When stuff like this makes the front page on a regular basis, it's already a joke site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5735421
> The way the thing is filmed with the smiley face and lighting up eyes, I could easily imagine a sci-fi horror film being based around it. :) Like this? http://i.imgur.com/W1s9crO.jpg In all seriousness, I feel it is…
This is the correct answer. The manager's job is to manage the people, not the project. That's what a tech leads and PMs are for. A good people manager works to keep their employees comfortable, aims to avoid conflicts…
That is incorrect. There are also metrics regarding "microevents", which are points in time during which brainwaves momentarily exhibit the characteristics of the first stages of sleep. This is effectively a measure of…
What's sad is that it wasn't so long ago we were treated to breathless articles regarding the software that was used as part of the President's re-election campaign, which apparently was well-tested and well-engineered…
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. For how many years were people dismissed as nutjobs and "conspiracy theorists" when they talked about NSA spying? Now we know it was all true. Would you like to…
There sure are a lot of hard-coded numbers in that codebase. In many cases it's easy to figure out where the numbers came from, but in others, it's nearly inscrutable without a named constant or a comment or something.…
Slight correction: the government went after them for anti-solicitation agreements[1], and then they were sued for salary-fixing by former employees[2]. [1] http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/September/10-at-1076.html…
And then of course once they acquire those toys and have them sitting around for a while, they start to get itchy for an excuse to "use" them.
Yes, that guy was fake, but the protestors blocking the bus and preventing it from leaving were real.
Well, there's this company: http://generalfusion.com VC-backed, too!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasers_and_aviation_safety
It's long past time for Facebook to simply stop using the words "private" and "delete" on any of their pages, because they obviously don't mean it whenever they use them.
I'm glad this is getting attention, however it occurred to me something important has been lost in the whole shuffle: the integration of Google+ and corporate Google Apps accounts. Many companies pay for the corporate…
I think it's more like "piracy is legal if you do it on a large enough scale". If some snot-nosed teenager scanned a book and posted it on the web, the court would squash him like an insect. But a multi-billion-dollar…
If true, that helps explain how they got their $3.5 billion valuation recently. This also further goes to show: if you want Facebook's attention, do something with photos.
That's fine for some projects, but not every project follows that flow. One example: ompanies using GitHub Enterprise internally generally don't make every regular contributor to a project have their own fork (or at…
You can already do this with git config, but unfortunately it's a giant hammer that affects the entire repo at once. It is of course possible to write a post-receive hook that denies non-fastforward pushes to specific…
I don't think you can blame the "genius" engineers. These seem rather more like business decisions. As soon as Google started talking about the total number of Google+ accounts as though they were in competition with…
Bike safety starts with the rider. One of the scariest experiences I ever had while driving a car was nearly hitting a cyclist as I was pulling out of a parking lot. He was riding at night with no lights or reflectors…
And yet they were at one time the low-volume underdog. People scoffed at them when they first started making iPods and again later with iPhones (even though there were fewer doubters by the time the iPhone came to be,…
I called it recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6564469 and of course the reaction was denial & vitriol. It bears repeating: the world's governments can be divided into exactly two groups -- those that are…
A quick list of gripes is a pretty unconvincing argument that hotels are "doomed". There is no guarantee that any of those things would be better at an AirBnB. Likewise, a corresponding list of gripes could be assembled…
You must be kidding! This is "disruption" we're talking about, after all. That means all precautions, regulations, contingencies, licensing, and everything else are out the window, full stop. What are you, some kind of…
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/investing/getting-initial-pu... I thought this was common knowledge?
When stuff like this makes the front page on a regular basis, it's already a joke site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5735421
> The way the thing is filmed with the smiley face and lighting up eyes, I could easily imagine a sci-fi horror film being based around it. :) Like this? http://i.imgur.com/W1s9crO.jpg In all seriousness, I feel it is…
This is the correct answer. The manager's job is to manage the people, not the project. That's what a tech leads and PMs are for. A good people manager works to keep their employees comfortable, aims to avoid conflicts…
That is incorrect. There are also metrics regarding "microevents", which are points in time during which brainwaves momentarily exhibit the characteristics of the first stages of sleep. This is effectively a measure of…
What's sad is that it wasn't so long ago we were treated to breathless articles regarding the software that was used as part of the President's re-election campaign, which apparently was well-tested and well-engineered…
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. For how many years were people dismissed as nutjobs and "conspiracy theorists" when they talked about NSA spying? Now we know it was all true. Would you like to…
There sure are a lot of hard-coded numbers in that codebase. In many cases it's easy to figure out where the numbers came from, but in others, it's nearly inscrutable without a named constant or a comment or something.…
Slight correction: the government went after them for anti-solicitation agreements[1], and then they were sued for salary-fixing by former employees[2]. [1] http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/September/10-at-1076.html…
And then of course once they acquire those toys and have them sitting around for a while, they start to get itchy for an excuse to "use" them.
Yes, that guy was fake, but the protestors blocking the bus and preventing it from leaving were real.
Well, there's this company: http://generalfusion.com VC-backed, too!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasers_and_aviation_safety
It's long past time for Facebook to simply stop using the words "private" and "delete" on any of their pages, because they obviously don't mean it whenever they use them.
I'm glad this is getting attention, however it occurred to me something important has been lost in the whole shuffle: the integration of Google+ and corporate Google Apps accounts. Many companies pay for the corporate…
I think it's more like "piracy is legal if you do it on a large enough scale". If some snot-nosed teenager scanned a book and posted it on the web, the court would squash him like an insect. But a multi-billion-dollar…
If true, that helps explain how they got their $3.5 billion valuation recently. This also further goes to show: if you want Facebook's attention, do something with photos.
That's fine for some projects, but not every project follows that flow. One example: ompanies using GitHub Enterprise internally generally don't make every regular contributor to a project have their own fork (or at…
You can already do this with git config, but unfortunately it's a giant hammer that affects the entire repo at once. It is of course possible to write a post-receive hook that denies non-fastforward pushes to specific…
I don't think you can blame the "genius" engineers. These seem rather more like business decisions. As soon as Google started talking about the total number of Google+ accounts as though they were in competition with…
Bike safety starts with the rider. One of the scariest experiences I ever had while driving a car was nearly hitting a cyclist as I was pulling out of a parking lot. He was riding at night with no lights or reflectors…
And yet they were at one time the low-volume underdog. People scoffed at them when they first started making iPods and again later with iPhones (even though there were fewer doubters by the time the iPhone came to be,…
I called it recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6564469 and of course the reaction was denial & vitriol. It bears repeating: the world's governments can be divided into exactly two groups -- those that are…
A quick list of gripes is a pretty unconvincing argument that hotels are "doomed". There is no guarantee that any of those things would be better at an AirBnB. Likewise, a corresponding list of gripes could be assembled…
You must be kidding! This is "disruption" we're talking about, after all. That means all precautions, regulations, contingencies, licensing, and everything else are out the window, full stop. What are you, some kind of…
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/investing/getting-initial-pu... I thought this was common knowledge?