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Aren't any problems with de-modularization opportunities for more modular companies to come along and do a better job? In the long run at least?

From a reader's point of view it is. On the production side, HN differs greatly as newspapers have traditionally had direct relationships with their content contributors

It might not be what you were expecting, but there's an animation if you ctrl-f "Here’s the transformation animated:"

Seems TPP related. A little hokey to my eye, but I am just one person.

Thank you!

Mike Larkin re:W^X a few days ago:

https://youtu.be/A7vtAAeW6zo

The last sentence of the first paragraph really struck me

>In general, no single section has both write and execute permissions as this could compromise the security of the system.

I think there's a big difference between "read once" and "know". When some people say a fact is "known" they mean strictly that you are able to recall that fact in toto. That is probably overkill for a Web programmer.

After you read something once you don't strictly know it. However if you run into a related problem down the road, you have a good chance that you can remember enough of what you read once to put a Google query together and find the original article.

After thinking about it a little more, what they probably mean is that while most programmers will forget most of what they read here (because they don't use it day-to-day) it is reliable information that will help shape their intuition about how memory works. That is probably what they mean about every programmer and this article.

Every programmer ought to read and test their intuition about how memory works against the content in this article. If they are surprised by something they read, they have the chance to adjust their intuition so that it is closer to the truth.

I enjoyed reading the article, but there's a pretty good chance this is PR for Scoot

What did the control group do instead? It seems that video games would be a great replacement/complement to the crossword puzzles people do in their elder years.

While you have a career or if you have a hobby, I suspect any new skill that you practiced would lead to similar mental simulation.

Why bother selling Offbrand Honey Oats if you can't offer your customers a discounted version of the leading brand?

It might just be me, but I have trouble with the bright blue title text on the white parts of the background.

Woohoo! Thank you!

Have you ever seen a copy? According to Google, the book is totally unavailable. It isn't listed on Amazon or Alibis. I would love to get my hands on one, Widlar sounds a lot like Richard Feynman

>A cheesesteak costs $11 in the shop, for example, but DoorDash charged $16.95 for it.

From a customer perspective, this practice feels very disingenuous. The 5.95 should be labeled as part of a delivery fee.

If somehow DoorDash was the first link a user visited after searching for "donut plant", they would need information to decide whether to visit the restaurant or to order online.

The transparent thing to do is to list the 5.95 markup as DoorDash-imposed. That way the user can easily see their choice

The character part comes into it with your reaction to the difficulty. A person with good character doesn't get embarrassed and lash out at unfamiliar things

They're expecting people to use it like Siri or Cortina or 'OK Google'

If securing a $2300/day job through political means is easy why doesn't everybody do it?

Def doing this when one of my friends first has a kid!

For all of Star Trek, this is one discussion on the topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/wiki/where_should_i_start

For DS9 in particular, this link was helpful for me:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSpaceNine/comments/1fkijc/ive_m...

There are 3 episode lists in there and a user named Algernon_Asimov has a "Hmph!" comment with a link to detailed episode lists for TNG + DS9

I've been hoping to come across something like this ever since Pat Shaughnessy's Ruby Under a Microscope (http://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope). This looks fantastic!

Thank you for the book recommendations!

Speaking of football, it's funny to think that college football teams were once simply clubs of students who were enthusiastic about the sport

I'm the same way. I'm on a galaxy s4 and I probably use the home screen search bar 2-3 times a week, Chrome search 4-5+ times a day.

For no discernable reason, I have never gotten into using voice commands for everything.

The write-up of this article on the economist reported an insignificant % of people suffering from insomnia in premodern communities vs 20% of moderns

Thank you!

>Conversely, the loosely coupled individual components of traditional UNIX service handlers (sysvinit, inetd) promoted people learning how the actually work, and what they do, but with scattered and not entirely comprehensive documentation on how they worked.

Can you tease out this distinction a bit more? It reads like you are saying, due to their nature, people learned how to use Unix service handlers, without a good understanding of how they were designed. It could also mean that people learned how Unix service handlers worked by using them, through trial and error, because the documentation was scattered and not entirely comprehensive.

The mods are drunk with power!

: )

I commented because I didn't want the top comment to devolve into a Perl v. Python argument because I love both.

Looking at my comment now, it doesn't read as on topic.

Thank you for moderating. HN is my favorite place to read the news!

I'd love to see your vanilla js version! I don't know where I would start

The people working at the Fed put their jobs at risk since like any other popular institution, their moves are subject to public scrutiny.

"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time"