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Unsurprising really - most older programmers I know are fed up with solving the same problems over and over again with whatever the new technology happens to be. After a while, wri…

Sad news - RIP.

"10x represents the best freelance programmers and designers" not to be too snooty, but couldn't they get one of their best design freelancers to give their site a bit of a makeove…

dodgy popups that encourage you to "join Free as a Bronze member" :/

Nothing specifically for the eyes. I take cod liver oil regularly and zinc if I start to feel the early stages of a cold.

Hi HackerNewsers I've worked through the tutorial on the Django website and I'm looking for something more of an intermediate level. I'm a confident developer, and use rails and as…

this should so have been called "How to make a quick bug"

I use Ctrl-Ins and Shift-Ins on Dvorak for one handed copy paste, but I also don't really find the standard ctrl-c ctrl-v a problem with two hands, I sort of poise my middle finger…

nicely done. It would be extra awesome if you could weight the answers a little by date and whether the current version of the language matches the date. Actually that would probab…

sucks to be on the receiving end of some nasty/uncivil comments. On the other hand, you are now the person that re-wrote sed. That's pretty awesome.

Mostly, BBC

I had RSI a few years ago. Apart from paying attention to posture (I took up tai chi to help with that), I changed to a dvorak keyboard layout which helped a lot.

Not sure I see the point of this with tools like RVM and rbenv around.

very nice - thank you for these

it's easy to sling mud, and I'm fighting my knee jerk reaction to sling some back but I wonder if Josh was provoked into that comment, otherwise it seems unnecessarily aggressive..…

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the noun project is awesome much kudos to them