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33,021karma·4,243submissions·August 13, 2014
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“I don’t think computing is a real field. It acts like a pop culture, it deals in fads, and it doesn’t even know its own roots.” – Alan Kay
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Could someone please post a link to a PDF version of this article?
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I don’t know anything about Scalia's “internally consistent” view of constitutional law or his brilliant legal scholarship, and I’m not really interested. I’ll leave that discussion to others. Ho…
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Since this was clearly a Facebook decision, Facebook should have announced the shutdown on their own blog instead of humiliating the Parse team like this.
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I often email Dan with suggestions for new features, and he always replies promptly and gives me a thoughtful response. In most cases, he explains why my idea isn’t needed or won’t work (just kidding)…
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Daniel’s email address: hn@ycombinator.com
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Opinion piece dated August 31, 2012.
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Summary: This is an opinion piece, not an objective article. The authors seem to think that Amazon investors are morons who don’t understand that the success of Amazon Web Services is “puffing up” Am…
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I loved reading this article. Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat's comments about the mathematics of General Relativity were beyond my understanding, but there is much to learn from her discussion of how her …
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Interesting. At this point, I think the VW executives are trying to avoid going to jail. They will say almost anything to bend and distort the truth.
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I love podcasts and listen to them all the time, but Hacker News is primarily about text. Could you post a transcript?
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Here’s my approach to the MacBook flimsy cable problem: 1. Sometime during warranty period, purchase AppleCare extended warranty. 2. Don’t worry about cable strain, just treat cable as if it were well…
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Agreed. It looks like Square will soon be competing head-to-head with Apple. Both companies want a big slice of the payments business, and they're going to be competing for the same customers. An…
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According to this 2012 article, Dudley Allen Buck also worked with Ken Olsen (who later founded DEC) at MIT on the development of ferrite core memory in 1952.
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IBM's latest reorganization depends on the profitability of their consulting division. This article suggests that IBM may not be so good at managing big, expensive projects.