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That policy is a bit risky. That might diminish the use of other things that reduce significantly the spread of HIV, like condoms. It's still unknown how effective the gel is: mayb…

If you just look at the number of hours, it's "just" a full time job for a year: 8 hours a day * 200 working days = 1600 hours With 30 people working just a week (5 days), we're al…

Sometime shitwork can be a very good way to find new possibilities. A lot of people do shitwork that's immensely useful, like editors on Wikipedia, moderators on reddit and forums,…

> Who pays what in taxes is really a diversion. The "who" is actually pretty important. Tax the working man more, and you'll discourage working. Tax the rich, and he might move to …

I don't know if I like it or not. If you know SQL well and want to switch to a NoSQL database, what's easier learn? The "proprietary" API of the dababase (like Redis, or MongoDB) o…

Keep Your Crises Small, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc It's a lecture from Ed Catmull. I highly recommend it, many gems from a brilliant developer turned brilliant mana…

Husky & HD (another StarCraft caster) both have a healthy revenue stream from their Youtube Channel. There are at least 12 other casters/players in North America/Europe making a li…

I agree that SPDY would be a "quicker" solution. Just modify the browsers and wait a year or two, and 30%+ of the people browsing the web will have it. SCTP have the nice side effe…

I don't like SPDY. It's trying to solve a transport problem at the application level. Plus it seems to be quite complex. I'd love to see Google promote a transport protocol like SC…

Indeed, just to make it clear: There's no more C++ code in the OpenBSD's base, but g++ the C++ compiler is still present. I don't think that g++ will be removed. Too many things ar…

The main reasons for replacing groff were: 1. Groff is buggy 2. Groff is slow to compile & execute 3. Groff is not BSD licensed mandoc has none of these problems. If you want a "ge…

I left my job 9 months ago, took 5 months off, and worked on clan.cx for 4 months. I got the idea for after reading http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=423249: the author started a…

Yes, the answers' quality seemed very variable: the most critical answers were the most useful. I'd also be willing to pay a premium to get reviews from the "meanest" soldiers ;-)

You should show more respect to what other people do. You're not the only one guilty of this, everybody tend to overestimate their contribution to the world. How many times did you…

We still need to wait for WSGI based frameworks and wrappers like Django, werkzeug, WebOb, etc. to be ported. It shouldn't be too long though. I'd bet that in 6 months 1 or 2 proje…

> I'd be interested to know what the "core developers" disliked about Git too. I spoke to Brett Cannon --basically the guy who chose Mercurial-- not long after the choice was made.…

Companies can always build their own "last mile connection". I have a fiber optic connection here in Vancouver (20/20mbps), it cost $45/mo, which is reasonable. The thing is that t…

Yes. I didn't want to criticize MongoDB or SQL based databases. Just point out that Redis' protocol is small and easy to implement.