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I've simply come to accept that Unity is not for 'us', in the way that ipad is not for 'us'. I install xubuntu instead.

My worst on-call pager duty IT lackey job still beat the hell out of convenience store clerk and buffet-steakhouse dishwasher.

As a BBQ loving Texan, I find this fascinating. On the one hand, it does seem kind of creepy, on the other, this could be some cool resilient community-building technology to creat…

False dichotomy. You can't "pay $20/mo to stream as many as you want". The available selection from services like Netflix and Hulu is extremely limited. Many in the "15-25 set" pay…

A nice kick in the ass to remember my C & C++ roots. I've been too hung up on "perfect" languages and "beautiful" frameworks. Thanks for this.

I would not have a hard time saying no to this at all. There are limits which you can assert without being rude or coming across as paranoid. What's next, access to all your privat…

Down.

Makes me want to restart my 5th attempt at a Clojure project.

As one who has dabbled with Haskell a bit here and there, "programmable semicolon" is the most apt metaphor I've seen. Every time I have to break up a chain of method calls in Java…

I want that font.

Nice chart. How did you make it?

There is no hacker news problem if you realize that all sites up to this point in internet history are either heavily curated for quality and limited in scope or self-moderated wit…

Never listened to The Streets before. Downloading to see what they sound like.

Come on, some credit is due.. XMPP protocol is in production all over the place.

Yeah, but I would download a loaf of organic bread if I could. And I'd copy that loaf whenever I needed more for a sandwich, and I'd upload that bread pattern to all my friends, an…

That's funny, I consider DDG's lack of "Instant" a feature.

Reject here. Pretty discouraging at the time, but in retrospect, best thing that could have happened to me. A year later, I landed a great job at a local startup, and the Google br…

I found a better solution: set your browser to forget all its cookies when you shut it down. Use different providers for webmail, feed reading and search. No opt-out cookie require…

I use them, but I don't trust them. They've got my email and feedreader (for now), but not much of my search. I hate instant search, and I don't want to authenticate myself to them…

More importantly, why? If governments are doing their jobs and serving whom they are meant to serve, people as a collective group are well cared for and have no reason to do such h…

Why should a nation involve physical borders anymore? Perhaps there is no territory that captures how some of us are feeling? What then?

Back in '95 when my wife and I were dating, we didn't have a lol. Most of the campus was vt220s hooked up to a VAX, local chat was done with a DCL command called 'phone'. To simula…

Or, just factor in performance bonus programs, unvested stock, other benefits, merit raise schedules, etc. Estimate optimistically.

This is impacting a friend of mine. Suddenly disabled with no explanation. I told her to submit a login/password bug, if only to get it read by a human over there. And to decline s…