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Finally somebody other than me who is aware of Summoning. They are awesome. "The Passing of the Grey Company", "Land of the Dead", "Mirdautas Vras", "Nightshade Forests" and "Kor" …

What's the difference between a real publisher and a publishing mill ? How would you categorize No Starch Press, Manning, OReilly as per this rubric ?

I couldn't have stated these things better.

Why are most of HN user [steve76](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=steve76) comments banned ? Is it because its a bot ?

> Here is some Youtube channels that are very solid on approaching weightlifting grounded in real practice and science: Jeff Nippard, mountaindog1 (John Meadows), Greg Doucette, Vi…

Is it just me or is anybody else also reminded of "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral mind" while reading this ? I have a hunch that ancient peoples cou…

I am one of the benfactors of your book. I heavily relied on it while trying to parallelize an ancient geophysical inversion code. Didn't think i'd actually be responding to an aut…

This is what i used too. I used CS maps. I knew a few of them so well (dust, dust2, office, piranesi etc)

Truth. When I first discovered Electron apps, i was amazed. Now i just walk away. I'm not saying any of these comments surrounding Electron are invalid, it's just that these things…

Wait ... let me see if I can anticipate the top comment "Electron consumes so many resources ... Why so resource hungry ... My workstation already runs Chrome, can't have electron …

I remember last week's episode on Darknet Diaries where NordVPN was offering 3y plans for a hefty discount. My first reaction was "Are they going out of business ?" This week's new…

"Life ... ummm, finds a way"

A moment to process the fact that the song has suddenly started playing sloooowly too :)

> I'm currently happily browsing from Windows 3.1! Why man ? Is this machine your daily driver or just for HNing ?

But there are a lot more adults than there are babies.

Why don't you want to upgrade beyond Yosemite ? I just bought a new Macbook Air and its been nagging me to update.

Could it be because older people are also going to be much more unwilling to try something new ? Noophilia seems to be a feature of youth.

Don't know why you're being downvoted. Seems like a nice point to debate about.

Doing yearly releases is such an obviously great idea that there must be a big reason why they are NOT doing it.

> really enjoy everything about coffee from roasting to brewing You roast your own beans at home ? How expensive of a setup does that require ?

OP's probably a script kiddie who thought "Hacker News" meant the other type of hacker.

I've always wondered the same about iron ore, granite, marble etc.

> working on a simulation based game > stories like these are a great inspiration I'm sorry if I come across as stupid. I don't see the connection between these two assertions.