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Hi HN, A close friend is looking at selling their family farm in Colorado and he received a letter of intent from a company that builds datacenters. He suspects that water rights a…

+1 I guess I’m old as well. The presentation makes it seem like I should recognize them, but obviously I don’t. Would love an explanation.

It depends on the job. I’ve had jobs where you couldn’t get approval to take a week off and a week off at my current job is no big deal. Generally PTO is more generous as you becom…

Legacy of the Wizard on NES. It was sort of an RPG precursor with multiple characters and different abilities that you would needed to use to make progress through a dungeon. I was…

Can someone tell me how college can cost so much and still not have enough funds?

Save yourself the stress with one of these… https://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools-Non-Contact-Voltage-...

The only thing I’ve gotten from hacker news is anxiety about not having started my own company and not being a tech genius.

Yeah it’s effectively dead. Also referred to as 120% time.

I also had a very convincing phishing email "from" Bittrex recently that said I had assets to withdraw. The email has my full name and everything.

Ajit Pai's punchable face stopped appearing in the news.

You'd be hard pressed to find a less controversial opinion for HN.

Easy peasy - Just use CGI and never call free(). In all seriousness, I use to work on a large web app written in C and it was fine for CRUD, but I would never use it for a greenfie…

In addition to the other replies, Lemon predates W3C, possibly by a decade.

You probably heard about Foobar https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/google-foobar-googles-secret-hi...

Note that client side encryption changes this https://support.google.com/a/answer/10741897?hl=en .

Where I live in the US any kind of fresh herbs except for maybe parsley and cilantro costs more than a box of mac and cheese. My kids eat it occasionally (maybe once a month) becau…

I'm wrapping up my second to last class for Georgia Tech's OMSCS. Here are some thoughts from my experience in no particular order: - The program is suppose to be the same as on-ca…

I've used the Teensy 3.1 and it's more or less an Arduino (including uses the Arduino IDE) but lower cost and more powerful processor. There is also a way to build C/C++ code and r…

The author points out a poor abstraction and blames the object oriented programming with its secret methods and private code happening behind the scenes, when the issue was just po…

Hangouts has video and chat and is being discontinued. - Google Meet: Zoom - Google Duo: Facetime - Google Chat: Slack

At Google (the original audience of the "rant") tools like Moma and Code Search make it much easier to find the relationship between commit messages and code, so it makes more sens…

I'd actually suggest you consider telling your wife for a few reasons: 1) It's really unfair to go on letting her believe an untruth. She should know the reason you have not been i…

I live in Longmont as well and can confirm that internet here is awesome. I've never once had to think about it and always get at least 800 Mbps. Longmont as a city is great as wel…

Google's paper on Percolator from 2010 says there are more than 1T web pages. 9 years later there is surely way more than that. https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub36726 The real is…