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we frequently experience problems downloading scripts from google's CDN, which is why we switched to using local files.

I'd rather install a browser plugin than run a Java applet.

by the same amount Amazon AWS invalidates my company's compute cluster (hint: by 0% in our case). No size fits all.

The site blog.curebit.com is down. Here's the cached version: "Apology to 37signals Posted on January 28, 2012 by Allan Grant Recently we launched a site with several pages copied …

corporate bullshit.

Lobbying is fine. PAYING politicians is not. "donations" are just bribes.

codepad.org

the first thing that comes to my mind is OpenGL backface culling, which removes invisible faces from a scene. glEnable(GL_CULL_FACE); glCullFace(GL_BACK);

what? for this task, programmers should be able to come up with code optimized (if not optimal) right away. For example, this line "I would append a string [...] to the result" cer…

You need either the Adobe Flash CS5 authoring tool (for frame-based flash files) or the Adobe Flex Compiler (essentially actionscript embedded in XML, kind of like tags embedded in…

I LOL'd

Bullshit. If they really wanted to vandalize your project, they'd use a chain of anonymous proxies.

Dear HN, One of my friends offered me the position of the CTO at his small self-funded startup company in the real estate market. The offer revolves around the idea of building the…

parasites

not necessarily. you could implement these as function calls with no return addresses (think goto-s or JMP instructions). If you never need to return from some of those functions, …

1. not news. 2. ruby? for game dev? really? 3. the author seems to think C and C++ are the same language.

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"if you're using PHP, you probably can't eliminate your dependencies" - since when is a dependency a bad thing? you are REUSING the code in a library because, presumably, you need …

"Nobody can hate something as strongly as somebody who's spend way too much time looking at it". Wrong. You can look at something and not hate it as much as someone who just hates …

who cares? another one of those "works for me" / "works on my computer" articles.

why do people care about HN karma?

wth does it do?

If they want war, then we'll give them war. I'll write down the IP addresses of all sites I use and I won't use DNS anymore!