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Though there are some fantastic bootleg strips. This is probably the most famous: https://imgur.com/pGeiHgt

So you had fillings which lasted 10 years which were replaced for reasonable cost. The dentist, an expert at reading radiographs, could see something that you couldn’t. What exactl…

When my daughter was 5 she told me off for driving too fast to school. She was annoyed that whenever I drove fast she would be late for school.

I was thinking about that same story when I saw the mention of “trusted insiders”

Have you seen Azure Data Studio? It uses the same code base as Visual Studio Code and has first class support for notebooks. It includes a PowerShell kernel

I was going to post this same link. Great docs from Microsoft

Whilst jupyter notebooks are often synonymous with python code, the languages are actually pluggable by using a different kernel. Microsoft have implemented an SQL kernel which mea…

Microsoft have released another IDE with notebook support called Azure Data Studio. It uses the same underlying code base as VS Code but is targeted at data driven tasks such as co…

It is very unlikely that the process control network is connected to the Internet. However it is almost certainly connected to the corporate Intranet. Think about all of the metric…

Windows has overwhelming market share in the process control industry. Microsoft has long standing partnerships with the majority of the process control vendors. The attach surface…

My employer is a global IT company and the exact same thing happens on mailing lists for 10,000+ people. I reply-all to let them know that there is cake in the lunch room.

Selling to enterprise developers is a grass roots strategy into the enterprise. Applications and services use a freemium model to get their initial users with the hope of becoming …

The fundamental problem with social media sentiment analysis is that it is based upon the assumption that tweets are representative of the population. It ignores the issue that a l…

Perhaps it is an estimate on the volume of data that is archived, hence is suitable for future analysis.

The arrow item to the right of the story title will open it in a new tab. Is that what you are after or am I missing something?

Are you aware of the keyboard shortcuts? "f" toggles fullscreen mode "2" toggles list mode "?" shows all shortcuts

Why would you want inheritance for different PDF libraries? This seems like interface to me - the DOM interfaces are an appropriate analogy.

I see a lot of similarity between the Color discussions and anything written about Fukushima; a small number of facts are being drawn together to produce wide-reaching conclusions.…

Your experience is with an application running on a mainframe and is probably typical. The OP was referring to the OS itself which is continuously developed with fanatical dedicati…

This strategy may work in the short term but I can't imagine how it will be sustainable. As engineers continue to flock to the hot new thing, they will be leaving a pile of bugs in…

A primary reason why a site wouldn't support PMs to markbao@news.ycombinator.com is that there is no access control. The address would get spammed too easily from senders with no a…

A problem that affects all software companies is how they manage their legacy. In a startup, everything is new and you are blazing frontiers. Once established, the legacy code just…

I would love to read more articles about how mature companies are reinvigorated and revived. It is easy to point the finger at what went wrong and why companies often aren't sustai…