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Does Target Red Card offer charity donations like Amazon Smile? Asking for our PTO.

I agree with the point that there is a difference between a savings mindset and investment/growth mindset. One should invest in physical and mental health. But a lot of the advice …

I agree with the point that there is a difference between a savings mindset and investment/growth mindset. One should invest in physical and mental health. But a lot of the advice …

Especially when driving short distances in new cities, a route with fewest turns would be useful.

The article makes me wonder if a support group (nonprofit) for laif off tech professionals with the goal of alleviating the loneliness. It could be as simple as a weekly call with …

If you have microservice A that depends on service B and both of the services are need to be updated for a change, then how do you avoid coordinating deployments to staging and pro…

Scaling engineering velocity is also dependent on the domain and strategy. If the strategy is throw darts on the wall and see what sticks - one can scale independent teams. If the …

> Prior to this incident, our cloud has consistently delivered 99.9% uptime and exceeded uptime SLAs. But it had the risk of catastrophic failure the whole time. I wish we had bett…

Bret Victor has provided a first principles approach to solving climate change. I work at SolarCity we take a similar systems thinking approach and tackle the problems at their fun…

SolarCity - San Francisco, CA & San Mateo, CA SolarCity is America's largest solar power provider. We make clean energy available to homeowners, businesses, schools, non-profits an…

Both usages have a valid context. In system generated messages "yours" seems more appropriate. It implies that someone else is talking to the user. If I got a message "My email was…

I see at least one new JS lib being announced via the front page of HN everyday. Makes me wonder if there is a central place for discovering all the libraries, like an app store fo…

Aeropress. Electric kettle (bought for $5 from CL). Kurps Blade grinder. (Burr grinder would be better, but too big for my kitchen). Heat milk on stove top. Froth with aero latte. …

The readability can be improved a lot: * The grey text has very low contrast. * The color coding seems arbitrary * I would indicate links use a blue text, and remove the turquoise …

Usability is not a constant property. When we first see an interface we evaluate its perceived usability. Research has shown that this is mostly a function of its visual appeal. I …

The projects that are offshored don't require programmer. They require people who can understand and follow instructions.

Replacing Menu button with "..." does nothing. The actions will continue to be hidden. All possible actions should be visible. If there are too many actions, then it is a sign to r…

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