Nowhere is this urge (and the reward for it) stronger than HN. In the majority of comment sections, the top comment is one that pounces on a few words from the posted article, however tangential or self-serving.
I definitely agree it happens more than ideal on HN as far as I've seen.
However, HN is also one of the few places where it's not uncommon for me to see people push back on it. And often comments that "pounce on a few words" are offering valid criticism on only that part IMO, while still accepting the larger work that's been posted.
Yeah, I use goto all the time in C, mostly in the “goto cleanup before return” pattern but sometimes in jumping to different points of a loop. And I know I’m not the only one.
> The authors of the study also propose alternative ways of thinking about the dog-human bond, blending the characteristics of different human relationships – not only the child-parent relationship, but also friendship and partnership - resulting in a unique bond with its own dynamics.
This is only towards the end of the article but addresses what was bothering me throughout it all — that having dogs is only viewed here through the lens of how it relates to having children.
What if some people (like me) simply 1) like dogs 2) don’t want children, and there’s no link?
I love the Apollo 11 computer stories but by today’s standards it was more of an MCU than a computer. And sure, in the embedded space it is true that in a lot of cases error recovery doesn’t make a whole lot of sense and it makes more sense to reset quickly.
But there are many systems today that take a long time to restart so you can’t just abort if you have a chance to recover.
No, that £1 to £5 applies if you're among the first ten to book tickets on that flight. They use a bucket system where the first ten tickets are really cheap, the next ten a little more expensive, etc, and the last ten rather expensive.
I don't think the actual bucket size is ten. But I'm fairly sure that they hope to sell more tickets from the later, more expensive buckets, not from the earliest buckets. They don't plan to fly many almost-empty flights.
"As little as" is doing a lot of work there. £1..£5 will be a special special price, maybe there will be one in that price range per flight to justify the claim.
Also, that will just be the seat price not the whole ticket price. Try booking anything on their cheapest rates and when you get to the screen where you pick seat preferences you'll find there will never be any that are free (cheaper seats are included in the ticket price for higher priced tickets that include some luggage allowance, and on that screen you can opt to pay extra to get on/off faster or have a few mm more leg room).¹
I wouldn't be surprised if the standing "seats" don't get even the minimum carry-on bag allowance of current seats, and there is an extra charge of you want that back.
Furthermore, on top of that each of those extra passengers is an opportunity to levy any number of other extra optional charges (that might not be all that optional for many passengers).
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[1] last time I looked at flights with them this seat price disparity took away a fair chunk of the price difference between the lowest rate and the next up, and if you wanted any luggage the cheaper flights were more expensive in total.
> I discovered interesting music like Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Portishead, Tricky, Orbital, Takako Minekawa, Hooverphonic, Poe, Veruca Salt all from sporadically listening to one college radio station in my hometown and, once a week, watching one music program on MTV (usually 120 Minutes or AMP). Then, once a month, I would sometimes flip through a music magazine while at the hair salon (usually Rolling Stone or Spin). And that was literally it.
This section contains two types of curation that have to be separated: college radio is good curation, it is nonprofit, done by people for the love of the medium and will help you broaden your horizon. Rolling Stone et. al. is bad curation, a form of gatekeeping really, very commercial, requiring lots of connections and resources to get featured in.
