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> scary-looking guy in a biker jacket, helping his sister open a ballet studio I think this illustrates the possible unspoken angle of the post. Is the post trying to show a surpri…

You either have phenomenal comedic deadpan skill, or you didn't notice the most interesting parts of the parent's comment.

> she knows her place in the world. She is here to serve, I know it's sort of an unspoken NoNo on HN, but given your bold comment I had to look (I thought maybe you were using conf…

This has nothing to do with the hijab. This is a matter of mixing perspectives. All of the descriptions of the situation are rather mundane and bland. Only two extra details stand …

Seriously? Perhaps I really am missing something obvious. What kind of doctor will she be?

You are filling in so many details that are not there. But whether that is correct or not is not the point. The point is, why mention it? Should we be surprised, or should we be im…

In a brief recall such as the parent post, certain details would seem either superfluous or meaningful if they don't appear to relate to the topic. If you mentioned that the guy at…

Sorry, was this a reply? Did you have something to say?

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Maybe I'm not putting all the pieces together correctly. What is the significance of her wearing a hijab? Why is that worthy of mention, or the fact that the owner family was from …

This comedy skit illustrates the same in humor: https://youtu.be/nQpxAvjD_30

A real keyboard is absolutely necessary for real work, as you say. I think what makes the iPad Pro attractive is that it can have a real, decent keyboard (and trackpad) that is opt…

To replace or supplement remote, you can carry a little Raspberry Pi. This guy makes a nice video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3qn1nqw-Gw I have previously setup a He…

I think kitten-hair mittens would be big. And if they were also shaped like kitten paws, it would be HUGE.

This is probably an underserved area, actually. There are a lot of patterns of behavior we each have which involve our browsers, and there's probably room for some usage optimizati…

This is one of those examples that I liken to the dry cleaning business. In any given city there may be lots of dry cleaners available. Some will be much better than others (servic…

Ugh. Don't we have enough of those already? The target markets haven't increased in size, unless you're in developing countries with upwardly mobile populations. So more affiliate …

This idea could be scaled (and likely is implemented somewhere) to big $$$. This is essentially a last-mile care system which could be contracted by governments to do what, in this…

You have golden handcuffs :). As long as you're not unhappy with your day job, that's great. If you are unhappy, then you have a passion project/domain that you already have good p…

IMO, Ruby is a better general purpose "scripting" language like Python that has cleaner and more consistent features - including ones that lend themselves to functional approaches.…

Fair enough. My comment above was unnecessary. I did elsewhere in a top level comment go into detail about why I thought TFA wasn't good. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33722…

Raising an exception affects control flow, which is the execution state of the program. TFA example misuses exceptions as just another return value, requiring the caller to have ad…

Raising an exception is not returning a value; it is essentially a GOTO. A pure function has no side effects. Maybe it takes an input, and maybe it returns a result. But whatever i…

I suspect the point of the article was to be seen again and remind people of his book.

Unfortunately this toy example isn't even pure functional because it raises an exception as a way of providing an alternative return from the function. A better example, if one wan…