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This is basically Conway's Law in practice: microservices aren't created because of technical boundaries, but they emerge because organizations need team boundaries. https://en.wik…

I agree, such a positive tone encourages complacency. And the reality is that we could do so much better: https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2018/8/30/the-moral-egregio... "We should…

Grad students: (not that our salaries are all that secret...) http://salaryshare.me/be795b5770029320591ac9a1730a9932

It's funny that this is coming up now - just this week, there was a pre-print on arxiv.org that explored the possibility of a planet being heated (possibly enough to become habitab…

You could change the settings to a location at the equator, and maybe one or two timezones to your west. (I understand that having more customizable settings would be a better alte…

This has been posted before, and there was much interesting discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2041675

In response to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945340

Unfortunately, it still asks for a login.

Maybe something like Reddit's "rising" page would help. Basically, somewhere that would catch all of the stories that only got ~4 upvotes on the front page, but would filter out th…

Link to the paper in Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;science.1... Edit - If you are lacking a subscription: http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0518

I don't find the Nook's touch screen to be "balky" at all, at least in comparison to any touchscreen phone. In fact, I think that the use of a touchscreen instead of a hardware key…

Follow-up to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628639

Original source, with some explanation: http://www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/000943.shtml

This guy went from a paperclip to a house: http://www.oneredpaperclip.com/about/ . A couple of my friends actually got a barbecue from him off of Craigslist. Sadly, I think the tra…

What I want to know is why the latest Apple OS doesn't come with a paint program.