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beta

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About beta

Boston University Computer Systems Engineering

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    Comment #858527

    Human After All IMHO is probably the worst Daft Punk album Bangalter and Homem-Christo put together. Technologic is one of, if not the worst song on the entire album. Terrible.

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    Comment #816025

    What about Fluxbuntu? I thought that distro's goal was to be lightweight and put little demand on system resources? In the article he mentions the distro, but instead draws a compa…

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    Comment #812126

    Every time someone acts like a troll, we don't need to read through someone's witty retort in response. He's trolling, he knows it, we all know it, and he's downmodded to oblivion …

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    Comment #793860

    Lets not forget good o'll gedit! No but seriously, gvim all the way.

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    Comment #779537

    Just going from posts in hn would give me the impression that usage of Firefox is quite common. What's giving you an impression to the contrary? And what would having had used Grea…

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    Comment #723944

    Yeah, seeing "follow me on twitter here" has started to get annoying. Still, I'm pretty dubious of the notion of "finding your own hacks". I mean just look at written english in mo…

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    Comment #694078

    bendotc is right. In the past 3 years X has improved tremendously. I recommend anyone check it out for themselves.

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    Comment #636126

    Yuck. Yes, I must really resist the temptation to comment after all nighters. Manipulation == psychopathy, is a bit much. I too assert however that manipulating the audience in spi…

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    Comment #634028

    Is that 6 "Ask HN" posts I'm unfairly holding back? Nope. Not unless you're so desperate for up mods that you're going to start posting non-posts.

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    Comment #633558

    But now you are putting your own ethics on the concept of manipulation No kidding. That's the whole point of the parent post in the first place isn't it? He's asserting that manipu…

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    Comment #610657

    I consider humor here to be mostly unwanted noise. Most of the time IMHO, commentators' attempts at witticism reduce to just groping around for self esteem boosts and/or goading on…

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    Comment #604947

    I try my very hardest to ignore any notion of "Hacker Culture"

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    Comment #590280

    So much for maintaining objectivity...

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    Comment #537677

    I doubt it.

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    Comment #510937

    I think you're absolutely right about rglullis's methods here, they strike me as pretty slimy. I also find the whole To those who have objections to the choices: I did a copy-and-p…

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    Comment #509393

    In Fact, I'll cancel my rarely-used StackOverflow account. Calm down.

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    Comment #509373

    As compared to the all too common Hacker News circlejerks? :(

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    Comment #392567

    hacker-centric?

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    Comment #392559

    I prefer the idea of a future where improvements can be built upon all previous knowledge pretty much nailed it on the head there. A lot of developers really miss the point while g…

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    Comment #377180

    Since when has masterbation been a considered a bad thing? In all honesty, I speculate nearly all 'bad' and 'good' goals undertaken by individuals are for at some level their own g…

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    Comment #374037

    Out of curiosity, do stories flagged by multiple users get auto-deleted? I've been wondering that too.

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