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Haven't read the article yet (I usually read HN comments first before reading the original) but your comment caught my attention. If you are really curious to see how well you coul…

>Can you explain why archaeologists, astronomers and professors have the highest life expectancy and athletes and body builders have that among the lowest? That's a pretty serious …

>> Clients who push hard for zero dollar pricing don't value the relationship. Long term B2B relationships are built around mutual success and the value of working with the same pe…

Or to walk away, you could use one of the 17 Mindy Kaling Inspired One-Liners For Escaping A Conversation - http://www.slideshare.net/sidekick/17-mindy-kaling-inspired-...

Yes. My workflow is similar to yours. Also, I have noticed I bookmark the HN item, not the actual story link. For some reason, reading the articles seem like a waste of time in a w…

This. Is what I do, exactly! most of the times, I work _with_ the client's in house dev teams so that they can take over when we are done. I _love_ this model as everybody wins. Ke…

I use Keepass + $cloudsyncprovider so that my KDB file is available where ever I need it.

Will work for now but you are still following a pretty straightforward 'pattern' that the algorithms can easily catch up with if algorithm authors wanted them to. (i.e. if too many…

I am an Android phone user, past iPhone user and current iPad user and my experience has been the exact opposite. Google Now always understands me better than Siri. When Siri fails…

I have run into 2, 3, 4, 5 as well. And in general, I often feel like the tool is not telling me what it is doing (especially while handling large repos when operations some time t…

I don't have much to add but just wanted to say that IMHO, this is an example of hacker mindset at its best. Great Job. Congratulations!

Can you elaborate with a few examples? I am curious.

Just bought. Haven't yet read it yet but if I go by the table of contents, it seems to be well thought of and rich in content. Thanks for the promo code. Also, thanks for all your …

I do not mind reading about this every year, even if it is the same news and 'nothing new to see here' Just being reminded about Voyager and the vastness and other miracles of spac…

I second your JavaFX Webview recommendation. And if you are using JavaFX, you can always use its built-in native packaging tool http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/deployment/self-cont…

Two issues with your landing page 1. major - Breaks back button 2. minor(nitpick) - If I click on the green "notify me" button and then "cancel" on the prompt dialog instead of "OK…

Background - I have been using ExtJS in production systems since before they started charging for it (remember yui-ext?) I have worked with all of their major releases and am now d…

I don't have any words of wisdom since there are too many people here who are smarter than I am that you should be listening to. But for whatever it is worth - I signed up to freel…

SEEKING WORK - Remote (Based in TX) I am originally a full stack enterprise software engineer with focus on building web/backend applications on HTML5 & JAVA stack. -- I have reali…

===Frontend=== - Sencha products (ExtJS 4.x, Touch) - jQuery ===Backend=== - Java 7 - Jersey (for Restful Services) - Sometimes springramework ===Deploy=== Glassfish or Tomcat fron…

Just wanted to say that the time, effort and thought you have put in this project is a very apparent once you spend a few minutes poking through the UI. Excellent execution. I like…

Any good/bad experience using prebuilt VM images that contractors can just download and start working in ? (Struggling with kind of the same issue) I also tried Amazon Workspaces t…

I second that. I sometimes wonder why FogBugz+Kiln combination has not 'caught on' as much as other offerings like github, atlassian products, etc. My only (but major) gripe I have…