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I am very sympathetic to the idea of training your programmers on the job. I don't know where I would be if my first employer hadn't invested significant time in training me. I cam…

Check this out. Apparently it's a Google employee walking on foot.. in Bangalore.. with a government official trailing him every step of the way. I walked around for a while and go…

That's impressive. How do people find your site? It isn't on the first page of google results for 'solitaire'.

Kind of random, but I just checked out your site, typed in the first "1980s" thing that came to mind (Walter Payton) and really enjoyed reading this New England Patriots fan's post…

Fantasypros.com has this feature. They allow you to import 1 team for free, and pay if you want more. You could definitely compete with them, though. Their site has become fairly c…

I love how angry HN gets at stuff like this. It's a trend. It'll pass.

Looks nice.. expanding to Mississippi soon? jk :(

> We are quite literally looking for a person that can do four jobs: Web Development, Software Development, Sys Admin, and the (dreaded) GENERAL IT for us here that need help confi…

Eating outside? You mean like eating at restaurants/fast food instead of cooking it yourself?

I love f.lux, but once I put it on "night mode" I realized I never wanted it to go back to "regular mode". So now I just set it to always be on the minimum, 3400K, at all times. An…

What's the hipster for?

He's 5'5". In a competitive game he would probably be playing a slash-and-kick style point guard role, not a 3-point jump shooter. His shot would get blocked too often because of h…

Just spitballing here, but if I'm Xerox, from a cost-benefit perspective, does it really make sense to do anything other than this? They have millions of pieces of hardware in prod…

Were they qualified? Did you hire them?

Just read the first link there about Jerry Shen, a 1-man startup in the fantasy sports industry. Seems like he was (is?) living the dream, based on his post on that thread, but I j…

Way to handle the sitters/squatters bathroom problem. I enjoyed that.

Well to be fair, he does use the phrase "bail out" in the post, so maybe he means that if Google threw $20bn at Detroit, they'd earn enough political capital to push some of these …

So, what does it even _mean_ to "buy a city"? Is it reasonable to assume (as the author of the post does) that if Google "bailed out" Detroit, it would then have full control over …

My mother never once licked me. This must be why I'm not rich and successful.

You mean you force a 404 error, then add a URL param like /404.html?message=you_need_to_fix_feature_x, then refresh it a bunch so it'll hopefully gain a developer's attention? That…

"When Miami-Dade Fire Rescue arrived five minutes and 10 seconds after the first emergency call, they began to pull passengers out of the window. Lopez, now out of gauze, told resc…

So you just never ate lunch?

It seems pretty clear that you'll be working long hours for low pay. If the work is satisfying enough for you to accept those tradeoffs, go for it. But if you are a decent develope…

tl;dr? Relevant excerpt: “If you like games, you eventually get to the point where you’d like to make one,” said Garriott. “But if you had this magic art talent as a youth, you can…

Just because it's always been that way doesn't mean it has to be. If I'm running Ember, today I'm seeing this post and my takeaway is "we need to create a fool-proof quickstart hel…