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This thread is one of the best I've seen on HN. 1001 ways to screw yourself in bash. Love it. My contribution is a message from Mr. Odus himself- also a Reverend. Don't do this unl…

I usually don't alias the command itself; that's bad form. It limits what you can do and screws you when you are using an environment without your alias when you forget it. Live an…

1435 days ago- that's almost 4 years. I wonder if one day in 2034 someone will post a "done that" link with a conversation over 10k days old?

From what I've read, it is better to get calcium from milk, vegetables like Spinach, Kale, Okra, Collards, or Soy or White beans, or some fish rather CaCO3. The Mayo clinic suggest…

Some of the things he said made sense though. Basically, if this guy wanted such rigid requirements, he should have stuck with a high-end custom publishing house. O'Reilly has neve…

> With nonfiction, it doesn't make sense at all. That is the opposite of what I'd think. Nonfiction includes current topics like books on political figures. Fiction is all over the…

In addition, based on what Tim O'Reilly said in response, it sounds like the author was incredibly overdemanding compared to their typical author, and would have benefited from a s…

Yep, FF on mac here and it looks great. Why do people keep using Chrome, IE, Safari, and Opera?

Soulless? Now, look. O'Reilly has gone downhill, but so has just about everything. The economy made people cut corners and care less about quality or customer service (where the cu…

You're a good guy, Paul. And I agree that things get too cynical and too negative. Please continue to foster an environment that is positive and provide a good example, but if peop…

> That's how you gauge the experience of a programmer: how much of the field she/he's terrified by. I'm terrified by what I don't know, especially by what I don't know that I think…

There's never a sure-fire anything in this world, but here are some tips: * http://stackoverflow.com/a/14599129/178651 * http://stackoverflow.com/a/1029613/1395668

It would be nice next time to direct to a static status page with info on what is going on, if possible, and keep that site up all the time, e.g.: status.news.ycombinator.com.

I'm all for diversity on the team. Strong efforts should be put forth to hire the best person for the job, regardless of their sex, etc., though. I have all daughters, so I want th…

Many of you are going to stay up late commenting on HN posts tonight, or any other given night. When you do this, you're wasting time that could be spent sleeping. By depriving you…

Basic is obviously not a bug. It is the reason many of us got started, and Atari Basic is no exception. My point was that people that speak of bugs of software, OS's, language inte…

Dad of all/only girls here. Dying to get a hold of this rom. Hoping the author will post it and that Nintendo won't give him a hard time about his homebrew, considering the attenti…

> That was a bug in Atari BASIC that I never tracked down. Never assume it was a bug in BASIC. A bug indicates it was a mistake. Very often code of that age had "tricks" to workaro…

Spiritually it may as well not be. They usually stand on their own and stay out of the news when it comes to politics of Western Europe as a whole, since they were kept out of the …

There weren't many patterns presented, so here are a few of those and some more: Some evil UX patterns are: * Opt-in: Prepopulating option with more expensive or recurring payment.…

Nanoparticle safety still unknown: http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/nanotechnology-... I know that is a generic article, but is it safe or not? Is it worth the chance t…

I wish that we didn't even have to have rulings. It should just be common sense to leave people alone if they aren't hurting anyone else.

What a waste.

Were these bacteria living because of a heat source that was keeping the lake liquid, similar to life around deep sea vents? Could there be life under our feet, fueled by the heat …

Someone needs a similar site that contains the 0-day for not only Java, but everything: languages, frameworks, jars, gems, projects, etc. For example, how about one for each curren…