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What is up with the home page today? It's mostly general interest, non-startup, non-engineering time wasting fluff you'd see on metafilter or reddit.

I think the way out of this is a basic income guarantee. When a basic income is provided without requiring labor and this basic income meets the needs of an individual the cost of …

> Lots of people lost money. Maybe it was done on purpose? The models I mean. Cause I bet someone made a fortune. Someone short-selling the game? The considerable amount of collusi…

I guess the major benefit is for people who do not actually have alzheimers being falsely diagnosed, but early detection doesn't help in any way for people who do have it, right? I…

These may be reasons why you cannot sell lower than $99 but they are not reasons why someone should pay so much. The stated plan to keep updating the app reveals a fear that they a…

I've only ever heard good things about C#. I believe C# has first class anonymous functions, makes async operations easy, and a combination of VisualStudio and JetBrains resharper …

I like Wells Fargo ATM machines, the thing you insert the card into is a transparent green glowing device and all the ATMS look the same and have touch screens. It's easier to tell…

Eh, I don't think Techcrunch is so bad. They don't usually have link baity titles like wired, they genuinely try to do a good job reporting on new startups and many yc companies ge…

I quite like fish and have been using it painlessly for nearly 6 months now. I wish fish included an actual programming language that could replace bash scripts, but the sane advic…

While I can admire your stance, I think it is naive and doesn't reflect reality. Look at how weev's statements on reddit were used against him at his trial. Also if you look at the…

A big suggestion missing here is a CS degree. I like Steve Yegge's take on it[1]: > The best tip is: go get a computer science degree. The more computer science you have, the bette…

It's not the NSA_SUSPICIOUN_INT rising I worry about. I am certain that individual monitoring of the average hobo like your or me (I don't know maybe you're actually a TOR dev or s…

This is awesome and probably took considerable work. There is no plugin system for Xcode, which has always bugged me. Why would Apple not make Xcode officially extensible. Xcode pl…

You cannot require the memory requirements of Ubuntu server with a desktop version of Ubuntu. Desktop Ubuntu's minimum is also 512MB: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation…

I don't think this qualifies as a separate distro unless you also think Kubuntu and Xubuntu are separate distros. They are just Ubuntu with different packages for the UI preinstall…

> "What would you say separates the strongest and the weakest members of your team?" It's easy to reply to this phrasing with a canned answer and very little though. "Experience, s…

Nay, the big companies that care a lot about these languages own them through and through. Look at Adobe's attempt at converging ActionScript and JavaScript in the abandoned ECMASc…

I'm not making the case it won't be available as torrents, I just think there's no compelling reason to torrent it if you have a Netflix account, and in fact you might even get an …

> [* Dearest Netflix: Want to make up for missing this one? You could always bring back Firefly and/or Pushing Daisies... Please?] Netflix might be able to make a space based sci-f…

I think the point of Quora was just to get engagement up with whatever it took to keep people posting and upvoting. It was addicting, but forget getting answers to questions unless…

I think scales of magnitude are informative. The difference between 100 and 200 lines or 10,000 and 20,000 are probably not useful, but you can get an idea of the scale of a projec…

I'm sorry for your tough week. Not to pile on the negativity, it was an innovative product, and none of this is your fault, but it probably doesn't make sense to resell copyrighted…

1.3 million is a really tiny number. Why is it so small? The city of Tucson, Arizona has about 1 million people and it's in the middle of an uninhabitable desert.

I've read about studies where just seeing someone else smile and be happy makes others who see it also happier. Like a happy person gets on a bus full of less than happy people and…

You can just pretty much replace everything in Android. Replace home screen, the app selector, the lockscreen. Get those with less or no animation.