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I'm not saying writing this kind of piece is bad. I want to read them, and they are a good reminder that sometimes we get caught up in our little rituals and take it way too seriou…

Sure this kind of posts get pretty annoying. As the author keeps repeating "existential longing" I want to yell "get over it already" or "stop smoking pot". But then I remember tha…

I felt cheated[1], you saved my salary and now you asked for my email before showing me anything. [1]: http://i.imgur.com/qDwJ4Dm.jpg

When you get the one click wordpress install on some hosting companies, you also get a lot of preinstalled plugins. These plugins only bloat your website.

Is it bad because it's a blog post?

This was quite a good read. Since this is HN, it may be a good idea to port this to the tech community: > Keeping up with the latest framework I interviewed at a company that jumpe…

What I find interesting is how everyone has already accepted that antioxidants are amazing against cancer. Now with this information will be resisted and fought, whether it is true…

Eu Cookie law. I think this law passed because it had the word Cookie in it. "Protect people's cookies", no one wants unsafe cookies.

Low sales means last years model is still performing pretty well. In fact, the model from two years ago is still doing just fine. Here is a post from two years ago where we discuss…

One of the problems is that facts are usually presented in the most boring ways, think lectures. Facts, should be spread the same way. Using propaganda, using sex, using means as c…

If only we could get paid to find solutions, not write lines of code. I was once asked to create a pie chart of the number of lines of code my team wrote every week. I still haven'…

Many years ago, I owned a Radio Hub from Westinghouse. It required an internet connection for it to work and I was totally fine with it. I got my weather info from it, set my calen…

This book is fascinating. Piracy certainly have different meaning in different places.

1. Recently I was reading how in the early public school system, students of a widely different age all sat in the same class. The bigger kids will learn first from the teacher, an…

he meant, baby don't hurt me.

When you look at code you wrote in the past, whether it is 1000 lines, 3000 or 100,000 you could always think of a way to remove the redundancies and such and turn it into a smalle…

I stopped reading at "Mobile is the future". Everytime I hear this, its from a clueless manager that saw that most traffic comes from mobile so decided we should put more ads on mo…