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I didn't know Uriel or know anything about him, but I used wmii as my main window manager for quite a while around 7 years ago. It was my introduction to tiled window managers, and…

I'm a longtime member of HN, since before it was even called HN, but I rarely post or comment here. Next week me and two friends will be visiting San Francisco from Monday to Frida…

Ahoy, me Hearties! Would also love to get an invite! gmail address is benukem Yarr, mateys!

In a perfect world, people will like the site, and return to it, and maybe spread the word to their friends :) I also have some ideas for integrating game-like features which would…

Thanks, these are great comments. 1) Yes, this is something I am thinking hard about. 2) Yes, points and gaming like features with player rankings are key here. I would be very hap…

jtv is similar but is for live video only. also, i plan on adding a lot more interactive features to the site. Right now all of the users in the room are able to vote for the next …

My thinking behind this was indeed to somehow bring a TV feel to the web. But I am actually leaning towards adding even more interactive features to the site. We already have TV. A…

1,2,3) You are right that the front page does not explain any of this. My thoughts right now are to hope that people click through into a video, and then from there that things are…

1. The videos are embedded from youtube. They are hand selected. 2. Voice is an interesting idea, will think about it :) 3. This is a very good idea, and definitely something that …

Hey guys, I've been reading HN for a long time (since before it was called HN). I rarely comment or submit to HN, but I am really proud to finally submit my site here. Would apprec…

Also don't forget about the game industry, which is something like $50 billion

The article title is misleading. After the 4th paragraph, all of the advice is equally relevant to males and females.

"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." -- Phil Karlton

I've showered at the beach with my nokia in the pocket of my bathing suit. It was fine. My nokia has fallen out of a moving vehicle. I drop it several times a day. It's been run ov…

I was also going to post this. A must read for all programmers. You can overcomplicate things in any language. "The Evolution of a Haskell programmer" is brilliant. Funny and insig…

I'd also like to add that arrays are the foundational building block of an extension of Haskell focused on parallelism, called "Data Parallel Haskell" http://www.haskell.org/haskel…

I don't have a source and I don't quite remember where I heard it. It's probably not true. Although this post from Lambda the Ultimate mentions a similar sentiment: http://lambda-t…

There is a story that one of the designers of Java was pushing very hard in favour of Java references being non-nullable by default. But Gosling rejected the idea claiming that it …

Here's another great letter of similar style by the creator of ren and stimpy: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/01/your-pal-john-k.html (I like how the pixar guy said that it's al…

The solution is to track mouse-movement/page-scrolling to check whether the user is interacting with the site. Also, is it possible for javascript to check whether the site's tab a…

This question has been bugging me in my mind ever since I first saw this presentation back in 2005: What integer value in a game gets so big that it can potentially overflow a 64 b…