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There are a lot of distros out there. That is what makes Linux so great. You can roll your own formula of kernel and userland for YOUR needs[and then share it]. You aren't forced t…

Lennart Poettering

This map follows the income distribution in my area very closely. Neat, but sad.

It is terrific that your end users are willing to spend the time and effort on building their own BI solutions. In my experience, at least with C-levels, that is not the case at al…

A lot of what you are paying for in BI solutions is implementation costs and then to a lesser extent yearly maintenance and support costs. I wonder how they intend to lower impleme…

Every instance of this story omits the 'Windows only' part. It is sort of pertinent.

Hard to resist all that power under foot in Tesla's!

Just stay off the brakes as much as possible. No big secret really.

We are 12 developers in a room that is half windows opposite an auditorium. We call it the fishbowl. It feels like we are in some sort of science experiment to see how long we can …

Because 20 year olds may not have the extensive government contacts required to land big money contracts.

Marginal bloat is always rational. Forest for the trees and all that.

If you are using Linux... You can use this... https://github.com/lmartinking/webscreensaver

The ONLY people who need to know about this is the manufacturer and their regulatory body FDA, etc. The company can then pull all the inventory that is in and out of the patients a…

The Surface costs more than the average laptop and tablet it is supposed to replace. That is my problem. And God forbid you want or need processing power or RAM >= 8GB...

ISPs are trying to become Netflix. Google is trying to become an ISP. Netflix is trying to commoditize bits. Netflix should try to become an ISP.

Now we know why common carrier will never happen.

Your emotional outburst is not a constructive addition to this discussion. Despite this tantrum it would seem that more people on HN agree with you than disagree as your comment is…

Are we better off using decoder rings and snail mail at this point?

So it will be consistent with OpenSSH, also a project of OpenBSD devs.

MIPS was fun to learn. Its instruction set is not nearly as gnarly as x86 or ARM.

Think of the government as being a member of Hacker News with nearly infinite downvote power. If it doesn't like what you've said it disappears what you've said...often without eve…

You are part of a society in which you have an obligation to protect and preserve the safety of others through reasonable and responsible actions. I don't think that locking your c…