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And it's been September ever since

But it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money from it

This article fails to include how Airbnb really got their first users - creating several accounts and mass emailing all the landlords on Craigslist

Trump is going to unintentionally kill off a lot votes for him

truly a lost opportunity that it wasn't tailwind

> few very technical people use password managers, long passwords, etc

I'd be very surprised if this was true. Most all technical (competent) people I know use a pw manager of some sort

I'd love to join you for a drink after work but I can't do real life stuff like that right now, I need to get home to memorize some anki cards.

and yet he is only one whiteboard failure of inverting a binary tree away from being a total failure

I don't think it's good to regard it as "how dumb you were". I used to do something similar to this but this screwed me up a bit mentally, leading to a big lack of confidence.

How can I be confident or feel good about my decision if I am currently "dumb"?

You're not dumb if you make the best choices you can with the information you have at the time.

Couldn't agree more. How he got there is always overlooked. Bill is certainly very intelligent and competent. But could Bill start a company from scratch and be competitive today? One that is remotely close to MS and from competing fairly? I'm doubtful.

This type of life sounds like only a few steps away from a Black Mirror episode

Don't tell their basketball team that

Your argument holds no water I'm afraid. The same thing is going on elsewhere in the country - Toronto has reached the same expensive real estate levels because it's warm there too?

The moral dilemma of curtailing dirty money to keep your economy going. Yikes.

Definitely don't agree with this. e.g. elections

I'll never forget one time in a large meeting when the technical experts were asked by one of the c suites what serverless meant. One brave soul rose to the challenge and after some fumbling around in their answer, they ended it with "you basically just upload the code to the server and then the server runs the code for you".

Took awhile for the cringing to go away on that one.

Definitely not a "hot take" but there are certainly a lot of users on here who would argue otherwise. A lot of older programmers who were well into their careers during Microsoft in the 90's seem to have a different opinion of Bill and his business practices.

I can honestly say that the two most intelligent programmers I have ever met are no longer programmers and not even in tech related jobs now. I try not to think about this, it makes me wonder what they figured out that I haven't.

All the better hamburgers cost more

Exactly. Counting cards at the blackjack table in Vegas isn't illegal, but they won't let you play after they figure out that you are. You can can beat the bookmakers, but once you do, you either get cut off or you only get offered odds with more juice.

I can't help but feel terrible for the team of people there that ultimately gets blamed for this, I hope they can get some sleep tonight.

I love this; we are definitely in the territory of Poe's law here.

I strangely really like the css formatting used in the website's source code (e.g. https://github.com/kristapsdz/bchs/blob/master/json.css)

Nice work, love SVG use.

Can this be flipped for left handers?

i feel stars is a fair indicator of popularity but is low on the list of metrics used to evaluate the project.

documentation over everything, followed by using a rough mental calculation of open issues and recency of commits.

Like clockwork, this kind of anti-MS comment get downvoted on HN. I've been fascinated by this, what am I missing?

Gates is highly celebrated now, but it seems like he was the furthest thing from a fair and honest competitor. If Gates and Ballmer had their way, I don't want to even imagine what the internet would look like today.

Sometimes it's hard to believe that Google's course of action and decision making to messaging isn't satire. I can't imagine what a dumpster fire must be going on somewhere within, eventually I hope we get to hear the stories behind their calamity of multifarious messaging products.

I'm not even being facetious when I say that they should include an estimated date of when they expect to cease supporting said product (2 years seems to be about right)

Signatures haven't been required for credit cards in many other countries for quite some time now.

I have often wondered why the US has historically lagged behind for everyday banking. (e.g. email money transfers, chip enabled cards, pin number verification, tap to pay)

I've used Webpack on and off since v2 and I'm still no fan.

If I'm being honest, there's been times that it's perhaps been the worst dev experience I've endured in the last decade.

Can we use Parcel as a replacement yet?

I didn't know cows could type

> some cool new tech (Watson and such)

I'm afraid Watson is very far from a "cool new tech", many companies have described their experience with Watson as a money gouging disaster.