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Oh, so that was you Chris! No hard feelings at all mate. It didn't work out in the end btw, she cheated on me.

This is a classic example of the problems that tech companies/hackers inevitably face as they scale - an increasing obligation to develop algorithms to keep the bad guys out, and t…

Karunamon, you're a cock, your profile even alludes to it. Don't comment on my comments man, just learn when to shut your mouth. No one's going to back your shitty ideas so don't t…

C'mon you old motherfuckers, keep voting me down, that's right.

Does anyone else feel that this Op-Ed piece is more 2012 : 2007 than 2012 : 2016?

Whoah, so you're saying us younger hackers DON'T have to learn how to write machine code and program C-64's to have any cred around here? Well... My life has been flip-turned upsid…

"As I walked out of the interview and stepped back into my time portal device, destined for 2012, I couldn't help but wonder - Why was she using a pencil on that 'Gorrila Glass' sc…

That is just epic! The thing I loved most about this whole article was this line: "The Apple II disk drive stutters and scrapes." Remember that sound? It sounded like a hungry grem…

Or on the flip-side, you just can't trust Aunt flow to interpret that diagram correctly.

CSS4? Where was I? and When??

This is definitely fodder for the "walled garden" proponents to justify closed and heavily vetted architectures. It feels like the old WWW-Wild west days but this time with bigger …

Apologies for reducing this down to "smut", but way I read it, this whole manifesto is a big waste of time and has enjoyed more real estate on HN in the last couple of days than it…

Anyone know why some of the courses offered by the likes of Standford that are available as open (free courses) on iTunesU and across the web aren't available on Coursera? One thin…

Yeah as I say, "I hope"... maybe even retrospectively from atop of his own 'iCloud'. Please read my comment as slightly tongue in cheek, I'm well aware of his later-life stance on …

Love it!

I hope that Steve Jobs, who happily credited himself as an openly adherent member and ambassador of the counterculture that fought for ideas like this to be acceptable in a then ov…

This site looks like it's made for 2002 interwebs at best

Ah that brings back memories

It is bullshit, I'm currently learning to program by following the excellent CS106A paper at Stanford, free on iTunesU. In the current online climate you can learn to code without …

From the article: Unlike Mark Zuckerberg, the man responsible for acquiring the popular photo sharing app for $1 billion, Systrom received no formal engineering training. From Syst…