im…

" statistically significant improvements in scores of stress and depression" It's hard to measure what 'benefit' means. These things are a matter of choice as much as anything else…

"This is incorrect. A primary motivation I have for asserting ownership of my mobile (aka rooting) is system level adblocking." Again - logic fail. Just because you block ads, does…

"Don't underestimate people who hate ads, especially video ads." If you don't want ads - then you have to pay for the apps. Get it? This has nothing to do with technology, ad-block…

"Don't underestimate people who hate ads, especially video ads." If you don't want ads - then you have to pay for the apps. Get it? This has nothing to do with technology, ad-block…

"They should be. Unfortunately, most people don't understand what a Turing machine is, and so it is difficult to explain why it is important to fight back against the people - like…

"This is an out-and-out lie. They are willing to serve me pages without ads, because they do it every time I browse there with an ad-blocker" You people are naively deluded. " No a…

Most of the content in 'the open web' depends upon advertising. No ads = not much for you to download. Realpolitik will very quickly trump any ideological arguments.

"Controlling what my own mechanical device does with the information it receives from other people's machines. Even if the internet had no ads and no tracking code and no malware a…

"They are willingly serving up a page to my computer for free." No they are not. They are willing to serve you pages with ads. Not pages without ads. The logic that you guys use is…

"It was one of the only companies where I truly felt that they would let their engineers experiment and grow." It might have something to do with profitability and margins. When yo…

Fired - you did something wrong, incompetent (or pissed someone off) and they are doing it specifically to you. Laid off - your group is redundant or discontinued, they have no nee…

This. Design Patters are simply tools at a higher level of abstraction than the code itself. They are 'approaches to modelling information'. That's it. Use them, hack them, or not.…

Star Wars villains in the first series use such accents. A) The Imperial Navy is a euphimism for the British Navy / Empire. B) It was filmed in the UK with almost all UK actors. Th…

Sorry, I should have added that Musk bit as an addendum to my first comment - and it's a reflection from previous experience, not from any activity on the comment I made on this th…

Note to HN posters: do not dare criticize Pope Musk or any of his Holy Products, lest you risk a million down votes. FYI - I'm not a building expert, but I come from a large family…

"That kind of reminds me of Ballmer's "FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS?" moment." $500 is not that much more expensive than a Nokia device at the time, and well within the surplus that a good…

From a popular perspective - you are maybe right - they 'sexified' something not quite so sexy. However - I suggest this won't work out like the iPhone. Why? Because --> 'new roofs…

Of course Dragon is not written in 'node' - nobody would write such a thing in javscript, moreover, if it were, it would be described as 'written in JS' not 'Node'. Second - what y…

This is not true. It's far more used than you think. I just had to use some of Nuance's new voice recognition technology - the entire thing except for the voice libraries are in No…

"You need almost all these tools in other environments -- they're just typically chosen for you in advanced." + I don't think anyone is complaining about what the tools do, or nece…

"As a freelancer, I start a new project every other week or so." Yeah - I'm not sure if this is representative. Moroever, if you're staring a project every other week, you may not …

I mostly disagree. First - it is the US government - not the US military that supports the Saudi regime and made whatever policies regarding which governments to support. I'll sugg…