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For very, very popular services, a second of being live will exercise more code paths and edge cases than even the most dedicated testing team could ever dream of. We hear a hell of a lot about testin…

Germany and France are pretty similar TBH. Though, like Americans, Europeans also get mad when you point out they are not as diverse as they imagine. It's really hard to talk about things when yo…

I don´t think it has anything to do with our interpretation: the illiterate have no concept of words. They come from writing systems and are not a part of languages. German has very long "words&q…

I know I would never be a writer of seminal papers because I would never publish a formula that includes unknowable parameters. Same goes for Black-Scholes which includes _future_ volatility.

Sidewalk does not allow generic access to the Internet. It connects to Sidewalk servers only. Source: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... …

From that point of view the Ryanair jet wasn't denied the option to land so that Protasevich could be arrested so it suffered no threat. See the ridiculousness of that argument? What actually hap…

Choice quote for those who will claim (ignorantly or in bad faith) there was no threat to human life and coercion and that this was "completely different" (it wasn't): "Without eno…

IP addresses are PII in Europe.

Do people indent namespaces in C#? In C++ it's common practice to not indent.

Sorry but this is false and we must end this misconception. Run JavaScript in a browser on a single-user machine? You are vulnerable.

Hackers wouldn't touch UML with a 4000000000000 kilometer pole.

Good riddance. UML is part of the infinite-complexity infinitely-layered culture around the Java language in the late 90's and early 00's. Where OO-supremacist "system architects" …

Sorry but those commercials have no cultural significance. It's just stuff you remember.

I used to be involved with an ISP-specific product which was basically a plain-old HTTP proxy that would ensure everything is compressed with gzip at max settings and which downscaled images. For dial…

Gemini has decided to invest in a "technical solution to a social problem". Usually a terrible idea, but having spent some time in Gemini they seem to be succeeding. There's more concen…

Do you have any specific knowledge about Ghanaian industry or is this just your opinion? Can you provide some sources for your claims?

To be fair when I read "for LATAM" I usually expect it to be "for one particular country but we want to pretend it's for LATAM". (Not picking on this launch specifically.) The…

Why am I not surprised that HN is a place to find people who argue against women's right to vote.

Yes, of course, each of those countries is internally very diverse, and in relation to the others. Each of those countries was made by a mix of native, European, African and Asian peoples of different…

It has its advantages and disadvantages. It is also the political system that caused this: "In 1991 following a decision by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, Appenzell Innerrhoden (AI) be…

I bought it for $5 on alpha, mostly because I thought Notch was being a bit of a fool trying to sell a hugely pixelated game that ran on the JVM but I thought that he might need a little moral support…

I thought the platypus was Slackware's, not Linux's, mascot at some point. As in the old Walnut Creek CD-ROM releases: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLV_JkEWgAAOcdU?format…

There was one person who wrote deep reviews of things like chargers and battery packs (I think) on Amazon, checking for standards compliance and design safety. Does anyone remember who?

The money used to feed Alexander would also be better used as donation to malaria funds, but I don't think he would argue that he should starve to death as I am sure he believes he has a right to…

What's stupid or broken in waiting for a service to shutdown? I mean Slackware used to send a SIGTERM to all processes, wait two seconds, and send a SIGKILL. Why would anyone need more? It's…

How did you reach the conclusion that he wasn't born in poverty? According to your own quote, his father was a clerk in a shop in India.

That series of posts should be seen in the context of someone who was working on a Solaris to Linux migration (like EVERY company at the time) trying to claim credit for creating cloud computing. This…