If the reason understandability is important is that it means you get fewer defects etc, then really it isn't that it's important, it's that defects etc are important. This article is completely confusing means vs ends.
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Eg https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/ras/ras-cent...
Obviously not usually considered cause, but rather effect.
> I made this thing that I thought was cool and I gave it away, and what I got back were occasionally friendly people who nicely requested things from me, but more often angry users who demanded things of me, and rarely anyone saying thanks.
The original sense is "No parking on sundays" proves that parking is allowed on other days.
The colloquial sense is that if something is a surprising, it shows that its opposite was a useful rule of thumb, or at least one you'd established in your head. (E.g. if you are surprised by a dog that doesn't bark, this surprise is meaningful and says something about what you think about dogs and barking.)
If palantir is shocking as a SV company, this says something interesting about what you think about SV companies.
There is a solution for project/directory-level CC / review requirements. I didn't see it discussed in the talk, though.
The best case is something entirely separate, and can itself be bounded from above or below.
"The City of Mountain View [...]expressly rejects housing as an allowable use in the area."
IIRC there was another rejection late last year, but I can't find it.
There's two ways to do it, and that's neither of them: increase supply (build new structures; apparently SF has over-restrictive policies on building that could be loosened?) or decrease demand (e.g. make corporate-run buses illegal).
I've heard pretty bad things about pyogre though.
It's also one of the most influential art pieces of the 20th century. It, and his "found art" movement in general, are the cornerstones of the redefinition of art and mark the invention of conceptual art. Art no longer has to do with who made it, or how, or how much effort was put in. It's about intent. If you buy a pencil and say it's art, it's art (if perhaps not very good art).
Still, this isn't the easy solution. The easy solution is to use a process and terminate it if it takes too long. Threads can't be reliably terminated, and especially not without accidentally ruining internal state. (what happens with locks? etc.)
But then, I've never really been clear on the topic of HN. Seems to me it's "stuff interesting to hackers", which this may well be, even if it isn't interesting to one individual hacker.