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It seems like wired.com now checks for visitors using ad-blocking software and blocks them (instead of being able to read stories, I was met with a blank page telling me to either …

IANAL, but my understanding is that the fact that the clone was written from scratch doesn't have any bearing on whether or not it infringes on copyright. The clone uses the name "…

Why? If you spend all day designing and writing code, why not view your commute as an opportunity to relax/read a book/listen to music/whatever you want to do that's different from…

When I try to find the Standard Treasury homepage to get a better idea of what it's trying to accomplish (by following the link from OP's blog), all I see is an empty blog site. Is…

I agree with most of what you've said, but I would recommend switching the priority to lifting rather than cardio. Of course, cardio is important for heart heath and overall respir…

Hi, Like most people here, I've been witnessing a fair amount of buzz/hype around technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, etc.. However, while I understand the broad-strokes outline …

Shall we play a game?

> I thought my taxes pay for that :) . Do you mean "finances" as "machinery which helps moving money"? I think there are several definitions there. You are correct in that the mone…

(In response to above as well as parent) > What's the magic that happens at zero that causes otherwise nonsensical projects to make economic sense? The bulldozing-mountains example…

Banks don't necessarily borrow at 0%. Granted, they are able to borrow at a much lower rate than you or me (closer to the Federal Funds Rate managed by the U.S. Federal Reserve), b…

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I've been considering forcing myself to learn Dvorak for a while now, but I've been wondering about how much value there could be in switching. Has anyone here gone through with th…

> If you're a programmer and you feel like curing malaria is more important than Uber Um, this, for one. I see no possible reality in which a disease that kills almost one child ev…

> "society needs more people working directly on problems that matter" This does not imply that "we should al be working directly on more worthy causes". My impression was that the…

> " If you feel like curing malaria is more important than Uber"? I'm sorry, but that strikes me as a pretty privileged sentiment. Would you say that everyone who feels a calling t…

I think that by Apple's "level", the above comment was referring less to design elements and more to manufacturing processes that would not be feasible for a company operating at s…

It's not just npm. A while back I had to set up a Rails dev environment for a client who used Windows. shudder .

In recent weeks I've noticed that Go seems to have become something of a trend in the stories shared here on HN. I do not have much experience with the language myself (beyond comp…

You might want to give this a read: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html ("Do Things That Don't Scale"). It's the best piece I've ever read dealing with the question of attracting users t…

And the fact that they just got funding means that they don't have too much of a head start on you. If you already have an MVP, you should be able to catch up fairly quickly, as fu…

What would you suggest?

All-time favorite: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson Recent favorite: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss