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Google feels like a bunch of headless chickens running around. it's painful to see what was once such a loved and admired brand be reduced to this. :(

i am no apologetic for the messy git UI. But i also know that any competent software engineer can be given a sufficient understanding / mental model of the basic git way of doing t…

Thanks for sharing this! i feel this is a cautionary tale for us HN-minded folks since i see a rather unusual love for the look and feel of the "old internet", and what i like to c…

> A film that exists is better than one that never gets made. Some might disagree. The democratization of content creation that happened with the internet and social media was in g…

It's hard to say whether it _should_ go to journalists. Even before the digital era, newspapers largely made money through advertisements, not subscriptions. They were monetizing e…

> "recognize that trying to parse any meaning from an email address' local-part is blatantly ignorant of IETF specifications and almost certainly will create bugs" I am sorry but t…

Unlike programmers, their work doesn't generate revenues as easily, otherwise every blogger would be rich.

No thanks, we don't want another Prop 65 nuisance, this time for photos.

Contacts in what sense? Probationary periods could work but it's a coordination problem. Such periods are the norm in Europe (coz it's very hard to fire someone) but for an at-will…

Job training is not as much worth it for companies when employees can switch jobs at the drop of a hat.

You can't force a private entity to sue another private entity. The regulator (government) can sue it if it finds it at fault. And a private entity can choose to complain to the re…

Just... wow. The jokes write themselves at this point. So instead of posing a simple question to the customer that even the most tech-illiterate customer can understand and answer …

I think it's not obvious but it reduces to a relatively 'common' integral. 1 - cos(x) can be written as 2*cos^2(x/2) Take the logarithm and you get 2ln (cos(x/2)), which is relativ…

I think when people say processed food they are referring more Doritos than canned corn.

Regardless of my personal feelings about Bezos and Musk, the fact of the matter is that SpaceX is at least an order of magnitude to being able to actually land on the moon than Blu…

On the surface "zero-tolerance" sounds like well, "zero-tolerance". In reality, it's just shirking of responsibility. Schools neither care about creating an environment where bully…

> Individual people aren't diverse, teams are. Yes, which is why I said he was the 'source' of diversity. If 7 data points have value X and one has value Y, then Y is the 'source' …

I am an Indian engineer in a tech company in Austin and out of the 8 people in my team 7 are Indians / Asians in their late 20s / early 30s who all followed roughly the same career…

Companies don't care about theoretical definitions of talent (which for that matter this author fails to provide either, despite tying themselves up in knots to somehow try and dis…

And perhaps countries do it because it benefits them that random companies can come and incorporate themselves in their country, but it doesn't benefit them (and often hurts them) …

I am not sure if that's a bad thing? In some sense, that is the point of having different countries. It's nothing conceptually different from the US deciding to tax its citizens on…

I think we do need a more consistent standard. Right now it feels like it's a popularity contest judged almost entirely by which industry the media has decided to hate on.

It might be so, but I don't work in that field, so my perception will be guided by what I see. Which is my point, unless you are intimately familiar with how ACH etc works it's nat…

I AM a techie and even I would take RH on their word when they say 'instant'. When I send money to India from a US bank account via an intermediary (so that neither the US bank nor…

> The world doesn't revolve around Facebook. Well said. However, if you are a business owner today who wants to be able to put out their app to half their customer base, your world…