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It's so weird to look back on these days when people were struggling with whether advertising was even acceptable on the web. So many of us never agreed to this ad model contract a…

Yes this is what everyone who is bad at math will want to take away from this finding.

You can abstract away the Pi and updates as easily as the cloud abstracts away everything. 90% of AWS users can't even figure or don't care about out how to distribute across multi…

It's great that you work there, but that does not necessarily mean you know more about the place than someone who does not. So tired of this line of argument being used, especially…

Murder rate is often gamed for political reasons as well, half the bodies that show up at our office can be coin flipped into either "suicide" or "suspicious" and it often depends …

Deterrence theory does not work against corporations, this has been proven so many times it's barely worth discussing.

The rich and powerful have always tried to get away with... anything they can get away with. Every industry, every political party, every time period. There is no humble and innoce…

Oh well if it's on Google then it's fair game, who cares right? I can't believe people think this way. Google is at least as dangerous as the DHS.

We’re in the phase where low contrast and fuzz is hip again, just give it 18 months

So we need to make the frameworks and tooling much more complex to solve the serverless wiring problem? Aren't the frameworks and tooling already needlessly heavyweight and complex…

My favorite captcha ever was a simple label with a text input, the label said "What is love?" Checkmate robots, get wrecked.

What?

I wish I could tell some of the stories about working at this place without getting in shitloads of trouble. "Staggering incompetence" was the phrase I learned there. They used to …

The percentage of articles on HN that make me glad I quit web dev seems to be steadily rising every day. What a nightmare.

I haven't traveled abroad in a couple years, so I'm not sure exactly how this works, but I would be unable to contain my laughter if some CBP cop asked me to unlock my phone or lap…

Cool according to your buddy a bunch of hearsay is true. Thanks for the informative post, I'm glad you're such a useful resource in these discussions.

Congrats the two things you're doing won't help you at all. Start with five or six freezes, then start writing congress.

Great read, at first I thought it was just a puff piece but the ending is a great insight into the filter bubble that folks with that amount of money and power live in. He can't ha…

He's also 100% correct, Twitter should be de-listed and treated as a utility. It's too much of a public good to get gobbled up by Google or whoever.

The other angle which I haven't seen much written about yet (hint hint aspiring journalists) is I personally know a good number of the mid and high level employees at these compani…

The piece doesn't really articulate a problem, if anything the reverse is true more often than not: management chases short term performance numbers to the detriment of the long te…

You mean like desktops? That are unplugged? How many of those do you think are sitting around? How old is the version of Windows on them do you think? If your recovery strategy is …

Yeah I still think the NYT has the best science coverage out there, but business and tech has become such a joke over the past 20 years it's not even worth checking.

This is par for the course for the NYT, the noble corporations are painted as heroes keeping us safe from the dirty wildlings who are about to topple the wall any day now. They do …