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Yea. I don't see anything wrong with being alone when the right person is not there. Settling is not better than being alone. What I did was worse than that. I had something great …

This is my response to the blog post that I wrote, Mortality and Dating ( http://pathdependent.com/articles/mortality-and-dating ). It was oddly popular on HN, so I'm submitting th…

I'm also at GMU in the CSS program. I skimmed the PDF after it was recommended by Max or Rob -- I can't remember. Now that I can just buy it in physical form, it's in my Amazon que…

Agreed. Furthermore, I would say that's true of most things requiring a lot of experience The people who come up with the methodologies initially are probably the people who have n…

I enjoy when Zed is appropriately flippant (irony intended). While, I don't have experience working for any teams that consider "XP, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall," etc, to be gospel, I…

I actually started working on something like this a week or two ago called falsifiable.org. My time is limited but I've thought about the project a lot. You seem to be doing what I…

I think catastrophes demonstrate interesting properties of human communications. All of these reports on imminent meltdown are plausible to people ignorant of the plant's design an…

Actually, I should clarify but I don't like editing titles. I wrote WeightNudge to relieve some personal stress; it does not help other people "destress". The project I've been wor…

Coincidentally, I started writing a "What I learned from my first semester of grad school essay on Friday." HackerNews is psychic paper.

Having a 30 second automatic refresh on the status page can't help. (Edit: Also, my Heroku apps are fine. Makes me feel a bit more secure about multi-tenant hosting.)

Github has been so reliable for me that their website was the last place I looked! When I saw: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly my first re…

I just started using Heroku a week ago and I'm in love. (I kinda wish I was the 100,000th deployed.)

I meant, PG's restriction of spidering HN at the rate of a few pages per minute, not posts limited to PG as the user.

Thanks! I have actually been crawling HN restricted by PG's "a couple of pages per minute" limitation for the past three weeks. This is far more convenient.

Thanks for the comment, Sam. I couldn't find your contact information on your listed website.

Given a caller, Alice, an intermediary, and a recipient, Bob, is it possible for Alice to call the intermediary and be connect with Bob, while charging Alice for the call(s) and sh…

A conversation for reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ds4sv/merkel_says...