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Just a heads up the "Discuss on HN" button links back to the blog post and not HN. Not sure if that was intentional or not.

Easier to multi-task maybe? Its really easy to do other things while listening to a video and then jumping into the parts that sound interesting as compared to reading where its ne…

Early 30s here. Possibly to your point and completely anecdotally, I generally have a much harder time learning via text than I do from a more kinetic learning environment or watch…

This is why commit messages are so important. Documentation that is external to the code its referencing will always drift but a commit message is a snapshot in time that is attach…

I haven't thought this through at all but are you aware of any package repositories that do something like levenshtein distance between package names maybe combined with a heuristi…

Hard truth is you're not worth enough for a spammer to look for that pattern, it's a numbers game and you're just making it harder on yourself. Also unless you're keeping a lookup …

Here is what it looked like for me after I signed in to Medium[1]. As far as I can tell there is no way for me to read the article without subscribing to Medium. Incognito allowed …

I think you're right however the only action it gave me was an "Upgrade" button. As far as I could tell there was nothing I could do to continue to read the article without subscri…

I usually do that but was presented with this text from medium after I signed in: > Not every story on Medium is free, like this one. Become a member to get unlimited access and su…

It looks like I have to pay for Medium premium in order to read this story... can anyone give me a tl;dr? Or it looks like I can use Google cache text only to get around the paywal…

To me the biggest power of Vim is modal editing which you can now get emulated to varying degrees of completeness in your favorite editor. Whether or not a command line editor is y…

They have a paid hosted option that I use they just also allow you to self host which is great.

Oh I see interesting. That's correct in Chrome you get an entirely separate instance of Chrome with the new profile. Thanks!

Is the Firefox implementation different from Chrome? I don't think Chrome allows you to default links to specific profiles but I have used this feature in Chrome for a while to sep…

wow that's really cool. I had only seen the "Iron Man" style jetpack demonstrations that hover a few feet or the jet suits that I thought usually jump from an airplane but I'd neve…

Apparently they do live in the upper atmosphere. [1]. > Although many of the organisms borne aloft are likely occasional visitors to the upper troposphere, 17 types of bacteria tur…

Right, I wont even pretend to be an armchair expert on this just regurgitating what I've read. Long and short of it is we have no idea but from what I recall the original paper was…

The other place where life could exist is in the upper atmosphere where apparently temperatures are much more hospitable. There's a really good write-up with more information here …

They are both large problems which is my point but given the choice between two hard problems I can understand why they chose the one that has the potential to solve the entire sur…

Sure but as I mentioned in my original comment you're assuming that Tweets are only created in a Twitter owned property and this just isn't the case at all. I have no insider knowl…

> it's not hard to create a simple UX that would enable this. This is a gross understatement. The number of different clients that Twitter supports (apis, third party clients/vendo…

I'm guessing the tweets referenced in that article were based off of the original[1] (that I saw). The original tweet series did a bunch of testing with different variations of the…

It's worth reading the full dissent and majority opinion but its a textualist argument that the original legislation did not intend to include homosexuality and transgender in the …

I'm not sure why they are trying to tie an experimental engine test so tightly with the crew launch. I know the two events are temporally close to each other but seems a bit alarmi…

It's amazing how much a technique like rubber ducking[1] helps to work through issues. The number of times I've felt like I have no idea how to solve a problem until the moment aft…