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Long story but can anyone use Google Search with Firefox 52 (last one which works on Windows XP)? I'm stuck at the reCaptcha (https://www.google.com/sorry/index) where it spins the blue circle forever due to a…

This is a discussion I hope can lead to some answers among the developer community about what's going on these days. I previously wrote about how various shopping sites are being very hostile to their customer base…

Hi, It's been a while HN. Amazon is going to win heavily aren't they? Or to put it another way, 3 out of maybe 10 of my computers can checkout at the newly updated Walmart.com. For Apple's Online store, it says "please…

I asked this questions a while back "Ask HN: Why is it easier to make money by being evil?" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4609433). I gave an two examples. One of internet companies keeping track of their users…

I was reading some history on immigrants from Europe to America and how their entire future existence depended on keeping a portfolio book safe. If they lost that then, well, they got to start their lives all over again…

Tesla, Turing, Oppenheimer.. great men, great scientists, great intellects - all harmed and some destroyed by the people they helped protect. I've been reading the biographies of some of the greatest minds in science.…

One of the biggest mantra in the open source world that more eyeballs looking at the problem = better software. There's another area in life where there is a lot of eyeballs looking at it. Vastly more than any open…

I never want to wear a name badge for work again. Which companies have no or optional name badges?

Crowdsourcing, democracy, large conversations. Thousands to millions of brains looking at a problem trying to figure out the answer. And when they fail spectacularly, they fail spectacularly. So I ask the HN crowd…

I'm curious. You know all those super smart people you didn't want to be apart of your team because they had personalities which was horrible to work with. What would happen if you took a bunch of them, lock them up in…

A large group interview usually consists of you having 7 or so individual interviews, a lunch interview with another 3 people, an afternoon interview with a manager - all with no or little breaks in the middle. This…

Did it? If so, how?

I like looking at things tick from the inside. I like keeping up to date about the field. I like making things work. I still get stumped by the technical interview. I usually fail miserably. The interviewer usually ends…

Your company is in need of good managers. Your company is in need of good programmers. You can do both pretty well but you enjoy programming more. Unfortunately, the place is in desperate need of a good manager. You…

I know someone who is very soft spoken, non confrontational, and super smart. Nobody listens to him even though he is usually right about things. I'm not sure why. You only need to look at his accomplishments to see…

Fifty or so years ago, you only needed basic computing knowledge to be the head architect for the personal computer industry. Today? 20+ years experience and vast political connections. Where the computer industry was…

The industry is going towards a direction that you know is a bad idea. A lot of money is being poured into so-and-so technology that you know is going to bite back - badly. However, everyone else is going that way and…

You know the drill. When you left college, you wanted to work for the big guys - Intel, Google, Apple, NASA - doing things which can change the world. You wanted to do stuff like create a compiler or figure out an…

How do you fight elitism in startups?

What's the secret to getting people to work for free that doesn't involve deception, trickery, or becoming a cult leader? By work, I mean real, complex, and hard work.

Let me give an example. A while back, I was looking for a nice distributed code repository system. I asked several programmers and they ALL suggested I use Git and told me how awesome it was. I just wanted a simple way…

Or a deep depression? Or stagnation? A while back I posted this "Ask HN: Are tech companies becoming more unrealistic in hiring?" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4667524) In the world of finance, when things become…

Quite a lot of comments dealing with company formation or IP says "find a good lawyer". If finding a good lawyer is anything like finding a good programmer, how do you find a good lawyer? In this case, your the pointy…

In the world of programming, the syntax and forum of the language changes by the people who use it. Everything about the language is redesigned so people can understand it better. Math (well, math to undergraduate…

I want to create a mass consumer facing company that truly cares about their customers. I don't know of any companies that have reached or even want to reach this level. Most mass consumer companies seem to be more…