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It's disappointing to read this thread. Even tptacek, a prominent speaker on Hacker News, exhibits bizarre ignorance regarding this topic. Generally speaking, it seems to me that m…

> What's the source of this idea that "abstraction" means "combining duplicated code"? It's coming from the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon's Empiricism. Some people believe that ab…

A really cool frontend for OSM is https://mapscii.me . You can try it out via: $ telnet mapscii.me (Use arrow keys to move, and a/z to zoom in/zoom out) I was totally blown away wh…

Right. And IIRC Arthur Andersen and Accenture had been kinda hostile to each other for a long time. It was funny because they seemed pretty much like brother companies from outside…

Right. The original fork name was "GitHon" because hon == book in Japanese. The author recently renamed "GitHon" to "HonKit" due to Git being protected by U.S. trademark law.

Japan's "B5" originated from the official paper size in Edo-Tokugawa era. So it has quite a bit of history, and IMO it's handier than ISO papers. A fun fact is that "letter" size i…

The major advantage of u2f is phishing resistance. If you always use u2f for auth, you can be sure that you are not fooled by fake login pages. It ain't just matter whether seconda…

Except those buying HTZ are not quite "buy and hold" people? I assume most of them are just doing gambling. They are fully aware that HTZ is going to be worthless in near future, b…

OP is not an empirical study, but model-based one. The paper first assumes that facial mask prevents individuals from spreading covid-19, then tries to estimate how it is effective…

I think the lesson here is "don't be a commodity"? In this light, PHP coders are real commodities. They are paid lowly, treated as expendable, and get no respect by peers. I think …

It's not dead, but just stunned.

Are you suggesting that they should instead say "Hey George, we sincerely feel bad for you, but we can't help but let the mob burn down your house, because, you know, we're at a BB…

The discussion was originating from this patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/28/78 https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/28/1237 Although you're right that his comment made the coding stand…

> Having debt in your capital structure indefinitely is a perfectly fine decision to make. We're hearing this argument a lot recently, but aren't we past that already in 1980s? As …

I'm always surprised that Java is actually younger than Python, and is as old as Ruby. Hell even JavaScript is just 9 months younger than Java (both born in 1995).

http://www.textfiles.com/food/recipe.002 This french soup recipe is a gem. I didn't know that I could use "3/4 cup of COCA COLA" to make onion soup.

> 2) take frequent backups My argument is that people really should use POP3 (not IMAP) for this reason. POP3 by design creates a continuous local "backup" that contains the entire…

Also 1968 Flu pandemic killed 1 million people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu Different perspective. AIDS was (and still is) definitely much much scarier infection th…

Also due to its bulkiness, there is a limit on how many units can be delivered per truck. In short, toilet paper is a low margin, least-stocked product with difficulty in transport…

Does anyone remember "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree Jr? Listen Zombie, believe me. It was a real cyberpunk novel in 1970s.

The total return (including dividend payments) of Nikkei 225 between 1989-2019 is around -20%. I don't know any handy English source for it, but I can tell you that this is the cor…