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That is the goal. Slower hashing is harder to crack, is more secure.

Login load is nothing compared to the rest of the app.

I would no-hire anyone with the poor judgment and prioritization skills to use Linux on a laptop.

I even had Linux on a laptop, around 2000

You make a lot of outdated assumptions about Google engineering.

And they have basically the same policy: Fancy Macs, but MS Windows is frowned upon.

Their version is hipper marketing.

With a modern BIOS, your kernel can't start a fire.

Excellent criticism. Neutral tone, logical, accurate, specific.

UX designers should understand their audience when they publish (or share) content. The submitter should have written an intro.

Watch 12 Angry Men backwards.

Bayes theorem. The problem is that it requires a prior, which is usually unknowable.

"Dent" is not something large, and doesn't have to be a conscious memory. A tree you plant won't remember you.

Claims of Brokenness don't get support. Claims of violations of privacy policy and law get support.

That is just someone using your address as their alternate email.

Teachers get fired for drinking alcohol outside of work, because their employers force them to lie.

D. Adams invented the iPhone battery?

The atomic bomb was built in large part by refugees from a declared enemy during time of war.

Fin de Ceicle

Because much of our health needs are mental, and much of mental health is social. Living alone is a chronic debilating condition, akin to diabetes.

Live with your parents, and later live with your kids. Or outsource to home aides.

And since HN tends to lean anti-social: for the objectivists: most of us would don't want to get denied care because we look like a junkie during an emergency.

Don't give up hope. Cities are making progress in HRF and preventive care.

"Flat" means "no text"?

The govt definition is income, not spending.

I am retired, and I code on the side, for which I get money, which I use to finance charitable giving and interesting related projects.

I am glad that about half of HN doesn't fall for this guy's Rich Dad Poor Dad schtick. The other half, though...

Driving the same route is safer.

He is working. He works hard on bizdev for his blog ,doing his own PR to get submarine press in WaPo. I "retired" from blogging, now I code for fun and some money to pay my entertainment bills.

GetRichSlowly, IIRC correctly is a much saner and more meaningful blog about personal finance for smart middle class people.

Retired? He is a hard working self-promoting blogger, and also does handyman work. By his tortured definition, most middle class people are retired, as they could survive without work if they have to.

Sane advice isn't platitude.

People who are optimistic at the only people that matter. A company with only 1% of the world population as customers is one of the greatest companies in history.

Maven has its own idiolect and documentation is only in the form of cryptic parameter descriptions

If they just right some apporachable documentation, it would be so much better.

Java is unwieldy as a configuration language. Python (or a restricted subset) is a lot cleaner.

But to replace Java by XML (as ANT/Maven does) doesn't help.