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Re:SecureCRT on Thursday July 24, 2025 @11:17PM (#44679214)
I mean, it _is_ a really nice SSH/&c client.
"It boggles my mind to think this game even exists"

Does it, though? Remember that this was only a couple of decades after half the country was willing to kill the other half or die trying to keep black people enslaved.

Underestimating the viciousness and stupidity of people will always leave you surprised and disappointed.

Or... maybe don't tell your doctor how to do his or her job.
Surprise! An institute named after a megadose vitamin-C whackadoodle is pushing the idea that large doses vitamin C reduces illness duration. I'm shocked.

I mean, it's possible, but what a junk study.

The answer to your question is "Because it makes business sense to do so". Whether you can understand their reasons or not, the best indicator that Netflix has good reasons to use AWS is that it continues to do so. And that will be true until the (possible) day that it doesn't anymore.

> I think the answer is Yes.

So what you're saying is that (1) Netflix is already secretly planning to move away from AWS, in which case your question is moot, or (2) everyone involved in platform decisions at Netflix is an idiot that can't do math.

Re:Adam Andrzejewski – The Depth of the Swamp on Thursday March 12, 2020 @02:42PM (#22560228)
The wastefulness of large bureaucracies has been a running joke for decades now, whether fair or not. That being said, I don't think you're going to find that Hacker News is a good forum for espousing your fiscal conservatism--especially when its couched in some particularly divisive contemporary tropes (e.g., "swamp"). Perhaps you're looking for https://reddit.com/politics ?
Re:Ask HN: Why is mithril.js not popular? on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:59AM (#19674782)
Rephrase the question: "Why should mithril.js be popular?"
Any idea whose premise begins with "[Group] is the enemy" is pretty much guaranteed to be stupid at best, dangerous at worst (I say this more about the comments than the initial tweet).
Re:Ask HN: I think I want a divorce on Thursday January 17, 2019 @10:07AM (#18931251)
A marriage counselor is someone who is trained in dealing with your particular problem.

Would you walk into, say, a car dealership and ask for programming advice? Or would you talk to someone who programs for a living?

Re:Ask HN: I think I want a divorce on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @11:50AM (#18922391)
Don't ask the peanut gallery. Go see a marriage counselor.
Re:Does this kind of design have a name?() on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:27PM (#18629542)
They remind me of Material: https://material.io/design/
Why would it?
A 5-year-old article about program that's been abandoned for over a decade.

The only resource you need for compression comparison is http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html

The author of that website, incidentally, started the PAQ algorithm that KGB archiver uses.

Re:Men, Please Brush Your Teeth on Friday September 21, 2018 @11:28AM (#18040391)
Is this really a thing? How do these people find partners?
Re:Ask HN: Primary key based on high-resolution timestamp on Sunday September 02, 2018 @09:02PM (#17899547)
The only problem is it's guaranteed to fail for any non-trivial workload.
So, an XML-like language is the future of XML-like HTML?
Re:Evolving the Dropbox Brand on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @03:33PM (#15395364)
Is godawful rainbow design the new thing now? First Mozilla, and now Dropbox?
Re:Ask HN: Why can't I write a int literal like 2,333? on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @08:52AM (#13810281)
Recent Java versions did something similar, allowing underscore characters, e.g., 7_000_000.
It's not really an annual fee, though. You're paying for a product with Amazon prime -- besides free movies, photos, shipping, etc, you can now get a special card with no annual fee _just for having it_.
Re:Ask HN: Ramen Profitable? on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:01PM (#13377004)
Many noodles used in ramen are simply made of wheat, which is a simple carbohydrate. Beans/legumes are a good source of protein (among other things).

If you use real yakisoba noodles that are made from buckwheat flour, it has the advantage of decent fiber and protein (a complete protein, like soy), but not as many vitamins as beans.

Re:Ask HN: Ramen Profitable? on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @12:48PM (#13366961)
Real ramen is good (e.g., https://imgur.com/gallery/KkLvG). The packaged stuff you buy from the store is pretty much guaranteed to be awful for you.
Re:Chrome has removed the “Simplify Page” print option on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:58AM (#12650359)
Companies make products to make money. As the saying goes, if you're not paying them, you're the product.
Re:Ask HN: Why is Google so bad at UI Design? on Monday August 29, 2016 @02:43PM (#12384155)
Why are you assuming that everyone agrees with you? Maybe we reject your premise.
Re:ACH File Parser on Friday January 22, 2016 @12:10AM (#10950883)
Um, no, he's not. He's writing a screenplay and dreaming about a cast that will never happen.
Re:GitHub now using Helvetica Neue. But why? on Monday August 04, 2014 @10:13PM (#8135203)
Preferred Sans-Serif font of the guys who did Bootstrap, who are now working for Github (or at least Mark Dotto is).
Re:Ask HN: Cloudfare, why use it? on Saturday July 12, 2014 @12:03AM (#8023675)
Strictly speaking, size and distribution. You only mentioned DNS, but it's worth noting that CloudFlare isn't just a DNS provider; it's also basically a big CDN, or actually more like a great big proxy server.

(Note: I've never actually used CF, so this is all simply my understanding).

Re:Some commits from OpenBSD's OpenSSL rampage on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:03PM (#7604805)
CVS? Really?

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