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Using this might give you a warm feeling inside, but if anything, it has the potential to cause harm by providing confidence in an entity that is being compelled to continue issuing the canary.

"The legal theory behind warrant canaries is based on the concept of compelled speech. The First Amendment protects against this in most circumstances."

These things are pointless if they compel surrender of the key. Does anyone think even for a moment that "constitutional rights" will be considered?

compared to the average doctor the average nurse is an idiot.

After that statement, I'll assume you don't know what you're talking about or you're in some odd part of the planet where nursing is taught on the job.

Around here, nursing requires years of training. Psych, biology, pharmacology and I don't know what. We have different level of nursing qualifications, with the longest being a nurse practitioner, capable of legally prescribing medication.

It is a field regulated by the same governing body as doctors, and is not trivial in any way.

I have to admit, I've made number of commits with "." as the message.

No excuse, beyond it usually being a minor change well documented in the code ( I always write comments ) and me being utterly buried under work... You know, start the day with 20 things to do, crack off 4 of them and have 23 things in queue at the end of your day.

The "." was sort of a placeholder for "Fuck This, I'm ready to quit." ( and I did eventually )

This thing helped me with networking immensely in college. Nice to see it still exists.

I see vice asking to load shit from 12 other domains. Which one is neilson?

https://www.requestpolicy.com/ is useful in this regard as well. - Firefox plugin to block cross-domain content.

lots of websites pull shit from 20+ 3rd party domains. An obnoxious number of sites block/don't render completely ( or at all ) without allowing shit from all over the web to load.

Whoever made this, please take the criticism constructively. It was good information ( thank you for posting it ), but should have been presented better.

Using light blue, blue, grey blue and slightly lighter blue was not good design. I do understand it would be hard to use clearly defined colours with so many languages. My suggestion:

This would have been better presented if the user could select a language's icon and see its' data highlighted.

( I know you can't do that simply with an infographic - you'd need to create transparent overlays, or something. )

Thanks for an informative post. I was under the impression OpenOffice was dead post-fork. Colour me wrong...

I use plain text editors mainly and agree with the author's premise about cutting the cruft/using a focused tool. The cost complaint doesn't really fly though.

Those times When I need something to be in Doc format, I use libre office - https://www.libreoffice.org/ It used to be called "openoffice". It's free. You can verify the documents look right in the free word viewer provided by Microsoft if you're planning to mail it to someone who will open it in Word.

It loaded OK for me:

http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/my-academic-book-in-plain-text.html

It's html.

I'm not sure I quite expected to see this on HN

I think it belongs - What he is suggesting carries over to technical endeavours as well.

1. Learning to cut mercilessly improved clarity of my emails and documentation.

2. Learning to put my head down and carry on till a project is first draft complete, warts and all improved my ability to actually _complete_ things.

3. Peer review as a bullshit detector is good.

I'll take Poe or Lovecraft over King any day for entertainment, but I might just crack 'on writing' after reading this article. The man sounds pretty dialed in.

Everyone did. Developers he stole from stole it from someone else

Except perhaps the dev with the initial idea? Stealing someone else's idea might be widespread, but it doesn't make it right.

"Standard men and women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg."

"..standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology."

http://www.huxley.net/bnw/

It will show up as an imgur link visited rather than a link with "seemydick" buried in it. If someone is directly reviewing everything you look at, different story. ( and I might say, you've got some workplace problems already if that is the case )

Honesty.

Some guy comes in with half a cornfield stuck to the undercarriage of their vehicle, who should pay for the suspension work? I deeply feel we should each be responsible for our own stupidity. If it is submitted as warranty, it becomes a cost to the manufacturer and I feel that is inherently dishonest. Additionally, increased costs _do_ get passed onto customers.

I get _why_ it happens, but it shouldn't.

I worked as a service writer for a couple years. I _never_ saw a warranty claim refused based on owner abuse. Not once. There were times it should have happened, but I could _not_ code a work order as "owner abuse". That was a call for the service manager to make and afaik, it never ever occurred. Refusing to cover a repair pisses off the customer and you never see him/her again. If you just fix whatever the idiot broke under warranty, you get paid and keep the customer.

wrong call in my books, but don't be surprised if it happens everyplace.

Why is that not a thing yet?

Seems sort of like crowd-sourcing data that would be used to infringe on the freedoms and happiness of people without restraint beyond "did the payment clear?"

Count me out, thanks.

just inconceivable.

Unless the primary goal was to transfer tax dollars from the unwashed to the privileged.

If it is something expedient and thoroughly embarrassing I use

//kludge

If amazon made it policy to remove any negative comments that steer readers to competing products I think, on the balance it would help.

I could see an argument for colocating this type of enterprise in a secure data centre. There are places with 24/7 surveillance and 24/7 armed staff on site and they are going to do the security better than your average group of startup guys.

As far as this dude, with his aging eyeballs is concerned, the colour's meaning, if any was irrelevant.

I mean, the information was interesting enough to me to try to read it, but I frankly can not parse what looks like #FFFFFF text on #FEFFFE background.

For the love of god, If you want to present data like this, ensure at least a little contrast exists between the text and background

Depending on your target demographic, and the nature of the SaaS, incorporating to give the appearance of stability and scale may be beneficial if not essentially a requirement. If you're trying to sell something any largish company might come to depend on, expect them to look askance at "some dude with a laptop". They see liability in dealing with a person, security in dealing with a corporation.

just my 2 cents, ignore if your market is something else.

Was the volume on bitstamp sufficiently large that a 19k BTC hot wallet was actually required? I only know enough about this stuff to ask the odd ( possibly daft ) question, but $5.2 Million strikes me as an awful lot to have "at hand".

This is truth.

I have seen this from both sides, and it is something you _need_ to know if you are interviewing people. The very best people for the job will have options. The very best hires don't _need_ your job. Not considering that your organization is being evaluated by the same folks you want to hire is not smart.

nothing to do with airbnb, but these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_of_London spring to mind when you say 'disrupted'. - It is on the surface almost a communal effort, with profit and loss being spread over the members. Read a little more though and see the allegations of malfeasance and fraud we've all come to expect with a large corporate entity.

get rid of the red light cameras because they increase rear crashes.

A better solution would be enforcing a sane minimum yellow light timing on camera intersections. Shortening the yellow to the point where the normal traffic sometimes brakes hard to avoid entering the now yellow, soon to be red camera intersection is the reason for this increase in rear-ends.

Per the article, this is something Chicago was guilty of, in addition to placing the cameras in areas that had no problematic history of accidents.

The real problem with these things is that they are used as another way to milk money out of the populace, rather than as a way to modify behaviour and improve safety.

These cameras ( and short lights ) are something that really really annoy me as a motorcyclist. I can stop fast any time but the SUV-clad soccer mom texting behind me probably wont. I sometimes find myself dropping a gear and hammering through a yellow I could easily stop for because of this.

/rant

Adsense seems to do pretty well (~$12 billion/year).

No offense intended, but profitability of the entity selling the advert space does not mean return was generated for advertisers.

analytics.

content on 3rd party site->ad->your landing page.

analyze what happens. You can compare normal behavior - time on page, number of pages viewed etc occurring from normal organic traffic against traffic generated by the ad campaign. Did one site or group of sites send 90% of your clicks, but almost zero real traffic?

> Message to QNX people; would it be possible to re-instigate the tradition from the late 90s

second this. I was really impressed with QNX - I played with it a bit and stopped when the licensing changed.