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Necessity is the mother of invention (not laziness). The internet was invented for surviving nuclear war with Russia. We say laziness motivates us to become more efficient, but I c…

Sorry, you misunderstand. I’m not defending billionaires, I’m condemning politicians. Politicians and policy should not be for sale in the first place. The fact that they are means…

Money only gets you things when you spend it. Real power is how much money you have to spend, not the market cap of the companies you own. There’s a tired meme that billionaires ar…

I can’t give specifics, I know someone who had to deal with “delete me” requests from these “privacy” companies. The privacy company would literally take your personal info (name, …

> It's because it ensures everyone can use the same web and gives the user agent as much power as possible to act on the user's behalf. Those aren't the principles underlying HTML,…

I interpreted this post completely differently. I think it is talking specifically about design principles for code/systems. The core thesis appears to be "principles should be bas…

The example given in the post was using s rather than semantic HTML elements. The motivation for the principle of using "semantic HTML elements" comes from the lofty ideals of the …

The thing I don’t like about EasyMotion like plug-ins is that they require you to react to information which only appears on screen after you start to jump. With Leap it looks like…

The reason for the focus on CPU time is that it has the larger impact on battery life.

This is likely very deliberate. Publishing error rates of vendor equipment could violate NDAs or just damage vendor relations. The number of units purchased can be used by stock ma…

> the article doesn’t actually do is give a good answer as to why you should be allowed to make false statements in the knowledge it will cause harm to others While it's not explic…

I looked at Annoy at the time but from memory it required rebuilding the index every time a new vector is inserted, which was an issue for the project I was working on. I assume th…

I’m really glad this exists and is open source. Two years ago I was working on a project that really could have benefitted from a strong ANN search engine but couldn’t find one. In…

Give that the data leak is 2+ years old I’m wondering why it’s getting so much attention in the media right now, just as FB hits record highs. The cynic inside me suspects that thi…

> Gee, that sounds a lot like someone abused your contact importer tool to do something you didn't intend for it to do. From the article it appears that the contact importer is an …

I would argue that as soon as they asked to change the format the first time then the template solution is no long over engineering as it has been demonstrated that the format can …

While I completely agree that some programmers can be 10x more productive than other ones, I think it's far more common to see programmers who LOOK 10x more productive than others.…

Why do you think moving to an Asian country would make it easier to get a job? Do you think it's that much easier to get a job when you have more people to compete with? Do you thi…