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Recently came across this nice guide on Git pull request workflow: https://github.com/susam/gitpr All the important stuff is in the first 4 pages. I have the PDF version on my desk…

I am inclined to try either FreeBSD or OpenBSD. FreeBSD comes with the bonus that it is supported on some cloud and VPS offerings, so whatever I learn can come useful for practical…

90 hours/week = 18 hours/day (assuming 5-day work week). That leaves only 6 hours for other chores, travel and sleep. This is not sustainable. So I'll assume people who can pull of…

Hello HN community, I have been a long time user of Linux system (Fedora, RedHat, CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu). I have also worked on Windows and Mac. While programming I realized th…

What is p and t? You say that this work shows that p and t are different. What two entities are proven to be equal then in this work?

So does this article prove that two uncountable infinities are equal? Can you tell us precisely what two entities have been proven equal in this article? I understand aleph-0, alep…

Can you simplify for us what exactly have the mathematicians in this article proven? I get that they have proven some infinity A = some infinity B but can you tell us what these A …

> In a breakthrough that disproves decades of conventional wisdom, two mathematicians have shown that two different variants of infinity are actually the same size I thought there …

There is no need to imagine. Emacs, Vim, Atom, Notepad++, etc. are all free software.

> ... removal of most GNU tools ... It is not that GNU tools were removed. It is more like GNU tools were not added. There is no reason too. Mac provides its own POSIX compliant to…

Mac is still Unix: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm

It is not uncommon to come across open positions that actually do require Unix (not Linux) experience. For example, American Express has a large deployment of AIX systems and they …

Thank you for commenting here! I am curious. Can you be a little specific and tell us what Linux or Unix experience do you have? I mean can you specify the Linux distro names and t…

Don't you think the risk you are talking about in believing a 20 year old is exaggerated? Is it that hard to go back to the manager and ask if "Unix-like" is acceptable although th…

What is Bottle faster and simpler than? CherryPy? Flask? Ice? Do you have benchmarking results to support your claim? What aspects of Bottle are simpler? Writing code using it? Dep…

Which BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc.) do you use and why do you use it? I am hoping for a discussion around the operating system's source code quality, documentation, and comm…

+1 Projects like these are always welcome on Hacker News. I am saddened to see comments like the parent's (that are too eager to discourage any technical decision that does not con…

How does running a different OS than most people can give a company an advantage? Can you elaborate this?

Can you share some anecdotes that make you think that Oracle India had it way way worse than the Oracle US counterparts?

Sorry that is not how the database market works. > Oracle lives in a market protected by high barriers to entry and low customer expectations. This is false. Oracle has a very toug…

Oracle is lethargic from the perspective of its employees because the company is extraordinarily sluggish and apathetic. The pace at which Oracle develops software, the flagship Or…

I have worked in Oracle for 2 years and I have worked at other Fortune 500 companies. Oracle, by far, is the most soulless and lethargic company among all of them.

Did you look at the address bar while posting this? It says, "news.ycombinator.com", not "reddit.com"!

TL;DR 1. keep emotions out of the exchange 2. discuss, don't attack (no ad hominem and no ad Hitlerum) 3. listen carefully and try to articulate the other position accurately 4. sh…