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It's a key design constraint of status.aws.amazon.com that it not depend on any AWS services. (Or so I've heard.)

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

It was a series of reading comprehension problem-solving problems with short answer response. One bit was five documents relating to an environmental issue in a small town. The exa…

I actually took part in this study. A few notes: 1. The exam was supposed to be administered 3 times, Freshman, Sophomore, and Senior years. I took it my Freshman and Senior years.…

From personal experience watching my CPU usage, you're dead wrong.

>It seems reasonable to expect that such tools can hardly improve the battery life over unrestricted Flash. If you mean to say what you're saying, that Flashblock doesn't make a si…

I disagree. I don't want to rely on Google for social. Separation of concerns is very important. As is data portability. This isn't an anti-competitive move, this is a pro-openness…

Not at all. I'm gainfully employed with no intention of moving to Reddit, but the last time they put up a puzzle I solved it just for the fun of it, and wrote a cover letter just t…

Politics are politics. Any time more than 10 people form an organization, there are odd political heuristics used by the establishment that can be gamed.

If Apple's Click2Flash is really letting 1x1 apps through, that kind of kill Safari as a reasonable Firefox alternative in my book.

Given the fact that my 6 year old desktop I never use would serve me just as adequately as "the future of notebooks" for things I need to do, I've always found that attitude to be …

s|s/_/*| s/_/*| And since I haven't debugged that regex even if it was legible, add two spaces to the beginning of a line to reproduce text verbatim. (Even if it's on one line.)

I take fundamental issue with the idea that a single metric should be sufficient to disqualify a student. If papers and research are exemplary, I see no reason that exams should di…

If the Republicans continue to stonewall, I'd expect the filibuster to be abolished. The inaction is getting poisonous.

Wow, you travelled to a warzone and you dealt with weaponry. Clearly you're interested in expanding the warzone.

I think there's an interesting statement being made by this professor about speed, if the thing in question is really his exams. I mean, he seems to be making the statement that so…

The article also curiously lists IBM exclusively as a "software" company, which seems like an even more clear weasel omission to push an agenda.

I don't think the criticism is premature. The has been visible as long as I've been here. And it definitely discourages commenting in low-traffic threads when the average isn't nor…

Who are they going to attack? As with Oracle's suit, you can bet Google will be chomping at the bit to invalidate anything they put in the pool, which doubtlessly would weaken thei…

>What taxes are going to be raised to pay for the radical increase in spending? That's an unanswerable question. In order to determine how much taxes will have to be increased to p…

One thing I like a lot about HN's lack of comment replies is that a direct reply to one person is an indirect reply to the parent, and I think that's a valuable thing to keep. It s…

You're not paranoid if they're really out to gat you. (They in this case being your hardware, the network, and your co-workers fooling with either.)

Mobile webkit?

It's all obvious in the natural world (and living things reuse code without regard for law.)

Link bait headline distracts from content of article, as usual. (As a pacifist I wouldn't contribute to this project, but your comment doesn't really address the substance of the a…