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From my experience, this behavior is common when volunteers answer questions. Personally, I think this behavior that the author is seeing is because volunteer work is thankless and…

When I used this library, I was impressed with how their design not only kept their own code clean, but made it incredibly intuitive and fun to write clean code on top of their API…

#4 has introduced an interesting problem in the MMO space. By allowing scripting in WoW, players were penalized either because they couldn't keep up, or the general community would…

I only have anecdotal evidence in the form of friends making money on consistently-profitable online trades in a variety of marketplaces. It seems intuitive to believe that, wherev…

Really interesting thoughts coming from the groff mailing list: "Because of poverty owing to neglect -- that is, necessity being the mother of invention -- the author of the articl…

I also am a Christian and was surprised not to see more of these responses on HN. I think if you're looking for the meaning of life, religions are easily worth the research. I thin…

Google Wave used operational transformation in their protocol[1]. I've always assumed that the lessons learned on Wave got reused in the Google Docs rewrite. [1] http://www.wavepro…

Incredible read. Thank you for sharing that post.

I think you are definitely catching on to what is going on. Microsoft is only hanging around because of the monopoly it has in its grip. As soon as Windows drops in usage (which, b…