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So the only thing you didn't answer is the actual question, which was how much time it took you. And "your time" counts when we discuss "how long"...

2008 called, it wants its imaginary problem back. Short links are intended to be transient. They're used in environments meant to be transient (tweets, emails, phone text messages …

The reason the CPU is not using most of the energy is because it's not used all the time. And that's by design. Every single thing possible under the sun is done to keep the CPU of…

I can sum up this article & its predecessors like so: "What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!"

Well, the first half of the title is right.

In nature most animals do not die of old age or sickness. In fact, dying of old age or sickness is the most horrifying and prolonged death possible for any life form. It's torture.…

Many of those hundreds of languages do actually run on iOS. Many games on the App Store are written in Unity (a C# platform). Heck, many are written in Flash too. Yes, Flash. I act…

1. Prison. The philosophy of prison as punishment is wrong, but the idea of keeping a murderer isolated from potential victims isn't. So don't throw out the baby with the bath wate…

People who are willing to reinvent the syntax of a language only to shave a few parens and braces have a lot to learn yet about what truly matters.

"I think the best solution is to make charity cool again." No, charity doesn't need your branding efforts. It needs accountability. Throwing money at a generic "charity" initiative…

That's the problem with studying animals, they can't defend themselves to correct our hilarious over-generalizations and misrepresentations of their species.

You shouldn't trust that interpretation by Wolfram Alpha. 1. Distance . One obvious discrepancy is that the closer you look at the photo the less detailed it'll look. That's the op…

It's not so poor. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7441530

Actually there's no solid evidence how much help an accountant is with regards to safely using Bitcoins. Would an accountant know enough to safely store "wallets", to monitor "bloc…

I actually envy Mark Karpeles' ability to not give a fuck throughout this whole situation. In fact, I think it's some sort of super power.

Don't take me too seriously. Programmers like to joke, too ;)

PHP: I can do this better than ASP. Wait, I can't.

Yeah, almost assuredly they approved of an abridged version talking about how Apple has hit a rough patch after Steve's death and how it costs $2 to make a $20 adapter (which wasn'…

It's a lab.

Calling being unable to decide what to wear as "only being able to make rational decisions" is interesting, but it's not what's really happening. Every decision has a ROI. The line…

I'm in love with your out-of-the-box analysis, but it also makes basic mistakes. The informal definition of rational is having good sense and good judgment. If your formal definiti…

It's interesting how the community explanation is that some set of perfect ideals was "corrupted" by consultants. That actually happened fairly early in the process. It's the very …

My user page is showing "We've limited requests for this url." for days, and my comments are invisible when I log out. I'm not a spammer. Why is this happening? HN has no contact p…