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Auto's a great thought. It would really kill a class of numerical operations that lead to overflow with type mixing. On the other hand, I once had to get to terms with a code base …

Absolutely brutal. There are a few inferences or projections made by Eric Jackson that seem a wee bit uninformed, but generally it is a thorough shredding of Marissa's tenure. Part…

I believe they occupy different, but slightly overlapping niches in the chain of causation. Theranos' claim to fame is a method of blood testing that requires drawing of significan…

Never heard of Bluestacks till now, I'll give it a spin. Thanks for the recommendation!

Monument Valley was a phenomenal game for me. I'm just really sad that with the iOS age some really great games are easily rendered inaccessible by succeeding iOS updates, iDevice …

> if I hand $1 to my brother, and he hands it back to me right away, and we do this 100000 trillion times on a digital money system we designed Incredibly facetious. Blatantly fals…

I hate Hacker News for comments such as yours that do little to further the discussion. You do little to explicate on what makes the statement wrong. It's about constructive dialog…

A lot of debate's going round over what is M-Pesa and what it isn't. Yes, M-Pesa is the specific variant of mobile money transfer introduced by Vodacom. However, M-Pesa in Kenya is…

Interesting, never heard of Wish before. Notwithstanding, pretty much a of fan of startups are built as a 'traditional' business (built with a view to longevity, little hype, not l…

I wonder where unicorn(s) would rank if included

It seems his plan of operation is to expand into as many possibly nouveau/profitable industries as possible. If successful, he might end up with something akin to a Samsung conglom…

Using Facebook for comparison, a retweet is similar to the 'share' button. Heart parallels the 'like' button. Retweeting explicitly draws your followers' attention to the tweet. Wh…

Pretty cool. Does anyone have recommendations on great books that cover advanced C internals (other than K&R) and/or GNU extensions for C?

'Things like focus groups, market fit, etc. are not recipes to build amazing products, but rather ways to avoid making really bad product' Never thought of it that way. I like this…