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Also also: http://geekhack.org/

I use a Happy Hacking Pro 2. I think the tactile feel of switches are a mater of taste, and I'm not inclined to hard sell you on my preference. Aside from a pleasant feel and sound…

Availability. It is easy to get a short, memorable name with a technical connotation for relatively little cash.

"If we are hiring you because you are awesome, then you have 30 days to do something awesome" I'm curious about how much autonomy and latitude people need to do something that brea…

most garages are ill-equipped barns To abstract and paraphrase (wildly): there are 10x work environments, and 1/10x work environments. It seems to me that the least productive envi…

Oh, well here's the original paper that describes the system in detail: http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

If you'd like to mine Bitcoin, this is a pretty good guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gw7YPYgMgNNU42skibULbJJU...

There is a coin worth $1 USD that doesn't require mining and can be exchanged anonymously. Is the cryptographic aspect a hard requirement? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_…

How did it go? I'm curious to hear what did (and didn't) work.

Maybe, maybe not. This essay was published almost ten years ago... "Wealth is what you want, not money. But if wealth is the important thing, why does everyone talk about making mo…

But wait, how else would you make the automated tests pass?

I'm not sure how micro you mean, but Dwolla comes to mind. https://www.dwolla.com/

Read this, or if you already have, read it again. http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html Done? Good. Start coding today. Seriously. Today. You need to find and talk to people one-on…

This looks interesting, any chance you will add Twitter or Google+ authentication soon? It's mostly just API key configuration, otherwise I would submit a pull request.

Bungie's Marathon trilogy, although not a novel, explored the inevitable digression of AI into rampancy. The terminal transcripts can still be found over here: http://marathon.bung…

Err... WTF?

Are these tweets from people on HN, tweets with certain tags, both, neither?

...and submit things you think ought to be on HN too!

At first, that quote made me shake my head. However, it took me a minute to realize that the advice isn't "Google all the things!" Certainly, having to search for an answer is inev…

I would be unlikely to pay $8 per month, but I would pay commission for selling it or sharing advertising revenue. Using a TXT record to indicate a domain is for sale seems interes…

For what it's worth... "PATCH is going to be the primary method for updates in Rails 4.0." http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/2/25/edge-rails-patch-is-... That's not intended to be…

After reading The Handshake Deal Protocol http://ycombinator.com/hdp.html I decided to make a simple site. Keep in mind, I started working on this Friday evening so there is plenty…

I think this could probably be handled using crowd sourcing approach within a company. The problem that I see with typical job postings is the tendency for people to over-tailor re…