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Re:How Universities Should Prepare Founders on Monday August 24, 2026 @10:58PM (#49428589)
Mark Zuckerberg was good at programming, but he was a psychology major, not a CS major.

"For Zuckerberg, the school’s major selling point was its Latin program. The current computer science concentrator originally intended to study classics at Harvard."[0]

There's a book called Founders at Work by one J. Livingston. I'd suggest replacing Zuckerberg with an incredible founder who was interviewed in that book, Steve Perlman.

  Livingston: Were you an engineering major ?
  Perlman: No, I have a liberal arts background. My engineering background is as a hobbyist. ... I designed a software-based modem when I was in college and I got an F for it because the professor said it would never work. But I got it working at my first company. I sent him an email later on and said, "This email is being sent to you on the modem that I designed at Columbia."
[0] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/6/10/mark-e-zuckerbe...
Re:The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America on Monday August 10, 2026 @09:26PM (#49252207)
Drew Harwell, Douglas MacMillan, and Aaron Schaffer from the Washington Post also wrote a shameful article on this topic on August 4th (the title changed, along with an image of a woman who was harassed to something else). No counterpoint. Total submarine article.
Re:Taste Is All That's Left on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:24AM (#49210936)
Paul Graham mentioned Pangram the other day.

I went to the site and pasted something into the text box. The next step was to sign up.

I don't trust Pangram.

Namecheap has been owned by a private equity firm for several months now.

It would be nice to have a nonprofit registrar so jumping every few years isn't necessary.

Re:Three of our worst VC stories on Friday June 05, 2026 @08:29PM (#48420121)
Could you ask the VC if you could name them in the story?

It's unfortunate that some VCs I respected turned out to repeatedly have their reputation tarnished by such negative stories. I'm not sure what compels founders and VCs to be polarizing and not diplomatic like the old days.

I had to navigate around Troy when visiting Vermont because of these cameras. It wasn't trivial due to the river crossing.

There's a very small number of people committing crimes worthy of these cameras, and there's also a small number of people not willing to do business with clients of camera purveyors.

Re:Bring Back Idiomatic Design on Sunday April 12, 2026 @12:38PM (#47741693)
Interesting that Apple is praised.

> that a link? Maybe!

When Apple transitioned from skeuomorphic to flat design this was a huge issue. It was difficult to determine what was a button on iOS and whether you tapped it (and the removal of loading gifs across platforms further aggravated problems like double submits).

Another absurdity with iOS is the number of ways you can gesture. It started simply, now it is complex to the point where the OS can confuse one gesture for another.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-francisco-judg...

There's no leadership to curtail asinine behavior. Instead of forces of nature to strengthen the status quo of freedom, we get lowly politicians. Judges end up having to do all the work.

I believe you hastily misinterpreted the point. It's merely a tool that wasn't possible before.
One idea behind the PoC Right to Privacy Act is having tests. A recurring theme with conservative Justices is clarity of legal text.

Testing may not exhaust all scenarios but it is useful to see where loopholes may exist or whether a bill that sneaks in while you aren't paying attention is unfavorable to your values.

https://github.com/righttoprivacyact/bill/blob/main/tests/te...

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