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Cool project but... This is an egregious misrepresentation of the actual results both from significance perspective and accuracy perspective. A. No validation is done on server sid…

> Ctrl+B to move a letter forward Did they mean Ctrl+B to move a letter backward? Ctrl+F moves a letter forward.

> The OP was using hacker in the classic sense, security folks Really? I'd say that the classic meaning of "hacker" is what we have on HN. http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/h/hacker…

No license is going to be suitable for everyone. You might think BSD, MIT, WTFPL are the most liberal licenses but they are not suitable for me. If I am invested in an open source …

Can you not use a desktop software to correct your spellings, fix your grammar and reformulate sentences? I think even something like Microsoft Word is going to be a good bargain f…

Exactly! Raymond Chen is doing a great job at sharing interesting stories from a bygone era.

Programming languages! It is ironic because I am a programmer and I write programs and develop software for a living. But proliferation of programming languages has made my life wo…

If anything, I think websites have more uptime these days than they were 10 years ago. Remember the "this website is under maintenance" banners of the bygone era, anyone?

I know that being a tourist in Canary Islands is fun but is it a good country for a German to move to permanently? Does it have the kind of infrastructure and healthcare Germany ha…

In case it is not apparent to others, Lisp-Stat (OP of this story) and singaporecode (parent commenter here) are different people. The account singaporecode and a few other related…

I must say here that I agree this point but one should also exercise caution that they don't go overboard with abstractions while planning for future. Abstractions for future plann…