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This article speaks at the heart of online bullying and how mediums such as HN promote it even without being aware of it it seems. I am quite saddened that persons such as jacquesm…

Is there any guide about what it takes for Stripe to launch in a country? From this article it seems that it was entirely Stripe's choice to launch in Japan (rising culture of star…

My thought exactly! (highfive)

AMD's issues have mostly boiled down to single thread performance as well as power consumption. I am not sure how exactly simultaneous multithreading will help in single thread sce…

For me this is a minimalism dream. I would have a couple of towers of books though. :) PS: The icons are wrongly referenced and not loading on my FF 37.0.1 ( http://urza.cc/pc2013/…

The bot is being sarcastic with me: "The technology that was used for writing me is a fascinating topic which is relevant to whats available to learn on the Wikipedia article about…

I apologize for the off-topic, as much as I absolutely love coffee the serving process to me always seemed ridiculous. This clip expresses my feelings pretty accurately: https://ww…

Indeed, (and I am only mentioning this because Plantronics is also on the chart) I bought a pair of Plantronics GameCom 367 and they were absolutely abysmal. They were hooked to a …

Youtube has a new 'Add Music' button to the player (left to the 'Watch Later' button) which spices the experience I suppose! :) Oh and it's action based of course, some kind of a s…

> The take aways are that Zed doesn't understand C and hasn't read the C standard. This statement is quite unfair. I have read the code from Mongrel2 and I've learned things which …

> She completely misunderstood how functions and function invocation work. How can that be? I remember learning about functions such as f(x) = ax + b in the fifth grade if I am not…

I have no idea what are you talking about regarding OOP issues. From the Lamson project you can see he is using OOP. Also, how and when is he arrogant? When he is being called name…

> If he disagrees with you he's not afraid to tell you you're an idiot Honestly, I think this is the other way around. People get defensive and call him names when he is pointing c…

Wow, how come Zed Shaw manages to attract so much hate? I have found his series to be absolutely delightful. Anytime something about him appears on HN I can be sure there will be u…

> there are at least a handful if not a dozen or couple of dozen people who were and are equally as intelligent, brilliant, and more prolific. I can guess at least one: Nikola Tesl…

I have stumbled upon Redis a lot in really cool projects so I definitely need to take a deeper look into it.

It is blazing fast for me. I see from another response that this is a Node.js app but perhaps caching might also explain how fast this is. Also, today I have learned that jazz also…

I believe that Linus Torvalds said something[1] in the spirit of this article about how Git was only adopted by the community due to how arcane it looks. [1] http://typicalprogramm…

The problem of course would have been interacting with the second DB considering the fact that it was a "separate program" as the author states. If the program wasn't offering an i…

How do you feel about the saying that code itself should be as good as documentation? I personally prefer to read the documentation while skimming the code as well but sometimes, w…

Thank you for pointing this out! It is even described in the language's specification: "If the return type of the main function is a type compatible with int, a return from the ini…

In college, I remember we had to manually encode / decode a binary float to a decimal float as exercises. While it was rather fun to understand how machines store a float it could …

> What works in your culture may not work in another culture. Here, if you are not performing you are being sent away. So you have to perform in order to keep your job. Obviously, …

I just cannot believe you are arguing that in US you have a more hard time finding a job then in a less developed country like in Eastern Europe. > You seem rather ignorant of the …

> fuck off > learn some basic economics Madam or mister, it seems you don't understand from my message the essence of it. A valuable, reliable person with a salary that is not mass…