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When you find a really good site on HN, add it to your RSS reader. Check out proggit. If you have an industry you're interested in or a problem you're trying to solve, start googli…

Selection bias much? He's complaining about an over abundance of consumer facing web businesses at an event sponsored by a blog that focuses almost exclusively on consumer facing w…

Just wanted to apologize again for sniping at you yesterday. It was uncalled for. Glad to see you've been able to incorporate it into a proper discussion.

I worked at a cool little company where we built a useful product. We just built it. We didn't use waterfall, agile, or any real process. We just made sure to communicate and only …

Ever notice that virtually all Agile success stories are written by Agile consultants and not by developers? Ever notice that nobody actually claims to have built anything from scr…

(disclaimer: Agile consultants ruined the software group I work in.) Making good software is hard, and anyone claiming to have a magical process that guarantees good software is se…

FYI apt-get update does not update any packages. It just downloads the current list of packages and their versions from the repository.

In summary, hard work is hard. I know HN is targeted towards the startup crowd, but do we constantly have to vote up these self-aggrandizing, self-congratulating posts about how it…

> This is where you hire a copywriter for your website and he or she fills the pages with cleverly crafted, delightfully delectable prose that oh-so-playfully sing and dance. Prose…

Initially (or at least a couple of years ago) if you submitted a PDF, the link would only be available through Scribd. It was a topic of much discussion. See here for example: http…

Google is going to have to build (or outsource) a lot of what Verizon already has. He may be considering those costs when he does the per household numbers. Consider that Verizon h…

FYI the term 'corporate welfare' typically refers to governments giving special treatment to corporations, not corporations tolerating unproductive hangers-on.

Not in the article, but worth mentioning: Wattvision is a YC Winter 09 company.

I get where you're going, but the toaster analogy doesn't work. If you want to sell toasters (or basically anything that takes mains voltage) en masse in Western markets, you'll ha…

An article about a report from the "International Boys' Schools Coalition" suggesting that all boys schools are advantageous to mixed sex schools. This is on the front page of HN? …

Yes I read your post. That's why I was able to quote from it. If you want to hire a good programmer, ask them about programming. It's that simple. Set up a few scenarios and let th…

> "lame excuses like charity work" Buzz off. How is this at the top of the front page on HN? Also, it's idiotic to to perpetuate the "rock star programmer" meme. All the great deve…

* Nobody knew where Banda Aceh was * Barack Obama was a little known Illinois state senator * xkcd did not exist

Unless you live or have loved ones who live anywhere near The Gulf Coast, in which case it is very much true.

Making the DNS even more unreliable isn't good for anyone. Also, you're talking about returning an IP that is probably blocked by GFW anyways. So instead of getting the web page fo…

You run a hosted application environment. You experience an outage that affects all of your customers. Do you a) admit that you encountered a problem that sysadmins have known abou…

There is a good point in the comments that isn't made in the article. Unlike a traffic light outage due to power failure, the ice buildup may only affect one of the signals, so the…

The expert: Jeffrey Moyer, chair of the National Organic Standards Board He has an agenda, and his story sounds apocryphal.

The On Language column in the Times was written for about thirty years by a guy named William Safire. The column usually criticized some recent instance of language usage in popula…

I blame Howard Roark.