Sounds like the author got called out for not capitalizing the start of her sentences[1] and decided that, if HN readers want capital letters, they will get them.
It's a less... dramatic... version of what happens when HN links to JWZ's blog.
Readit NewsRight? Who thinks that is acceptable in 2025?
Someone who is writing on their personal blog and doesn't give a damn what is "acceptable" to some rando on the Internet?
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packetslave commented on How the Sun Enterprise 10000 was born (2007) filibeto.org/aduritz/true... · Posted by u/robin_reala
Throughout the late 90s, “Mail.com” provided white-label SMTP services for a lot of businesses, and was one of the early major “free email” providers. Each Free user had a storage limit of something like 10MB, which is plenty in an era before HTML email and attachments were commonplace. There were racks upon racks of SCSI disks from various vendors for the backend - but the front end was all standard Sendmail, running on Solaris servers.
Anyway, here’s the front end SMTP servers in 1999, then in-service at 25 Broadway, NYC. I am not sure exactly which model these were, but they were BIG Iron! https://kashpureff.org/album/1999/1999-08-07/M0000002.jpg
Those look like E5500 or E6500 cabinets (hard to tell from the angle).
packetslave commented on Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016) haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-... · Posted by u/rzk
The information landscape has changed a bit - several large states now require posting clear salary bands, which many companies comply with in good faith. Some like Netflix post something useless (eg: "The range for this role is $100,000 - $720,000").
Netflix is a weird case, in that they let new hires pick the mix of stock vs. cash in their total compensation. Since the CA law requires posting the cash salary in the job offer, it really can be that wide of a range.
Seems like a spark or sparkline describes a bar graph, rendered inline in regular text.
There is some font magic to render {30,60} as small bars in the text.
Nice, but the terms were new to me. Would have helped to explain them first.
Sparklines have been around (in modern usage) for nearly 20 years (coined by Edward Tufte in 2006.
Also, Google is a thing.
packetslave commented on Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today · Posted by u/paraschopra
Could you share your Revenue and EBITDA of last 3 years? I am interested to understand multiplies.
Did you sell all-cash or 51% cash + other?
what an intrusive, nosy question!
packetslave commented on The Evolution of SRE at Google usenix.org/publications/l... · Posted by u/r4um
Article is about an acronym and yet never states what the acronym SRE means.
Not everything needs to be spelled out for people who are too lazy to Google
If they don’t “know you” financially you’ll need to jump through compliance questions before your new payment method is accepted. If you don’t verify the email verification mail within the 5 days I imagine you have to jump through more hoops, which this person didn’t do in time.