tbirrell

This is as condescending as it is wrong.

> Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the “chain of command”. Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.

If the chain of command is inefficient, then change it, don't go around it. Managers are there for a reason, and leaving them out to get quicker results will bite you in the butt down the road.

Modification and optimization are not the same thing as reinvention. The only good idea this article has is "Reinvent the wheel if you think it could be fun". Reinvention is a good learning tool. Beyond that, it is a waste of time. There is a reason the wheel is round. Modify it to suit your needs, but there is no reason to re-figure out the correct shape of a wheel. You'll just end up where you started and will have wasted the time you could have used for improving the wheel or making it a better fit for your cart.

Murphy's Law dictates you will need them next week.

Throwing stuff out is hard to do if you are poor or were raised poor. Everything you save now does not have to be bought later. There is a potential use for anything and everything, so you might as well keep it. Granted, at a certain point the cost of the storage facility exceeds the amount saved, but the mindset is still there.

This is a misleading title. The driver died due to injuries sustained by crashing into a barrier then getting run into multiple times, not because of the fire.

Does the EU even have the authority to break up Google/Alphabet?

We can give it the HN hug of death.

I'm not pleased with the security aspect of face id though. I get that touch id is not highly secure either, but I'm more confident in it and it does not require looking at a phone to unlock.

This reminds me of that thing back around 2010 where if you clicked the first* link on any wikipedia page you'd eventually get to the article on philosophy or something. I forget which it was exactly, and I have no idea if it still works, but it was pretty fun back then trying to find a starting article that couldn't find the "philosophy" article.

*Non-italicised because of the disambiguation suggestions

Its a 6 in a 5's body. It was released 5-6 months before the 7 irrc.

This. I love my SE, and if SE2 is a micro X, I'll probably finally move away from Apple. I really don't want a face-id or imaginary home button.

It's not so much that you learn something, it's that the lightbulb moment is so massive and sudden that you think "I finally understand everything!". Then the process repeats itself in 4-5 years. I thought I had it all figured at around the age of 16-17, then when I was 22 I looked back and realized I was still very young and stupid at 16.

Actually, "dark-web" is not (yet) in the list of words the bulshit generator uses. The whole generator function is in `#mk-boxed-layout script` (viewable in the element inspector) along with the word list it uses.

  var verbs = Array('aggregate', 'architect', 'benchmark', 'brand', 'cultivate', 'deliver', 'deploy', 'disintermediate', 'drive', 'e-enable', 'embrace', 'empower', 'enable', 'engage', 'engineer', 'enhance', 'envisioneer', 'evolve', 'expedite', 'exploit', 'extend', 'facilitate', 'generate', 'grow', 'harness', 'implement', 'incentivize', 'incubate', 'innovate', 'integrate', 'iterate', 'leverage', 'matrix', 'maximize', 'mesh', 'monetize', 'morph', 'optimize', 'orchestrate', 'productize', 'recontextualize', 'redefine', 'reintermediate', 'reinvent', 'repurpose', 'revolutionize', 'scale', 'seize', 'strategize', 'streamline', 'syndicate', 'synergize', 'synthesize', 'target', 'transform', 'transition', 'unleash', 'utilize', 'visualize', 'whiteboard');
          
  var adjectives = Array('24/365', '24/7', 'B2B', 'B2C', 'back-end', 'best-of-breed', 'bleeding-edge', 'bricks-and-clicks', 'clicks-and-mortar', 'collaborative', 'compelling', 'cross-platform', 'cross-media', 'customized', 'cutting-edge', 'distributed', 'dot-com', 'dynamic', 'e-business', 'efficient', 'end-to-end', 'enterprise', 'extensible', 'frictionless', 'front-end', 'global', 'granular', 'holistic', 'impactful', 'innovative', 'integrated', 'interactive', 'intuitive', 'killer', 'leading-edge', 'magnetic', 'mission-critical', 'next-generation', 'one-to-one', 'open-source', 'out-of-the-box', 'plug-and-play', 'proactive', 'real-time', 'revolutionary', 'rich', 'robust', 'scalable', 'seamless', 'sexy', 'sticky', 'strategic', 'synergistic', 'transparent', 'turn-key', 'ubiquitous', 'user-centric', 'value-added', 'vertical', 'viral', 'virtual', 'visionary', 'web-enabled', 'wireless', 'world-class');
          
  var nouns = Array('action-items', 'applications', 'architectures', 'bandwidth', 'channels', 'communities', 'content', 'convergence', 'deliverables', 'e-business', 'e-commerce', 'e-markets', 'e-services', 'e-tailers', 'experiences', 'eyeballs', 'functionalities', 'infomediaries', 'infrastructures', 'initiatives', 'interfaces', 'markets', 'methodologies', 'metrics', 'mindshare', 'models', 'networks', 'niches', 'paradigms', 'partnerships', 'platforms', 'portals', 'relationships', 'ROI', 'synergies', 'web-readiness', 'schemas', 'solutions', 'supply-chains', 'systems', 'technologies', 'users', 'vortals', 'web services');

Up and Down, yes. Over and Out less so. The thing about more then two hours being "to" is true.

I have a friend who always says "down" no matter where she is going. Dallas and San Antonio and Houston are equally "down" from Austin. Drives me nuts.

The purpose of a cutting board is to protect the things underneath it that are not as hard as stone.

Well... including comments it looks like we are pushing 16.3 million posts. The id in the url is sequential. If you are saving url, HN id, and comment count, that's probably no more than a couple megs, if even that.

This is an excellent point. Some time in the past, society drew a line in the sand and said "everything a man does is better than anything a woman does". As a result, women are being pressured into fields that are male dominated _because_ they are are male dominated. Without pausing to think if that truly makes those jobs inherently better.

I think realizing this is a false paradigm will be the next phase in the evolution of this social issue, I just have no idea how it will happen or how it will play out.

This is probably NSFW and should be flagged as such. While it is a technical subject (the video "photoshopping" technology) the examples used render the article difficult to view at work. Especially if company firewalls are doing text searches for keywords.

That is completely unrealistic. If I had brand new tires on a dry, straight, road. That's still something like 15-20 car lengths (~160-180) feet.

I think this shows that autopilot won't truly be a thing until the cars start talking to each other. If the firetruck was broadcasting a stationary signal, the autopilot would not have to relay of cameras and radar to figure out what is where.

I was in a crash some time ago where the car in front of me jumped out of the way because the guy in front of him was at a dead stop. A "safe distance" for following a car that will have to decelerate to stop moving is a lot different if you are approaching a stationary object. It's not fair to expect either a human or computer to meet the latter standard on a highway were you expect everything to be moving at a speed close to the speed limit. There is a reason you can get a ticket for driving too slow.

I was in a crash some time ago where the car in front of me jumped out of the way because the guy in front of him was at a dead stop. I can understand why this is an issue for the autopilot. I mean, it's an issue for humans too. It is simply infeasible to drive on a highway in such a way you account for stationary objects in a lane. If we did that, we would never get above 5mph.

Your twitter link at the bottom of that article goes to an account suspended page.

That fair. However, Austin is already behind the curve and can't keep up with the current influx of people and companies, adding Amazon to the mix will simply exacerbate the problem. Thus my concern. Maybe it'll be a good thing 10 years down the road, but that'll be a tough 10 years and I'm not confident that Austin will even be able to get to that point.

Economic agglomeration is not bad, but if the city is unable to keep up with said agglomerating, then accelerating it is a bad idea. Austin is already behind the curve and can't keep up with the current influx of people and companies, adding Amazon to the mix will simply exacerbate the problem.

This makes sense. Years ago when I worked in fast food, I noticed that about 30 minutes into my shift, I'd constantly tap the side of the screen when taking orders because the rate of tapping necessary to keep up with people talking would keep my hand moving quickly, then during the pauses, I'd find it difficult to hold still.

It's actually not uncommon and you can probably see someone do it next time you walk into a fast food joint.

As a technologically literate individual who takes pains to protect myself online, yes, my feed is inherently more "fine" then the general population.

As someone who will probably never work at Amazon, or in any way benefit from their presence, the issues of housing prices and infrastructure are important to me. I'm not willing to pay an effective Amazon-tax in both my rent and commute time for for the dubious honor of saying I live in the same city as HQ2.

It's more like, letting users "legitimize" news is how you get bots screwing with everything. It may not be a problem for some, including myself since my feed is similar to how you describe yours, but network waide, it will pose an issue.