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My parents bought a relatively inexpensive television in 1987 and it came with complete schematics, printed out as an addendum to the user manual. I was more excited about those th…

This is really beautiful. It's wisdom that seems so clear at my current stage of life, but wasn't obvious to me at age 15 or even 25.

I once read about a father who told his daughter, "real friends are people who care how your life ends up." I think that's a pretty good definition to go by.

At the risk of sounding like the hipster who liked your favorite band first, I didn't trust Atlassian long before the last 18 months. Much like Microsoft Word, I think JIRA peaked …

Don't forget Trumpet Winsock [1]. I worked for an ISP at the time that provided it on a floppy disk (along with a newsreader, FTP client, telnet client, and web browser). Although …

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Hi, Temporal employee here. Just want to confirm that Temporal Cloud can and does handle this scale, well beyond it, in fact. As our CEO and co-founder Samar Abbas stated in the ke…

After those are used up, it moves to Devanagari, Hangul, Katakana, Hiragana, and then Kanji.

I can't speak for the specific case of Stripe, but it's fairly common for private companies to have a "tender offer" in which employees have the opportunity to sell some portion of…

It's semantics, but the latest raise might have been a follow-on to Series M, not a new round (to be clear, I know nothing about their finances, just speaking from experience at an…

Effectively infinite. Databricks is a good example. They're still private after 13 years and closed a Series L round last year. Stripe is similar. Having been through an IPO before…

As evidence, search for "How do I disable the 'beautify this slide' widget that keeps appearing in Google Slides?" The top results are a bunch of pages in support.google.com in whi…

> the volumes of The Art of Computer Programming I'd speculate that the number of people who own these outnumber the people who have actually read them by a pretty wide margin.

Aside from any downward trend attributable to LLMs, technical book sales were always lower than most people would have imagined. I've known a few authors who published with O'Reill…

I can confirm this is true for Acura. I owned an Acura Legend and the same car was sold in Japan (well, the right-hand drive version) as the Honda Legend. I had seen pictures of th…

One that doesn't seem to be listed is "overconfident fork" in which someone forks an existing project out of anger or hubris, but that fork never gains critical mass and eventually…

Yeah, when I was a kid you had to go to the AT&T store to get a phone.

I'd enjoy someone copying Steve Wozniak even more.

Seems to be a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183579

Seems like the status quo to me. I'm a human and they block my legitimate access on multiple sites a day. I hate that they've inserted themselves as the unwanted guardians of the w…

The leftmost icon on my browser toolbar is the "kill sticky" bookmarklet ( https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky ). I grew tired of sites hiding the dismiss buttons or omitting the…

If only there was AFM to read these days.

Right. It's self-indulgence by product managers and/or designers who think users are as interested in the software as they are. Worse yet, sometimes these tours seem to be a band-a…

I also own a W212 E-Class, which I purchased used a few years ago specifically because it's the ideal balance of features I care about (e.g., heated seats and the ability to play M…

How do the police pull over a driverless vehicle? Who hands over the license and registration? How do you get it to sign the ticket?