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The same reason Hacker News is better than /r/programming: lack of Redditors. Reddit has a hivemind, which transcends subreddits. You'll get the same bullshit circlejerks, pun thre…

When browsing the ads on http://weworkremotely.com , I have to force myself to read the highlighted listings, otherwise my brain just ignores them. I guess it's the product of year…

It may seem backwards, but the only real way to buy Bitcoins anonymously is to buy them in person using cash. Check out: http://localbitcoins.com But you can just buy them through …

Seeing as those are still up and haven't been removed, I'm guessing the Coinbase app was removed for quality reasons. I used the thing and wasn't impressed. The experience wasn't g…

I don't have a problem with doing this in general. I just have a problem with a company who's sole purpose is to make profit doing it. If a non-profit organisation like Wikipedia s…

Do you think the MPA is unsuitable for running GNU/Linux? Or are you just looking for a cheaper alternative?

I think this may have happened to my MacBook Air 62 GB (Summer 2012). One day I booted up and nothing happened, just had a blank screen that never went away. I tried to use the int…

When I see code like this, I'm always amazed that I can actually read it and (kinda) understand what it's doing. I always expect code like Facebook's to be so finely tuned and adva…

Because god forbid people write code in language he doesn't like.

The Linux Development Community is known for being overly aggressive. Torvalds more than most. If you say something stupid or do anything wrong, they will hate for for it and call …

Heroku next?

Many people do enjoy writing JavaScript and view it as just as good as Python and others.

I thought it was good.

Mark Shuttleworth has a net worth of $500 million and has been to space. I have doubt he'll just let the project fail. I don't see anything stopping him from jumping in at the end,…

If the Ubuntu Edge reaches its goal of $32,000,000, Indiegogo makes $1,280,000 off it.

Didn't David Karp say jus the other day on Colbert he wasn't going to censor Tumblr? What happened?

'"Shut it down and replace it with something better" says Pirate Bay founder' doesn't get the clicks TorrentFreak are desperate for.

SEEKING WORK - Remote (GB) HTML/CSS/LESS/JS/CoffeeScript NodeJS | MongoDB, RethinkDB, Redis, MariaDB/MySQL, PostgreSQL | ExpressJS, Socket.io Backbone, Underscore, Angular, jQuery,…

All working for me too, same ISP.

One not mentioned in that list is Empythoned, which is the actual CPython engine compiled to JS using Emscripten. Repo: https://github.com/replit/empythoned Live demo: http://repl.…

He probably felt he'd get a bad reaction. Link aggregators like Reddit and HN don't generally like Gawker articles. Due to some of their content being blogspam.

Just created a mirror of the repo from Google Cache. Link: https://github.com/joshryandavis/groovr