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I find it amazing and heartening to see this kind of humanistic, self-reflective discourse on hn, where I generally expect to find macho posturing.

I think the policies you cite as bad ideas do in fact enjoy broad support in the areas that enact them. "Hearts and minds" campaigns led by outsiders are notoriously difficult and …

She didn't leave it out. "I think Prof Taleb did get annoyed when I said that I had read his ‘pop risk’ book, not the others. But I was actually trying to make clear that I had som…

We could try to regulate away the good fortune of the people who bought the house, or we could try to convince the tech industry that they actually don't all need to be colocated, …

I know I'm in the minority about this, but I still prefer callbacks. In one common case, you're only doing one or two async things in a given area of the code, and in that case the…

The Tao Te Ching spends a lot of words talking about this. I'm partial to the Stephen Mitchell version. Also Ecclesiastes (basically, the Judeo-Christian reimplementation of Buddhi…

This is the problem my startup is going to solve! It's going to be a service connecting muggers and burglars who steal your physical stuff with criminals who want your passwords! I…

I think that the author is defining memory leaks as permanently out of scope but not deallocated memory. In that sense I don't know of anything in vanilla Python, or Java, that wou…

I really wish I could get 16gb RAM without paying for a touchscreen. It was possible to get an Ubuntu XPS configured that way as recently as two weeks ago. Should have pulled the t…

For the reference of people commenting here, the definition of quandary is "a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation" I imagine that if you are…

It is hard to take an article about "focus" seriously on a site that pops up an email subscription request as soon as you start to read it.

Make blue apron for food pantries. One summer I volunteered on a kind of food pantry truck; twice a week, we'd load up this box truck with whatever the local supermarkets had donat…

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OT, but can someone explain why this won't instantly be sued into oblivion by the former employers? It seems like some of the Otto team will be using knowledge they gained at their…

A bit ot, but I've found that you can tell a good engineer by whether, when you tell them about the design of something, their first response is a question or a suggestion or criti…

JavaScript's scoping is much friendlier for creating closures than Python's: def why_is_scoping_hard(): n = 4 def print_n(): print n def modify_n(new_value): n = new_value print n …