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Ghosts of the Ostfront is no less well done. https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-ghosts-os...

Perhaps not to the point, but I find more interesting pieces that I want to remember occur in Hangouts, Slack or some other more expeditious medium other than email.

I suspect that for some, email is losing priority.

Great read. If you enjoyed, you may also like Island of the Lost. https://www.audible.com/pd/History/Island-of-the-Lost-Audiob...

"Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death."

Many people think and are incentivized to think about how to optimize for today.

Thinking about tomorrow can be counter-intuitive as to the way things work today, and it is pretty easy to construct negative arguments about tomorrow that are based on what we know right now.

Prescriptions are not the highest cost item within healthcare. [1] Perhaps it is just the title that is misleading however, because this would likely affect the number of people needing to go to a hospital or other care facility as well.

[1] - https://www1.aetna.com/assets_aetnaCom/images/aetnaCom_rebra...

Gordon Murray designs some pretty atypical vehicles, from the McLaren F1 to the T.25 or T.27 microcars, to the recent shippable truck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_F1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Vehicle_Trust

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Curious as to how badly this whole thing affects SXSW?

Click --> NYT Article --> Back --> Open in new incognito window

A dark pattern if I ever saw one.

Build to think.

Win 10 gives me an onslaught of driver blue screens. I don't have time to investigate these, so I'm happy to stay on 8.1 for now. It's hard to not be annoyed in being asked to upgrade into something I already know does not work.

A serious question: When will we see a truly new OS built from the ground up? If there is a space where there seems to be little innovation it is in the space of new OS paradigms. Flavors of Windows or Linux - are there really any commercially ready alternatives today or in the very near future?

This was covered just the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10107009

One could certainly build a corollary statement to read, "tight housing markets limit worker options". I mean, seriously, how many people are limited by location based restraints to pursue the career of their dreams?

This is 2015. Some of us would have thought that by now, location would be a factor mitigated by technology.

Much like domains that live off of mis-spellings, is there a model for grabbing these customers and offering them another service?

What if these ladies started pushing customers elsewhere?

I signed up and my account has been pending for weeks. When I login, I get an xml error, it isn't even handled nicely in html.

Not a great first impression by any means.

I like the sentiment of this manifesto.

But I don't like that it starts with a machine and code focus. Shouldn't people be first?

> "There are no freak waves in the world,” says naval architect Jon Etxegoien. “They are all predictable."

This book argues that there are waves that do not follow a logical pattern: http://www.amazon.com/Wave-Pursuit-Rogues-Freaks-Giants/dp/0...

Is it possible to get my own listing history natively from Spotify?

I'm not interesting in scrobbling to another service, etc. Seems like this should be a well documented and used service from the Spotify API, but as far as I know, it does not exist.

When the man with glasses gives his perspective, the enablement hits you. If you've any humanity, you feel the potential this technology brings to so many.

The clip art in this post is distracting and does not add to the overall text.

I wonder how much this is driven by true user feedback and by pack mentality by mass media. I use it, and for the life of me, can't see all the fuss.

It seems that most .NET devs prefer something baked straight into Visual Studio and my experience has been that this is part of the problem in getting those teams to migrate to Git, which is most powerful from the command line.

Personally, I greatly prefer my source control system to be separate from my development environment or IDE.

Personally, I think 2014 will be the year of location services because of iBeacons and BT LE.

Thoroughly enjoyed visiting Manchester years ago, seemed it had a vibrant community even back then.

I humbly submit another industrial town: http://builtinpgh.com

I don't get how clocks are bad this from the article.

I get that syncing clocks across systems is hard and when it goes awry, unintended consequences are incurred.

A bit off-topic, but the newest Google maps on the desktop is terrible; a massive step backwards in usability imho.

I suppose they were trying to simplify, but now I can't figure out how to send someone a pin, how to click on a pin, how to find things around a pin, etc.

I gave up and switched to Bing. First for maps, but then for everything, and it doesn't seem like I gave anything up; I guess wasn't as married to a search/map engine as I had previously thought.

I agree with other comments here, that on the phone, Apple maps is certainly "good enough".

Off topic, but I have to say I loathe links that take me out of the browser and into the App Store directly.

This is the most intelligent summary of Ballmer's tenure I've seen. It falls back on more facts and numbers than I think all of the others I've read combined.

As technology people, we look at companies through a different lens than investors, shareholders and the like. We want to be impressed, we want to be given a new toy that disrupts existing markets and allows us to develop software in some new way, but that isn't the only way to make money and create value.

Golden handcuffs.