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Generate words that sound like Game of Thrones characters. Good for project names and stray cats.

Completely agree with this. After a lot of tweaking I could get Apache (w/ the worker MPM) pretty close to the speed of NGINX, but the difference in configuration files was enough …

Most of the Django projects I've worked on, people tended to make their own admin panels with things like Bootstrap and Foundation. Django's core team have made their goals clear f…

I agree, but this is something I've found resistance to in the past. For example, last year I was building an automated shipping system for a client and I wanted to spend a few day…

After interviewing at Google, I've ever been asked whom I already know there.

Nope, just people who dress like hipsters.

I've been using Linode for almost two years now and can't fault them; they're the best hosting company I've dealt with. You create and bootup “Linodes”, which are VPS's (Xen based)…

The first guy was quite ‘techy’ to begin with and had dabbled in web development beforehand (PHP). The other two had absolutely no experience, surprisingly (for me) they have picke…

I read this as “Hiring is well 'ard” and thought Catherine Tate had found HN. I started looking for my first hire a few months ago, and it hasn't been easy. But in that time I've c…

I ran a similar, although not so scientific experiment a few years ago. I tried to pick up girls in clubs with and without gestures when I was talking to them. This was over a one …

I was there with my Zenbook (running Arch). A few guys with macs made comments about it, “ahh, I see you've got the Macbook Air ripoff.” in a condescending tone. A witty retort elu…