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Still 403 as of 18:31PDT. server fell over. :(hope it comes back:)

Amateurish and ersatz "thoughtful thinking aloud" is just the latest reason I can't stand listening to radio, and now prefer podcasts. Pause and ponder all you want, Abumrad, Krulw…

jparker165, ask your friend if "Inside the Mirrortocracy" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7930430 applies to his company.

RMS's guidelines are very very old news. His temper tantrum is now two years past. Exactly how is this relevant to Hacker News?

The connection to HN, IMHO, is this: Louis CK is extraordinarily creative and committed to his art and craft, attributes demanded of entrepreneurs. He sometimes figuratively "hacks…

I went through this exercise a year ago but was only about one-third as vigilant as Chris. I still did step 18, though.

Three years ago I just went for Bose QC-15s (in-canal earbuds weren't an option for me, but might be for you, to change-up 'phones throughout the day. Most are isolating, some are …

AKG K-518 aren't noise-cancelling, just isolating, if that's enough. http://eu.akg.com/akg-product-detail-eu/k-518-dj_1.html

Though it was posted 2 years and 3 months ago, and the article states that the bug was fixed, to me, the interesting parts were tracking down the versions of git that were affected…

IMHO you have a comfortable cushion, and some time to make careful, thoughtful decisions. Some professional financial planning could set you up to relieve yourself of some worries.…

This is interesting in the context of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6712717 "Why are Amazon, Facebook and Yahoo copying Microsoft's stack ranking system?" - the feature copy…

Repeat of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576482 from 4 weeks ago, with informative discussion. Few upvotes, for apparently good reason.

Wow, man, you have to binge-watch faster.

Because of a very strong community-driven notion that Wikipedia is not censored, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_disclaimers_in_art... ) spoiler warnings won't make it …

Recently "vanished" by Wikipedia in response to a bot "spamming" WP with valid links to archive.is and archive.org. http://enwp.org/WP:Archive.is_RFC http://enwp.org/WP:Archive.is_…

Deployment in usable apps timeline? I'm in.

I just got a forced update with no way to cancel. But I haven't gone to OldApps to see how far back to go so that A) forced updates don't happen and B) the API and apps still work …

"The Desktop API was created in 2004 and it doesn’t support mobile application development." So what? Desktop users built Skype with their Skype-to-phone and phone-to-Skype (Skype …

US West coast: Usually only free papers for short transit rides. Otherwise I'll occasionally buy a full paper for a long train ride.

If what you know has been published in a way which meets enwp.org/WP:Reliable_sources then it can be used in articles. Unpublished material can't be used, because it can't be indep…

You are correct. WP still does want secondary sources, exactly as you state: http://enwp.org/WP:V and WP:IRS Independent reliable sources, and does not want WP:OR. IMHO it's ok to …

The circumstantial evidence that "Ofek" knew Danielle N. Lee was a person of color is rather strong: * He offered her the blog position based on her current blog contributions, mea…

For eyestrain, don't forget enough sleep, hydration, breaks, maybe reading glasses, f.lux, proper low glare ambient lighting, and astigmatism (get your eyes checked at Costco - che…