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> I've seen dozens of flat earth videos. Using Occam's razor, I posit that these videos exist because there are too many people watching them; not because there are too many flat e…

umm, Go?

Thank you for responding. I am now better informed due to your explanation. I looked up the author based on your comment and now see the issue in better light. I am sure many other…

Lots of downvotes but no counter argument? Please HN, let us do the right thing by disagreeing by argument rather than downvoting someone into oblivion. The only reason I value HN …

Thanks, now it makes sense.

Thanks for sharing. As a non-native English speaker, I did not understand this part. What does it mean? "If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distanc…

Also, overuse of analogies. Maybe it's just me but I am more convinced by a narrative that avoids or sparingly uses analogies.

Agree. Now viable alternatives exist. The nextgen cloud providers will learn from the weaknesses of incumbents and innovate.

I am in India and my message is in English and Japanese. Never seen a Japanese message on aws before.

A comment about one aspect of big tech, i.e IT infrastructure (think AWS, GCP, Azure, and now Cloudflare etc.): I don't see this mentioned enough but it wouldn't be surprising if s…

I used to prefer Uber/Ola over the humble auto rickshaw [1] mainly because of two reasons: cars are safer; and an air-conditioned car helps avoid pollution from traffic (which is q…

I love mechanical keyboards (mkb) but am not obsessed about them. Given a choice, I prefer an mkb over other keyboards. A keyboard to my mind is a means to an end, but not an end i…

Cannot agree more. Just like many other acts which are punished today, but should be rather dealt with by showing support, self harm should definitely be taken off the list of acts…

> Our civilization will make the transition. It will be messy and could have been much less painful but we will do it. I wish to see this kind of positivity around me more often. I…

> Basically, GitHub. This. Which basically means: no time to setup, no operations overhead, no administration required. This means, no dedicated team member needed who is the "admi…

An ex colleague uses GitHub Enterprise at work, and he reports running into some issues that are never seen on GitHub proper. Most notably, network view of repos and GitHub pages e…

Off topic but [maybe] relevant... > Somewhere in the middle of nowhere. A part of me too desires this. For a software engineer, what you need most is good network connectivity, whi…

> Most of my time is spent on talking to other human beings, replying emails (30%~40% of my time), and thinking (!!!), which is not considered as “real work” by engineers :) Oh, bu…

> I dread losing it if Management decides to pull us all back into the office when the pandemic is over. One thing this pandemic will be remembered for is how it permanently change…

> Instead LinkedIn will launch a new service named InJobs that will advertise and process job applications. InJobs will not have a social feed, people will not be able to write pos…

Whether you like the people behind this mission or not; I have to watch in awe that a space mission is such a non-event. For the geek in me, there is nothing to not love this.

I did not know William Shatner is 90. Kudos old man.