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As a Hacker News user and commenter, you are not the type of user he’s referring to.

To what end?

Are you pitching or complaining? Because I can't tell.

He doesn't know what he's talking about. Don't feed the trolls.

Absolutely. I’ve had a very similar experience where a bunch of the paddles broke off that push the coffee into the hopper only a couple weeks after we bought it. It was completely…

Seems like a question you could simply ask the interviewers up front. Establishing expectations about the task is useful anyway.

I agree with you though about the cries about reverse racism. Not helpful to the discussion. But I also believe that when someone cries out bias or discrimination by some group bec…

> Let me flip your quote back on you: how can intelligent people still believe in unbiased meritocracy being the default? Very few people I think would argue that systems based on …

I understand the HN mods changing titles of sensationalist clickbait, but can we agree that maybe titles of articles in scholarly journals should not be changed?

It's true that with Datadog, a spike in your usage can have a dramatic impact on your bill. This feels true though of any usage model. We've all read stories about out of control A…

Lots of people here suggesting the main benefit of PowerShell is its object model and indeed that is very useful, but there are other great features as well. First and foremost, Po…

Hi shoenick. I just applied for a Software Engineer position through Nike's website, but your profile says you're an engineering manager. Mind messaging me with your email and I ca…

Good chefs will always tell you: Use the right knife for the right job. Can we not simply use our kitchen appliances and tools for what they were designed for? The author suggests …

If you've ever spent some time reading some of the really good cookbooks you'll realize just how valuable they can be. While a 'minimum viable kitchen' may be a misleading title, t…