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I explained to Affinity this summer, "...it would only be in your favor to have a designer learn your tools instead of Figma and Adobe, because the reason they got popular is becau…

The authors were professor and grad student at UMass Amherst, and are the current winners of the Turing Award. https://www.cics.umass.edu/ https://www.nsf.gov/news/ai-pioneers-andr…

Facebook's "React" library was discussed here (with 100+ comments) when it launched in 2013[0]. I remember because I wrote an example to compare React with Angular, and my post was…

I registered @paulg on Twitter and "vlad" on news.yc in 2007 when this website (news.ycombinator.com) was "Startup News". Besides flying to the US Naval Academy, my first domestic …

Adding complexity is fast and easy, adding simplicity is slow and hard. Any codebase that is simple to understand and modify is a second party's canvas to add complexity in record …

Building a cross-platform CLI from a python script in 2009 required unrelated open-source tools to package for each of the three major operating systems. I remember asking Dropbox …

Microsoft was a large investor in Apple, Facebook, and Open.ai as well.

Just a guess, but if companies are paying for recruiters[0] and HR software anyway[1], companies may as well keep jobs open, do market research on past compensation, give their eng…

eGolf looks great with 88-111% on this chart, but it has a small battery. This car's range of 125 or 135 in warm weather is lower than the other cars', which start at 176 in freezi…

Newspapers, magazines, newsletters, televisions, audio recorders, photo albums, pens and pencils, paperclips, staplers, stationary, scissors, stickers, ink stamps, software and vid…

> The problem, as this new generation of fans is learning, isn’t just that Ticketmaster is a bad system. The problem is Ticketmaster is the only system. It’s a monopoly. More compe…

A commercial app is just a blend of software bugs that encourages profitability (not too many bugs, not too few).

I worked at a B2B company with a monolith without API's that rendered old-style CSS. Big projects included defining and writing API's to support a self-service web app for admins, …

I vouched for your post because you posted that companies abuse visas, with links. I don't see why it was flagged. As far as Meta, I don't understand why recent articles criticize …

(I shortened the title somewhat since it's my own article).