PrimeVideo.com is the website (in addition to apps on mobile and living room devices like TVs and consoles) where customers outside of the US, UK, Germany, and Japan can watch Prime Video. In the aforementioned four…
According to that graphic, the previous highest peak of long-term unemployed in the US was in the early 1980s, with around 3m unemployed. The current high peak in 2010, which looks like it may be decreasing now, is just…
This is a very popular essay which tends to get posted around the web quite often. Yet it suffers from many not-so-obvious flaws, as analyzed in the popular linguistics blog "Language Log." The commentary is written in…
encoding the type in the filename isn't a bad way of ensuring the type never gets lost The most likely way of losing the type is surely if a user accidentally (or maliciously) changes the filename extension. That is why…
High-speed train competition is a fascinating topic (if you're a.. uh.. trainspotter :)) For about a decade, Germany has been trying to sell the 'Transrapid' mag-lev trains and tech to China. Transrapid was sponsored by…
Not to repeat what was said above, but many of us (I suspect) immediately think of THIS when they see someone write "M$" -- http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/215178115_ExTPi-L-2.jpg That term simply doesn't come across…
I worked at Amazon until very recently. Some thoughts on the article: "Amazon — where workers famously had desks made of wooden doors nailed to two-by-fours in the company’s earlier, money-losing days — remans in some…
From reading the earlier articles, I believe the player in question was -- * Going to PvP-specific areas only (i.e. areas where 'hero' player characters are meant to fight 'villain' player characters) * Using…
So far, I don't see a lot of people asking the really tough questions of what this non-competition for employees (especially engineers / developers) actually means. * If some of the top companies are implicitly not…
"Steve Guttenberg," unless there is a much more intellectual seventh _Police Academy_ sequel uncovering his secret time traveling invention, probably didn't contribute very much to the printing press. "Johannes…
Every time the failure of US car makers come up, somebody blames the CAFE Act, environmental laws, having to deal with government regulation, etc. It turns into a veritable blamestorm. The problem is that consumer…
The popular linguistics blog "Language Log" had some interesting commentary on "Politics and the English Language" written in a calmly analytical style (interspersed with some judicious jibes) that I think many YC.HN…
Antonio, on HN, you wrote -- "I hate how being harsh has become fashionable. Whatever happened to manners?" on your blog, you follow up by saying -- "I stand behind those words. Acting bitter on the Internet seems to be…
No professional sniper would ever aim at the head (Oswald notwithstanding). Given the very long range that a sniper would have to cover, and the resultant drop and wind issues to consider, aiming for a small, often…
automakers must be liberated from CAFE fuel economy laws that arbitrarily dictate what kind of cars they must sell, forcing them to sell millions of small cars that have no chance of profitability given consumer…
Amazon doesn't include the name of the buyer in the music file - either in the file's mp3 encoding itself or in the ID3 tag. Tagging the ID3 as you download the file is technically possible, but changing the MP3…
Reddit had a spin-off called lipstick.com, which has now become http://www.weheartgossip.com/ There's the 'OMG' reddit alien, replete with blond hair and lipstick:…
Could you provide further explanation, or will you leave this hanging mysteriously in the air, shrouded like a punter knowingly tapping his nose? It seems cut and dry the way the article is written: Intrade/Betfair…
The last time this type of issue was brought up, the conversation soon focused on 'are those companies overcapitalized.' The question Lyons is asking is whether all of our ginormous geek brains are solving the "right"…
Watching TV is usually done during periods that people consider to be 'free time.' The term 'must-see TV' really is just a slogan. The premise of the article is therefore that you can free up free time that you were…
PrimeVideo.com is the website (in addition to apps on mobile and living room devices like TVs and consoles) where customers outside of the US, UK, Germany, and Japan can watch Prime Video. In the aforementioned four…
According to that graphic, the previous highest peak of long-term unemployed in the US was in the early 1980s, with around 3m unemployed. The current high peak in 2010, which looks like it may be decreasing now, is just…
This is a very popular essay which tends to get posted around the web quite often. Yet it suffers from many not-so-obvious flaws, as analyzed in the popular linguistics blog "Language Log." The commentary is written in…
encoding the type in the filename isn't a bad way of ensuring the type never gets lost The most likely way of losing the type is surely if a user accidentally (or maliciously) changes the filename extension. That is why…
High-speed train competition is a fascinating topic (if you're a.. uh.. trainspotter :)) For about a decade, Germany has been trying to sell the 'Transrapid' mag-lev trains and tech to China. Transrapid was sponsored by…
Not to repeat what was said above, but many of us (I suspect) immediately think of THIS when they see someone write "M$" -- http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/215178115_ExTPi-L-2.jpg That term simply doesn't come across…
I worked at Amazon until very recently. Some thoughts on the article: "Amazon — where workers famously had desks made of wooden doors nailed to two-by-fours in the company’s earlier, money-losing days — remans in some…
From reading the earlier articles, I believe the player in question was -- * Going to PvP-specific areas only (i.e. areas where 'hero' player characters are meant to fight 'villain' player characters) * Using…
So far, I don't see a lot of people asking the really tough questions of what this non-competition for employees (especially engineers / developers) actually means. * If some of the top companies are implicitly not…
"Steve Guttenberg," unless there is a much more intellectual seventh _Police Academy_ sequel uncovering his secret time traveling invention, probably didn't contribute very much to the printing press. "Johannes…
Every time the failure of US car makers come up, somebody blames the CAFE Act, environmental laws, having to deal with government regulation, etc. It turns into a veritable blamestorm. The problem is that consumer…
The popular linguistics blog "Language Log" had some interesting commentary on "Politics and the English Language" written in a calmly analytical style (interspersed with some judicious jibes) that I think many YC.HN…
Antonio, on HN, you wrote -- "I hate how being harsh has become fashionable. Whatever happened to manners?" on your blog, you follow up by saying -- "I stand behind those words. Acting bitter on the Internet seems to be…
No professional sniper would ever aim at the head (Oswald notwithstanding). Given the very long range that a sniper would have to cover, and the resultant drop and wind issues to consider, aiming for a small, often…
automakers must be liberated from CAFE fuel economy laws that arbitrarily dictate what kind of cars they must sell, forcing them to sell millions of small cars that have no chance of profitability given consumer…
Amazon doesn't include the name of the buyer in the music file - either in the file's mp3 encoding itself or in the ID3 tag. Tagging the ID3 as you download the file is technically possible, but changing the MP3…
Reddit had a spin-off called lipstick.com, which has now become http://www.weheartgossip.com/ There's the 'OMG' reddit alien, replete with blond hair and lipstick:…
Could you provide further explanation, or will you leave this hanging mysteriously in the air, shrouded like a punter knowingly tapping his nose? It seems cut and dry the way the article is written: Intrade/Betfair…
The last time this type of issue was brought up, the conversation soon focused on 'are those companies overcapitalized.' The question Lyons is asking is whether all of our ginormous geek brains are solving the "right"…
Watching TV is usually done during periods that people consider to be 'free time.' The term 'must-see TV' really is just a slogan. The premise of the article is therefore that you can free up free time that you were…