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Famous last words?

> Or that they will make a team that writes a completely new version of the code Isn't that one way of the "cleanup and re-design work"?

> Laws are not beliefs they are societal contracts. Societal contracts are just collective beliefs. When the number of people upholding a particular societal contract goes to zero …

This Team Used Apache Cassandra Without Reading The Fine Manual… You Won’t Believe What Happened Next “You honestly expected that adopting a data store at your scale would not requ…

The nice guy ;) behind linux and git.

How does Uber compare to Mechanical Turk in this regard? Would Amazon (or a requester?!) be liable for accidents happening to (or caused by) turkers while they are working on a req…

Why is the word "actor" absent both in the original article and in the HN comments?

Is this possibly a canary?

> Going forward, making the combustible engine and hybrids more efficient will do magnitudes more to curb carbon emissions than all-electric vehicles. Simply stating it as fact doe…

Do you mean intersection?

Do you regularly use the pointing device with both hands?

No, the whole problem is a http server (ANY http server, serving ANY content) listening on port 80. Once the tcp connection is accepted on port 80, "dumb" clients (like curl) can j…

Ponies.

TCP/IP stands for "Internet Protocol Suite" in general. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite

Why (on Earth) would it be shady?!

Let me state first, that I am an Elite fan too, I played Mostly Harmless for years on C64, where the visuals were sub-par (ugly wire graphics, low fps) and I LOVED it. However, I a…

Well, this is an Ask HN thread and your answer boils down to "learn to avoid the sucky parts", which is good advice, but instead of further guidance on how to achieve this, the rem…

Skim milk is diety.

This leads to the conclusion that big companies should not innovate this way, rather foster own startups (with major or exclusive ownership) which are not associated with the brand…

How many lost hours make up for the necessary CPU and RAM?

Where is EFF now?

you must be new here.

By that logic they could have said "almost 110%". It would have looked even more impressive, I guess.

Is there a fundamental difference between this "relaxed" state and some form of exercise involving longer streaks of monotonous movement (say swimming) while focusing on the repeti…

"The last few times someone tried to get me to switch to vim, I issued them a simple challenge. Can you tell me a way to switch that will not significantly reduce my productivity f…