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Using this might give you a warm feeling inside, but if anything, it has the potential to cause harm by providing confidence in an entity that is being compelled to continue issuin…

>compared to the average doctor the average nurse is an idiot. After that statement, I'll assume you don't know what you're talking about or you're in some odd part of the planet w…

I have to admit, I've made number of commits with "." as the message. No excuse, beyond it usually being a minor change well documented in the code ( I always write comments ) and …

This thing helped me with networking immensely in college. Nice to see it still exists.

I see vice asking to load shit from 12 other domains. Which one is neilson?

https://www.requestpolicy.com/ is useful in this regard as well. - Firefox plugin to block cross-domain content. lots of websites pull shit from 20+ 3rd party domains. An obnoxious…

Whoever made this, please take the criticism constructively. It was good information ( thank you for posting it ), but should have been presented better. Using light blue, blue, gr…

Thanks for an informative post. I was under the impression OpenOffice was dead post-fork. Colour me wrong...

I use plain text editors mainly and agree with the author's premise about cutting the cruft/using a focused tool. The cost complaint doesn't really fly though. Those times When I n…

It loaded OK for me: http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/my-academic-book-in-plain-text.html It's html.

>I'm not sure I quite expected to see this on HN I think it belongs - What he is suggesting carries over to technical endeavours as well. 1. Learning to cut mercilessly improved cl…

>Everyone did. Developers he stole from stole it from someone else Except perhaps the dev with the initial idea? Stealing someone else's idea might be widespread, but it doesn't ma…

"Standard men and women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg." "..standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform E…

It will show up as an imgur link visited rather than a link with "seemydick" buried in it. If someone is directly reviewing everything you look at, different story. ( and I might s…

Honesty. Some guy comes in with half a cornfield stuck to the undercarriage of their vehicle, who should pay for the suspension work? I deeply feel we should each be responsible fo…

I worked as a service writer for a couple years. I _never_ saw a warranty claim refused based on owner abuse. Not once. There were times it should have happened, but I could _not_ …

>Why is that not a thing yet? Seems sort of like crowd-sourcing data that would be used to infringe on the freedoms and happiness of people without restraint beyond "did the paymen…

> just inconceivable. Unless the primary goal was to transfer tax dollars from the unwashed to the privileged.

If it is something expedient and thoroughly embarrassing I use //kludge

If amazon made it policy to remove any negative comments that steer readers to competing products I think, on the balance it would help.

I could see an argument for colocating this type of enterprise in a secure data centre. There are places with 24/7 surveillance and 24/7 armed staff on site and they are going to d…

As far as this dude, with his aging eyeballs is concerned, the colour's meaning, if any was irrelevant. I mean, the information was interesting enough to me to try to read it, but …

Depending on your target demographic, and the nature of the SaaS, incorporating to give the appearance of stability and scale may be beneficial if not essentially a requirement. If…

Was the volume on bitstamp sufficiently large that a 19k BTC hot wallet was actually required? I only know enough about this stuff to ask the odd ( possibly daft ) question, but $5…

This is truth. I have seen this from both sides, and it is something you _need_ to know if you are interviewing people. The very best people for the job will have options. The very…