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i think what you're missing is how good removing a layer of abstraction /feels/ when putting things together. it didn't quite click for me until i built something with it. it ends …

I think you can still succeed at development if you want. Interviews are stressful-- don't take that trip up as a gospel reflection of your knowledge. And there's a chance that you…

Much of the data they use is open source, coming from OpenStreetMap.

You're conflating issues, and that's fine because you're frustrated. But we are over-represented in tech, and not anywhere else. There are obvious systems-level hiring problems tha…

I was hoping the article would at least mention Pleistocene Park, an effort to mitigate climate change that depends on the recently extinct wooly mammoth. If it had, the question i…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9737403

The original jquery source w/ annotations: http://genius.it/5088474/ejohn.org/files/jquery-original.htm...

When thinking about the API only, any one of your line implementations seems just as good as the other. But if you also ask "which of these makes sense for the client application" …

Pun intended? Anyways, a university experiment video that went viral [0] is the first I recall seeing a quadcopter in action. Maybe the tipping point if you care to investigate fur…

YouNow and Tinychat are the ones left that I know about. BlogTV was big but closed down and was acquired by YouNow. I'm working on a general-purpose streaming site, but with a twis…

Shaders have always seemed like some kind of dark magic to me. Would love to see this book happen.

I am glad I read this article because it alerted me to the existence of NASA's robot astronaut named Robonaut [0]. [0] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/robonaut.html

Maybe just the idea of podcasts is broken. RSS has dying a slow death for quite some time. Why not just build a better podcast?

Neat; glad to see HSL values included!

My prediction average of 3 people is more than twice what I currently make. The estimate I made for someone was 70kish before I went on to see my similar one. I wonder if that's ju…

AH, apologies. Thought your current was $5 per MONTH, and were comparing to the TB plan.

twice as much pay.

And a text-only version with a bit more player agency http://jsfiddle.net/dariusk/3Evm4/10/embedded/result/

I had planned on writing up an email gleaned from some HN comment insight, and citing the comment. "I'll just do that tomorrow" I thought. But, as we found out, there was no tomorr…

Simple Dwarf Fortress Clone in 58000 lines of Python

joining in with the Tetris variants: Futilitris http://twinbeard.com/140_futilitris

Would that as applicant idea be too meta?

The fastest way to degrowth is [growth] ??

Looks like shipping barcodes to my untrained eye.

If CLANG stood for something ridiculous then I'd be in.