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Humor isn't HN's strong spot :S

"This reminds me of another situation several years ago, when BadVista campaign pages were conspicuously absent from Microsoft's live.com search results,..." If you have poo, fling…

".. if nationalism and religion were taken off the table, we'd revert to tribalism within that framework." It's all tribalism really. Just on a larger scale. We never evolved beyon…

And bought by Samsung.. That would rock. Make ALL the Android phones!

Did they submit this together with the RFC I saw yesterday..? They aren't even trying to be subtle.

I read 'j' 'k' 'l' and thought "Sweet! Vim controls" Not... :(

I get my recommendations from stackoverflow mostly, so I know the books I read are good. My brain knows the information is legit and takes it all in. On the internet I spend too lo…

To bad switchbuf doesn't actually work with :b . Only buffer related split commands like :sbuffer , :sbnext

Took ages before I figured out how to flip pages O.o

In my own experience: if I write dynamic code I'm still thinking of types. Especially in Python.. What's mutable, what isn't... This is what my professors at school say too. Less t…

Doesn't matter... Dynamic languages are slow by design! Caching and JIT compilers to the rescue!

Oh yeah, sure, blame it on the Belgians!

I've already read K&R! Don't worry. I know it's the must-read book on C.

Not a single successful game console will be launched in the next 5 years. I'm sure of it.

I'm a student who learns C#, Java, Php, javascript... at school. I bought "C: A Refence Manual" to learn this summer... Hope it will make me a better programmer.

The Facebook, Twitter, Google.. buttons hover over the text. Not everyone is surfing the web on a 32' monitor in full screen you know!

One by Microsoft for everyone, including themselves. Not respecting standards is just retarded on too many levels. EDIT: Unless, of course, they have a private internal standard...…

I would argue that's a Microsoft problem... I don't think office files are even compatible with their own standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML .

I wonder if it was harder on the American or the European soldiers. Going home to a land where nobody knows what you've been through.. My grandfather fought in WW2 and he talked ab…

Works perfectly on a macbook (Chrome 19). I've not gotten WebGL to work on Linux with nouveau drivers though..

Faster, better, more happiness! Must optimize time/happiness ratio. Less wasting time. Time lost in the past must be justified. Time in the future must be planned for. Optimal usag…