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This is basically Conway's Law in practice: microservices aren't created because of technical boundaries, but they emerge because organizations need team boundaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

I agree, such a positive tone encourages complacency. And the reality is that we could do so much better: https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2018/8/30/the-moral-egregio...

"We shouldn’t be looking at the cost of ending poverty as a percentage of total world income, but rather as a percentage of the income of all the people who are not poor; say, those who live on more than double the poverty line. In 1990, it would have cost 12.9% of their total income to end poverty. In 2013, it would have cost only 3.9%. According to this measure, our capacity to end poverty has improved by a factor of 3.31."

Grad students: (not that our salaries are all that secret...) http://salaryshare.me/be795b5770029320591ac9a1730a9932

It's funny that this is coming up now - just this week, there was a pre-print on arxiv.org that explored the possibility of a planet being heated (possibly enough to become habitable) by dark matter annihilation in its core: http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5086

You could change the settings to a location at the equator, and maybe one or two timezones to your west. (I understand that having more customizable settings would be a better alternative, but I thought I would offer up my hack).

This has been posted before, and there was much interesting discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2041675

In response to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945340

Unfortunately, it still asks for a login.

Maybe something like Reddit's "rising" page would help. Basically, somewhere that would catch all of the stories that only got ~4 upvotes on the front page, but would filter out the ones that didn't get any.

Link to the paper in Science:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;science.1...

Edit - If you are lacking a subscription:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0518

I don't find the Nook's touch screen to be "balky" at all, at least in comparison to any touchscreen phone. In fact, I think that the use of a touchscreen instead of a hardware keyboard opens the door for a lot more design flexibility.

Follow-up to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628639

Original source, with some explanation:

http://www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/000943.shtml

This guy went from a paperclip to a house: http://www.oneredpaperclip.com/about/.

A couple of my friends actually got a barbecue from him off of Craigslist. Sadly, I think the transaction only involved money.

What I want to know is why the latest Apple OS doesn't come with a paint program.

From my experience, the male characters in Big Bang Theory aren't far off from reality. However, I don't like how the two women physicist characters portrayed have both been complete nymphomaniacs.

The state of wireless in Canada is depressing, although slowly improving. The instant that Wind goes live in Victoria, I'm switching!

I certainly can't think of a lonelier place to die than the moon.