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Have an immutable filesystem, where "deletes" are recoverable by going back in time. At least until you do a scheduled "actual delete" that will reclaim disk space. Another option …

For me it was college.

This explains it pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_burnout

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party These people were not evil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Butt_Naked probably is evil but at least he's trying to repent. If we'r…

What's so bad about prefacing the meeting with "Sorry guys I'm expecting a call at some point today so if my phone goes off I'll need to leave to answer it"? Some people must surel…

30-something.

It's The Guardian, what do you expect? Lots of HN users like reading trash it seems.

Education on the individual level just doesn't work. People are too dumb. (I had the pleasure of rereading this recently: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/07/stupider-than-you-re…

OT/pro-tip: the trick to reply when the reply button is gone is to click the timestamp and reply on the item's page instead.

Or if students had the option to discharge their debt in bankruptcy at all, how many would do it. I suspect enough that we'd have something resembling the last debt crisis on our h…

I went to college for a number of reasons despite already being skeptical of the "party line" everyone was telling me about how important it was to go to college, but ultimately I …

It's a lot easier for people to see this argument with basic income than with minimum wage, but the signaling on property owners ends up being the same whether you know for certain…

King County property taxes have been steadily going up, that's a bigger factor than minimum wage. Even in the sprawl around Seattle, prices have gone up, but I hope they'll see a r…

Google's done a lot of crappy and questionable stuff over the years, but intentionally bricking devices is unquestionably evil.

If it actually happened, that's both pretty hilarious and sad for all parties involved. The unintentional fallout has been much more amusing to witness than the actual gimmick of p…

Even being inherently relative, you still need to determine the underlying values with some metric (like implicit type conversions, or max deadlift). If you tell me someone's max d…

Seems odd to lump Python (which is pretty strongly typed) with Ruby and JavaScript (JS especially not being strong). Edit: Actually this whole thread makes it seem like we all have…

It should be implied by generics. But it looks like Swift has some special sugar for it, neat.

The simple theory I use for explaining Perl preference is that it correlates to your preference and tolerance of postmodernism in general. http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html is a g…

Yes, but that doesn't mean you can't benchmark them anyway. And I think you could probably find some meaningful comparison. Certainly it would be more useful than the Druid whitepa…

Has anyone done a meaningful private benchmark comparison with http://www.scylladb.com/ ? I didn't find one online.

Wow 1997, but thanks for the link, it was a fun read. It'd be fun to hear from people in the industry what their experience has been on larger multi-people projects -- e.g. how lon…

China doesn't need anyone in the US to give it excuses, it can stand on its own logic.

It would be surprising. Snowden's confirmations pissed off a lot of people in tech and either effected or hastened plans to build more secure systems in tech companies. (See for in…

I thought of disputing the "scientists and astronomers" bit in the parent (what do botanists generally know of orbital dynamics that make them any more qualified to comment than an…