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Re:Tail->Dash: A fun word game on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @04:43PM (#43626258)
I wanted to share this word game I wrote for fun. I enjoy playing it and I hope others do too. No login required. (Once you pull it up, no internet connection required either!)
Re:A truly incredible fact about the number 37 on Sunday November 12, 2023 @04:10PM (#38244096)
Interestingly, 37 also shows up in the Optimal Stopping / Secretary Problem.
Re:The disappearance of a Soviet skiing party in 1959 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @06:26PM (#27135913)
I recommend this book: Dead Mountain by Donnie Eicher. It is a well-researched read of the incident: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17557470-dead-mountain
Re:Ask patio11 anything on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:24PM (#22542350)
In addition to hiring new engineers, another challenge companies have is to get existing hires who have more context for the company's problems either get better or get more current with newer technologies.
Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @10:42AM (#14308554)
"Oh please please please make a smart alarm that will make me up by only vibrating on my wrist" - Fitbit has done this for a while now. You can even snooze it. Fitbit calls them Silent Alarms.
Re:Steve Jobs wasn't even okay with Google hiring former Apple engineers on Thursday March 27, 2014 @04:55PM (#7483415)
Steve Jobs wasn't okay with Google hiring anyone who ever applied for a job at Apple. Or really, even people with last names that began with "Mac"
Re:Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments on Friday March 21, 2014 @10:09PM (#7446828)
I'm curious: how many 1000+ karma users are there on HN now i.e. how big is the pool of endorsers?
Re:Amazon Prime Air on Sunday December 01, 2013 @09:32PM (#6831054)
Amazon's page reads like a Google April 1st post.

Or maybe someday we'll look back at these comments like we do at http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/

Re:Everpix is Shutting Down on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @11:59PM (#6680791)
https://www.thislife.com/

Pricing is here: https://www.thislife.com/pricing

Disclosure: I work at SFLY

Re:Introducing Login and Pay with Amazon on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @03:33PM (#6517270)
Yes
Re:This is What Happens When You Run Water Through a 24hz Sine Wave on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @01:25AM (#5366974)
Or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mODqQvlrgIQ
Re:Watch Darpa’s Robotic Dog Follow Its Master (Video) on Monday September 10, 2012 @05:56PM (#4502486)
Imagine being the prey of this robotic dog rather than its master...
Re:An Interview with DuckDuckGo's founder, Gabriel Weinberg on Thursday August 23, 2012 @04:59PM (#4424811)
The article mentions $115K in revenue last year. How is that close to self-sustainable for a 10-15 person company?
Re:A New Species Discovered ... On Flickr on Saturday August 11, 2012 @05:09PM (#4370987)
I can't help feeling that this story would have gotten more media attention if only the photo had been posted to Twitter or Instagram
Re:Google Keeps Paying Deceased Employees' Families for a Decade on Thursday August 09, 2012 @07:05PM (#4363822)
I think you may be confused.
Re:Tarsnap outage post-mortem on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @08:33PM (#4201279)
For many of us, a datacenter losing power is the only effect we will see from this storm. For most of the people who were directly affected by the storm, it's the least of their worries.

Very well put. Good to put things in perspective.

Re:Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @04:23PM (#4070636)
you can rent a 32GB server for less than $100 - where?

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