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And what if I turn on the camera for a tenth of a second, take a picture, and turn it off. You won't notice the LED being on for a tenth of a second. Software makes it easier to pr…

Is gRPC a full fledged server for API calls? e.g.: Will it have things like monitoring (we've handled x calls to this API in the last hour, the average API call took y milliseconds…

Does anyone have experience with EB-5? I did a startup in Canada, so am fortunate enough to have the 500K/$1M. It looks like it is fair from a panacea - I haven't yet consulted a l…

Don't a large number of immigrants make it easier to make friends? My experience in a different large city - immigrants new to the city are eager to make friends, as they won't kno…

I do love Canada, but New York City has nearly all of those same positives which you list (other than universal health care), to an even greater extent. And you can get bay-area le…

The reason the debt metaphor is used for technical debt is that debt isn't necessarily a bad thing - it just something to understand and manage. Most people, when they buy a house,…

My experience is that more often than not, unit tests get thrown away in aggressive refactorings, and system level tests survive. If you have a system that depends on units A, B an…

System level integration tests are also proof that the work we did is correct and we can move on. And it is better proof than unit tests, because we aren't mocking everything. And …

The idea that developers should be hidden from customers, like lepers, is offensive to me as a developer.

There seems to be a lack of emphasis on 'shipping working software' in this list. As a developer, that is what I ultimately want to be judged on. Nothing else. And too many manager…

I fear that opening sourcing my personal projects would work against me. The code that i develop in my spare time is done for my own benefit, and just for fun - no documentations, …

I've seen this story before - worked for a company with very disciplined management, focusing on steady predictable growth - 25% a year, not 200% a year, but doing so profitably wi…

It seems incredible racist to assume that all Chinese money is dirty money and/or money laundering. Sure, some of it is, but China is also the world's factory - we pay them to manu…

But this is hackernews - the demographic is highly paid silicon valley workers. If you're making 250k-500k a year, then a few thousand dollars whenever you do a transcontinental fl…

I've actually experienced the opposite.. With couchsurfing, i've tried both hosting and surfing. Hosting felt like I was managing a free hotel - the guests seemed to have little in…

How can technology help prevent such attacks without infringing on the basic right to privacy? Perhaps some sort of real time image recognition of video streams from major public a…

Same with me. Live in central London, about 1 km away from the 'Silicon Roundabout' Fastest internet I can get is ASDL with real-life speeds approaching 8 mbit.