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By the fade-out of your comment, it seems your accurate assessment of this individual's bloviation is insufficiently self-important for the HN crowd. This is why I never post here.…

You're comparing a guy who took pictures of people in an Apple store to a child murderer? I have difficulty with this analogy.

Have you tried JavaScript? All kidding aside, it takes ten years to stop being awful. If you look at code you wrote a year ago and think it looks bad, that's a good sign. On the ot…

Coyotes come out after dark. It takes about 20 minutes for them to figure out people aren't around. Mangy jerks. Once I was walking through some brush in a city park in Calgary, AB…

Thanks, my friend! Hopefully people will run with it.

In depressing times like these, I like to remember that something like 30% of users have adblockers installed. It might seem like people will mindlessly go along with this sort of …

So... Are these reviews paid for? I've known a few people who got stuck with a surface, usually because their work forced it on them, and they invariably hated it. The thing is bar…

I was in a similar situation. The "political animal" in my case managed to turn management against me, and my reward for making the business work was getting cut loose. Get solid e…

I think the question is, how much control do you want over your government? Do you want them doing this stuff? I come from a country with a stronger democracy than the US and gover…

I was astounded when I mapped out a transit ride from a suburb of Amsterdam to the city center - and discovered it was 15 minutes long. I'm not a fan of compact European living (wa…

Yeah, of course. If the chances of some success are distributed geometrically, so that "winners" are randomly chosen at e.g. 0.001% per year, then somebody who wins the dice roll l…

From the article: > Because I’m an idiot with reasons, I have a python daemon that launches as root via launchd and remains running in the background. It is now silently failing be…

An 11:1 return seems pretty efficient given the nature of their work.

Okaaay...

Yeah, "Don't reinvent the wheel" is a ballsy statement for a site that poorly replicates existing work.

For very simple usage, you won't see a lot of difference, but I would go with postgres. It has a lot of features that MySql doesn't, and isn't any harder to set up and use. Point 2…

It's interesting seeing the American perspective on this. The perpetual mistrust of government would, I think, be warranted were that government not elected by the populace. As it …

Oh, come on. If high-performing employees were properly rewarded they wouldn't be voting for a union. Go peddle your feudal protection racket to an audience dumb enough to fall for…

Hence the prediction of their demise.

If there really has been fraud at this scale, and nobody at the Vision fund noticed or cared, the issue is not one of solvency.

I went for an old classic with "What. We spear-Danes in days gone by," and got "with our simple method of finding the best answer to question We. Let. Our. Our. The. The. What." So…

That's what I thought too. I was expecting a humourous article about the pointlessness of some tool.

> his friend who ... is accused It's the accused that is the problem with this. He isn't defending the proven actions of a pervert, he is defending the memory of a dead friend, sug…

An interesting quirk of old buildings is a structure called a "transom" - a space above a door which could be opened to allow for the free flow of air. Regrettably, it also allowed…

Coincidentally, I last played this game about a week ago. The article does a better job of describing it than I could, but I will say that it's a deep game worth playing many times…