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How much do you have to save on your phone bill before you can buy a house? The difference between a cheap Android and an old iPhone isn't going to be enough to buy a home, or prov…

So damn true, it's so difficult to get statistically significant A/B test results, and the popular tools actively lead you astray. It's rare enough for a startup to have the traffi…

Four hours without comment, not many upvotes, and clearly a flag or two. Hacker News doesn't want to face the demons in its own industry. Seems that nobody wants to know that the d…

Are you being coy? I assume you know about the disparity in engineering jobs between men and women, particularly in management and executive roles, but are blaming this on somethin…

That's good news if true, the women who make it and get promoted earn the same as their counterparts. Still lots of work to be done removing the barriers that keep them from gettin…

Absolutely. How is it just to punish one person with financial catastrophe while another with mild inconvenience for the same crime?

No, he just asserts it. And it's probably impossible to prove.

To summarize his arguments: The universe is eternal, which means it has always and will always exist. If there is something that always exists, then it is impossible for there to b…

First two comments come right out the gate and cast doubt on the authors experiences. One goes on and says women and minorities, particularly blacks, are not smart enough to make i…

Implicit in your comments is the idea that you can't work with women without the risk of lawsuits. This is classic victim-blaming. The problem is not the lawsuits. The problem is h…

N's tend to be big-picture, conceptual thinkers, whereas S's are detail-oriented and concrete. J's are to-do list sorts of people, they enjoy finishing tasks, tend to "get a lot of…

Example: Dave: The sky is green. Bob: Wrong. The sky is blue. It just makes you look like an asshole. Be more tactful and civil in your discussions. I promise you people will respo…

I'd say the premise is that people who work in SF should have a right to live in SF.

In case anyone hasn't already seen it: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ tl;dr Use bcrypt.

"This weekend I was in front of a TV and people were watching Randy To The Rescue." Funny use of language there, especially given he goes on to explain the episode and quote from i…

Yes, the more you know about your target the more confident you become about their nationality. Though I don't think the target needs to be a specific person, it could just be an e…

The supervisor must endorse the analyst's "reasonable belief," defined as 51 percent confidence, that the specified target is a foreign national who is overseas at the time of coll…

This is the introduction and conclusion to what could be an interesting blog post on how to present and "sell" new technology to people using Go and Ruby as examples. Unfortunately…

Every American has to ask themselves, "Is this worth it?" Are the plots stopped and the lives saved worth the loss of privacy, the loss of trust and good will internationally, and …

What's really important is this line: "For that reason, we wanted to let you guys, loyal Cutting Edge readers and Knife Depot fans, know that you might not being seeing Knife Depot…

Alright, read the manifesto first, understand it, then go read about Scrum.