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Good riddance, hacker news. This site sucks.

It's this kind of rah-rah self-congratulatory unquestioning cheer-leading that is bringing me back to Hacker News less and less often. Read more and you learn the truth: this guy p…

Get ready to be jacked in.

And Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), probably the best of the bunch.

I'll add my own ten: 1. Tin Men (1987) - how to sell 2. Boiler Room (2000) - ever worked for a microcap? I have. 3. Suckers (2001) - how sales really happens 4. Something Ventured …

Left in 2008 as well, last time I went back I was first denied entry because my American passport (issued a few months previous in Frankfurt) was "invalid". After some haggling I c…

The easiest way to get a freelance gig is to have a friend on a freelance gig. Make friends of fellow freelancers.

Not sure how well his self-publish approach would work for first timers. As he said himself, he already had 5 books published by traditional publishers, was a writer on major media…

"What I really want is clean, walkable, safe, affordable, and family-friendly cities and towns. In a strange way, I kind of want to live in Mayberry." Sounds like what you really w…

The software business isn't about reading books. It's about producing software. I know too many great programmers and software executives that haven't read most, or even any of the…

Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.

Really amazing stuff. Given a huge drop in price I could see entire cars, buildings, bridges being made this way. Add in some photoelectrics so you could "close the blinds at night…

This thread got me thinking: how many levels deep do we need to go in HN comment thread replies until we break the layout? Next time some arrogant prick name drops his Alma Mater, …

Nice idea, unique solution to the problem. I'm working on a site right now that allows comments, when I release it I have the same concerns about comment quality. Time delays may b…

Hearing people talk about "where to spend your time" and "what makes your startup work" is like listening to children talk about what shapes they see in the clouds. You're reading …

Next time I'm hiring someone (hopefully not too long from now), I'll be using them.

I've been here four years and still don't have anything like a "permanent" residency, only temporary visa. Just getting past the "we'll deport you in a month" took about two years …

What the article only touches on, but is even more interesting, is the fact that it's really just a specific case of the general Poisson distribution, a general mathematical result…