Kurtose
Re:Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
on Sunday May 03, 2026 @11:12PM (#48004212)
Not a hater, just an example from today’s HN front page: Ableton from Berlin. World class UX/UI leading the DAW market for 25 years and counting. Not “Top 100” enough for validation? Just ask Thomas Bangalter. He’s taken it around the world to get lucky.
Re:German Navy blasts out Darth Vader theme on Thames
on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:16AM (#41319915)
Helicopters over Berlin blaring Ride of the Valkyries. https://youtu.be/VE03Lqm3nbI
Re:Why I Program in Erlang
on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @04:26PM (#33427016)
Great writer & engineer. Worth a re-read every couple of years before heading back to your blub codebase.
Re:Philips Cuts 4,000 Employees
on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @04:03PM (#33335430)
Philips had 412,000 employees in 1974. Huge in its heyday. Currently 78,000. Sadly mismanaged into irrelevance for decades.
Re:Richard Li owns a personal top level domain
on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:59AM (#32733434)
The more relevant question is if US would agree to sell their TLDs in exchange for Liechtenstein paying for administration of _their_ governmental domains. Look up Liechtenstein GDP & wealth per capita.
Re:Why Does the U.S. Have the Best Research Universities? (2020)
on Thursday August 25, 2022 @02:49PM (#32598236)
Why does the Premier League have the best football players?
Ranking universities by operating revenue will result in a rather good approximation of the Times Higher Education World University Ranking.
Re:Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmis...
on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:50AM (#27231823)
Anecdata from a _very_ frequent flyer: Naomi Campbell’s Airport Routine (2019). Makes sense to me.
Re:Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
on Sunday February 14, 2021 @08:10PM (#26137919)
Three hours well spent. Never a dull moment in the browser business. From downward—funargs and twinkies to browser wars and bitcoin.
Re:Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation
on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:08PM (#22891409)
Stripe seems to have understood Sequoia's Black Swan memo well.
Re:GlobalFoundries sues TSMC, wants U.S. import ban on some products
on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @09:06AM (#20809118)
Why would Taiwan not have high tech factories? It has similar or higher level of development than - as a non-random example - France.
Re:How the Kleiner Perkins Empire Fell
on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @03:49AM (#19736382)
Spot-on.
Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural scienc...
on Saturday April 06, 2019 @02:41AM (#19589610)
S = k. log W
Re:2018 was a terrible year for Swiss glaciers
on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @02:50AM (#18397660)
As a long distance ice skater I know that snow has a detrimental effect on ice growth due to its insulating effect.
Moreover the spring and summer of 2018 were warm [1] and sunny [2] in Europe. The comparison picture in the article of this tiny glacier after a cold [3] and cloudy [4] spring and summer of 2006 is not a solid basis for drawing conclusions.
[1] https://www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/product/output/climate-dat...
[2] https://www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/product/output/climate-dat...
[3] https://www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/product/output/climate-dat...
[4] https://www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/product/output/climate-dat...
Re:Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges
on Saturday September 29, 2018 @11:46PM (#18104354)
Fun fact. Eric Schmidt was 45 when he was ‘the adult’ who joined Google’s board of directors as chairman in March 2001. Elon Musk is 47.
Re:The Sex Life of Samuel Pepys (2016)
on Thursday August 09, 2018 @06:14PM (#17729025)
Pepys’ old house on Buckingham Street in London was my office for a couple of years. It was nice but he seems to have had more fun there. I did encounter fellow cyclist and similarly adulterous Boris Johnson on his bike around there before he became world famous bumbling Brexiteer and Foreign Secretary.
Re:google.com/humans.txt
on Thursday April 14, 2016 @01:56PM (#11498985)
Human after all.
http://www.ycombinator.com/humans.txt