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"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943 Mayor’s claim doesn’t seem any more credible than Watson’s. Mayor might wind up be…

What do you consider non-trivial? I transfer money to Africa on a regular basis, and I don’t have these same issues other than the difference between published exchange rate and re…

This is not new. They’ve been eying this tax for quite some time. It’s due to the difficulty in fighting over the gas tax. It is extremely flawed, but politically expedient. At som…

I would say it depends on your goals. If performance is your primary concern, then go with rust, one of rust’s primary focuses is performance. I don’t think of Haskell as the best …

I recently installed Mattermost open source, but will likely move to something else. This is a trial for me, but the lack of google authentication in the free version, and particul…

The fact that you could operate the mongo instance, but not the DB is definitely a cultural issue, or more likely a managerial issue. Definitely NOT a DB issue. I’ve worked at plac…

This article really captures the risks of a rebuild. I’ve been through a number of them, all but 1 abject failures. The one success was driven by the executive understanding that t…

My suspicion is the statistic is too vague to be meaningful. I would bet that the key here is the average person in LA commutes every day, but I suspect the person in Jakarta does …

That's even better regeneration than Wolverine

The website was down for about 5-10 min for me when logged in, although their homepage was working, and I was able to push changes. The site is now back up for me.

It's almost 1984

It's unfortunate that this is the sort of means by which these issues are addressed, but it's more unfortunate that are society does not take action on issues like these until thes…

It happens to all of us, last time I was interviewing I was asked the exact same question two days in a row, the first time I answered it without trouble, but the very next day I c…

I don't believe a government can have concern for its own citizens if it does not have concern for people outside of its own borders.

Yes, SF's process is incredibly broken. It's not just that they are too expensive and time consuming (which they are!), it's also that the rules are arbitrary, and there are multip…

Definitely red tape. I'm doing an expansion on my house in SF. 1 year in already, and at least another year to go before we get permits, if we even wind up getting them. It will pr…

I'll agree with your last, but your first statement is as incorrect as well. How do you know they care about it? If somebody is passionate, then they certainly do care about it, bu…

This is a very poorly reasoned article. First it frames the options as either poor people are lazy, or rich people are exploiting them into poverty. There are many possible causes …

I don't think this is about passion, I think it's about a culture mis-match. Lyons is looking for a place with stability, and that was not HubSpot. In this case it was probably Hub…

The use of a framework Does not mean the code is better, i would argue the opposite, many a new dev learns on a framework and often doesn't know the underlying language, whereas ch…

I'm not surprised... He's been a disappointment from a civil liberties perspective.

I have the same tendency, when I eat breakfast I get ravenously hungry within an hour unless it's a massive breakfast. Even with a large breakfast, I'll be just as hungry by luncht…

No tool will ever solve the problem of being over-burdened, as becoming more efficient just means doing more in the same amount of time. Being over-burdened is a personal / social …

This isn't about fixing email, it's about building big things off small ideas. Microsoft didn't just turn into the biggest BASIC software company. The point is that the outcome can…