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It's a new low for Microsoft to use MSDN as a corporate mudslinging soapbox.

I would like it if HN included a short description field, so that I'm not clicking articles with opaque linkbaity titles like "Stop fucking coding", and "You're killing yourself".

"Beauty, usability, and performance aren't mutually exclusive concepts on the web. It's just that most clients only care about the first one (until the site has already launched), …

TRWTF is that this a site like this already and is hillllarious : http://www.thedailywtf.com/ Just kidding. I suppose there's a niche for shortform "sighs" too.

Exactly my reaction!

Investing yourself in the topsoil of shiny new technologies instead of sending roots down deep will set you up for rapid obsolesence. My CS program taught the latter, and it's serv…

This too. It's much too easy to lift source from somewhere else, or hire somebody from India to write code on your behalf. I generally don't trust anything that I can't verify firs…

I can't believe how many people here are averse to the idea of demonstrating coding ability in an interview. Github doesn't reflect the amount of time that somebody put into writin…

I, too, would love to see a list of questions that I should avoid asking in interviews. :)

Getting responses about those projects isn't interesting. By now all the answers you will give will essentially be committed to rote memory, so the interviewer won't be seeing any …

When you eliminate the reblogged duplicate content, that stream would just be a trickle. ;)

The search results are a hell of a lot better than they were a year or two ago. Content farm results, gone! Thank Jebus.

Awesome. Good times, good memories. Lots of my BBSing was done on slower modems, though - it would be cool if you could render them as an animated GIF with regions slowly typing in…

Complex carbohydrates and fiber rich foods won't spike your blood sugar (and subsequently your insulin levels), so you can last for longer without eating more food.

You can't totally trust your own code, either. Look at all the buffer overrun vulnerabilities that have been found over the years.

A lot of the listed services are redundant. I think I could hit 99% of the same functionality at half the cost using just a subset of those products.

It's not the old code that I'm talking about, it's more like newbie programmers not being fully aware of their limitations. They might put up code that they think is hot shit but i…

Most of the JS development that I've seen happen is done by people holding their nose and refusing to properly learn the language's idioms, or by people that wish they could be wri…

I disagree with the push for newbies to overshare on Github. Some of the code I wrote when I was learning how to program in middle school was completely awful. I'm pretty happy tha…

I'm surprised that you're surprised. Read the comments, it's pretty unambiguously spelled out here.

I don't think Dan shares a direct financial stake in the targets of his punditry like MG, MA, and SL do. Money makes for a powerful conflict of interest.

Good piece. I think of Arrington, Siegler, et al. as the Swift Boaters of tech journalism. They just throw FUD everywhere and they never clean up after themselves.

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I do agree with the main thrust of article, but also think he and Michael are big hypocrites for complaining about it. TC is and was the Fox News of tech - all controversy and sens…