Decisions are made by people in the group, not by a notional single being "the corporation". It's individual people making decisions about whether to go for short-term profit or long-term sustainability. Hold them…
"We" here likely refers to Tim and his current coworkers who were present to see this, not every current and future employee of Microsoft / Github. Try not to think of any organization or institution as a person, but as…
The maximum IQ score anyone can get depends on the total number of people who have taken IQ tests so far. Even if every single person alive today took an IQ test (which is absurd in itself), the maximum IQ achievable…
The statisticians have a bunch of tricks to transform the formulas into more-easily computable forms, e.g. calculate both the average and the standard deviation in a single pass through the data instead of one pass to…
The two species share a lot of glue genes, and the properties of their silks differ due to other genes affecting things like the ratios of glue proteins in the silk. Those other genes evolved faster than the glue genes…
Nowhere in the paper does it say that individual spiders are varying their silk composition in response to conditions. The selective expression of proteins is a difference between the two species studied, not between…
The spiders haven't even been shown to change their silk in response to conditions. It's just two species of spiders each with their own silk recipe.
Since I happen to know these species: the spider pictured at the top of the article is an Argiope bruennichi (Wasp Spider), a European species which closely resembles A. trifasciata (Banded Garden Spider, one of the two…
For those who haven't seen this before, the ones you should look at first are: Falsehoods about Names https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... Falsehoods about Time…
Is there an easy way to display a diff which shows all the new links since the last time this was on HN? (Sept. 8th, 2020) Partial list: Falsehoods about Airline Seat Maps…
400 hours/minute is 24,000 minutes of video per minute, or 241,920,000 minutes of video per week. Assuming a human can review 8 hours of video per day, 5 days a week (too high, but not by much), and that YouTube…
Here's another subpixel font called The Flea's Knees: http://www.typophile.com/node/61920 It's 3 pixels tall (not including ascenders and descenders, which are another two pixels each), and uses the full range of colors…
> Real rivers go somewhere. They don't just stop in the middle of nowhere. Yeah? Have a look at the Morghab River in southern Turkmenistan. It flows from some mountains in Afghanistan out into a desert, where it splits…
Basically: because it has a lot of characteristics in common with all the other, better preserved, asteroid craters we know of. So our hypothetical advanced civilization would have to have deliberately mimicked all the…
Eliminating syntactic (not semantic) ambiguity is indeed a noble goal, but I was kind of horrified when I first realized how it's done in Lojban. Practically every type of phrase has both its start and its end marked by…
That's a problem we already deal with by having labels for the date inputs which explain the expected format. This is especially necessary in Canada, where until recently there was no recommended format, and the…
I want the content, number formats, date formats, map labels, etc. on my website to all use the same locale. Date input widgets are no exception. I can't afford to give full support to all locales (translation costs are…
Sounds like you're one of those people who use Linux.
Here's an example of a 2000s era page with a table about midway down with its own scrolling: http://www.ibacanada.com/site.jsp?siteID=ON001 Does this not work on some modern browsers out there?
There's a minesweeper solver which works out all the probabilities of uncertain squares. http://mrgris.com/projects/minesweepr/demo/player/ The creator wrote an explanation here: http://mrgris.com/projects/minesweepr/
http://web.archive.org/web/20160625124824/http://cacm.acm.or...
I've personally seen a building with a fractional street number, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. I've also had to deal with irregular addresses in Canada. Working on a Canada-only program, I was expecting addresses to…
Decisions are made by people in the group, not by a notional single being "the corporation". It's individual people making decisions about whether to go for short-term profit or long-term sustainability. Hold them…
"We" here likely refers to Tim and his current coworkers who were present to see this, not every current and future employee of Microsoft / Github. Try not to think of any organization or institution as a person, but as…
The maximum IQ score anyone can get depends on the total number of people who have taken IQ tests so far. Even if every single person alive today took an IQ test (which is absurd in itself), the maximum IQ achievable…
The statisticians have a bunch of tricks to transform the formulas into more-easily computable forms, e.g. calculate both the average and the standard deviation in a single pass through the data instead of one pass to…
The two species share a lot of glue genes, and the properties of their silks differ due to other genes affecting things like the ratios of glue proteins in the silk. Those other genes evolved faster than the glue genes…
Nowhere in the paper does it say that individual spiders are varying their silk composition in response to conditions. The selective expression of proteins is a difference between the two species studied, not between…
The spiders haven't even been shown to change their silk in response to conditions. It's just two species of spiders each with their own silk recipe.
Since I happen to know these species: the spider pictured at the top of the article is an Argiope bruennichi (Wasp Spider), a European species which closely resembles A. trifasciata (Banded Garden Spider, one of the two…
For those who haven't seen this before, the ones you should look at first are: Falsehoods about Names https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... Falsehoods about Time…
Is there an easy way to display a diff which shows all the new links since the last time this was on HN? (Sept. 8th, 2020) Partial list: Falsehoods about Airline Seat Maps…
400 hours/minute is 24,000 minutes of video per minute, or 241,920,000 minutes of video per week. Assuming a human can review 8 hours of video per day, 5 days a week (too high, but not by much), and that YouTube…
Here's another subpixel font called The Flea's Knees: http://www.typophile.com/node/61920 It's 3 pixels tall (not including ascenders and descenders, which are another two pixels each), and uses the full range of colors…
> Real rivers go somewhere. They don't just stop in the middle of nowhere. Yeah? Have a look at the Morghab River in southern Turkmenistan. It flows from some mountains in Afghanistan out into a desert, where it splits…
Basically: because it has a lot of characteristics in common with all the other, better preserved, asteroid craters we know of. So our hypothetical advanced civilization would have to have deliberately mimicked all the…
Eliminating syntactic (not semantic) ambiguity is indeed a noble goal, but I was kind of horrified when I first realized how it's done in Lojban. Practically every type of phrase has both its start and its end marked by…
That's a problem we already deal with by having labels for the date inputs which explain the expected format. This is especially necessary in Canada, where until recently there was no recommended format, and the…
I want the content, number formats, date formats, map labels, etc. on my website to all use the same locale. Date input widgets are no exception. I can't afford to give full support to all locales (translation costs are…
Sounds like you're one of those people who use Linux.
Here's an example of a 2000s era page with a table about midway down with its own scrolling: http://www.ibacanada.com/site.jsp?siteID=ON001 Does this not work on some modern browsers out there?
There's a minesweeper solver which works out all the probabilities of uncertain squares. http://mrgris.com/projects/minesweepr/demo/player/ The creator wrote an explanation here: http://mrgris.com/projects/minesweepr/
http://web.archive.org/web/20160625124824/http://cacm.acm.or...
I've personally seen a building with a fractional street number, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. I've also had to deal with irregular addresses in Canada. Working on a Canada-only program, I was expecting addresses to…