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Thank you, although I am now somewhat disappointed that I will not see this where I live.

I would assume that a Titan card is just as horrible for mining as any other NVIDIA card, both in terms of hardware cost and power usage.

Office is, I think, one of the big revenue earners for Microsoft, so it does kinda make sense for them to make sure they can try to sell it to everybody regardless of which OS they…

There is quite simply a vast array of libraries out there that every developer has access to. As Ben points out at the 10:50 mark, looking at GitHub we can find something on the or…

Wow, I would have been a "poor fit" when I was 20-30 because (1) I can't stand the taste of most alcoholic beverages, (2) I can't stand being around drunks, and (3) I thought the p…

Surely by now somebody's managed to get Linux on a Surface RT? It sounds from the review like the hardware is pretty good, just the software that's lacking.

I'd probably just say, "I'm sorry to have wasted your time--I'm not interested in the position after all," and then get up and leave the interview.

I tried scanning the article to find out what made it illegal, and was fairly disappointed to find that (once again) I'd been lured by a sensationalist headline.

My true story of the door-desk is that it made me think, "Wow, they're making everybody use desks that look like they were built from things they swiped from a dumpster behind Home…

> He crewed on a sub (initially im sure it said commanded) yet doesn't get on with computers... This should be no more surprising than running across a CEO that doesn't get on with…

...even with the wealth of information developers tend to make public about themselves. I guess I'm gonna be a negative Nancy here, but I know some very good developers that don't …

Of course, for most programmers(let alone people in general) this is nearly useless information today. It's obsolete. And that's good. Damn right it's good--for me--that most progr…

I don't often see things on HN and think, "wow, I absolutely must have that," but this is one of those times. Thank you for releasing this; if you do a kickstarter page or put up a…

Oil would last a lot longer if car makers would provide the 60mpg cars they have in Europe, here in the USA too. Toyota's Prius C will do 55-60mpg if you're not out on the highway …

"In this and the next decade, we will begin to make energy and food abundant, inexpensively purify and sanitize water from any source, cure disease, and educate the world’s masses.…

"John only started programming in college. He has 3 years of “experience” – much of it spent working on school assignments, not projects – and Norman has 10. John’s not as experien…

Let me suggest that a lot of the pressures you feel in high school probably have little to do with "real life." It's amusing to think back to all the things I (and authority figure…

>In-state tuition has increased about 275%. I was thinking about going to graduate school there in 2008, but somehow it was cheaper to take 3 classes remotely at out-of-state rates…

>you would have to believe that the average person would pick a passphrase like "gastroenteritis jurisprudence algorithm aberration", which is clearly ridiculous. Oh how I wish my …

Gow appears to automatically make all those Unix utilities available right inside the normal Windows command line without having to manually kludge them in there like you do in Cyg…

And, of course, the other question: why don't we figure out how to get them to stay once they're marketable?

Your 1, 2, and 3 would have saved me (and others) quite a lot of time in some places I've worked. It helps for new hires and (in a large company) transfers from other parts of the …

> My most recent realization, though, is that most people my age don't want to work too hard. You can probably leave out "my age" and it will still be fairly accurate.

As mistercow says, it would have been a good idea to explain that. That detail just hanging there with no explanation caused me to pause as well, because I've encountered some math…

I'm going to guess that a non-trivial fraction of people that get things done don't bother tweeting about it.