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horsehead

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About horsehead

You can see my amateur and piddly programs at https://github.com/jlegs

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    Comment #4195947

    ^ this and this and this. You put it so much better than I did.

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    Comment #4195936

    I'm not sure how helpful this article really is .... as a journalist, i'll tell you what press releases are very often used for: trashcan filler, or deskfiller to make it look like…

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    Comment #4190280

    Lol. It's always a smart move to call your users dumb when they don't appreciate a move your company has made. What is this, strike 17 against them?

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    Comment #4184251

    The problem with your response is that both reasonableness and 'adding to a discussion' are subjective concepts. Another comment of mine adds nothing to the discussion, IMO, but ha…

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    Comment #4183956

    You just go to "submit," type in the title you'd like your post to have, then paste the link in the link field. Clicking up arrows gives karma, i believe. It also saves stories (if…

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    Ask HN: What are the karma milestones on HN?

    It seems if you've got less than 100 karma you cannot delete your posts/comments. I think I read that if you have more than 500 karma you can downvote. Are there other karma milest…

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    Comment #4183500

    Lolz. Even a reasonable post gets downvoted. Now I'm just itching for downvotes. GIVE ME THEM.

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    Comment #4183350

    So I hold an opinion and do have substantial intellectual abilities. Does that mean I must be erudite in every post? <-- rhetorical answer because the answer is an assumed "No."

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    Comment #4183336

    They're two separate people?

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    Comment #4183306

    God damn facebook. This is why i hate their motherfuckin' asses

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    Comment #4173567

    And now other countries start doing the same as the US did 100 years ago. Soon they'll be outsourcing jobs too, though IDK to whom. Soon there won't be any cheap labor as the rest …

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    Comment #4173159

    Trying so hard to refrain from making juvenile joke. probably will get downvotes for this. Totally worth it though.

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    Comment #4173155

    I was just looking at reviews of this tablet. I really want one. It seems like it's got some pretty decent specs for $199

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    Comment #4162954

    Fuck the man!! That's slang for "This guy is off his god damn rocker." People like this who have such blatant disregard for proper procedure should be castigated into humiliation.

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    Comment #4146687

    Well my point is not that everyone should be able to live off $18k a year. My point is that You don't need $500k a year to live decently. I have a new car, a good apartment and ame…

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    In any case. It's not editorialized at all. i'll hold up my sarcasm sign in case you missed it. edit: the 'by bloomberg' remark was meant to convey that it wasn't the OP who editor…

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    Bullshit. I live on roughly $18k a year net. buy a house, maybe doubles or PERHAPS triples my housing allowance. Have a wife and kids and things, in total, probably triple. I don't…

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    Comment #4143366

    Wow. that's not an editorialized headline by bloomberg.

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    Comment #4143255

    Wow. This interview is SPOT ON. So applicable to pretty much every industry. Thanks for posting. Worth resharing through other networks. Hopefully more people will read stuff like …

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    Comment #4138851

    I always laugh when people question why others make more than them. Standard salary for mid-level journalists is around $27k a year. Teachers are around $35k. I don't know about ot…